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LUNATIC AND PRISON ESTABLISHMENTS. 227
and the criminal have few, and these not noisy, advocates,
and their interests are postponed. Lastly, It
is an unpopular duty to expose the imperfections of
any American institutions, and hence the actual condition
of some of these establishments is really unknown
to the great body of the upper classes of the
city, who would otherwise be well disposed towards
their improvement.
As some of the civic rulers, and a number of influential
citizens, were attending my lectures, and as,
in treating of physical education and insanity, I could
legitimately introduce remarks on these institutions,
I proposed to avail myself of this means of calling
public attention, in the most respectful and delicate
manner possible, to the condition of the poor children
in the Farm Schools especially, but was told that the
interference of a foreigner would give offence, and
retard instead of advancing the object of improvement.
Having more confidence, however, than my
advisers, in the good sense and right feeling of my
audience, and having no object except doing good in
view, I did venture to mention in my lecture on physical
education the want of provision for ventilation
in the new Lunatic Asylum, and also the crowded
and unwholesome condition of the pauper children
in the Farm Schools. The remarks appeared in the
c" Daily Whig" newspaper, which regularly reported
all my lectures, and no offence was taken, at least
none was expressed to me.
Dec. 2. Thermometer 40 . We heard the Rev.
Mr Dewey preach an excellent practical discourse on
the relative duties of parents and children. His
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/267/?q=%221838%3F%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.