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New State Asylum For Idiots, Third Annual Report Of The Trustees
Another important consideration for a conspicuous position was, that a subject like this, entirely new to our citizens, should be so prominently presented as to secure public attention and provoke inquiry into its merits; that thus the current prepossessions against this hapless class might be converted into sympathy and beneficence....
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Title: New State Asylum For Idiots, Third Annual Report Of The Trustees
Creator: n/a
Date: February 1, 1854
Format: Annual Report
Source: Steve Taylor Collection
Keywords: Albany, NY; Architecture; Asylums; Children; Cognitive Disability; Doctors; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Government; Government Agencies; Hervey B. Wilbur; Idiocy; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Moral Treatment; New York; New York State Asylum For Idiots; Policy; Politics; Public Welfare; Schools; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations