Q 8 HISTORICAL SKETCH.
! i Dudley, Jr.,) has been for many years the Physician and Super- i
    intendent of this institution. Dr. Chipley has made the study
of insanity his specialty. He has visited Europe, and most of the
ll Insane Asylums on this continent; and the cures effected under ..
; his supervision and treatment, bear as large a proportion to the
· _ number admitted, as appear in the reports of any other Insane
li Institution in the United States. The following table will show
i the number admitted, discharged, etc., since 1824, a period of
` forty-two years:
Males. Feniales. Total.
  ‘ _ Admitted ...................   ........................... 1776 036 13712 I
.   Discharged, Recovered ................................. 729 29% 1027 ·.
‘ ¢_ Died ............... . ........................................ 620 409 1029
A Eloped .......................... . ......................... . 120 16 I36
’r Removed .................... . ..... . ....................... . 156 108 264
f Remaining October 1, 1866 .................. . ......... 148 105 2.31
The city has three flourishing Common Schools in successful
operation, each being conducted by one Principal Male Teacher
· and three assistant females. There are annually taught in these
·.   three schools about one thousand pupils, free of charge to the
° parents. There are a number of other private institutions of
i C learning in the city. The Sayre Female College, S. R. Williams ~
i Principal; St. Catherine’s Academy; Rev. Mr. Mullins` Female
_ 1 ` School; Rev. Mr. Totten’s Male and Female School, etc. There
2 is, perhaps, no city in the Union that furnishes more or better •
1 facilities for the education of the youth of both sexes than the i
‘ city of Lexington. The country adjacent is healthy, the climate
_ mild and salubrious, the society good, churches of all denom-
inations abundant, access to public libraries easy—our city will 5
certainly be a great educational center. *
There are other public institutions in the city, but our limited
i space will not permit us to speak of them in cxlenso. The Lex- `
g ington Library contains about 12,000 volumes of miscellaneous
i ’ p books. The Lexington Cemetery, a beautiful resting place for the
' .r dead, is located in the western suburb of the city—in this ground
p 1 rest the remains of the immortal Henry Clay; the Federal and
Confederate dead also occupy separate lots in this Cemetery.
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