DHM: First Report Of The Superintendent Of The Lunatic Hospital At Worcester, Mass. (Document)

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EXCERPT: During the past year, the duties of those who have had the immediate management of the Hospital have been peculiarly arduous; such a collection of patients so "furiously mad," and so dangerous to manage, were probably rarely ever brought into any one Hospital, in so short a period. Nearly all the individuals who have had the charge of these patients, were, when they commenced, wholly ignorant of their duty, and had to learn it by experience within its halls....

TITLE:	First Report Of The Superintendent Of The Lunatic Hospital At Worcester, Mass.
FROM:	Reports And Other Documents Relating To The State Lunatic Hospital At Worcester, Mass.
CREATOR:	Samuel B. Worcester (author)
DATE:	November 30, 1833
FORMAT:	Annual Report

PUBLISHER:	Dutton and Wentworth, Boston
SOURCE:	Available at selected libraries
LOCATION:	pp.45-56

KEYWORDS:	Asylums; Confinement; Government; Government Agencies; GOVERNMENT, POLICY & LAW; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Insanity; Institutions; INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & CORPORATIONS; Laws & Regulation; Massachusetts; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Nomenclature; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Worcester, MA

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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