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New York State Asylum For Idiots, First Annual Report
It is an establishment for the management and education of young idiots. It is an extension of the blessings of education of an appropriate character, to a class of persons of a teachable age...
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Title: New York State Asylum For Idiots, First Annual Report
Creator: n/a
Date: 1852
Format: Annual Report
Source: Steve Taylor Collection
Keywords: Advocacy; Albany, NY; Asylums; Attendants; Cognitive Disability; Demographics; Economics; Education; Employment; Government; Government Agencies; Hervey B. Wilbur; Hospitals; Idiocy; Insanity; Institutions; Labor; Labor & Commerce; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Moral Treatment; New York; New York State Asylum For Idiots; Policy; Politics; Poverty; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Social Movements & Advocacy