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Excerpt from: Memorial Of Miss D. L. Dix To the Senate And House Of Representatives Of The United States Do you turn with inexpressible disgust from these details? It is worse to witness the reality. Is your refinement shocked by these statements? There is but one remedy: the multiplication of well organized hospitals; and to this end, creating increased means for their support.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Memorial Of Miss D. L. Dix To the Senate And House Of Representatives Of The United States | |
| Creator: | Dorothea L. Dix (author) | |
| Date: | August 8, 1850 | |
| Format: | Government Document | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | 33rd Congress, 1st Session, Senate Report No. 57 | |
| Keywords: | Activists; Advocacy; Almshouses; Asylums; Care Givers; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Confinement; Demographics; Dorothea Dix; Economics; Epilepsy; Expose; Government; Government Agencies; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Idiocy; Immigration; Insanity; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Media; Memorials; Policy; Politics; Poverty; Prison; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment; U.S. Congress; Washington, DC; Women & Gender | |
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