Report of the Commissioners of Lunacy, to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts : January, 1875.

  • Massachusetts. Commission on Lunacy.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Report of the Commissioners of Lunacy, to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts : January, 1875. 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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    €ommontDcaltl) of Jttaseactjustfte. Lowell, January 12, 1875. Hon. J. E. Sanfokd, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Dear Sir :—I transmit to you and the legislature, as one of the Commissioners, a Report on Lunacy. Weudell Phillips, Esq., the other Commissioner, will, this day, also make his part of the Report. The Act creating this Com- mission instructs us to report in print early in the session, but the legislature, last year, voted that all such reports must be presented the first week in the session. I comply with this rule. Yours most respectfully, NATHAN ALLEN.