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This hospital was the destination for inmates charged with crimes but found not guilty by reason of insanity. Its earliest patients, all male, were transferred from other state mental institutions at Stockton State Hospital and Napa State Hospital. [3] The name of the hospital was changed in 1893 to the Mendocino Asylum. [3]
The cemetery occupies a 2.8-acre plot on the northeast corner of the old Topeka State Hospital grounds; it contains the bodies of patients buried there over a 75-year period. The cemetery, which measures about 150 yards by 50 yards and is about 100 yards west of the 100 block of N.W. MacVicar, was assigned to the Kansas Department of ...
In 1956, the existing 150-bed asylum was badly overcrowded and was hosting 268 patients; some wards had 11 to 14 patients per room. [35] The administration building of the asylum would be used as the center of six new dormitory wings, and once residents were moved into the new dormatories, the old would be razed behind them.
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 ...
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A 76-year-old patient sitter has been sentenced for assaulting a 68-year-old man with the remote control for a hospital bed. On Tuesday, Dec. 10, Eleanor Flowers, of Washington, D.C., was ...
Throughout its history, Elgin's mission has changed. At times, it treated mental illness, tuberculosis, and provided federally funded care for veterans. The hospital's site, which included a patient-staffed farm reached a maximum of 1,139 acres (461 ha) after World War II. [3] Its maximum population was reached in the mid 1950s with 7,700 patients.
In 1852, Old Main's first floor stairway caught fire. Patients and staff were safely evacuated, but a firefighter and doctor were killed while trying to salvage items from the building. The entire center portion of the building was destroyed. Four days after the fire at Old Main, a barn on the asylum grounds caught fire.