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.] Comwoutetaltl) of In the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty- Five. AN ACT To establish a Hospital for Insane in Western Massa- chusetts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- tives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1 Sect. 1. His excellency the governor, with the 2 advice and consent of the council, is hereby author- 3 ized and empowered to appoint a board of three com- 4 missioners, who shall purchase an eligible site within 5 one of the four western counties of this Common- 6 wealth, and cause to be erected thereon a suitable 7 hospital for the care and cure of the insane—the 8 accommodations of such hospital to be sufficient for 9 two hundred or two hundred and fifty patients, a su- 10 perintendent and steward, with their families, and all