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| − | |Body= | + | |Body= The old psychiatric ward at Gallinger Hospital was built in response to national reform trends. Still, the dire need for mental health care facilities in the District of Columbia also spurred construction. In the first two decades of the twentieth century, St. Elizabeth and the Washington Asylum Hospitals were the only institutions in the city that cared for the mentally ill. |
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| + | After the old almshouse, erected in 1847, was vacated in 1907 with the opening of the Blue Plains facility, it was used as a ward for the mentally ill. Conditions there were considered deplorable. The entire facility was often characterized as dilapidated, and in 1916, it became the subject of a newspaper exposé decrying the squalid conditions as a "disgrace to the capital." Despite this reform fervor, construction on the hospital was delayed by the political squabble over the hospital's site and the onset of World War I. [[Gallinger Municipal Hospital Psychopathic Ward|Click here for more...]] | ||
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Revision as of 10:40, 5 October 2025
Featured Article Of The Week
Gallinger Municipal Hospital Psychopathic Ward
The old psychiatric ward at Gallinger Hospital was built in response to national reform trends. Still, the dire need for mental health care facilities in the District of Columbia also spurred construction. In the first two decades of the twentieth century, St. Elizabeth and the Washington Asylum Hospitals were the only institutions in the city that cared for the mentally ill.
After the old almshouse, erected in 1847, was vacated in 1907 with the opening of the Blue Plains facility, it was used as a ward for the mentally ill. Conditions there were considered deplorable. The entire facility was often characterized as dilapidated, and in 1916, it became the subject of a newspaper exposé decrying the squalid conditions as a "disgrace to the capital." Despite this reform fervor, construction on the hospital was delayed by the political squabble over the hospital's site and the onset of World War I. Click here for more...
