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Excerpt from: "Idiocy In Massachusetts" Under an act of the Massachusetts Legislature, April 11th, 1846, Dr. Howe was appointed chairman of a Committee "to inquire into the condition of the Idiots of the Commonwealth, to ascertain their number and whether anything can be done in their behalf." A report was returned in March, 1847. . .We will give the account in the narrator's own words.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | "Idiocy In Massachusetts" | |
| Creator: | Matilda Freeman Dana (author) | |
| Date: | June 1849 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | Southern Literary Messenger | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | vol.15, no.6, pp.367-370 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Asylums; Boston, MA; Cognitive Disability; Doctors; Economics; Edouard Seguin; Education; Educational Institutions; France; Government Agencies; Idiocy; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Massachusetts; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Moral Treatment; Perkins School For The Blind; Samuel Gridley Howe; Schools; Social Welfare & Communities | |
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