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| EXCERPT: I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.... |
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| TITLE: |
Memorial To The Legislature of Massachusetts |
| FROM: |
The History of Mental Retardation, Collected Papers |
| CREATOR: |
Dorothea L. Dix (author) |
| DATE: |
1843 |
| FORMAT: |
Government Document |
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| PUBLISHER: |
University Park Press |
| SOURCE: |
Available at selected libraries |
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| KEYWORDS: |
Abuse, Advocacy, Aging, Almshouses, Asylums, Benevolence, Children, Confinement, Dorothea Dix, Exposé, Government, Hospitals, Idiocy, Insanity, Institutions, Legislation, Massachusetts, Memorials, Moral Treatment, Neglect, Policy, Politics, Poverty, Prison, Psychiatric Disability, Public Welfare |
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