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|Body=  In 1889 the Texas legislature passed a bill establishing a [[San Antonio State Hospital|state mental institution to serve Southwest Texas.]] The new facility was to occupy at least 640 acres and be capable of housing 500 patients. It was to be known as the Southwestern Insane Asylum (not the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum, as it has sometimes been called). A site was selected five miles south of San Antonio and $200,000 was appropriated for the new hospital. The facility began operation on April 6, 1892 with a capacity of 200 patients.
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|Body=  [[Bolivar State Hospital|Western State Mental Hospital]], located near Bolivar, was the last state mental hospital to be constructed and habitually the one least funded. In December 1885 the site commissioners chose the farm of Paul T. Jones as the location for the proposed facility.
 
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Revision as of 04:49, 17 February 2014

Featured Image Of The Week

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Western State Mental Hospital, located near Bolivar, was the last state mental hospital to be constructed and habitually the one least funded. In December 1885 the site commissioners chose the farm of Paul T. Jones as the location for the proposed facility.