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Communication From The Commissioners And Trustees
The undersigned, in their respective capacities, as Commissioners for the construction, and Trustees for the management of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester, have the pleasure to inform your Excellency, that the edifice erected for that purpose is now upon the point of completion....
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Title: Communication From The Commissioners And Trustees
From: Reports And Other Documents Relating To The State Lunatic Hospital At Worcester, Mass.
Creator:  Horace Mann, Bezaleel Taft, Jr., Wm. B. Calhoun, and A.D. Foster (authors)
Date: December 6, 1832
Format: Government Document
Publisher: Dutton and Wentworth, Boston
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: pp.30-36
Keywords: Advocacy; Almshouses; Asylums; Benevolence; Clothing; Disease; Economics; Government; Government Agencies; Health & Medicine; Horace Mann; Hospitals; Insanity; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Levi Lincoln; Massachusetts; Prison; Psychiatric Disability; Public Welfare; Religion; Social Welfare & Communities; Trustees; Worcester, MA
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy
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)