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About 1854, he became superintendent of the Illinois State Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville and served in that position until 1869, when he resigned and established Oak Lawn Retreat, a private asylum in Jacksonville. Beyond his work in mental health, McFarland published on work of fiction, The Escape (Boston, 1851). In 1891, he hanged himself.
The city is a thriving metropolis with over a million citizens. Due to its consolidated city-county government structure, it has the largest municipal population among Florida cities, as well as the largest land area of any city in the contiguous United States. Jacksonville's Main Street and boulevard, circa 1903
In 1974, Jacksonville State Hospital's duties expanded beyond in-patient care of mental illness to include treatment for the *developmentally disabled." To reflect this change in mission, the legislature renamed it the Jacksonville Mental Health and Developmental Center' in 1975. (P.A. 79-581, p. 1895.)
Thomas Frederick Davis (1911), History of Early Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville: The H. & W. B. Drew Company, OCLC 1534543, OL 6537778M; Jacksonville: A city with a sky line and a water front and the spirit that does things, Jacksonville: Arnold Printing Co., 1913, OCLC 1813903, OL 242620M "Jacksonville". Automobile Blue Book. Vol. 6.
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 ...
Undercliff State Hospital: Meriden, Connecticut: 1910 Waverly Hills Sanatorium: Jefferson County, Kentucky [22] 1910 Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital: Richmond, Virginia [23] 1911 Firland Sanatorium: Seattle, Washington [24] 1911 Lima Tuberculosis Hospital: Lima, Ohio: 1912 Blackburn Sanitarium: Klamath Falls, Oregon [25] 1912 Pine Bluff State ...
Elizabeth Packard spent the next three years at the Jacksonville Insane Asylum in Jacksonville, Illinois (now the Jacksonville Developmental Center). [4] [19] [7] [20] [21] She was regularly questioned by doctors, but refused to agree that she was insane or to change her religious views. In June 1863, due, in part, to pressure from her children ...
Florida State Hospital (FSH) is a hospital and psychiatric hospital in Chattahoochee, Florida. Established in 1876, it was Florida's only state mental institution until 1947. It currently has a capacity of 1,042 patients. The hospital's current Administration Building is on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]