This accretion consists of 22 bound volumes for patients admitted to Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (later Middletown Psychiatric Center) between 1874 and 1898 and discharged through 1936. Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records and the Personal Monthly reports and minutes of meetings of boards of managers of state institutions, Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.). Number of patients limited to fifty. HUDSON RIVER STATE HOSPITAL Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County. 1235 D. BINGHAMTON STATE HOSPITAL Binghamton, Broome County. THE MIDDLETOWN HOSPITAL. It is also accessible by the West Shore railway and the Erie, to Newburg; thence by ferry to Fiskill-on-the-Hudson. Monthly register of communicable diseases, 1915-1917. In fact, but for this reason it perhaps might not have been necessary to have established any districts whatever, as, if the element of greed could have been eliminated, convenience, accessibility, and the desires of the patients and their friends might safely have been trusted to regulate the whole matter. Accessible by department boats from foot of East Twenty-sixth street 11.30 A. M. CENTRAL ISLIP ASYLUM Central Islip, Long Island. It hardly seems credible that the great body of the homeopathic medical profession desire to be relieved from their share of the responsibility of caring for the insane, or to be given privileges which cannot be exercised in an equal degree by the other medical schools of the State. GPS coordinates are 41 degrees, 27 minutes, 15 seconds NORTH (41, 27', 15" N) and 74 degrees, 26 minutes, 48 seconds WEST (74, 26', 48" W). E. N. Carpenter, M. D., Physician in Charge. Going from Brooklyn, take the Greenpoint or crosstown street car to Long Island City. New York (State). It received appropriations from the Legislature and its capacity was enlarged from time to time, the laws under which it was governed remaining the same as when established, except as modified by the State Care act, which was prepared, it is understood, by Theodore W. Dwight, the distinguished Warden of the Columbia College Law School-than whom a more just or equitable man never lived-provided, as is well known, for the division of the State into as many districts as there were State asylums for the insane, and provided that the insane poor of any particular district should be sent to the hospital situated within said district. David H. Sprague, M. D., Associate Physician. However, if an asylum became overcrowded, the state would transfer patients to another state hospital out of the patients district. It held that, at least within the spirit and intent of the law, private patients whose means are limited to the extent of being able to pay but a small sum per week might be admitted, and such patients have been admitted without objection from that time to this: That it declined to permit the admission of wealthy or high-priced private patients on the ground that the admission of such patients was not provided for by the statute, and that they could be provided for in the private asylums of the State, of which there are a large number representing the two principal schools of medicine, or equally open to both. No telephone communication. Frequently it is as high as six to one, sometimes as high as twelve to one. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (also known as Middletown State Hospital[1] or Middletown Psychiatric Center[2]) was a hospital for the treatment of mental disorders located in Middletown, New York. 1900) are for male patients; Discover the citys most unique and surprising places and events for the curious mind. This institution receives and treats, gratuitously, a small number of indigent insane of New York city, and receives a considerable number of acute and hopeful cases, which pay only part of their expenses. The laws of the State of New-York, with the exception above indicated, have never recognized any particular school of medicine whatsoever, and do not do so now. It was necessary, however, that some check should be imposed, in order that patients may not be obliged to travel greater distances than are absolutely necessary; and, therefore, on of the conditions named was that of requiring the consent of the President of the State Commission in Lunacy. WALDEMERE Mamaroneck, Westchester County. Middletown, CT 06457. Female patient weight books, 1910-1917 (bulk 1915-1917). It is hard to conceive how the State can thus discriminate against its citizens, can thus patronize one school of medicine at the expense of another, can place a great hospital, with all the prestige which such an institution commands, at the exclusive disposal of one school of medicine, without conferring a like privilege upon other schools; how, for instance, the eclectic school of medicine be denied the same privilege of the use of a State Hospital wherein only the eclectic method of treatment shall prevail. Volume 2 (1874-1895) contains case numbers (in red ink) and Telegraph, Kings Park, one mile distant. Three miles from Brooklyn; accessible by street car from East Twenty-third street and Fulton ferries. Information given in Volume 1 (1874-1875) includes name and case number for male information in the following order: ward number, name, case number, whether transferred, and if admitted as an emergency case. of insanity; cause of death; external appearance of cadaver (nourished or malnourished); weight, in ounces, of organs; and George Tuck Turner went on to play for the Philadelphia Phillies and Jack Chesbro played for the New York Highlanders. Frederick Sefton, M. D., Physician in Charge. To report technical problems with this web site, please contact the New York State Archives at [email protected]. She recently earned a Certificate in Historic Preservation Studies from NYU's School of Professional Studies. Over and beyond the question of the recognition of one particular school of medicine by the State to the exclusion of the others, the broad question remains of how far the State is to make provision for of its citizens as are able to make provision for themselves, how far it is willing to compete with the efforts of private individuals, who are permitted and in fact encouraged by law to operate and maintain private insane asylums. While homeopathic institutions. The Asylums would compete among the regions best teams, including the New York Giants. Floyd S. Crego, M. D., Consulting Physician. Carriages may be procured at the station, and a public conveyance runs regularly to and from the hospital, connecting with the principal trains. Albany, NY 12230. In 1836 the State hospital at Utica was established for the reception and treatment of acute cases of insanity only. SOURCE: Merriam Webster.com, Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital 1896. Pleasantville is thirty miles north of New York city. 714, Harlem, New York City. A short time ago the litigation was ended, and now the Manhattan State Hospital act is a law of the State. This series consists of narrative autopsy reports for deceased patients of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital. Only a short distance from railway station. What MEDICUS was basically stating among other things was: After 1890 with the passage of THE STATE CARE ACT, all New York State Hospitals accepted both CHRONIC and ACUTE patients from their corresponding districts so that the patients would be able to remain in their hometown area. Today, the more than 200 acre campus is a mix of structures that are in ruin and under renovation. The State was induced to waive the carrying out of the remainder of the agreement, and the institution was fully organized and equipped as a State institution in all respects whatsoever, differing in no regard from the other hospitals of the State, with the exception of the insertion of a special clause in the statute which provided that the treatment should be wholly of the homeopathic order. Copyright @ The New York Times. Minimum rate, $25 per week. Over the decades, the number of patients and footprint of the facility grew exponentially. MPC's innovative 25,000 square foot Treatment Mall brings together, in one location, contemporary treatment and rehabilitation, specialized programs to build daily life skills, indoor and outdoor activities, hobbies and patient services. 1876- ca.1930) lists, for female patients only, case Telephone No. Telephone call, Hudson River State Hospital.. Theodore H. Kellogg, M. D., Medical Superintendent. [8][9] The number of buildings and the number of patients grew reaching over 100 buildings and 2,250 people in the early 1900s and 3,686 in the 1960s. The friends of homeopathy, in order to secure an asylum for the insane in which the treatment should be exclusively of the homeopathic order, entered into an agreement with the State substantially to contribute $100,000 for each $100,000 which the State should furnish. E. E. Snyder, M. D., Consulting Physician. The institution permanently closed in 2006. Resource Link http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82932850 Abstract This series consists of narrative autopsy reports for deceased patients of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital. (corporateBody). In taking patients from Brooklyn it is better to drive, as it only requires a little more than one hour via Grand street to Newtown, thence through Flushing to Whitestone. How Proposed Legislation Would Affect The Insane Poor. Waldemere is one mile from station, where public carriages may be found. Previously known as the Buffalo State Hospital, the facility became Buffalo Psychiatric Center according to Chapter 558 of the Laws of 1974. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital patient case files, 1874-[ca. It opened on April 20, 1874, and was the first purely homeopathic hospital for mental disorders in the United States. It was the first homeopathic hospital for treatment of mental disorders in the United States. Middletown Psychiatric Center School of Nursing records, 1895-1978. Harry A. date and time of death; name of doctor performing autopsy; attending physicians; patient's age at death; form and duration Newsletters, 1935-2002. SOURCE: Reprinted from The New York Times. See: New York State Archives Statement on Language in Descriptive Resources, New York State ArchivesNew York State Education Department Telegraph Central Islip, L. I. KINGS COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM Flatbush, Long Island. Medication was one small part of the homeopathic approach to treatment which, according to an article in The Journal Of American Institute Of Homoeopathy in 1935, included regulation of diet and regimenhabit training, rest and seclusioncleanliness, kindness, proper education diversion; occupational therapy; psychotherapy of all sorts; use of various forces of nature, such as employment of water in various forms, referred to as hydrotherapy; application of electricity, light rays, heat, grouped under physiotherapy.. THE MIDDLETOWN HOSPITAL. There were two STATE HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITALS for the Insane: MIDDLETOWN located in Middletown (1874), Orange County, New York; and GOWANDA (1898), located in Collins, Erie County, New York. Number of patients 300. The hospital may also be reached by the West Shore railway ferry from Highland station to Poughkeepsie, and by the Philadelphia, Reading and New England railway (Poughkeepsie Bridge route). THE PINES Auburn, Cayuga County. [4] employed a number of new techniques for the treatment of mental disorders, most notably the use of baseball as a therapy. Upon the mere say-so of the patient or his friends, which would be sufficient to a Superintendent of the Poor, a patient may be transported hundreds of miles across the State to this institution simply for the purpose of adding to the fees and emoluments of a Superintendent of the Poor. Henry Reed Stiles became the second superintendent of the hospital in 1875 and introduced strict dietary regimens. Trustees' or visitors' record book, 1884-1902. Middletown Psychiatric Center. Price lists, contact information, and order forms . Volume list is available at the repository. 1843-1995]. casebook page numbers (in black ink) for male and female patients. It would not have been necessary to impose any condition upon the free choice by a patient of a hospital in which he might desire treatment, had it not been for the fact that, except for some such condition, Superintendents of the Poor, for the sake of the increased mileage and emoluments which could be derived from traveling long distances, might frequently take patients to asylums situated a long distance from the place in which the patient lived. Office of Mental Health. Telephone, No. BUFFALO STATE HOSPITAL Buffalo, Erie County. We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.). Between Kingston and Albany avenues. Minimum rate for care and treatment of private patients, six dollars per week. 69, Bedford. No telephone. 7,1, East New York. Telephone, Falkirk.. Office of Mental Health, New York (State). (For insane criminals only.) The legal rights heretofore enjoyed by the Middletown Hospital have not been interfered with in any way by the passage of this law except in the manner herein indicated. All official communications should be addressed to the physician in charge. A reference to the organic act will show that, with the above exception, it was placed precisely upon the same footing as the other, at that time, so-called acute asylums for the insane, said act of 1870 providing for the doing of that which had been and might be done without its passage, namely, that to the extent of its capacity courts and Judges should have the power to commit such pauper and insane poor from any part of the State as might desire to secure homeopathic treatment. Title Autopsy record book, 1891-1905. DR. WELLS SANITARIUM FOR MENTAL DISEASES. William D. Granger, M. D., Physician in Charge. This series consists of autopsy reports for deceased patients of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital. This institution, from the time of its erection down to the time of the passage of the State Care act, had always been regarded in the same light as the other State asylums of the State. Institution situated about one-half mile from Long Island railway station and accessible by public carriage. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital Autopsy Record Book by Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.) ( ) 1 edition published in 1891 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide This series consists of autopsy reports for deceased patients of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital. That was a formal adoption of the State-care policy, and was followed by the opening of the Hudson River Hospital, at Poughkeepsie, and the Homeopathic Hospital, at Middletown, in 1871, the Buffalo State Hospital in 1880, and the Binghamton State Hospital in 1881. Patient correspondent address books, [ca. Telephone, Flushing 17 A. BREEZEHURST TERRACE Whitestone, Long Island. The Sanitarium may be reached by the Bergen street car line, the Atlantic avenue railway or elevated railway from Brooklyn bridge. Moreover, it places at the disposal of one of the schools of medicine in the State a great hospital for the insane, which has cost in round numbers a million of dollars, and practically discriminates against all the other schools of medicine. There were two STATE HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITALS for the Insane: MIDDLETOWN located in Middletown (1874), Orange County, New York; and GOWANDA (1898), located in Collins, Erie County, New York. Records include admission, death and discharge records, patient photographs, census statistics, and autopsy reports of patients in facilities across the State Creator: New York (State). In 1901, Ralph Albert Blakelock became a patient at the hospital where he continued painting his landscapes. Minimum rate ten dollars per week. He focuses in particular on New York's Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, where superintendent Selden Talcott oversaw a compassionate and holistic treatment regime that married Thomas Kirkbride's moral treatment principles to homeopathy. The hospital, which opened in 1874 with 69 patients. Minimum rate $10 per week. It did not, however, enforce the law as rigorously as it might have done. Homeopathic medicine is known as an "alternative medicine" in an attempt to treat illness. S. B. Lyon, M. D., Medical Superintendent. The Academy is turning another building into a music hall. One mile from Pleasantville station on Harlem railway, and two miles from Whitsons station of New York and Northern railway. It is claimed by the friends of the Middletown State Hospital that medical liberty has been encroached upon by the passage of the State Care act. Fifty minutes from New York on the New York and New Haven railway. the second and fourth indexes (1874 - ca. The parties have stipulated that the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital is under the Department of Mental Hygiene and cares for persons who are mentally ill; that Henry Wright, a son of *216 the decedent, was committed to said hospital by the county judge on April 20, 1914, and has since been a patient at the hospital; that the patient is . Minimum rate, $75 per week, which includes all extras. O. J. Wilsey, M. D., Physician in Charge. Mental Diseases and Their Modern Treatment by Seldon Haines Talcott, A.M., M.D., Ph.D., 1901(351 pp.) This was for enlarging the facilities of the existing hospitals and preparing for the reception of patients from the county asylums and poorhouses. BUFFALO, Sunday, April 12, 1891. Rather than simply tearing down what is left, the town is working hard to preserve the historic structures of this site, and use them to serve the current needs to the community. No matter how pressing may be the necessities of the insane poor, the rich who are able to provide for themselves may have the preference if the Trustees choose to give it. The free and unrestricted right of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital to give homeopathic treatment has not been abridged in any manner, nor, so far as it is known, is it claimed to have been abridged. The passage of the State Care act did not in any other manner whatever change existing laws upon the subject. number and name. How It Is Affected By The State Care Of The Insane Act Contact Me About Me My Background I grew up in Cicero, a small town outside of Syracuse, NY and moved to Queens. State Commission in Lunacy visitation book, 1889-1911. Albany, NY 12230. 1930], 5 volumes; and Subseries 2, Index to Patient Case Books, The main point that MEDICUS made was: If New York State was transferring patients out of their district to another state hospital, why couldnt the State pay for the transportation of patients whose family and friends wanted them to receive HOMEOPATHIC medical care as opposed to ALLOPATHIC medical care? Stop at Albany avenue station of elevated road. (Branch of New York city asylums.) Release of Information Unit. Patient Portal is a secure, convenient, and easy-to-use website that gives you round-the-clock access to your health information. Accessible by the Auburn branch of the New York Central and Hudson River railway, and the Southern Central division of the Lehigh Valley railway. ST. VINCENTS RETREAT Harrison, Westchester County. Number of patients limited to thirty-four. In this speech, Gould asserted that "It has been my purpose in this address, gentlemen, to bring before you in a clear and specific form the proofs that insanity is always a symptom of bodily disease which it is your duty and ought to be your pleasure to cure. Dates for the indexes overlap as information was carried over from earlier to later volumes. Often a typed sheet of paper stating "see description of microscopic specimens in case record" is pasted at the end of the post-mortem report. can you leave citronella candles outside in rain . Ferry tickets and railroad tickets (at reduced rates, to those entitled to same) and permits for admission can be obtained only at the office of the Department of Public Charities and Correction, 66 Third Avenue, cor. Number of patients limited to thirty-four. This was deprecated by the State Board of Charities, the Commission in Lunacy, and the State Charities Aid Association, and many reports and recommendations were made in favor of completing the State-care system and transferring all the dependent insane to the State hospitals, whose accommodations and facilities should be enlarged correspondingly. The hospital employed a number of new techniques for the t From the foregoing it will readily be seen that the Legislature unquestionably intended that, while the treatment given should be purely of the homeopathic order, in all other respects the hospital should be conducted under the same laws and in the same manner as all the other State insane asylums. [4] employed a number of new techniques for the treatment . The first and third indexes (1874-ca.1893 and 1887-ca. [3] The hospital, which served "mentally ill patients from Orange . National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Virginia Library Having online access to this information puts YOU in control of your health. Indexes are roughly alphabetical by patient name. The right to receive private or pay patients was also conferred upon the MiddletownStateHomeopathicHospitalin the same manner and to the same extent only as was conferred upon the UticaStateHospital, which is the governing act of all the State hospitals in the State. John J. Lewis, M. D., Physician in Charge. Telephone No. Singularly, too, no restrictions have surrounded the question of the determination of who desire homeopathic treatment. Over the next few years, a number of excellent semipro players played for the Asylums. National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Virginia Library Telephone No. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.). Order and commitment books, 1885-1893. Accessible by department boats, from foot of East Twenty-sixth street, 10.30 A. M.; also by steam ferry, on even hours, from foot of 115th street. It opened on April 20, 1874, and was the first purely homeopathic hospital for mental disorders in the United States. Situated on Bristol street, one mile from the New York Central and Northern Central railway station. of the New York State Education Department. When it was introduced, homeopathy was a mild, welcome alternative to heavy-handed therapies such as bleeding, but it has since been criticized for focusing on symptoms rather than causes. BLACKWELLS ISLAND ASYLUM. The Inmates of Willard 1870 to 1900 / A Genealogy Resource, New York State Hospitals, Custodial Institutions & Cemeteries, New York State County Poor Houses Dr. Sylvester D. Willards Report 1864, The Medicus A Journal for the Busy Practitioner. Accessible by Boulevard cars, or Elevated railway, to One Hundred and Fourth street and Amsterdam avenue cars. Reports include date and time of death; name of doctor performing autopsy; attending physicians; patient's age at death; form and duration of insanity; cause of death; external appearance of cadaver (nourished or malnourished); weight, in ounces, of organs; and indication whether the . And incidentally, it may be added at the Lunacy Commission office the fact is freely admitted that they would, personally, be glad to be relieved of all connection with the matter, provided that some other efficient safeguard against imposition and abuse in the matter of transportation charges were suggested. Forty-five miles from New York city; accessible by trains on the Long Island railway; surface and elevated roads from Grand Central station, New York, to Thirty-fourth street ferry, connecting with Long Island City station of the Long Island railway; also from Flatbush avenue station, via Jamaica, Long Island railway. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Volume 4 (1917-1929) lists, for male patients only, information in the following order: case book number, name, county, and A homeopathic physician may secure appointment in any of the other hospitals in the State, and enforce such medical treatment as he believes in, without let or hindrance. employees of the hospital. The act of 1890 established the hospital districts and placed the administration of the system in charge of the Lunacy Commission and the first special appropriation f $454,850 was made in 1891. Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. It caused a relapse in about a third of the counties of the State to the old poorhouse system, with all its horrors. The utmost claim put forth by the friends of homeopathy as to the extent of the carrying out of the agreement on their part is this that they contributed a few hundred acres of land and the sum of $50,000 in cash. 945 St. Maeks Avenue, Brooklyn. We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. Minimum rate, ten dollars per week. The right of the indigent insane for whom homeopathic treatment is desired to free admission to the Homeopathic Hospital from any part of the State might, perhaps, be conceded without any intervention or concurrence on the part of the Lunacy Commission, although in practice, as already stated, the occasion for such concurrence seldom arises.

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