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Title:
  • The dark days of social welfare at the state institutions at Howard, Rhode Island / by Henry A. Jones, M. D.
Call No:
  • HV98.R4
  • J6
Summary note:
  • Dr. Henry Aaron Jones was born in Liverpool, England and immigrated to the United States in 1893. He graduated from Bowdoin Medical College in 1896 and completed a postgraduate course at Harvard Medical College. He served his internship and residency at the Rhode Island State Hospital for Mental Diseases and was Assistant Physician there from 1898 to 1904. From 1904 to 1916 Dr. Jones was the resident physician for nearly 3,000 inmates at institutions at Howard that included: the State Hospital for Mental Diseases, the State Workhouse, the House of Correction, the State Prison, the Providence County Jail, the Sockanossett School for Boys, and the Oaklawn School for Girls. From 1916 to 1924 her served as the first Medical Superintendent of the State Infirmary.
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Author:
Imprint Place:
  • [Providence, R.I.] :
Publisher/Printer:
  • Dept. of Social Welfare,
Imprint Date:
  • [1943?]
Physical Description:
  • 87 p., [8] leaves plates :
  • ill. ;
  • 24 cm.
Notes:
  • "The illustrations ... are reproductions of oil paintings by the author."
  • Dr. Henry Aaron Jones was born in Liverpool, England and immigrated to the United States in 1893. He graduated from Bowdoin Medical College in 1896 and completed a postgraduate course at Harvard Medical College. He served his internship and residency at the Rhode Island State Hospital for Mental Diseases and was Assistant Physician there from 1898 to 1904. From 1904 to 1916 Dr. Jones was the resident physician for nearly 3,000 inmates at institutions at Howard that included: the State Hospital for Mental Diseases, the State Workhouse, the House of Correction, the State Prison, the Providence County Jail, the Sockanossett School for Boys, and the Oaklawn School for Girls. From 1916 to 1924 her served as the first Medical Superintendent of the State Infirmary.
  • Gift of the R.I. State Library ; 2.26.1986
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