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Cover letter and memo concerning "colonization,&quot


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New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:
This series consists of an extensive letter from the Superintendent, Rome State Custodial Asylum, to Miss Ruth F. Leonard, Vassar College.The letter concerns the Superintendent's position on "colonization" of patients in an early outpatient alternative, specifically the examples practiced at Rome and the self-sufficient quality and profit-making character of the trial programs as a viable alternative to the institutionalization of patients practiced elsewhere.
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Cover letter and memo concerning "colonization,&quot
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0.25 cubic feet

Inclusive Dates:
1917
Series Number:
A0423

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This series consists of an extensive letter from Charles Bernstein, M.D., Superintendent, Rome State Custodial Asylum, to Miss Ruth F. Leonard, Vassar College. The letter's enclosure concerns the position of the superintendent on "colonization" of patients in an early out-patient alternative, specifically the examples practiced at Rome and the self-sufficient quality and profit-making character of the trial programs as a viable alternative to the institutionalization of patients practiced elsewhere.

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