George Wilson, the escaped inmate of the State Asylum for the Insane, who, it is believed, can throw some light on the manner of the death of Charles W. Brown, an aged patient, whose eight ribs ...

Two former workers at an infamous Kent mental asylum have shared eye-opening tales of what life was like behind the ...

Another fact of life at the hospital was the stigma around mental health during ... would eventually hold 2,400 patients, ...

This is the Asylum on Blackwell's Island, under the care of Dr. R. L. PARSONS. The report shows that, during the year 1867, he had to treat 1,580 patients, of whom 941 were women and 639 men.

celebrating both the Hospital and Independence Day The Northampton Lunatic Asylum opened in 1858. Influenced by the spirit of humanitarian reform, the hospital hoped to provide the mentally ill with a ...

From Kingston, she was sent to the Toronto Lunatic Asylum as one of its earliest patients. There, she was declared criminally insane. Sketches of Grace Marks and James McDermott Page from The ...

In answer to their appeal, the Emperor commissioned the construction of the Pedro II Lunatic Asylum, the first facility for the mentally ill in Brazil. However, it was not until the early twentieth ...