...would start with horror; of beings wretched in our prisons, and more wretched in our almshouses. " I call your attention to the present state of insane...cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with roda and laahed into obedience." — ilemorial, 1843, p. 4. EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT, 1871. long been engaged...

...Massachusetts, stating concisely and clearly what she had seen. " I proceed, gentlemen," she said", " to call your attention to the present state of insane...naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience." She told of a young woman at Danvers, nearly nude, confined in a cage, where the air was so offensive...

...asylums! In January, 1843, she addressed to the Leg1slature of Massachusetts a memorial in behalf of the " insane persons confined within this Commonwealth,...naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience!" The result was a great improvement. In twenty States she visited asylums, pointed out abuses and suggested...

...no tranquil, refining, or composing features. The condition of human beings reduced to the extremest state of degradation and misery cannot be exhibited...confined within this commonwealth, in cages, closets, stalls, pens ; chained, naked, beaten ^vlth rods, and lashed into obedience ! " Miss Dix was seconded...

...asylums. In January, 1843, she addressed to the Legislature of Massachusetts a memorial in behalf of the " insane persons confined within this Commonwealth,...naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience!" The result was a great improvement. In twenty States she visited asylums, pointed out abuses and suggested...

...asylums. In January, 1843, she addressed to the Legislature of Massachusetts a memorial in behalf of the " insane persons confined within this Commonwealth,...naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience!" The result was a great improvement. In twenty States she visited asylums, pointed out abuses and suggested...

...tale of horrors. She proved that insane persons in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts were "confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.2 A storm of vituperation followed the publication of this memorial. Miss Dix, however, knew...

...no tranquil, refining or composing features. The condition of human beings reduced to the extremest state of degradation and misery cannot be exhibited...within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stails, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience! Page after page, the memorial...

...array of facts, she petitioned the legislature " in behalf of the insane paupers confined within the Commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens...naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience. ' ' She was successful in Massachusetts, the abuses were to a large extent corrected. This encouraged...

...of Christian America, are now incredible. Scarcely fifty years ago she found insane persons confined in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained,...naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience. In Groton, Massachusetts, she found a young man with an iron collar round his neck, and chained in...