SUICIDE IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM. Share full article. May 12, 1885. ... became insane and was taken to the Fiatbush Insane Asylum. He was at first a very tractable patient, ...

BUFFALO, April 21.--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 ...

The years between the Lunatic Asylum’s closure in 1896 and the Babcock’s reopening in 2022 contain an untold number of stories, as the site was still used to treat mentally ill patients.

The asylum opened in South Horrington near Wells in 1848, initially caring for 300 patients. It admitted patients from Somerset and Bristol and was later known as the Mendip Hospital, before the ...

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — When the American Psychiatric Association celebrated its 175th anniversary three years ago in San Francisco, it featured photographs of two Virginia mental institutions ...

The Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is now a paranormal attraction, but under its former name of the Weston State Hospital, ...

During the reception, the foundation saluted the archives project by showing a new documentary film, "Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane" and giving tours of an exhibition of documents ...

Technology later predicted that thousands of patients from the former State Hospital for the Insane, which operated from 1855 to 1935, were buried there."It was just mind-blowing, honestly," said ...

But Atkins is convinced the pecan grove is the final resting place of countless forgotten mental health patients. "From all of my research from trustee reports, I’ve come up with 55,000 deaths.

During the reception, the foundation saluted the archives project by showing a new documentary film, “Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane” and giving tours of an exhibition of ...