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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==History==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1895 the General Assembly provided for </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">establishment of </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Illinois </del>Asylum for <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the Incurable </del>Insane<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. A three-member commission, appointed by the Governor, was instructed to select a suitable site, initiate construction plans</del>, and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">operate the institution</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">subject to inspection by the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Although a site in Peoria was chosen and construction undertaken in 1895, the institution did not open until February 10, 1902</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Patients who were characterized as incurably insane were to be </del>transferred <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">to the institution from other state hospitals and </del>from <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">county almshouses. From 1907 to 1909 </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">term "incurable" was dropped and the hospital was designated the Illinois General </del>Hospital <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">for the Insane</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The board </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">commissioners and </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Board of State </del>Commissioners of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Public Charities were abolished in 1909 when control of all state charitable institutions passed to </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">newly created Board of Administration</del>. The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">same act changed </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">institution's name to Peoria State Hospital</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The hospital opened </del>a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">training school for nurses in 1906 and participated in a departmental affiliation program for psychiatric nursing from 1943 to 1969. The Psychiatric Nursing Affiliation Program provided instruction in psychiatric nursing to students from general hospital nursing schools</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1889, </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">legislature established </ins>the Asylum for Insane <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Criminals</ins>, and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">it received its first patients on November 2</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1891. W</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">T</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Patterson </ins>transferred from the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">staff of [[Elgin State </ins>Hospital<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] to become its first Superintendent</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Control </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">institution was placed with the </ins>Commissioners of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Southern Penitentiary at Menard</ins>. The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">original building on </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">penitentiary grounds was poorly constructed and was eventually torn down</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A replacement was built on </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">separate campus near Chester, Illinois</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Department of Public Welfare assumed responsibility for the hospital from 1917 until 1961 when the Department of Mental Health was created. In 1976 new buildings were constructed 1 mile away to replace the aging facility. Many are placed in Chester because they are unfit to stand trial or have been deemed not guilty for various violent crimes by reason of insanity.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Department of Public Welfare assumed responsibility for the hospital from 1917 until 1961 when the Department of Mental Health was created. In 1976 new buildings were constructed 1 mile away to replace the aging facility. Many are placed in Chester because they are unfit to stand trial or have been deemed not guilty for various violent crimes by reason of insanity<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. The original building has been demolished and the hospital moved a short distance to a new campus</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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