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Title The Origins of the State mental hospital in America: six documentary studies, 1837-1856.

Publication Info. New York : Arno Press, 1973.

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 Moore Stacks  RC443 .O74    Available  ---
Description 350 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Mental illness and social policy: the American experience
Mental illness and social policy: the American experience.
Contents Reprint of Report and memorial of the county superintendents of the poor of this State on lunacy and its relation to pauperism, and for relief of insane poor, first published 1856, Albany; of Report in relation to an asylum for the insane poor, first published 1839, Harrisburg, Pa.; of Report of the commissioners appointed by the Governor of New Jersey to ascertain the number of lunatics and idiots in the State, first published 1840, Newark.
Reprint of Report of the Committee on the Insane Poor in Connecticut, first published 1838, New Haven; of Report of the Select Committee on Report and Memorial of County Superintendents of the Poor, on lunacy and its relation to pauperism, first published 1856, Albany; and of Reports and other documents relating to the State lunatic hospital at Worcester, Mass., first published 1837, Boston.
Subject Psychiatric hospitals -- United States.
Psychiatric hospitals.
United States.
Psychiatry -- Early works to 1900.
Psychiatry.
Chronological Term Early works to 1900
ISBN 0405052197