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Above ground, there's almost nothing left of the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, apart from a single pillar from the front gate through which hundreds of people entered, never to leave. But below ...
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum held its grand reopening Saturday morning, welcoming visitors with a special commemorative wine glass for the first 200 guests. Donald Trump's Approval Rating ...
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.
concerning the management of the New-York City Lunatic Asylum, on Blackwell's Island, the treatment of the patients therein, and important statistics of the institution since its opening in 1847.
Included in this number were the residents of the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Dundrum, Co. Dublin. A total of 141 men and 21 women were held in that asylum, a decrease of six patients on the ...