Reports and other documents relating to the state lunatic hospital at Worcester, Massachusetts.
Published: 1837
Subjects: Medical care -- Massachusetts -- Mentally Ill Persons.; Insane People -- Hospitals -- Massachusetts.; Lunatics -- Hospitals -- Massachusetts.; Mental health -- Hospitals -- Massachusetts.; Mental illness -- Hospitals -- Massachusetts.; Psychiatric hospitals -- Massachusetts.
Description: ...gives short background to the creation of "an asylum for the safe keeping of lunatics, and persons furiously mad"; includes a ketch of legislative proceedings, Report of the Commissioners to Superintendent, erection of the hospital, communication from the Commissioners and Trustees, a proclamation of the Governor, first to fourth Annual Report of theTrustees, first to third Report of the Treasurer, first to fourth Report of the Superintendent, illustration and plan of the building, among other things; some reports contains statistics on finances, condition of the patients (including supposed cause of their illness, etc.); also available at the Boston Medical Library...