Excerpt from The New York Medical Journal, Vol. 19: January-June, 1874

Such is a general description of the different buildings required for the accommodation of the insane on the cottage plan.

One of the principal objections urged against this plan is the cost - that it will exceed greatly, not only in the first cost of construction, but in the daily expense of carrying on an institution on this plan.

We have been at some pains to procure estimates of the cost of the various buildings described above, and find them (upon the basis of five hundred patients) as follows, all con structed of brick.

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