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Excerpt from: Response To Dix Memorial 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... |  Read Full Text |
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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; Civil Liberties & Rights; Dorothea Dix; Expose; Government; Government Agencies; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Insanity; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Massachusetts; Media; Memorials; Poverty; Prison; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment; Women & Gender | |
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| Note: | Thanks to Patricia Deegan. |