Hospital Mental De Danvers Massachusetts
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Hospital mental de danvers massachusetts. May was an assistant physician at the connecticut hospital for the insane from 1874 1877 and for 1877 was acting superintendent. Without your dedication and hardwork this website would not be possible. These injuries consisted of a bruise to the right cheek a bruise below the right eye right side of the jaw red and swollen complaints of pain in right side of neck left arm bruised on inner elbow 1 5 inches by 1 5 inches a 1 inch bruise on forearm. The scenic vistas fresh air and acres of farm land.
Danvers state hospital was a psychiatric hospital built in 1874 on hathorne hill where the salem witch trials judge john hathorne once lived. Danvers state hospital history. The hospital opened on may 1st 1878 and the hospitals first patients arrived on may 13th. The hill is a 257 feet high glacial drumlin located in danvers which was originally known as salem village until its official name change in 1752.
The hospital initially cost 1 5 million to construct and it had two main buildings which housed four radiating wings and administration. Mark gerrity ethan mcelroy dave walsh kristen polci parsons chris sparks karen bourdelias katherine anderson. The complete history and architecture of the danvers state hospital danvers state insane asylum the state lunatic hospital at danvers danvers insane hospital including nathaniel j. A site called hawthorne hill also known as hathorne hill in danvers was chosen for the new hospital.
May was appointed superintendent through 1880. A self contained psychiatric hospital which is designed and built in accordance to the kirkbride plan danvers is also rumored to be the birthplace of the pre frontal lobotomy. 1948 the first lobotomy was performed. In 1873 the need for another psychiatric hospital to serve the boston population had risen once again.
Danvers state hospital was one of many hospitals built in massachusetts during the industrial revolution. Danvers was a success at first. Previous to danvers dr. By 1900 danvers state hospital employed 125 people and had treated more than 9 500 patients since opening.
Danvers state insane asylum danvers state hospital archives frontier day 1954. Over the next 20 years the population of the hospital swelled to more than 2 000 patients despite its official capacity of 450. In 1989 a day program reported to the dppc that x a patient at danvers state hospital appeared at their program with serious injuries. The danvers state hospital also known as the state lunatic hospital at danvers the danvers lunatic asylum and the danvers state insane asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in danvers massachusetts it was built in 1874 and opened in 1878 under the supervision of prominent boston architect nathaniel jeremiah bradlee on an isolated site in rural massachusetts.