The report for the year ending March 31, 1869 records the opening to male patients on April 30, 1868. Reprinted in 1895.
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Source: Connecticut Hospital for the Insane; reprinted by H. Sidney Hayden; Cornell University Library, via Internet Archive
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EEPORT OF SUPERIITTENDENT. Gentlemen : In presenting my report as superintendent of the State institution under your care for the year now past, and ending March 31, 1869, it may be well to consider, first, the medical and statistical history of the hospital ; and secondly, the building operations of the past twelve months. Agreeably to the promise in your last annual report, and to the announcements published in all Connecticut daily and weekly papers during the month of April, the hospital was regularly opened for the admission of male patients on Thurs- day, April 30, 1868, just thirteen months after the first work was begun in excavation of the site. It must be a source of gratification to those philanthropic gentlemen, who, by votes in the General Assembly, and by other valuable services, have been instrumental in establish- ing, on a liberal scale, a State hospital for insane of all classes, to know that their action has been promptly appre- ciated by the people of Connecticut, as shown by the follow- ing record. There have been admitted during the eleven months to this date, two hundred and sixty-eight (268) patients ; one hun- dred and sixty-five (165) males, and one hundred and three (103) females. In the act of incorporation, provision is made for three classes of patients: pauper, indigent, and private; one hundred and sixty-eight (168) pauper patients, seventy-six (76) indigent patients, and twenty-four (24) private patients have been under treatment. Of this whole number, twenty- five (25) were discharged recovered, eleven (11) were dis- charged much improved, six (6) were discharged not improved, two (2) were found to be not insane, and of course
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Silent Grounds Collective, Connecticut Valley Hospital, SGC-CV-017, CV-007, “The superintendent records the opening.” Source: Connecticut Hospital for the Insane; reprinted by H. Sidney Hayden; Cornell University Library, via Internet Archive. https://archive.org/download/cu31924012463208/cu31924012463208.pdf#page=63. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.