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SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE STATE LUNATIC HOSPITAL AT WORCESTER. December, 1849. Senate No. 1
by Salisbury, Stephen, S.C. Phillips, Wm. Appleton, Ensign H. Kellogg, Levi Lincoln, Trustees
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Boston: Duttton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1850. Illustrated by Tables of detailed statistics [on 3357 consecutively numbered patients admitted from beginning] (409 admissions, 429 remaining at the end of the year). First edition. Original sewn wraps, uncut, unopened. 8vo (25cm). pp. 80. Very Good. Most sections unopened with shallow chips and tears to edges of untrimmed sections. (To His Excellency George N. Briggs, [19th] Governor...). Followed by the Treasurer's Report of Sam'l Jennison, with new construction funds; "The Seventeenth Report of the Superintendent to the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital" by George Chandler with 15 tables discussed in detail. Section discussions: Visitors, Labor (with profits from produce), Register of the Weather (introduced 1839, 7th Annual Report), Managers of the Hospital with dates service began, duties and compensation. Chandler was assistant physician with Woodward from 1833-42, first Superintendent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane (Concord) 1842-45 and returned to Worcester to serve as Superintendent until 1856. Jennison was also Treasurer to the American Antiquarian Society..
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- Title
- SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE STATE LUNATIC HOSPITAL AT WORCESTER. December, 1849. Senate No. 1
- Author
- Salisbury, Stephen, S.C. Phillips, Wm. Appleton, Ensign H. Kellogg, Levi Lincoln, Trustees
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Boston: Duttton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1850.
- Keywords
- Worcester State Hospital History. Stephen Salisbury 1798-1884, George Nixon Briggs 1796-1861, Steven Clarendon Phillips 1801-57, Levi Lincoln, Jr. 1782-1868, George Chandler M.D. 1806-93, Ensign H. Kellogg 1812-82, William Appleton 1786-1862, Abraham Jenn
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