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 398 NEW YORK (CITY) two principal structures presenting a graceful facade nearly 1,000 ft. long. They contain 886 dormitories, school rooms, hospital depart- ments, dining halls, &c., offices, and a chapel capable of seating 1,000 persons. In the rear are the workshops, each 30 by 150 ft. and three stories high. The society receives for instruction, discipline, and reformation youth who are brought before the courts for petty offences. The boys and girls are kept in sepa- rate buildings, and the older of the latter who have been guilty of social crime are carefully separated from the more youthful. They are required to work from six to eight hours a day, and to study from four to five hours. The period of detention depends upon their conduct, and upon their discharge situations are procured for the deserving. The number of inmates received to the close of 1872 was 14,675. The number in the institution du- ring 1874 was 1,367; remaining at the close of the year, 789 (677 boys and 112 girls). The Bloomingdale asylum for the insane, in 117th street, between 10th and llth avenues, was opened in 1821. The grounds embrace 45 acres, partly devoted to gardening and con- taining a great variety of trees and ornamental shrubbery. The asylum buildings, three in number, are capable of accommodating about 170 patients, and are always full. Patients are received from any part of the state, and are required to pay from $8 to $30 a week accord- ing to their circumstances. About 300 acres of land have recently been purchased at White Plains, Westchester co., with a view of re- moving the institution to that place at some future day. The Bloomingdale asylum is a branch of the New York hospital, and is chiefly managed by a committee of its board of gov- ernors. The hospital was chartered in 1771, and for many years the buildings in Broadway, between Duane and Worth streets, were open for the care of the sick and injured. The site was leased in 1869, and the following year the institution was closed. It has a fine libra- ry and pathological cabinet at No. 8 W. 16th street, open for consultation and examination without charge. A new hospital is soon to be erected in 15th street, in the rear of the library. The woman's hospital of the state of New York was opened in 1855 for the purpose of putting ia practice the discoveries of Dr. J. M. Sims (made public in 1852) in the treatment of the diseases of women. The building now occu- pied, on 4th avenue and 50th street, was opened in 1867. It'is a handsome structure, the base- ment being of polished stone and the four additional stories of brick, with angles and pilasters ornamented with finely wrought ver- miculated blocks. It contains 75 beds, and cost with furniture $200,000. The upper floor is devoted to charity patients, the others to pay patients. The New York asylum for lying-in women, in Marion street, was erected in 1830, though the society which established it was organized in 1822. It is entirely free. Only virtuous, indigent women are admitted, but physicians are appointed by the society to at- tend such as apply and are not admitted. Since the opening of the asylum about 4,000 inmates have been received, and more than 13,000 out- door patients have been treated. The New York institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb was incorporated in 1816. It was originally situated in 50th street, but was removed in 1856 to Washington Heights, 9 m. N. of the city hall, where it has 28 acres of land overlooking the Hudson. The buildings, which are the largest and finest of the kind in the world, cover about two acres, and are of brick, with basement, copings, and trimmings of granite. The front walls, which are pan- elled, are faced with yellow Milwaukee brick. The main edifice, which contains the offices, library, &c., is flanked by two wings, one de- voted to the male and the other to the female pupils. Another building contains the chapel, dining room, &c., and a brick structure has recently been erected for the accommodation of the mechanical department. More than 500 pupils can be accommodated, and about 2,300 have been educated since the opening of the in- stitution. The library contains 2,860 volumes, some of which are rare books on deaf-mute instruction. Deaf mutes are received at the charge of the state or counties, and also as pay pupils. The institution for the improved in- struction of deaf mutes, in 7th avenue near 44th street, was organized in 1867. It has re- ceived some aid from the state, and in 1870 a grant of land on the W. side of Lexington ave- nue, between 67th and 68th streets, was made to it by the city, where buildings are to be erected. Instruction is imparted by the meth- od of articulation. The New York institution for the blind was incorporated in 1831, and the school was opened at No. 47 Mercer street the next year. The present site was purchased a few years subsequently, and comprises a plot 200 by 800 ft. fronting on 9th avenue between 33d and 34th streets. The building is of mar- ble, three stories high with Mansard roof, pre- senting a facade of 175 ft. with a north and a south wing of 125 ft. each. Indigent blind from the city and from Long and Staten islands are educated at the expense of the state, and pay pupils are also received at $300 a year. About 94 per cent, of those instructed have been state pupils. The number under in- struction in 1874 was 193 ; remaining at the close of the year, 173. The New York juve- nile asylum was incorporated in 1851. The buildings now occupied are on a plot of 25 acres, in 176th street, near the High bridge, and consist of a central five-story structure, skirted by two wings of four stories each, with rear extensions and appropriate outbuildings. They are of stone quarried on the premises, and were opened in 1856. A three-story brick edifice, 42 by 108 ft., has recently been erected to accommodate the class rooms, gym- nasium, swimming bath, and industrial depart-