A Psychiatric Milestone eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 148 pages of information about A Psychiatric Milestone.

A Psychiatric Milestone eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 148 pages of information about A Psychiatric Milestone.

Characters:  [This instance of ‘Characters:’  added by transcriber]
  Dorothy L. Dix
  Members of the Committee
  Chairman

Miss Dix appears before a Committee of the Legislature and is heard in an impassioned appeal on behalf of adequate provision and care for the mentally ill.  The scene closes with the Committee indicating their approval and congratulating Miss Dix on her successful effort.

Music:  Orchestra
  “Maryland, My Maryland”
  “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean”

SCENE V

OCCUPATIONAL-RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Men’s Crafts
Women’s Crafts
Men’s Sports
Women’s Sports

Maypole Dance

Supplementing the general medical work, the therapeutic value of organized occupational and recreational activities is gaining increasing recognition.  Those arts and crafts lending themselves to graphic presentation are here selected:  dyeing, weaving, spinning, basketry, caning, modelling, painting, pottery, metal work, net making, gardening, etc.:  and similarly, in the recreative activities, tennis, golf, hockey, baseball, croquet, bowling, skiing, and skating.  A Maypole dance closes the scene.

Music:  Orchestra
  “Boccherina”
  “Henry VIII, Maypole Dance”

SCENE VI

INSPIRATIONS

Characters: 
  Hygeia
  La Belle France
  Britannia
  Columbia

The closing scene is in the nature of a processional symbolizing international unity of purpose and a determination to pursue, until finally attained, the goal of Health and Happiness, personified by the goddess Hygeia.

Music:  Orchestra
  “Marseillaise”
  “God Save the King”
  “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
  “The Star Spangled Banner”
  “Tammany”

NAMES OF THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE EXERCISES[19]

E. Stanley Abbot, M.D.  Philadelphia, Pa. 
Louise Acton White Plains, N.Y. 
Elizabeth I. Adamson, M.D.  White Plains, N.Y. 
William H. Allee, M.D.  Ridgefield, Conn. 
Thaddeus H. Ames, M.D.  New York City. 
Mrs. George S. Amsden White Plains, N.Y. 
Mrs. Isadora Anschutz White Plains, N.Y. 
Grosvenor Atterbury New York City.

Pearce Bailey, M.D.  New York City. 
Amos T. Baker, M.D.  Bedford Hills, N.Y. 
Mrs. Amos T. Baker Bedford Hills, N.Y. 
Lewellys F. Barker, M.D.  Baltimore, Md. 
Clifford W. Beers New York City. 
Christopher C. Beling, M.D.  Newark, N.J. 
Harrison Betts, M.D.  Yonkers, N.Y. 
Anna T. Bingham, M.D.  New York

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