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The building for chronic females was built in 1915 for 160 patients along with one for male patients. In 1925, hydrotherapy tubs were installed on the first floor to provide a new form of treatment. From the opening of the hospital until 1915, the supposed causes of psychosis in those admitted included abortion, desertion, emancipation ...
J.C. Hawthorne died in February 1881 leaving ownership of the hospital in the hands of his wife. Dr. Simeon Josephi took over the operation of the hospital from the time of Hawthorne's death until the completion of the Oregon State Insane Asylum in Salem. Control of the patients at the Portland hospital were transferred to state officials in ...
Before the volunteers started the project, the cemetery has become became overgrown and was mostly forgotten, apart from a misspelled sign that read “Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetary 1891 ...
The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
The original plan for patients was to hold alcoholics, geriatrics, drug addicts, the mentally-ill, and the criminally-insane. The hospital was opened for patients on August 15, 1902 under the name "Cherokee Lunatic Asylum." The name changed several times over the years, going from "Iowa Lunatic Asylum" to "Cherokee State Hospital."
Fairview was established in 1907 as the State Institution for the Feeble-Minded. The hospital opened on December 1, 1908, with 39 patients transferred from the Oregon State Hospital for the Insane. [3] Before its closure in 2000, Fairview was administered by the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS). [4]
The facility was originally built to relieve overcrowding at Stockton Asylum. By the early 1890s, the facility had over 1,300 patients which was more than double the original capacity it was designed to house. In 1893, the Mendocino State Hospital was opened and relieved some of the overcrowding at the Napa hospital. [1]
The first patient was admitted May 1, 1824. Samuel Theobald , M.D., a physician on the hospital staff, and a member of the faculty of Transylvania University Medical School in Lexington, wrote a dissertation in 1828 arguing that the goal of the hospital was "the custodial care of the insane and the protection of society.