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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    ported by the State from those who were supported by the cities and towns. Of the two thousand six hundred and thirty-two lunatics, eleven hundred and ten are independent, or supported by their own property, or by that*of their friends; and fifteen hundred and twenty-two are paupers, of whom eight hundred and twenty-nine are supported by the cities and towns, and six hundred and ninety-three are supported by the State. Of the independent lunatics, three hundred and eighty-seven are in hospitals, seven in prisons or in receptacles connected with them, and seven hundred and sixteen at home. Of the pauper lunatics, nine hundred and fifty-four are in hospitals or places for healing or custody, and five hundred and sixty-eight at home or in almshouses. INDEPENDENT LUNATICS. The independent lunatics are mostly natives, very few are foreigners, and a majority are at their homes, as is shown in the following tables
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