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|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.
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|Body= Central State Hospital was brought into existence by an Act of the 1844-1845 Indiana General Assembly which provided for "the procuring of a suitable site for the erection of a State Lunatic Asylum." The property, consisting of 160 acres of farmland belonging to N. Bolton, was selected due to its proximity to the State Capitol. Purchased at the rate of $33.125 per acre, the property passed to the State of Indiana on August 29, 1845.
  
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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.
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An Act approved on January 19, 1846 provided "That the Commissioners of the Indiana Lunatic Asylum are hereby authorized to cause to be erected upon the grounds heretofore purchased for that purpose, suitable buildings for the use and accommodation of said institution, which shall hereafter be called and known by the name of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, and also to make such improvements upon and about said grounds as they may think expedient and proper." To fund the construction, an appropriate of $15,000 was approved "for the purpose of defraying the expenses incurred under the provisions of this act."
  
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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...]]
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On May 5, 1846 a contract to begin the construction of "Old Main" (Men's Department Building, razed in 1941) was authorized and on November 21, 1848 the first five patients were admitted. Thus Central State Hospital was born. The hospital served the entire state until 1905, by which time additional hospitals had been constructed in Evansville, Logansport, Madison, and Richmond leaving Central State with patients from 38 counties in central Indiana. [[Central Indiana State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
 
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Featured Article Of The Week

Central Indiana State Hospital


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Central State Hospital was brought into existence by an Act of the 1844-1845 Indiana General Assembly which provided for "the procuring of a suitable site for the erection of a State Lunatic Asylum." The property, consisting of 160 acres of farmland belonging to N. Bolton, was selected due to its proximity to the State Capitol. Purchased at the rate of $33.125 per acre, the property passed to the State of Indiana on August 29, 1845.

An Act approved on January 19, 1846 provided "That the Commissioners of the Indiana Lunatic Asylum are hereby authorized to cause to be erected upon the grounds heretofore purchased for that purpose, suitable buildings for the use and accommodation of said institution, which shall hereafter be called and known by the name of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, and also to make such improvements upon and about said grounds as they may think expedient and proper." To fund the construction, an appropriate of $15,000 was approved "for the purpose of defraying the expenses incurred under the provisions of this act."

On May 5, 1846 a contract to begin the construction of "Old Main" (Men's Department Building, razed in 1941) was authorized and on November 21, 1848 the first five patients were admitted. Thus Central State Hospital was born. The hospital served the entire state until 1905, by which time additional hospitals had been constructed in Evansville, Logansport, Madison, and Richmond leaving Central State with patients from 38 counties in central Indiana. Click here for more...

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