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|Body= Philadelphia was a pioneer in mental health care in the late 19th century, offering "moral treatment" at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital. Patients were treated for grief and anxiety, as well as for inflictions such as "religious excitement...prolonged lactation, metaphysical speculation ... and exposure to the sun's direct rays," according to the Pennsylvania Hospital Web site. From the late 19th century to the 1950s, mental hospitals proliferated around the country. In 1962 there were 526,000 people in state and county mental hospitals, according to the Center for Mental Health Services of the U.S. Public Health Service. When the Haverford State mental hospital was built in the early 1960s, it was designed to be a model of luxury care. Haverford State was known as the "Haverford Hilton" when it was built, boasting bowling alleys and private rooms. But over the next decade the hospital became over-crowded, and conditions declined. Patients slept in hallways or dayrooms, and were subjected to restraints, heavy sedation and disciplinary shock treatments.
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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 over-crowded, Overburdened facilities have been the situation ever since. It was not yet been possible for the Legislature to provide sufficient appropriations so that adequate buildings and staff could be maintained by the hospital, in spite of great advances in the hospital program itself. 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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In 1986, a rash of escapees brought the hospital into the media spotlight. About 80 patients had managed to escape by June of 1986, including some who were potentially dangerous, according to NEWS of Delaware County coverage. The county was shaken when 25-year-old mental patient Raymond Tillger walked off the hospital grounds and disappeared on June 6. Tillger was found not guilty of slaying his girlfriend in 1979, due to mental illness, but was considered potentially dangerous by the police. He was arrested eight days after his escape at the La Casa Pasta restaurant in New Castle. "It is not an understatement to say that Haverford State Hospital presents a time bomb waiting to explode," wrote State Rep. Stephen Freind, after the incident. "It is only a matter of either divine providence or complete luck that thus far one of the walkaways has not seriously harmed or killed one of my constituents residing in the area or, for that matter, in any other area." Freind was appalled that as a minimum security institution, Haverford State was housing potentially dangerous patients, and began pushing the state for stronger security measures.  [[Haverford State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
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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 of 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 further modernize and develop its treatment program. The year 1948 marked the organization of the Neuro-Psychiatric Society of Hawaii.
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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). Some of the older original buildings are now used by the Windward Community School.  [[Hawaii State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
 
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Revision as of 05:58, 16 February 2020

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 over-crowded, Overburdened facilities have been the situation ever since. It was not yet been possible for the Legislature to provide sufficient appropriations so that adequate buildings and staff could be maintained by the hospital, in spite of great advances in the hospital program itself. 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 of 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 further modernize and develop its treatment program. 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). Some of the older original buildings are now used by the Windward Community School. Click here for more...

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