William M. Awl, Ohio Lunatic Asylum, to Dr. John M. Galt, Williamsburg, 1846
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- Box Series 2, Box 7, Folder 67
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Scope and Contents Requests Galt's views on buildings for hospital for the insane, so that he can submit a report at the next meeting of the Association of Medical Superintendents, which is to meet in Washington. Is pleased to be on Galt's committee "on Asylums for colored persons." Believes the last census made great errors in its figures on insanity among Negroes. They admit no Negroes to his institution. Mentions the practices of treating Negroes the same as whites at "Woodwards institution." The Legislature ordered his reports translated and printed in German.
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