Annual report of the trustees of the Temporary Asylum for the Chronic Insane at Worcester
Report year ends Sept. 30 Established by an act of the Massachusetts legislature on 15 May 1877, the Asylum moved into buildings previously occupied "as a lunatic hospital" on 23 October 1877. The first 429 patients were "transferred from the State Lunatic Hospitals, and the State Almshouse at Tewksbury." The patients were "considered to be suffering from insanity in its chronic form." (First Report, pages 12-13.) Issued with: Annual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, 1878-1884; Annual report of the trustees of the Worcester Lunatic Hospital, 1885-1886
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