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Excerpt from The Present Condition of Tewksbury Sz'r, - By appointment of the board as a special com mittee to investigate the care of the sick and insane and other inmates of the State Almshouse at Tewksbury, I have visited that institution. I arrived there on Wednes day, May 2, at 4. 30 p.m., and remained there until F riday, May 4, at 12. I spent the entire time while there in a close personal examination of the premises, and in con versation with inmates of both sexes and all classes. I found no material change in any thing since my visits in April, 1882, and April, 1881; both of which visits were made by me without my associates or previous notice. Now, as then, I found scrupulous neatness everywhere, in the most remote and little visited parts as well as the more prominent. It is always my custom to inspect beds, both those unoccupied and occupied, taking the beds at random, anywhere. I think I examined more than a hundred beds, including those in remote attic dormitories, where boys and men sleep, and the beds of the insane. On the night of my arrival, I took the keys of a matron, and visited a por6 the present condition OF TE wksb UR Y. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.