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  2. 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. ... In the 1800s, middle class facilities became ...

  3. Lunacy Act 1845 - Wikipedia

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    The most notable of these were the County Asylums Act 1808 and the Lunatic Asylums Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 97). The Lunacy Act itself was amended several times after its conception, including by the Lunatic Asylums, etc. Act 1846 and the Lunatic Asylums Act 1847. Both of these versions were repealed by the County Asylums Act 1853. [4]

  4. Kirkbride Plan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Bloomingdale Insane Asylum - Wikipedia

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    The Bloomingdale Asylum was proposed in an address by Dr. Peter Middleton at King's College (today Columbia College), on November 3, 1769: "The necessity and usefulness of a public Infirmary has been so warmly and pathetically set forth in a discourse delivered by Dr. Samuel Bard, at the college commencement, in May last, that his Excellency, Sir Henry Moore immediately set on foot a ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Commissioners in Lunacy - Wikipedia

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    The Commissioners in Lunacy or Lunacy Commission was a public body established by the Lunacy Act 1845 to oversee asylums and the welfare of mentally ill people in England and Wales. It succeeded the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy.

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    The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was built in the 1800s, and during the month of October, it offers flashlight tours of the building. As you walk through the Weston historical landmark, keep in ...

  9. Central State Hospital (Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    The Legislature of 1893 changed the title of state "asylums" to state "hospitals" and the lunatic asylum was renamed a state hospital. In 1896, a two-story brick pavilion was built and the hospital became one of the first to care specifically for people with epilepsy.