The origins of the State mental hospital in America: six documentary studies, 1837-1856.

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1973
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New York : Arno Press, 1973.

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350 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Reprint of Report and memorial of the county superintendents of the poor of this State on lunacy and its relation to pauperism, and for relief of insane poor, first published 1856, Albany; of Report in relation to an asylum for the insane poor, first published 1839, Harrisburg, Pa.; of Report of the commissioners appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to ascertain the number of lunatics and idiots in the State, first published 1840, Newark; of Report of the Committee on the Insane Poor in Connecticut, first published 1838, New Haven; of Report of the Select Committee on Report and Memorial of County Superintendents of the Poor, on lunacy and its relation to pauperism, first published 1856, Albany; and of Reports and other documents relating to the State lunatic hospital at Worcester, Mass., first published 1837, Boston.

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  • 0405052197