As part of Bowman's efforts to upgrade facilities and increase staff, the facility undertook censuses to determine numbers of patients and staff.
The cards, which included photographs, helped Bowman and others at the institution justify their pleas for staff and for funds for facilities improvements.
The buildings shown here, Hill Farm, closed in 1961, by which time the institution had long since abandoned the founding concept of a farm where the "feeble-minded" could work and the institution be self-supporting.
