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|Text=<p>According to the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, when "useful labor" wasn't possible for inmates, the remedies list: "chess, cards, backgammon, rolling balls, jumping the rope, etc., are in-door games; and base-ball, pitching quoits, walking and riding, are out-door amusements."</p> | |Text=<p>According to the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, when "useful labor" wasn't possible for inmates, the remedies list: "chess, cards, backgammon, rolling balls, jumping the rope, etc., are in-door games; and base-ball, pitching quoits, walking and riding, are out-door amusements."</p> | ||
<p><u>Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester</u>, December 1846. Posted to 19CBB on 11/1/2007 by Richard Hershberger. <b>Note:</b> was "base-ball" a common term in MA then?</p> | <p><u>Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester</u>, December 1846. Posted to 19CBB on 11/1/2007 by Richard Hershberger. <b>Note:</b> was "base-ball" a common term in MA then?</p> | ||
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Text | According to the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, when "useful labor" wasn't possible for inmates, the remedies list: "chess, cards, backgammon, rolling balls, jumping the rope, etc., are in-door games; and base-ball, pitching quoits, walking and riding, are out-door amusements." Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, December 1846. Posted to 19CBB on 11/1/2007 by Richard Hershberger. Note: was "base-ball" a common term in MA then? |
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