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Excerpt from: New State Asylum For Idiots, Third Annual Report Of The Trustees Another important consideration for a conspicuous position was, that a subject like this, entirely new to our citizens, should be so prominently presented as to secure public attention and provoke inquiry into its merits; that thus the current prepossessions against this hapless class might be converted into sympathy and beneficence.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | New State Asylum For Idiots, Third Annual Report Of The Trustees | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | February 1, 1854 | |
| Format: | Annual Report | |
| Source: | Steve Taylor Collection | |
| Keywords: | Albany, NY; Architecture; Asylums; Children; Cognitive Disability; Doctors; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Government; Government Agencies; Hervey B. Wilbur; Idiocy; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Moral Treatment; New York; New York State Asylum For Idiots; Policy; Politics; Public Welfare; Schools; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics | |
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