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First Annual Report Of The Trustees Of State Lunatic Hospital
The first patient was received into the Hospital on the nineteenth day of January last. Since that time one hundred and sixty-four have been admitted. The average time of their residence here has been about six months....
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Title: First Annual Report Of The Trustees Of State Lunatic Hospital
From: Reports And Other Documents Relating To The State Lunatic Hospital At Worcester, Mass.
Creator:  Horace Mann, Bezaleel Taft, Jr., W.B. Calhoun, Alfred Dwight Foster, and F.C. Gray (authors)
Date: December 1833
Format: Annual Report
Publisher: Dutton and Wentworth, Boston
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: pp.37-44
Keywords: Asylums; Cognitive Disability; Disease; Doctors; Economics; Government; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Idiocy; Insanity; Institutions; Massachusetts; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Poverty; Psychiatric Disability; Public Welfare; Worcester, MA
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations
Note: This collection of documents about the State Lunatic Hospital was published in 1837.


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- 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)