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At first the museum was housed in a ward of the original "State Lunatic Asylum No. 2", renamed the "St. Joseph State Hospital" in 1899. [2] The asylum was built in 1874 [4] and resembled a fortress. From an initial population of 25 patients it expanded until it housed nearly 3,000 patients in the 1950s. [2]
Architect Isaac Perry, known for finishing work on the New York State Capitol, was hired to design the main hospital building with "an abundance of light and ventilation" to accommodate 550 patients. [1] In April 1892, the Asylum for Insane Criminals, with 261 patients, was relocated from Auburn to its new site.
Patients were often left confined or chained for long periods of time. [2] In the 1940s, reforms took place at the hospital. [ 2 ] The hospital received further criticism for treatment of patients when, in 1951, it was discovered that patient John Crabb, a fifty-nine-year-old immigrant from Denmark , was in fact not clinically insane, and had ...
[22] [23] Patients were allowed to move freely about the hospital grounds, and eventually dark dungeons were replaced with sunny, well-ventilated rooms. Pinel argued that mental illness was the result of excessive exposure to social and psychological stresses , to heredity and physiological damage.
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. Between 1993 and 2008, most of the older buildings in the complex were demolished due to being in poor condition as the result of being abandoned ...
The Utica Psychiatric Center, also known as Utica State Hospital, opened in Utica on January 16, 1843. [3] It was New York 's first state-run facility designed to care for the mentally ill, and one of the first such institutions in the United States.
The hospital was originally housed in a converted foundry in Windmill Street, Upper Moorfields, close to Bedlam. [4] It was designed by George Dance the Elder in 1750-1; after his death his son George Dance the Younger succeeded him as surveyor to the hospital. It was originally built for 25 patients, but was enlarged and by 1771 was overcrowded.
The Mississippi State Hospital (MSH) is a psychiatric facility operated by the Mississippi Department of Mental Health. [1] It is located in the unincorporated community of Whitfield , Rankin County , Mississippi , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] along Mississippi Highway 468 . [ 4 ]