Report of the Lunatic Department of the Baltimore Alms-House : presented to the Board of Trustees, December, 1840 : to which is added an appendix, containing an appeal in behalf of the insane poor of Maryland / by Alex. C. Robinson.
- Robinson, A. C. (Alexander C.)
- Date:
- 1841
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Credit: Report of the Lunatic Department of the Baltimore Alms-House : presented to the Board of Trustees, December, 1840 : to which is added an appendix, containing an appeal in behalf of the insane poor of Maryland / by Alex. C. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![APPENDIX. 2\ An eloquent apeal has again been made in behalf of the insane poor of our sister state, Pennsylvania, which, we doubt not, will prove effective, so well is it calculated ro re-enlist the active sympathies of her enlightened philanthropists in behalf of those who are no longer regarded, and should be no longer treated, as outcasts. Her chief magistrate, as her organ, in withholding his sanction, (the necessity of which he deplored, but thought imperious, from the exhausted condition of the treasury,) from a bill making provision for the numerous Insane Poor of that extensive commonwealth, which was passed by the Legis- lature two years ago, has avowed it to be her religious duty to provide, at her earliest ability, for the removal of so manifest an evil from amidst her people. And it being now shown to be her interest, on the score of economy* alone, Pennsylvania, we are sure, will not neglect this Second Appeal And for the sake of the character of our native state, we hope that Maryland will not be behind her in the benevolent undertaking and Christian duty To induce union and efficient action in order to effect so necessary and desirable an object, we earnestly appeal to the state and city authorities, as well as to every philan- thropist, and every Mary lander. For who, in this enlightened period, so char- acterized by wisely bestowed and extended charities, will acknowledge himself without sympathy for, and consent longer to forget, the Insane Poor. Who that bears A human bosom hath not often felt How dear are all those tics which bind our race In gentleness together, and how sweet Their force, let Fortune's wayward hand the while, Be kind or cruel. * See a second appeal to the p« ople of Pennsylvania, on the subject of an asylum for the Insane Poor of the commonwealth. Philadelphia, 1841). [Reported by a sub-com- mittee, through their chairman, Dr. Dunglison.] The following is the estimate prepared by a distinguished writer on insanity, M. BrTeriiet BO.SMONT, of the proportion of insane in different countries, as given m his recent work on the influence of civilization on the development °f insanity Heron- • . -, s the disease to prevail, as a general rule in a direct ratio with the state of civil.- I- <•„ ~„.^t„ sTtntfof New York 1 in 721 ; Lngland, 1 in 7H3 Scotland, i in oocs, ^$\fflnrf^.iu&£^ 4 ™%>h? 1'on0; 1<olsi'un'' m 1,014; Holland, 1 in 1,046; Italy, 1 in 4,S79; and Spain, 1 in 7,181 L4S1; Naples, 1 in 791; St. Petersburg!., 1 in 3,133; Madrid, 1 in 3,3o0; and Grand ^Ve-Hampshire, when the population did not exceedy^^n-; tics was estimated at 600; in Connecticutin a popuhi on ^^^^^cX^ Chusetts with a population of ^^^^Z^Sta'A «S fewer than iro,n](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21150862_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
