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The Athens Lunatic Asylum, now a mixed-use development known as The Ridges, [2] was a Kirkbride Plan mental hospital operated in Athens, Ohio, from 1874 until 1993. During its operation, the hospital provided services to a variety of patients including Civil War veterans, children, and those declared mentally unwell.
Columbus State Hospital, also known as Ohio State Hospital for Insane, was a public psychiatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1838 and rebuilt in 1877. [1] The hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan. [2] The building was said to have been the largest in the U.S. or the world, until the Pentagon was completed in 1943. [3] [4]
English: Photograph taken in Columbus, Ohio c. 1897. " View looking towards the front facade of the Columbus State Hospital as seen from across the front lawn. Legislation to construct the Ohio Lunatic Asylum on East Broad Street was passed in 1835 and the first stone was laid on April 20, 1837. Construction was completed on November 10, 1839.
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.
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.
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He was discharged later that year but soon ended up in a mental asylum. He died from gangrene in an asylum on March 24, 1919, and was buried three days later at East Ham Cemetery in east London.
[13] Thus, Ohio's first insane asylum was erected in Cincinnati on 4 acres (16,000 m 2) of land bounded by the Miami and Erie Canal. [13] [14] The Commercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum of Ohio was the parent institution for the Orphan Asylum, the City Infirmary, the Cincinnati Hospital, and Longview Asylum. [13]