Report on insanity and idiocy in Massachusetts.

  • Massachusetts. Commission on Lunacy. [from old catalog].
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report on insanity and idiocy in Massachusetts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    Page. Nature of Poverty, ........ 52 Proportion of Lunatics in the Independent and Pauper Classes in Massa- chusetts, ...... Proportion of Independent and Pauper Lunatics in England, Insanity cause of Pauperism, ..... Connection of Pauperism with Insanity, .... Unbalanced Mind cause of Pauperism and Insanity, Weak Mind cause of Pauperism and Insanity, . . Intemperance cause of Pauperism and Insanity, 111 Health cause of Pauperism and Insanity, . Comparative Curability of Pauper and Independent, Incurableness, cause of Pauperism, ..... Foreign element, ....... Table X.—Lunatics, Native and Foreign, Independent and Pauper, at Home and in Hospitals, &c, Proportion of Foreign Lunatics to Population, Proportion of Native Lunatics to Population, Foreign Poverty, ....... Table XI.—Foreign Lunatics, Independent and Pauper, Condition, Prospect, Situation, .... Liability of Poor Foreigners to become Insane, Irish Lunatics in America, ...... Mr. Chadwick's opinion, ...... Comparative Curability of Native and Foreign, Table XII.—Situation and Nativity of Foreign Lunatics, Foreign Lunatics in Hospitals, &c, in Massachusetts, Preponderance of Foreigners in State Hospitals, Comparative facility of sending Natives and Foreigners to Hospitals, Curability and Incurability of the Insane, .... Curability in various stages of the disease, .... Table XIII.—Curable and Incurable at Home, Native and Foreign, Table XIV.—Curable and Incurable in Hospitals, &c, Native and Foreign, Table XV.—Curable and Incurable at Home, in Hospitals, &c, Native and Foreign, ...... Table XVI Curable and Incurable, Independent and Pauper, Native and Foreign, Situation, .... Some cases of Insanity primarily incurable, .... Various Curability of Insanity from different causes, Males and Females, Native and Foreign, Ratio of each to Population, Table XVII.—Sexes, Nativity, Independent, Pauper, Condition, Prospect, and Situation, ..... Idiots, ........ Distinction between Demented and Idiot, .... Table XVIII.—Idiots in Towns, Sexes, Independent, Pauper, Age, Subject for Hospital, ..... Table XIX.—Native Idiots in Counties, Independent, Pauper, Age, Subject for Hospital, .... Table XX.—Native Idiots of all Classes, Age and Residence, Subject for Hospital, . . . . . . .98