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Report of the Special Committee on Investigation of the Government Hospital for the Insane


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Fifteen counts investigated. Enormous amount of testimony largely on cruelty to patients. The Congressmen listened to horror stories for half a year and concluded that nothing needed to be changed except administrative structure and law regulating admittance.










Report of the Special Committee Appointed to Visit the Insane Asylum at Osawattomie [sic].


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"The Special Committee, instructed by the House of Representatives to visit the Insane Asylum at Osawattomie, and investigate the necessity of additional buildings and report to the House the probable cost of such improvements as are absolutely necessary, beg leave to submit the following report."--Page [3].