Report on insanity and idiocy in Massachusetts

by Massachusetts. Commission on Lunacy

1855 213 pages eng

Reviewing Jarvis's Report in 1856, Isaac Ray wrote: "Never, perhaps, has a statistical inquiry been pursued with such ample provisions against error and imperfection, or with results more worthy of reliance. In all those respects which render such a work of value, --accuracy, completeness, and perti…