Download or read book Report on insanity and idiocy in Massachusetts by the commission on lunacy written by Massachusetts commission on lunacy 1854 and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviewing Jarvis's Report in 1856, Isaac Ray wrote: "Never, perhaps, has a statistical inquiry been pursued with such ample provisions against error and imperfection, or with results more worthy of reliance. In all those respects which render such a work of value, --accuracy, completeness, and pertinence, -- we doubt if it has been surpassed."