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|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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|Body= This institution is located in Lincoln. As early as 1865, it was found necessary to make provision for the insane in the Territory of Nebraska. Four cases were already being treated at an Iowa hospital. The legislature authorized the governor to make an arrangement with the State of Iowa by which the State of Iowa would receive and care for the insane at Nebraska's expense. Under this arrangement, fifty patients were sent to the hospital at Mount Pleasant at various times. Soon after Nebraska became a State, the governor, secretary of State, and auditor of public accounts appointed a board of commissioners to locate a site for a State lunatic asylum near Lincoln. The first building was completed for $137,000 in the fall of 1870, and the first patient was admitted on November 26th of that year. Early in the following December, seventeen patients were brought over from Mount Pleasant to the new institution, and four were admitted who had been confined in the Pawnee county jail. Dr. N. B. Larsh was the first superintendent.  [[Lincoln State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
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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 09:56, 12 October 2025

Featured Article Of The Week

Lincoln State Hospital


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This institution is located in Lincoln. As early as 1865, it was found necessary to make provision for the insane in the Territory of Nebraska. Four cases were already being treated at an Iowa hospital. The legislature authorized the governor to make an arrangement with the State of Iowa by which the State of Iowa would receive and care for the insane at Nebraska's expense. Under this arrangement, fifty patients were sent to the hospital at Mount Pleasant at various times. Soon after Nebraska became a State, the governor, secretary of State, and auditor of public accounts appointed a board of commissioners to locate a site for a State lunatic asylum near Lincoln. The first building was completed for $137,000 in the fall of 1870, and the first patient was admitted on November 26th of that year. Early in the following December, seventeen patients were brought over from Mount Pleasant to the new institution, and four were admitted who had been confined in the Pawnee county jail. Dr. N. B. Larsh was the first superintendent. Click here for more...

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