Excerpt from The Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Officers of the Retreat for the Insane, at Hartford, Conn., April, 1851IT may not be improper at the outset Of this communication to advert to the fact, that at the organization of the Retreat, it was thought advisable to establish a Board of Medical Visi tors, which, in connexion with your own, should preside over the interests Of the institution, thus furnishing to the public on the one hand, a double guaranty for the safe keeping and judicious care of its inmates, and to the resident Officers on the other, that friendly counsel and professional advice which might from time to time be desired.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.