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Excerpt from: Dix Memorial Presented To Congress This memorial comes from a lady of well-known practical benevolence, who unites in her own character all the graces and virtues which adorn her sex, and who has devoted her time and talents for a number of years to the amelioration of the condition... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Dix Memorial Presented To Congress | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | June 25, 1850 | |
| Format: | Government Document | |
| Publication: | The Congressional Globe | |
| Source: | Library of Congress | |
| Location: | 31st Congress, 1st Session, p.1290 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Asylums; Civil Liberties & Rights; Confinement; Demographics; Doctors; Dorothea Dix; Economics; Expose; Government; Government Agencies; GOVERNMENT, POLICY & LAW; Health & Medicine; Insanity; Institutions; INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & CORPORATIONS; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Media; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Memorials; Moral Treatment; Policy; Politics; Poverty; Prison; Psychiatric Disability; Public Welfare; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & ADVOCACY; Social Welfare & Communities; U.S. Congress; Washington, DC; Women & Gender |
