Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Superintendents/Hospital Administrators of Elgin Mental Health Center Name Years Edwin A. Kilbourne: 1871–1890 Henry Brooks: 1890–1893 Arthur Loewy: 1893–1897 John B. Hamilton: 1897–1898 Frank Jenks (acting) 1898–1899 Frank Witman: 1899–1906 Vaclav Podstata: 1906–1910 Sidney D. Wilgus: 1910–1911 Ralph Hinton: 1911–1914 and ...
This page was last edited on 25 October 2010, at 15:40 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Thomas Story Kirkbride, creator of the Kirkbride Plan. The establishment of state mental hospitals in the U.S. is partly due to reformer Dorothea Dix, who testified to the New Jersey legislature in 1844, vividly describing the state's treatment of lunatics; they were being housed in county jails, private homes, and the basements of public buildings.
Every generation views their health and wellness differently. For older Americans, mental health diagnoses are becoming more prevalent. Between 2019 and 2023, the 65+ age group collectively ...
Steffen was born into a family of eight children in Chicago. He studied drawing, art history, and photography at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the late 1940s. . Around 1950, while still in school, he suffered a mental breakdown and was institutionalized at Elgin State Hospital between 1952 and 1963, undergoing treatments and electroshock therapy for schizophreni
Elgin (/ ˈ ɛ l dʒ ɪ n / EL-jin) is a city in Cook and Kane counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located 35 mi (56 km) northwest of Chicago along the Fox River. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 114,797, making it the sixth-most populous city in the state. [4]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
The sole purpose of this line was to transport coal to the nearby Elgin State Mental Hospital, and the railroad was powered by two ancient home-built electric locomotives. [5] The coal for the metal hospital was brought in by the Illinois Central Railroad via Coleman Siding on the Aurora, Elgin & Fox River Electric line, which is now a point on ...