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The State Wards
He testified that when he detected Mr. Marsh, as he had before stated, a conversation had ensued, Mr. Marsh telling him to keep still about what he had seen of the loading of the bodies at the dead house. Marsh said: “We have got to have some pay for our trouble taking care of these ‘critters’.”...
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Title: The State Wards
Creator: n/a
Date: April 7, 1883
Format: Article
Publication: The Lowell Weekly Sun
Source: The Pollard Memorial Library
Location: pp.1,4
Keywords: Abuse; Advocacy; Almshouses; Asylums; Beds; Benjamin Franklin Butler; Boston, MA; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Clothing; Confinement; Connecticut; Crime; Death; Disease; Doctors; Expose; Family; Food; Government; Government Agencies; Harvard University; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Housing; Hygiene; Insanity; Institutions; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Massachusetts; Media; Medical Professionals; Medication; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Neglect; New Hampshire; Newspapers; Policy; Politics; Poverty; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health; Public Health & Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment; Tewksbury, MA; Transportation; Vermin; Work
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy