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In the 19th and 20th centuries, reformers in the United States and Europe built asylums in response to a range of social issues including disability - mental health, and alcoholism. These documents and images from the NLM Digital Collections bring to life the day to day experiences of people at these sites: the conditions of the asylums and the limits on liberty that many people in them experienced.
Letter from Robert Bruce, Manager of the Detective Police Agency, to Dr. Shobal Clevenger, March 7, 1887
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
Dr. Shobal Clevenger investigated conditions at the Cook County Asylum, after working there in the 1880s. A man tried to assault him as an intimidation tactic. This letter reported the findings of a detective that Clevenger hired to investigate the matter.
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