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|Body= [[Outagamie County Asylum]] was demolished sometime in the 1950s. There is still a cemetery, near Fox Valley Technical College west of Appleton in Grand Chute, the final resting place for 140 residents of the former Outagamie County Asylum for the Chronic Insane, which stood nearby. The site is now Brewster Village Long Term Care Facility.
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|Body= [[Cobourg Asylum|The Ontario Hospital]] opened in 1921 in the old Victoria College building with all its patients being female. It operated as a Mental Hospital and had a resident population of approximately 530. The focus was on care rather than treatment and training. In 1968 the Mental Hospitals Act came into effect and from that point on the hospital only admitted the mentally handicapped.  
 
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Revision as of 03:21, 22 July 2013

Featured Image Of The Week

cobourg.jpg
The Ontario Hospital opened in 1921 in the old Victoria College building with all its patients being female. It operated as a Mental Hospital and had a resident population of approximately 530. The focus was on care rather than treatment and training. In 1968 the Mental Hospitals Act came into effect and from that point on the hospital only admitted the mentally handicapped.