Reports on institutionalized epileptics, 1895.

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Reports on institutionalized epileptics, 1895.

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These reports were submitted to the Board of Social Welfare by officials from the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, the Rome State Custodial Asylum, the New York State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women at Newark, and the Brunswick Home at Amityville. These reports were compiled the year before the opening of the state-operated Craig Colony for Epileptics.

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