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Collection: Documents - Catalog Card
| EXCERPT: ON the 23d February, 1829, Mr. MANN of Dedham, in behalf of a Committee of the House of Representatives, appointed to consider the subject, reported Orders for the appointment of a Committee "to examine and ascertain the practicability and expediency of erecting or procuring, at the expense of the Commonwealth, an asylum for the safe keeping of lunatics, and persons furiously mad," and requiring the selectmen of the several towns to ascertain, and make returns to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of "the number, age, sex and color, of all persons reputed to be lunatics and furiously mad belonging to their respective towns, and whether at large or in confinement, and where and how long confined,"... |
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| TITLE: |
Sketch Of Legislative Proceedings, &c. |
| FROM: |
Reports And Other Documents Relating To The State Lunatic Hospital At Worcester, Mass. |
| CREATOR: |
n/a |
| DATE: |
1837 |
| FORMAT: |
Government Document |
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| PUBLISHER: |
Dutton and Wentworth, Boston |
| SOURCE: |
Available at selected libraries |
| LOCATION: |
pp.3-7 |
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| KEYWORDS: |
Almshouses, Architecture, Asylums, Census, Confinement, Demographics, Economics, Government, Horace Mann, Hospitals, Insanity, Institutions, Legislation, Massachusetts, Nomenclature, Prison, Psychiatric Disability, Public Welfare, Statistics, Worcester |
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| NOTE: |
This collection of documents about the State Lunatic Hospital was published in 1837. |
| | | OBJECTS | FROM THIS ARTIFACT:
- Communication From The Commissioners And Trustees (doc)
- First Annual Report Of The Trustees Of State Lunatic Hospital (doc)
- First Report Of The Superintendent Of The Lunatic Hospital At Worcester, Mass. (doc)
- Plan Of The Worcester Lunatic Hospital (still)
- Report Of Commissioners Appointed To Superintend Erection Of A Lunatic Hospital At Worcester (doc)
- Sketch Of Legislative Proceedings, &c. (doc)
- State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts (still) | |
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