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|Body= Here is the first mention of the name of [[St Elizabeths Hospital|St. Elizabeth]] as applied to the hospital. It was taken from the name of the tract of land upon which the hospital stood, which has been known ever since the settlement of the country as the St. Elizabeth tract. The application of the name St. Elizabeth to the hospital was the result of the disinclination of many of the soldiers who were not insane to have the institution in which they were temporarily resident called the Government Hospital for the Insane. In January of 1863, at the request of the Surgeon-General of the army, certain rooms of the hospital were set aside for the convenience of one of the manufacturers of artificial legs. Soldiers who had lost a limb by amputation in any one of the district's neighboring hospitals might, if they wished, be transferred to the St. Elizabeth Hospital as soon as the stump was healed, to be fitted with an artificial leg. These were the men who, while resident in the hospital and getting their artificial limbs adjusted, did not wish to be considered patients in an institution for the insane, and so St. Elizabeth Hospital came to be a name applied to the institution. The St. Elizabeth referred to is the Hungarian saint about whom many legends of kindness to the sick and afflicted folks were written. The name was retained because of its singular appropriateness.                                
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|Body= The original [[St Elizabeths Hospital|main building]] was built from brick made on the place, and in architectural style is a modification of the Kirkbride plan, each wing receding from the center, in echelon. The building itself is in the collegiate Gothic style. The main building was under construction for several years, and additional wings were added to it over time. Other construction, however, was undertaken in the meantime. Shortly after the opening of the hospital, during fiscal year 1855-6, a building was opened for the colored insane, which the superintendent stated in his report he believed to be the "first and only special provision for the suitable care of the African when afflicted with insanity which has yet been made in any part of the world."                                 
 
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Revision as of 10:51, 5 October 2025

Featured Image Of The Week

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The original main building was built from brick made on the place, and in architectural style is a modification of the Kirkbride plan, each wing receding from the center, in echelon. The building itself is in the collegiate Gothic style. The main building was under construction for several years, and additional wings were added to it over time. Other construction, however, was undertaken in the meantime. Shortly after the opening of the hospital, during fiscal year 1855-6, a building was opened for the colored insane, which the superintendent stated in his report he believed to be the "first and only special provision for the suitable care of the African when afflicted with insanity which has yet been made in any part of the world."
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