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|Body= In 1852, the [[Bridgewater State Hospital|Commonwealth discontinued its program of outdoor relief]] for unsettled paupers. Prior to that, municipal governments were tasked exclusively with the care of dependents having legal settlement, which usually entailed long term residence there. The care of unsettled paupers, increasingly immigrants from western Europe, was only undertaken in local almshouses at state expense.
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|Body= Originally opened on August 17, 1876, the hospital was known as the [[Greystone Park State Hospital|New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown]]. The asylum officially received the familiar Greystone Park name in 1924. The idea for such a facility was conceived in the early 1870s at the persistent lobbying of Dorothea Lynde Dix, a former school teacher who was an advocate for better health care for people with mental illnesses.
 
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Revision as of 04:49, 19 December 2021

Featured Image Of The Week

gayston1912.JPG
Originally opened on August 17, 1876, the hospital was known as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown. The asylum officially received the familiar Greystone Park name in 1924. The idea for such a facility was conceived in the early 1870s at the persistent lobbying of Dorothea Lynde Dix, a former school teacher who was an advocate for better health care for people with mental illnesses.