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Subject: Origins of the Asylum
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Date: 9 Feb 90 19:34:38 GMT
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I am doing thesis research on 19th C. public poorhouses in
America, and I was wondering if anyone on this list might have any
information of the origin of the asylum as a charitable insti-
tution - perhaps a bibliography.

Please send responses to my address above.  Thanks.

Jerry Probst
Southern Illinois University