State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester
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State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester
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State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester
State Lunatic Hospital in Worcester
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State Lunatic Hospital in Worcester
Lunatic Hospital at Worcester
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Lunatic Hospital at Worcester
State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester, Mass.
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State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester, Mass.
State Lunatic Asylum, at Worcester, Massachusetts
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State Lunatic Asylum, at Worcester, Massachusetts
Massachusetts. State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester
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Massachusetts. State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester
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In 1830, in order to provide care for the mentally ill in Worcester County, the governor of Massachusetts ordered the erection of a hospital on Summer Street in Worcester. Commissioners appointed to oversee the new building were Horace Mann (1796-1859), Bezaleel Taft, Jr. (1780-1846), and William Barron Calhoun (1795-1865). Dr. Samuel Bayard Woodward (1787-1850) served as the first superintendent/physician of the Worcester Lunatic Asylum. The hospital was enlarged in 1835 and was considered one of the best institutions in the country for the treatment of insanity. Its successor was Worcester State Hospital, located on Belmont Street. The majority of the records of the asylum to 1870 apparently were sent to the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/150531860
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Hospitals
Psychiatric hospitals
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Massachusetts
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Worcester (Mass.)
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