FURTHER EXPERIENCE IN FAMILY CARE OF THE INSANE IN MASSACHUSETTS
Abstract
IN IN OWENMASSACHUSETTS.â COPP,Board ofM. D.,Insanity, Boston, Mass.of twenty than has beenin family Its teachingcare of the insane is a hopeful achievement. with difficulties movement. of the system Dr. have yet, Henry of its watched still on remains reflection, introauguryMassachusetts of the future course impeded Inspired Scotland Stedman duction its not solitary very Long another and State some experiment and to this withhas just closed. rathera record uneven, struggles andof great beset of B. other a newThe and in R, theof progressby the inevitable by the example and Europe, others made country. quickening Mr.success Sanborn, the StatesMassachusetts Although interest, here-disappointing, the public of their by vivid impressions Miss inrepresentative surprising. before and Theits inception picture was still ofbeen care in in herfamiliar of thewith poor and to to-day offar differentcommunity distress Dix, its ofinsane. Legislatures,poorhouses memorials Even wretchednessshiftless families, as drawn recall their youthfulmemory. thethe worthy poor farmed out to the ness of the orphan child, underfed, the family of its task-master. was aroused suspicion of mercenary willing to receive the insane under cent vealed fear, some âReadlowest bidder, overworked, in theand the forlornin but not of minds of suchand sinister motives in those the new regime, whose