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People with mental disabilities - Institutional care

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  • The New-York State Asylum for Idiots, Syracuse. Wood engraving.
  • The New-York State Asylum for Idiots, Syracuse. Wood engraving by W.(?) Sebald.
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Catalogue

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    Helping mentally handicapped people in hospital : a report to the Secretary of State for Social Services / by the National Development Group for the Mentally Handicapped.

    National Development Group for the Mentally Handicapped (Great Britain) | Date: 1978
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    Autism : a social and medical history / Mitzi Waltz, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

    Waltz, Mitzi | Date: 2013
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    The Asylum for Idiots: instituted October 27, 1847. Establishment: Earlswood, Red Hill, Surrey. Office: 29, Poultry, London, E.C.

    Earlswood Asylum. | Date: 1862
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    Insanity and the lunatic asylum in the nineteenth century / edited by Thomas Knowles and Serena Trowbridge.

    | Date: 2015
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    The Asylum for Idiots: instituted October 27, 1847. Report, 1855.

    Asylum for Idiots (Park House, Highgate, London and Essex Hall, Colchester, England) | Date: [1855]
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