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| EXCERPT: Some years ago, the legislature of Massachusetts, at the suggestion of several benevolent gentlemen whose attention had been turned to the subject, appointed a commission to inquire into the condition of the idiots of the commonwealth, to ascertain their numbers, and whether any thing could be done in their behalf.... |
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| TITLE: |
Peculiar Institutions In Massachusetts |
| FROM: |
Literary Recreations and Miscellanies |
| CREATOR: |
John G. Whittier (author) |
| DATE: |
1854 |
| FORMAT: |
Book |
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| PUBLISHER: |
Ticknor and Fields, Boston |
| SOURCE: |
Available at selected libraries |
| LOCATION: |
pp.20-33 |
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| KEYWORDS: |
Alcohol, Asylums, Children, Cognitive Disability, Crime, Demographics, Education, Government, Heredity, Idiocy, Institutions, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Massachusetts, Parenting, Poetry, Policy, Poverty, Samuel Gridley Howe, Sexuality, Statistics |
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