Midnight clerks and daily drudges
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| Title | Midnight clerks and daily drudges: hospital psychiatry in New York State, 1890-1905 |
| Author(s) | I. Dowbiggin |
| Journal | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences |
| Date | 1992 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Start page | 130 |
| End page | 152 |
| Abstract | Describes the centralization, bureaucratization, and politicization of New York State's care for the insane that began with the State Care Act in 1890 and ended with the Brackett-Rogers bill in 1902. The State Care Act legislated hospitalization in state-funded asylums for all mentally ill persons in county asylums, jails, or workhouses. The three-person Commission in Lunacy, created in 1889, had almost unlimited powers, and many battles were fought between the commission and the state hospitals. The Brackett-Rogers bill attempted to curb spending by abolishing the asylums' boards of managers, giving even more power to the commission, but the boards were reinstated in 1905. |
| ISSN | 0022-5045 |
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