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Further information of the progress of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason /

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Corporate Authors: Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason., Contributors to the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Printed for John Richardson ..., 1818.
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Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason.
Americana.
Statutes.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > organization & administration
Constitution and Bylaws
Statuts.
statutes.
Philadelphia
Online Access:http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/2554041R
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Item Description: Cover title.
Prepared by the managers of the Asylum, which was opened near Frankford (now part of Philadelphia) in May 1817.
Forms the first annual report. The second was published in 1819 under title: State of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason. Earlier progress reports had been issued in 1814 and 1816 by the Contributors to the Asylum.
Includes "Account of patients admitted ... from fifth month 20, 1817, to second month 6, 1818," reports of the Building Committee and the treasurer, list of officers, and "Extracts from the 'Rules instituted for the management of the Asylum.'"
"Constitution of the Contributors to the Asylum": pages [15]-19. "List of Contributors": pages 19-24.
On back cover: "To agents of monthly meetings" (Publisher's announcement concerning available copies of the 1814 and 1816 reports and of Samuel Tuke's "An account of the Retreat near York in England.").
Physical Description: 24 p. ; 17 cm.
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