The different town names indicate a different example of abuse from Dix’s journal. Each town highlights specific instances of mistreatment and neglect faced by individuals with mental illnesses in those locations.
Read the excerpt on the right. The underlined words are the names of towns in Massachusetts. What do the different town names indicate?
Each town indicates a different example of abuse from Dix’s journal.
Each town indicates a place where people with mental illnesses were well treated.
Each town indicates a different place where people with mental illnesses lived.
Lincoln. A woman in a cage. Medford. One idiotic subject chained, and one in a close stall for seventeen years. Pepperell. One often doubly chained, hand and foot; another violent; several peaceable now. Brookfield. One man caged, comfortable. Granville. One often closely confined; now losing the use of his limbs from want of exercise.
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