Further information of the progress of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason / published by directions of the Contributors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason 57095

Contributor:

Contributors to the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason

Language:

English

Physical Description:

24 p. ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Richardson, 1818.

Notes:

Cover title.

Prepared by the managers of the Asylum, which was opened near Frankford (now part of Philadelphia) in May 1817.

Forms the first annual report. The second was published in 1819 under title: State of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason. Earlier progress reports had been issued in 1814 and 1816 by the Contributors to the Asylum.

Includes "Account of patients admitted ... from fifth month 20, 1817, to second month 6, 1818," reports of the Building Committee and the treasurer, list of officers, and "Extracts from the 'Rules instituted for the management of the Asylum.'"

"Constitution of the Contributors to the Asylum": p. [15]-19. "List of Contributors": p. 19-24.

On back cover: "To agents of monthly meetings" (Publisher's announcement concerning available copies of the 1814 and 1816 reports and of Samuel Tuke's "An account of the Retreat near York in England."

Signatures: A-B[superscript 6].

Local Notes:

Retrospective conversion record: MARC Link database.

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker, 44118

Shaw & Shoemaker, 45291