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The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry was a psychiatric hospital located on either side of Roosevelt Boulevard, US Route 1, in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was located in the Somerton section of the city on the border with Bucks County. The name of the institution was changed several times during its history, being variously ...
Blockley Almshouse. Coordinates: 39.94406°N 75.19618°W. Entrance of Philadelphia General Hospital (Old Blockley) The Blockley Almshouse, later known as Philadelphia General Hospital, was a charity hospital and poorhouse located in West Philadelphia. It originally opened in 1732/33 in a different part of the city as the Philadelphia Almshouse ...
Byberry, Philadelphia. Byberry is a neighborhood in the far northeast section of Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Originally it was incorporated as the Township of Byberry and was the northeasternmost municipality of Philadelphia County before the City and County were consolidated in 1854. Its approximate boundaries are the ...
Industrial park coming to site of former Philadelphia State Hospital site. What to know about the Rockefeller Group's latest project Byberry Hospital site outside Bensalem to be redeveloped.
New York City had 420 heroin overdose deaths in 2013 — the most in a decade. A year ago, Vermont’s governor devoted his entire State of the State speech to heroin’s resurgence. The public began paying attention the following month, when Philip Seymour Hoffman died from an overdose of heroin and other drugs.
Hilldale Club (1921) Baltimore Black Sox (1922-1923) Washington/Wilmington Potomacs (1923-1925) Brooklyn Cuban Giants (1924) Alexander C. Albritton (February 12, 1892 [note 1] – February 3, 1940) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played with multiple teams from 1918 to 1925.
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. / 39.03861°N 80.47139°W / 39.03861; -80.47139. Constructed 1858–1881. Opened to patients 1864. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insane and Weston State Hospital.
The Shame of the States is a 1948 book by journalist and social activist Albert Deutsch on the conditions of state mental hospitals in the United States the 1940s. Deutsch, praised as a crusader, nevertheless wrote in the preface of this book that "the day of the individual crusader is over." [1] Taking an historically informed approach, he ...