Report on the poor and insane in Rhode-Island; made to the General Assembly at its January session 1851 ... Printed by order of the General Assembly

Providence: Joseph Knowles, state printer, 1851. First edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-119, [1]; engraved frontispiece of Butler Hospital for the Insane; tables in the text; original brown printed wrappers; near fine. An interesting appendix concerns the state of the impoverished Narragansett Indians. Hazard was a manufacturer and social reformer who worked for the establishment of common schools in Rhode Island. He supported women's suffrage and opposed slavery. As a result of this study "important reforms resulted" (DAB). Bartlett, p. 148; not in Sabin. (Inventory #: 55756)