Report on insanity and idiocy in Massachusetts
Contributors: Lincoln, Levi, 1782-1868.; Jarvis, Edward, 1803-1884.; Sumner, Increase, 1801-1871.
Publisher: W. White, printer to the state
Published: 1855
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Psychiatric hospitals -- Massachusetts.; Mental retardation -- Massachusetts.
Description: Reviewing Jarvis's Report in 1856, Isaac Ray wrote: "Never, perhaps, has a statistical inquiry been pursued with such ample provisions against error and imperfection, or with results more worthy of reliance. In all those respects which render such a work of value, --accuracy, completeness, and pertinence, -- we doubt if it has been surpassed."