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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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|Body= Prior to establishing this institution in 1885 all of the insane of Kings County were treated in the local institution situated in the suburbs of Brooklyn and known as the Kings County Lunatic Asylum. The county's general population's rapid growth, due largely to unprecedented immigration, produced a disproportionate increase in the number of insane in the county and added enormously to the serious overcrowding in the county asylum.
  
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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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Although successive superintendents pleaded with the county authorities for additional buildings, no provision for relief was made.
  
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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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Finally, when conditions became intolerable after patients had been crowded into the basements of the large asylum building and into an old frame building quite unfit for the purpose, public sentiment compelled to action by the county authorities, and in 1885 about 850 acres of land were purchased at St. Johnland, 43 miles to the east, on Long Island, and a branch asylum was established.  [[Kings Park State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
 
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