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Organization of the Union Temperance Society of Moreau and Northumberland
This wqas the first formal temperance group in the United States. It was proposed by Billy James Clark who eventually started the society along with the help of Rev. Libbeus Armstrong. It was consisted of 43 men who held meetings quarterly and annually for 14 years. No one in the society was allowed to drink unless a physician recommended it due to a medical condition.
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The Mclean Hospital
This hospital was founded through a charter granted by the Massachusetts Legislature for the "Massachusetts General Hospital Corporation." From its beginning the Corporation intended to treat both physical and mental illnesses, with a separate facility for each. When the Asylum opened in 1818, it was the first hospital in New England, and only the fourth special institution for the treatment of the mentally ill in America. -
The American Temperance Society
It directed its efforts to redeeming habitual drunkards as well as the occasional drinker. It claimed that by the 1830s they persuaded hundreds of thousands of Americans to renounce liquor. -
Dorothea Dix Visits East Cambridge House of Correction
When she visited it to teach a Sunday school class to the women, she was shocked by the conditions that they lived under. The mentally insane were housed with them as well and they lived without heat in filthy conditions. She then began visiting and documenting the conditions in jails and almshouses. -
Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Protection and Cure of the Insane
This was submitted to the General Assembly of North Carolina by Dorothea Dix after she saw the horrible conditions for the mentally insane. It was passed in December of that year. -
Organization of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
It was founded in Cleveland, Ohio and worked to eliminate the consumption of alcohol.