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N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum

LC control no.n 2013186777
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Corporate name headingN.Y. City Lunatic Asylum
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Variant(s)New York City Lunatic Asylum
Blackwell's Island Asylum
See alsoSuccessor: Manhattan State Hospital
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N.Y. City Asylum for the Insane
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Beginning date1839
Ending date1899
Found inCode of rules and regulations for the government of those employed at the N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island, 1880.
Asylum Projects Web site, Sept. 12, 2013 (Blackwell's Island Asylum; opened in 1839; housed female patients after the opening of the Ward's Island Asylum in 1871; in 1894 the city asylums on Hart's, Ward's, and Blackwell's Islands were leased to the state, and renamed Manhattan State Hospital in 1899))