Report on Insanity and Idiocy in Massachusetts by the Commission on Lunacy Under Resolve of the Legislature of 1854. (from the scientific library of AF Guttmacher) .
Boston: William White, Printer to the State, 1855. First edition. Brown Cloth over Boards, Gilt Lettering. Octavo, pp. 213, indexed, plus pp. 15 , An Act to Establish a Hospital for Insane in Western Massachusetts. Very Good, top of spine gouged above title, corners bumped, else VG+. Item #8880
An important study both for its careful use of statistics in the fields of Psychology and Sociology, and for its influence on the treatment of the mentally ill, in Massachusetts and elsewhere. Jarvis contributed to the improvement of census data on the mentally ill, and studied links between mental illness and poverty, ethnicity, social class, and immigration status. A nice copy.
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