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EXCERPT: The Memorial says the woman was confined in a cellar and under the stairs. Well; the place may be called a cellar - but it is more properly a cellar-kitchen, not much if any worse than many kitchens of very genteel city mansions...

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TITLE:  Response To Dix Memorial
CREATOR:  n/a
DATE:  February 9, 1843
FORMAT:  Newspaper
 
PUBLICATION:  Newburyport Herald
SOURCE:  Available at selected libraries
LOCATION:  p.2
 
KEYWORDS:  Abuse, Advocacy, Almshouses, Asylums, Dorothea Dix, Exposé, Government, Hospitals, Insanity, Institutions, Legislation, Massachusetts, Memorials, Poverty, Prison, Psychiatric Disability, Public Welfare
 
NOTE:  Thanks to Patricia Deegan.


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