Reports and other documents relating to the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, Mass
By: Printed by the order of the Senate
Contributors: Foster, Alfred Dwight; Kinnicutt, Thomas; Woodward, Samuel Bayard, 1853-1946; Lincoln, Levi, 1782-1868; Calhoun, W. B.; Tart, Bezaleel; Mann, Horace; Massachusetts. General Court. Senate
Publisher: Dutton & Wentworth
Published: 1837
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Hospital Design and Construction; State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester; Psychiatric Hospitals
Notes: Consists of a view and plan of the asylum, an outline of legislative proceedings regarding the establishment and construction of the asylum (Horace Mann, chairman),the report of the commissioners supervising its construction (Horace Mann, Bezaleel Tart, W.B. Calhoun), a communication from the commissioners and trustees (Horace mann, et al.), a proclamation by the governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Levi Lincoln), the first annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, December 1833 (Horace Mann, Samuel B. Woodward et al.), the second annual report of the trustees of State Lunatic Hospital, December 1834 (W.B. Calhoun, Thomas Kinnicutt, Alfred Dwight Foster, Samuel B. Woodward), the third annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, December 1835 (F.C. Gray, A.D. Foster, S.B. Woodward et al.), the fourth annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, December 1836 (Thomas A. Greene, A.D. Foster, Samuel B. Woodward et al.), appendix containing notes from the superintendent (Samuel B. Woodward), statutes, rules and regulations of the hospital, a list of officers, and a section of an act concerning lunatics, 1837.

"Ordered, that the several annual reports of the State Lunatic Hospital, accompanied with other documents in relation to that institution as may be deemed proper, be reprinted under the direction of the Clerk of the Senate."

Copy 1 Note: Issued with Fifth [- thirty-ninth] annual report of the trustees.