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|Body= The Menninger Foundation of Topeka, Kansas, began as an outpatient clinic in the 1920s serving the local Shawnee County populace for various ills. Karl Menninger began persuading his father, Charles Frederick, or C.F., to focus the clinic's area of expertise on psychiatric and mental health cases. The Menningers opened the first clinic in 1919. In 1925, they purchased a farmhouse on the outskirts of town for a sanitarium to provide long-term in-patient care. William Claire Menninger, Karl's youngest brother, joined Karl and their father in this practice that same year, fulfilling C.F.’s dream of a group practice with his sons.
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|Body= Southern Hospital for the Insane, located at Anna, Union County, founded by an act of the Legislature in 1869. The original site comprised 290 acres and cost a little more than $22,0000, of which county citizens donated one-fourth. The construction of buildings was begun in 1869, but it was not until March 1875, that the north wing (the first completed) was ready for occupancy. Other portions were completed a year later. The Trustees purchased 160 additional acres in 1883. The first cost (up to September 1876) was nearly $635,000. In 1881, one wing of the main building was destroyed by fire and subsequently rebuilt; the patients were cared for in temporary wooden barracks.
  
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The sanitarium began expanding almost immediately. The Menninger family opened other operations, including Southard School for children, one of the first institutions for children with mental health disabilities. The family also began training psychiatric professionals, performing research, and publishing in the Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. During the 1930s, Will and other Menninger staff formulated and refined their milieu therapy, a treatment program focusing on the whole individual and every staff member’s interaction with a patient.
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The total value of lands and buildings belonging to the State, June 30, 1894, was estimated at $738,580, and of property of all sorts, at $ 833,700. The wooden barracks were later converted into a permanent ward, additions to the main buildings, a detached building for the accommodations of 300 patients erected, numerous outbuildings put up and general improvements made. A second fire on the night of Jan. 3, 1895, destroyed a large part of the main building, inflicting a loss upon the State of $175,000.00. Provision was made for rebuilding by the Legislature of that year. The institution has a capacity for about 750 patients.  [[Anna State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
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Karl became a popularly respected and well-known figure in psychiatry after publishing his first book in 1930 and writing a regular advice column in the Ladies’ Home Journal. Like many other Menninger staff, Will joined the armed forces during World War II; by the end of the war, he was a brigadier general and extremely influential in treating and caring for soldiers with psychiatric problems.  [[Menniger Clinic|Click here for more...]]
 
 
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Featured Article Of The Week

Anna State Hospital


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Southern Hospital for the Insane, located at Anna, Union County, founded by an act of the Legislature in 1869. The original site comprised 290 acres and cost a little more than $22,0000, of which county citizens donated one-fourth. The construction of buildings was begun in 1869, but it was not until March 1875, that the north wing (the first completed) was ready for occupancy. Other portions were completed a year later. The Trustees purchased 160 additional acres in 1883. The first cost (up to September 1876) was nearly $635,000. In 1881, one wing of the main building was destroyed by fire and subsequently rebuilt; the patients were cared for in temporary wooden barracks.

The total value of lands and buildings belonging to the State, June 30, 1894, was estimated at $738,580, and of property of all sorts, at $ 833,700. The wooden barracks were later converted into a permanent ward, additions to the main buildings, a detached building for the accommodations of 300 patients erected, numerous outbuildings put up and general improvements made. A second fire on the night of Jan. 3, 1895, destroyed a large part of the main building, inflicting a loss upon the State of $175,000.00. Provision was made for rebuilding by the Legislature of that year. The institution has a capacity for about 750 patients. Click here for more...

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