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| EXCERPT: 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... |
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| TITLE: |
Dix Memorial Presented To Congress |
| CREATOR: |
n/a |
| DATE: |
June 25, 1850 |
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Government Document |
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| PUBLICATION: |
The Congressional Globe |
| SOURCE: |
Library of Congress |
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31st Congress, 1st Session, p.1290 |
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| KEYWORDS: |
Advocacy, Asylums, Confinement, Demographics, Doctors, Dorothea Dix, Economics, Exposé, Government, Insanity, Institutions, Legislation, Medical Professionals, Medicine, Memorials, Moral Treatment, Policy, Politics, Poverty, Prison, Psychiatric Disability, Public Welfare, U.S. Congress, Washington D.C. |
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