We have left ourselves but a finger’s breadth of room for a notice of the report of the _N. Jersey State Lunatic Asylum_ at Trenton, rendered December 1848. It is accompanied by a view and ground plan of the buildings, which were opened for patients on the 15th of May last, under the superintendence of Dr. H. A. Buttolph. They are designed for the accommodation of 200 patients, and in their general structure and arrangement accord with those of the Pennsylvania Hospital already noticed. The asylum occupies a most eligible site, about two miles north-west of the public buildings, surrounded by a choice farm of 111 acres, with an unfailing supply of fine soft water, and a beautiful grove in the rear, thus affording abundant room for hospital purposes, and embracing every variety of scenery and spacious pleasure grounds for the use of the patients. The various fixtures for warming, ventilating and lighting, as well as the arrangements for cooking, washing, bathing, &c., are after the most improved models, and are described with interesting and intelligible minuteness in the report, an examination of which we would recommend to all who are seeking information on the subject. The number received during the year was 86, of whom 83 remained in the asylum at the date of the report. A large proportion of the number received were chronic cases, which are generally very numerous at the opening of such institutions. Of the 86, 27 were under middle age; 52 were single and 30 married. Of their occupations, 22 of the men were farmers, and 16 of the women were house-keepers. An hereditary tendency to insanity was traced in 18 of the 86 cases, or about as 1 to 5. SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL FACTS. ====================================================================== | Admitted | Discharged | Remaining | | | during | or died | at date | | | the | during | of | Cured. | Deaths. | year. | the year. | report. | | ---------------+----------+------------+-----------+--------+--------- Pennsylvania, | 215 | 203 | 200 | 120 | 17 New Jersey,[5] | 86 | 3 | 83 | 3 | 0 New York, | 405 | 382 | 495 | 174 | 86[6] Massachusetts, | 261 | 246 | 409 | 136 | 30 ======================================================================