Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1883 — HORRIBLETREATMENT OF LUNATICS. [ARTICLE]

HORRIBLETREATMENT OF LUNATICS.

In the investigation of the abuses in the Tewksbury (Mass.) alms-house, one of the witnesses testified that he found in a cell in the attic an insane woman lying upon some straw perfectly naked. She was i eported to be violent and to tear her clothes. She was so much emaciated as to weigh but little more than forty pounds. .The attendants that carried her food declared that she ate the whole of it. Dudley carried her the food himself, and the assistant took it into the room. His wife clothed her, and in five or six weeks they had the woman down in the sitting-room, so changed that even her husband did not know her. Other witnesses testified to the barbarities and cruelties practiced in the institution.