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Credit: The present condition of Tewksbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![THE PRESENT CONDITION OF TEWKSBURY. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER. [Boston Advertiser, May 7.] Nothing which has been given to the public since the affairs of the Tewksbury Almshouse became prominent has afforded any thing like the exact, full, and trustworthy information concerning its present condition that is given in the report by Mrs. Clara T. Leonard of her recent inspection of the institution, made to the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, which is printed this morning. It deals with the real question in issue, the condition of the almshouse at the present time, which alone is perti- nent to a consideration of the need of present reforms. What the condition was ten years ago is not to the point; nor is its consideration pertinent, as a reflection on the administration of State affairs, if the abuses were then discovered and rectified and no longer exist. For this reform the State administration will be commended, not condemned, by honest-minded citizens. Mrs. Leonard is a woman whose character and qualifica- tions, even a common and wanton traducer of reputations](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21015995_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
