Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from First Annual Report of the President of the Citizens Association of Pennsylvania, 1867
It is quite common to send such persons to hospitals for insane, and to the drunkard's department of alms houses. Indeed, they may be found among the inmates of county jails, where padded cells, or some other kind of temporary accommodations are furnished.
They are unwelcome applicants however. At the doors of all hospitals for the insane jails are not suited to their condition in any respect, other than separation and exclusion from society; and commitment to alms houses, is, in their estimation, more demoralizing than even a debauch itself.
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