Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Central State Hospital, formerly referred to as the Central Indiana Hospital for the Insane, was a psychiatric treatment hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana.The hospital was established in 1848 to treat patients from anywhere in the state, but by 1905, with the establishment of psychiatric hospitals in other parts of Indiana, Central State served only the counties in the middle of the state.
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.
The three new hospitals were to help with the increasing population of the mentally ill at Central State Hospital in Indianapolis. The 160 acre Andrew G. Shanklin farm, one mile southwest of Logansport, was purchased on October 4, 1883 while the citizens of Cass County donated 121 86/100 adjoining acres, making a total of 281 acres owned by the ...
NAMI successfully lobbied to improve mental health services and gain equality of insurance coverage for mental illnesses. [1] In 1996, the Mental Health Parity Act was enacted into law, realizing the mental health movement's goal of equal insurance coverage. In 1955, there were 340 psychiatric hospital beds for every 100,000 US citizens.
Indiana Dunes: American Revolutionary War: 4 United States vs Kingdom of Great Britain and American Indians: de LaBalme Massacre: November 5, 1780 Near the Eel River in Whitley County: American Revolutionary War: 25+ Continental Army vs American Indians: Lochry's Defeat: August 24, 1781 Near Aurora: American Revolutionary War: Illinois Campaign: 37
On August 19, 1975, Smith, then 13, Rottler Trick, then 11, and Rottler, then 14, were leaving a gas station in eastern Indianapolis at 10:45 p.m. and decided to hitchhike home.
A man who was reported missing in 1993 has been named as a victim of an Indiana serial killer whose property was found littered with 10,000 “burnt and crushed” skeletal remains.. Herb ...
The four young employees were kidnapped from the Burger Chef restaurant at 5725 Crawfordsville road. in Speedway Ind. Thier bodies were discovered in a wooded area in Johnson Co., on Nov. 26,1978 ...