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Report Of Commissioners Appointed To Superintend Erection Of A Lunatic Hospital At Worcester
The slightest reflection will render it obvious, that an edifice designed for the residence of the insane, must be materially different, both in form and in interior arrangement, from ordinary habitations. The insane require equable warmth, but they cannot be entrusted with fire. They require light and pure air, but the doors and windows which give light and ventilation to common dwellings, would furnish them with facilities for escape, and with opportunities for inflicting personal injury, or even self-destruction. The insane often possess more than the ordinary strength of men, but they are far less capable than children of rendering it subservient to their own welfare, and no human agency can always be present with them to direct or control it....
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Title: Report Of Commissioners Appointed To Superintend Erection Of A Lunatic Hospital At Worcester
From: Reports And Other Documents Relating To The State Lunatic Hospital At Worcester, Mass.
Creator:  Horace Mann, Bezaleel Taft, Jr., and W.B. Calhoun (authors)
Date: January 4, 1832
Format: Government Document
Publisher: Dutton and Wentworth, Boston
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: pp.9-29
Keywords: Almshouses; Architecture; Asylums; Confinement; Doctors; Economics; Escape; Government; Health & Medicine; Horace Mann; Hospitals; Insanity; Institutions; Legislation; Massachusetts; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Psychiatric Disability; Public Welfare; Worcester, MA
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Physical Environment
Note: This collection of documents about the State Lunatic Hospital was published in 1837.


Objects From This Artifact:
- Communication From The Commissioners And Trustees (doc)
- First Annual Report Of The Trustees Of State Lunatic Hospital (doc)
- First Report Of The Superintendent Of The Lunatic Hospital At Worcester, Mass. (doc)
- Plan Of The Worcester Lunatic Hospital (still)
- Report Of Commissioners Appointed To Superintend Erection Of A Lunatic Hospital At Worcester (doc)
- Sketch Of Legislative Proceedings, &c. (doc)
- State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts (still)