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Excerpt from: The Afflicted Classes These afflicted classes are inevitably a burden upon society. In proportion to their disability, the blind, the deaf-mute, the idiotic and the insane are dependent upon their fellow for sustenance. They eat the bread which they do not earn, and consume what they have small part in producing.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | The Afflicted Classes | |
| From: | Eighth Annual Report Of The Bureau Of Statistics Of Labor | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | March 1877 | |
| Format: | Government Document | |
| Publisher: | Albert J. Wright, State Printer, Boston | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | pp.155-183 | |
| Keywords: | Accident; Aging; Alcohol; Blind; Census; Children; Cognitive Disability; Deaf; Disease; Epilepsy; Family; Government; Government Agencies; Heredity; Idiocy; Insanity; Institutions; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Massachusetts; Medicine & Science; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics; Urban Life | |
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