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|Body= The old insane department was of brick, with small barred windows, iron doors, and heavy wooden doors outside, with apertures and hinged shutters for passing food. The cells were about seven by eight feet; they were not heated, except by a stove in the corridor, which did not raise the temperature in some of them above freezing point; the cold, however, did not freeze out the vermin with which the beds, walls, and floors were alive. The number of cells in this department was 21, 10 on the lower floor and 11 on the upper floor; many of them contained two beds,
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|Body= On January 6, 1930, the Oahu Asylum closed, and the U.S. Army moved the 549 patients to the new Territorial Hospital in Kaneohe. Even at its opening in 1930, the newly named Territorial Hospital was overcrowded, and overburdened facilities have been the situation ever since. Despite great advances in the hospital program itself, it was not yet possible for the Legislature to provide sufficient appropriations to maintain adequate buildings and staff. In 1939, the control of the Territorial Hospital was changed from the Board of Health, where it had been since its opening, to the newly formed Department of Institutions.
  
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The other buildings were all frame; they were more like barns or barracks-immense areas of bare floors, crowded with cheap iron strap bedsteads. The heating was insufficient; there was no ventilation; the arrangements for bathing were so imperfect, there is no hot water, that during the winter months, the inmates were not bathed; even in summer the number of tubs was too small and they were inconveniently located. There were no halls in these buildings, the entire space is divided into rooms; the stairways were either outside or in the center of the room.
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World War II prevented further growth in the psychiatric field for a few years, but almost immediately after the war, starting in about 1946, a rapid surge of growth in our psychiatric facilities was noted. The private practice of psychiatry as a specialty received more interest, and additional offices opened one by one. The Territorial Hospital in Kaneohe was able to modernize and develop its treatment program further. The year 1948 marked the organization of the Neuro-Psychiatric Society of Hawaii.
  
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In the report for 1878 it is stated that the Cook County poorhouse: is a rookery and should be torn down." John G. Cochrane, the architect, drew the plans for additional buildings for the infirmary, and the county adopted the designs he submitted on the 22d of September, 1881.  [[Chicago State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
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In 1972 there were only 200 patients actually in residence at the State Hospital (even though the rate of first admissions has continued to climb as the population of the State soars over 750,000). The Windward Community School now uses some of the older original buildings.  [[Hawaii State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
 
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Featured Article Of The Week

Hawaii State Hospital


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On January 6, 1930, the Oahu Asylum closed, and the U.S. Army moved the 549 patients to the new Territorial Hospital in Kaneohe. Even at its opening in 1930, the newly named Territorial Hospital was overcrowded, and overburdened facilities have been the situation ever since. Despite great advances in the hospital program itself, it was not yet possible for the Legislature to provide sufficient appropriations to maintain adequate buildings and staff. In 1939, the control of the Territorial Hospital was changed from the Board of Health, where it had been since its opening, to the newly formed Department of Institutions.

World War II prevented further growth in the psychiatric field for a few years, but almost immediately after the war, starting in about 1946, a rapid surge of growth in our psychiatric facilities was noted. The private practice of psychiatry as a specialty received more interest, and additional offices opened one by one. The Territorial Hospital in Kaneohe was able to modernize and develop its treatment program further. The year 1948 marked the organization of the Neuro-Psychiatric Society of Hawaii.

In 1972 there were only 200 patients actually in residence at the State Hospital (even though the rate of first admissions has continued to climb as the population of the State soars over 750,000). The Windward Community School now uses some of the older original buildings. Click here for more...

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