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  2. Osawatomie State Hospital - Wikipedia

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    Kansas Hospital for the Insane, which was also known as the State Insane Asylum or the State Lunatic Asylum, officially opened on November 1, 1866 and admitted it first patient on November 5 of that year. The first building was a small, two-story renovated farmhouse called "The Lodge" and housed only 10–12 patients. Dr.

  3. Isaiah Mays - Wikipedia

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    After his discharge in September 1893, Mays worked as a laborer in Arizona and New Mexico. He applied for a federal pension in 1922, but was denied. He entered the Territorial Insane Asylum, now known as the Arizona State Hospital, in Phoenix, which housed not only the mentally ill but also people with tuberculosis and those living in poverty ...

  4. Kansas Department for Children and Families - Wikipedia

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    Due to overcrowding, an additional asylum was approved by Governor Osborn; the Topeka State Hospital opened in 1879. Another asylum was opened in 1881, the State Asylum for Idiotic and Imbecile Youth in Lawrence which was moved to Winfield in 1887. It was renamed the State Home for the Feeble-Minded in 1909 and then renamed again to the State ...

  5. Asylum architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Wyoming State Insane Asylum in Evanston, Wyoming. Asylum architecture in the United States, including the architecture of psychiatric hospitals, affected the changing methods of treating the mentally ill in the nineteenth century: the architecture was considered part of the cure. Doctors believed that ninety percent of insanity cases were ...

  6. The dark history behind Hiawatha Indian Asylum in Canton ...

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    The first patient received at the asylum, Edward Hedges, arrived on December 30, 1902, though he was described as an inmate. The second patient, named Hon sah sah hah, of the Osage people of ...

  7. Lunatic asylum - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Psychiatric hospital - Wikipedia

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    In 1828, the newly appointed Commissioners in Lunacy were empowered to license and supervise private asylums. The Lunacy Act 1845 made the construction of asylums in every county compulsory with regular inspections on behalf of the Home Secretary, and required asylums to have written regulations and a resident physician. [12]

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