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The history of asylums is fascinating, as well as rather frightening.
Many of them didn't just house the mentally ill. In fact, some did not
have any really mentally disturbed people at all. Dull normal to
severely retarded, and the poor. At various times in our history
(England has an equally fascinating history of their houses) These
"institutions" housed just about anyone society did not know what to do
with. Some of them were labeled training schools, and similar. In
some cases the poor (especially widows with children who did not have
means of support) were as common a resident as the mentally disturbed.
There were some in which the children were brought to a certain age,
sent out to learn a trade, then return to the institution to live the
remainder of their lives, raise their children, and it all started all
over again.<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="70">-Joe Noecker
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Leslie Chapman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Just ran across an odd item, in the 1860 Concord, Merrimack Co., NH Census;
Joseph Robinson took the trouble to find out and note next to the names of
the inmates of the poor house or insane asylum, (not specified,I suspect
latter) date of incarceration, and in last column, what their infirmity was.
Les C
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