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Show ALIEN INSANE DUMPED UPON YORK STATE ALBANY, X. Y., April 27 The an nual cost to New York for the main-1 main-1 nuance of foreign born insane patients pa-tients is $3,500,000, according to statistics statis-tics gathered bj the state hospital commission ft is pointed out that as the average hospital life of a foreign horn patient is approximately eleven years, the admission of 2737 new foreign for-eign born patients last year will involve in-volve a total expense tn the state ho-for ho-for these patients are finaJIv discharged dis-charged of $7,900,000. February 10 last New York state Was caring 31,500 patients in its -i i 1 insane hospitals, r" which 13,000 or -17 per cent, were of foreign birth; and in its hospitals for the criminal insane 1250 patients, of which 350 or 45 per cent were aliens. |