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|Body= In 1886 legislatures of the [[Waupaca County Asylum|County of Waupaca]] approved the purchase of land to build an asylum for the county. In the winter of the following year plans were established, property purchased for the building of an asylum, and deals struck for the building of the facility, but due to legal wrangling by several members of the current board at that time construction was stalled until 1900. The building, located outside of the city and town of Waupaca, was Finished sometime in 1902. The final building was placed in Weyauwega, Wisconsin and approved the same year for use by the county building committee.
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|Body= [[Ellis Island Isolation Hospital|Connected by a gangplank, Island No. 2]] was separated by 200 feet of water from the original island and home to the new General Hospital. It opened in 1902, with 120 beds making it larger then most of the city hospitals at the time, and would eventually expand to 275 beds. The hospital included four operating rooms, a delivery room, and a morgue. A psychopathic pavilion was built after two mentally ill patients committed suicide in the general hospital. The pavilion was incorporated to house "idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, insane persons, and epileptics."   
 
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Revision as of 05:35, 17 January 2021

Featured Image Of The Week

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Connected by a gangplank, Island No. 2 was separated by 200 feet of water from the original island and home to the new General Hospital. It opened in 1902, with 120 beds making it larger then most of the city hospitals at the time, and would eventually expand to 275 beds. The hospital included four operating rooms, a delivery room, and a morgue. A psychopathic pavilion was built after two mentally ill patients committed suicide in the general hospital. The pavilion was incorporated to house "idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded persons, insane persons, and epileptics."