Difference between revisions of "Portal:Featured Article Of The Week"

From Asylum Projects
Jump to: navigation, search
Line 1: Line 1:
 
{{FAformat
 
{{FAformat
|Title= Karl-Bonhoeffer Psychiatric Clinic
+
|Title= Yankton State Hospital
|Image= Bonhoeffer-Klinik-Verwaltung.jpg
+
|Image= Yankton SD PC 1.jpg
 
|Width= 150px
 
|Width= 150px
|Body= The first hospital, in which the mentally ill were kept, was built in Berlin at the end of the 17th century under the name Grosses Friedrichs-Hospital. At that time it also took in other patients and orphans. The people designated mentally ill were not being treated medically, but rather locked in order to make the community safe for. Towards the end of the 18th Century, the hospital counted more than 500 patients. In 1798, it burned completely, after which the supply of the mentally ill, first Charité private hospitals was taken and various. Since this course of decades to a growing overcrowding at Charité and other institutions led in, it decided the Berlin City Council in 1863 to build an independent-care institution for the insane for 1000 patients. After years of disputes about the distribution of costs and the location of the new hospital in 1877 to start construction on the former agricultural estate Dalldorf, which the city acquired in 1869. In the spring of 1880 the clinic opened, and shortly thereafter transferred the patients from the private institutions here.
+
|Body= The completion of the railway into Yankton in 1873 gave added impetus to immigration and by 1878 the effect of the gold rush was reflected in the number of Dakota patients at St. Peter Hospital, totaling 22. Governor William A. Howard was advised in June by Minnesota that no more patients could be accepted after July 1 because of crowded conditions at that hospital and all Dakota patients would have to be removed by October 1, 1878.
  
Initially the plant was called Städtische Irrenanstalt zu Dalldorf (Urban asylum at Dalldorf) and consisted of ten patient pavilions, a kitchen, a power house, a laundry, an administrative building and several gardens and workshops. In 1881, built on the same site a reform school for 100 mentally underdeveloped children, which was incorporated into the institution. Compared to the predecessor organizations, the living conditions for the patients at the Dalldorf hospital were very good: the working patients were employed in the workshops and gardens of the institution, there were occasionally organized trips and parties for patients, visits by relatives and in some cases the of sick leave were allowed.
+
The Governor contacted Iowa hospitals without success, then traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska, and found that institution overcrowded but by completing some unfinished rooms, accommodations were arranged for five patients until the following February. Another contract with Minnesota resulted in an extension until February 1, 1879, for removal of the patients from St. Peter.
  
Despite a relatively high patient capacity, the clinic suffered overcrowding over throughout it's history. For this reason, the Institute had throughout its history several times by construction of new buildings or remodeling so far otherwise unused space to be expanded. [[Karl-Bonhoeffer Psychiatric Clinic|Click here for more...]]
+
Governor Howard searched for a building to be used for a hospital in nearby towns of Vermillion, Elk Point and Canton with no success. In Yankton, he found two large wooden buildings--one belonging to the city and one to the Territory that were built to house German-Russian? immigrants. The Governor secured the buildings and arranged to have them rebuilt on school lands north of Yankton at personal expense, a total of $2,286.85. The thirteenth session of the Dakota Territory Legislature met on January 14, 1879, and in the Governor’s message he advised the lawmakers of his action and the necessary laws were passed.
 +
 
 +
During the first six months there were five employees; and, 31 patients were cared for, five being discharged, fully recovered. The appropriation for the first two years was inadequate and citizens generally did not realize that patients needed much more than food and clothing so future legislatures were inclined to reduce recommended allowances for their care, treatment and support. [[Yankton State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
 
}}
 
}}

Revision as of 03:56, 27 June 2011

Featured Article Of The Week

Yankton State Hospital


Yankton SD PC 1.jpg

The completion of the railway into Yankton in 1873 gave added impetus to immigration and by 1878 the effect of the gold rush was reflected in the number of Dakota patients at St. Peter Hospital, totaling 22. Governor William A. Howard was advised in June by Minnesota that no more patients could be accepted after July 1 because of crowded conditions at that hospital and all Dakota patients would have to be removed by October 1, 1878.

The Governor contacted Iowa hospitals without success, then traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska, and found that institution overcrowded but by completing some unfinished rooms, accommodations were arranged for five patients until the following February. Another contract with Minnesota resulted in an extension until February 1, 1879, for removal of the patients from St. Peter.

Governor Howard searched for a building to be used for a hospital in nearby towns of Vermillion, Elk Point and Canton with no success. In Yankton, he found two large wooden buildings--one belonging to the city and one to the Territory that were built to house German-Russian? immigrants. The Governor secured the buildings and arranged to have them rebuilt on school lands north of Yankton at personal expense, a total of $2,286.85. The thirteenth session of the Dakota Territory Legislature met on January 14, 1879, and in the Governor’s message he advised the lawmakers of his action and the necessary laws were passed.

During the first six months there were five employees; and, 31 patients were cared for, five being discharged, fully recovered. The appropriation for the first two years was inadequate and citizens generally did not realize that patients needed much more than food and clothing so future legislatures were inclined to reduce recommended allowances for their care, treatment and support. Click here for more...