Report on insanity and idiocy in Massachusetts / by the Commission on Lunacy under resolve of the Legislature of 1854.

  • Massachusetts. Commission on Lunacy.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Report on insanity and idiocy in Massachusetts / by the Commission on Lunacy under resolve of the Legislature of 1854. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1855.] Table XXXII.—STATE PAUPERS* Residence and Disease. Residence. Lunatics. Idiots. Residence. Lunatics. Idiots. Hospitals. Jails. Worcester, 157 1 Concord, 2 - Taunton, 127 1 Boston, . 1 - Boston, . 207 1 Dedham, 1 - Receptacles. Barnstable, . 1 - Cambridge, 57 6 State Almshouses. Ipswich, . 68 - Monson, 6 15 House of Correction. Tewksbury, . 19 2 Boston, . 3 - Bridgewater, . 15 8 State Prison. At Home, 24 10 Charlestown, . 3 Totals, 693 44 CRIMINAL LUNATICS. There is a natural repugnance in innocence to associating with crime. This sensibility, which society encourages and cultivates in all its members, and is deemed one of its safe- guards, usually remains with the insane; it is sometimes ex- alted ; and if it is ever clouded or diminished, it is from disease; and then it needs to be cherished and restored as cer- tainly as any delusion or perversity is to be removed. To place, then, these criminals—the insane convicts from the prisons—in the same wards with the innocent patients, and to require them to associate together,—this is offensive to those * The paupers were distributed as stated in this table when the returns were received. Since the Report was written, and while passing through the press, some have been transferred to the State Almshouses.