FARM COLONIES FOR EPILEPTICS. 809 
Income— 
£ 
Subscriptions ... ... saree Beets 920 
Payments for patients... PAE 00 
Profits, farm, &e:* 2.35 ee 290 
£3910 
Expenditure— 
£ 
Housekeeping ... ... ... 6... «=. 2050 
Salaries, Pepa. ass. 52.0). et - T20 
GH aR@ ey. Seem teat aes fick 44 9 5 oe 140 
£3910 
a balance that is probably more apparent than real, as it is 
too small and uncertain to reckon upon. But the important 
fact remains, that with careful financing and a not extrava- 
gant amount of charitable help such an institution can pay 
its way. There is no pretence of providing initial expenses, 
or finding interest on capital so invested. Land, buildings, 
and planting must be a gift from somewhere. On the other 
hand are two facts not to be lost sight of. One, that the 
smaller the colony is the more expensive it is in proportion. 
The ideal to look forward to is that of a self-contained - 
industrial village, embracing many trades and taking 
advantage of all the assistance that can be gained from 
modern methods of cultivation and manufacture. The 
other, that this class of citizen, whose partial dependence 
upon society is, when he lives in a colony, open and admitted, 
would cost far more while living alife of aimlessicleness ; only 
then, the load is like indirect taxation, so distributed and 
concealed that no one realises its weight; not to speak of 
the secondary burdens laid on this generation and on 
future generations by the criminal practices into which the 
epileptic so often drifts, and the legacy of helpless progeny 
he so often leaves behind him. 
Of all the recently-established industrial colonies, the 
~ Craig Colony of New York is on by far the most extensive 
scale. Dr. Frederick Peterson, the eminent neurologist, on 
a visit to Europe in 1887, was impressed with the results 
accomplished at Bielefeld. Acting on his suggestions, the 
State Charities Aid Association, working chiefly through 
Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler, the woman who has helped so 
much in placing the State of New York in the van of pro- 
gress as regards its treatment of the insane, took the matter 
