Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1802-1887 Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane, Submitted to the General Assembly of North Carolina. November, 1848. [House of Commons Document, No. 2.].

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Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1802-1887

Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane, Submitted to the General Assembly of North Carolina. November, 1848. [House of Commons Document, No. 2.].

Raleigh: Seaton Gales, Printer for the State, 1848.

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Insane -- Commitment and detention -- North Carolina.
Insanity -- Law and legislation -- North Carolina.
Jails -- North Carolina.
Mental health laws -- North Carolina.
Mentally ill -- Care -- North Carolina.
Psychiatric hospitals -- North Carolina.

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