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The Elgin Mental Health Center (formerly Elgin State Hospital & the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane) is a mental health facility operated by the State of Illinois in Elgin, Illinois. Throughout its history, Elgin's mission has changed.
In 1889, the legislature established the Asylum for Insane Criminals, and it received its first patients on November 2, 1891. [1] W.T. Patterson transferred from the staff of Elgin State Hospital to become its first Superintendent. Control of the institution was placed with the Commissioners of the Southern Penitentiary at Menard.
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.
Prosecutors had summoned analysts from the Elgin State Hospital for the Insane to the Aurora jail cell where Lincoln was held. ... could be a candidate for the asylum or for the gallows,” the ...
Indiana— Haunted Hills Hospital in Lake Station, IN. ... South Carolina — Dark Castle in Elgin, SC. ... The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was built in the 1800s, and during the month of ...
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It previously operated under the name New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton and originally as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum. Founded by Dorothea Lynde Dix on May 15, 1848, it was the first public mental hospital in the state of New Jersey, [ 1 ] and the first mental hospital designed on the principle of the Kirkbride Plan . [ 2 ]
A sickness and diarrhoea outbreak has spread to two further parts of Dr Gray's Hospital in Elgin. NHS Grampian said at the weekend that three wards had been closed to new admissions, and only ...