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In 1841 who brought attention to the insane, and advocated for humane hospitals and state-supported care? In their address to the Massachusetts legislature they said "confined in this Commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, beaten with rods, lashed into obedience." They gathered evidence of the appalling abuse by touring prisons, workhouses, almshouses, and private homes.
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