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Little Lunatics: Children in America's Madhouses (1850-1930)

By Carla Joinson
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By Carla Joinson
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Insane asylums were the one place where children never got to age out and leave. Reform schools, orphanages, poorhouses—yes! But not out of insane asylums. And they could go there young. Eleven-year-old Gertrude at the Mission State Hospital for the Insane. . . Walter, only eight, at the Asylum for the Insane in Warm Springs. . . an unnamed boy, committed at birth because he came out of the womb a raving maniac. . . .

Committed by parents who were angry, fed-up, relieved, and only occasi...

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HistoryUnited States History19th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous19th Century American History - General and Miscellaneous