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Modern Improvements In The Construction, Ventilation, And Warming Of Buildings For The Insane
This principle is, that there is no such thing as a just and proper curative or ameliorating treatment of the insane in cheaply constructed and cheaply managed institutions; that the measure of expense of common paupers never should be regarded in providing for the insane; that a better class of alsmhouses may be carried on for receiving lunatics, and dignified with the name of asylums or hospitals, with some degree of apparent success, but to do the greatest amount of good to the insane the mind of the tax-paying community must be trained to understand and admit the necessity of expensive arrangements...
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Title: Modern Improvements In The Construction, Ventilation, And Warming Of Buildings For The Insane
Creator: Luther V. Bell (author)
Date: July 1845
Format: Article
Publication: American Journal of Insanity
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: vol.2, no.1, pp.13-35
Keywords: Almshouses; Architecture; Asylums; Butler Hospital; Doctors; Economics; Employment; England; Government; Government Agencies; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Housing; Insanity; Institutions; Isaac Ray; Labor; McLean Hospital For The Insane; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Poverty; Psychiatric Disability; Public Welfare; Rhode Island; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations