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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Insane, really?
I'm looking at a census records for Louisa. She's an unemployed
adult who cannot read nor write. She is listed as insane. The choices
are deaf and dumb, blind, insane or idiotic. I wonder what the criteria
was for being labeled insane in 1870.
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