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Dix Memorial Presented To Congress
This memorial comes from a lady of well-known practical benevolence, who unites in her own character all the graces and virtues which adorn her sex, and who has devoted her time and talents for a number of years to the amelioration of the condition...
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Title: Dix Memorial Presented To Congress
Creator: n/a
Date: June 25, 1850
Format: Government Document
Publication: The Congressional Globe
Source: Library of Congress
Location: 31st Congress, 1st Session, p.1290
Keywords: Advocacy; Asylums; Civil Liberties & Rights; Confinement; Demographics; Doctors; Dorothea Dix; Economics; Expose; Government; Government Agencies; Health & Medicine; Insanity; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Media; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Memorials; Moral Treatment; Policy; Politics; Poverty; Prison; Psychiatric Disability; Public Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; U.S. Congress; Washington, DC; Women & Gender
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy