Byberry Mental Hospital Deutsch
Though now torn down it was once the site of horrific abuses dehumanizing treatment and naturally a place of restless spirits.
Byberry mental hospital deutsch. Byberry under city control 1906 1938 never had a mortuary or morgue and no mention has ever been heard of a cemetery or burial ground for the patients although it was always commonplace at a mental hospital to have a cemetery for the patients. The name of the institution was changed several times during its history being variously named philadelphia state hospital. Neighbors say good riddance philadelphia citypaper march 16 22 2006. The facility included over fifty buildings such as male and female dormitories an infirmary kitchens laundry.
The building opened in 1903 and over the decades eventually expanded to become one of pennsylvania s largest hospitals housing the mentally ill and criminally insane. Byberry mental hospital was one of the cruelest psychiatric institutes in history for over 80 years the institute got away with abusing restraining neglecting and killing its patients after its collapsed the inhumane setting spurred nationwide debate about the inhumanity of mental institutions across the country. See more ideas about mental hospital abandoned asylums asylum. Neglect at byberry mental hospital.
Although some dedicated caring and hard working staff at the byberry mental hospital truly cared for the patients a number of bad employees carried out abuses that remain disturbing to this day. The primary buildings were constructed between 1907 and the mid 1920s and the newer buildings were constructed between 1940 and 1953. The name of the institution was changed several times during its history being variously named philadelphia state hospital byberry state hospital byberry city farms and the philadelphia hospital. It was specifically located in the somerton section of the city on the border with bucks county.
Byberry opened as an independent institution called the philadelphia hospital for mental diseases in 1928 and was troubled by allegations of neglect and mistreatment almost from its inception. The philadelphia state hospital at byberry was a psychiatric hospital located on either side of roosevelt boulevard us route 1 in northeast philadelphia pennsylvania. This has remained a huge mystery about byberry. Institutional care of mental patients in the united states.
Due to the understaffing there was an extremely low ratio of orderlies to patients at the byberry mental hospital. Dec 21 2015 explore harley jean s board byberry on pinterest.