Library Collections: Visual Still: Enlargement

This is the institution Dorothea Dix sought to have enlarged by her Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts. Note the two wings of the building, typical of such insitutions built in the nineteenth century. One side was for men and the other for women. For more information on the Lunatic Hospital in Worcester during the 1830s, see Reports And Other Documents Relating To The State Lunatic Hospital At Worcester, Mass. in the DHM Library.