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Excerpt from: Gov. Butler's Charges Against The Tewksbury Almshouse Management He went on to tell that he and also his son, have delivered dead bodies of infants to the Grove Street School in Boston; his son was paid $10 by Harvard and $12 by a female medical college for bodies, but was paid nothing for infants. Witness had seen billets of wood sealed up in coffins in place of infants, and religious services said over them by the deceived relatives, who then took the coffins away for burial.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Gov. Butler's Charges Against The Tewksbury Almshouse Management | |
| Creator: | n/a | |
| Date: | March 31, 1883 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | The Lowell Weekly Sun | |
| Source: | The Pollard Memorial Library | |
| Keywords: | Abuse; Advocacy; Almshouses; Benjamin Franklin Butler; Boston, MA; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Crime; Death; Doctors; Economics; Expose; Government; Government Agencies; Harvard University; Housing; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Massachusetts; Medical Professionals; Medical Research; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Neglect; Newspapers; Policy; Politics; Poverty; Public Health; Public Health & Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment; Tewksbury, MA | |
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