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|Body= The East Tennessee Hospital for the Insane was built on land previously owned by Capt. William Lyon, after more than a dozen years of funding stops and starts and political infighting. The East Tennessee Hospital for the Insane opened in 1886 with 99 patients transferred from the older Tennessee Lunatic Asylum in Nashville. In 1920, the facility's name was changed to Eastern State Hospital as part of a program to rename all state asylums.
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|Body= Prior to establishing this institution in 1885 all of the insane of Kings County were treated in the local institution situated in the suburbs of Brooklyn and known as the Kings County Lunatic Asylum. The county's general population's rapid growth, due largely to unprecedented immigration, produced a disproportionate increase in the number of insane in the county and added enormously to the serious overcrowding in the county asylum.
  
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In 1956, Gov. Frank Clement toured Eastern State and calls what he saw — including 984 patients sleeping on floor pallets because of lack of beds — sad but not surprising. Following the 1955 invention of the tranquilizer, the hospital adopted a new form of treatment. In 1960, they introduced the $2 million Therapeutic Village, which included cottages, a store, a clinic, a coffee bar, a chapel, and a pool. Gov. Winfield Dunn appointed a committee to investigate conditions after Rep. Richard Krieg leads an unannounced post-midnight visit to overcrowded wards in 1971. The Committee found too little staff, training, and unsanitary and inhumane conditions in aging buildings.  [[East Tennessee Hospital for the Insane|Click here for more...]]
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Although successive superintendents pleaded with the county authorities for additional buildings, no provision for relief was made.
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Finally, when conditions became intolerable after patients had been crowded into the basements of the large asylum building and into an old frame building quite unfit for the purpose, public sentiment compelled to action by the county authorities, and in 1885 about 850 acres of land were purchased at St. Johnland, 43 miles to the east, on Long Island, and a branch asylum was established.  [[Kings Park State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
 
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Revision as of 10:17, 26 February 2023

Featured Article Of The Week

Kings Park State Hospital


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Prior to establishing this institution in 1885 all of the insane of Kings County were treated in the local institution situated in the suburbs of Brooklyn and known as the Kings County Lunatic Asylum. The county's general population's rapid growth, due largely to unprecedented immigration, produced a disproportionate increase in the number of insane in the county and added enormously to the serious overcrowding in the county asylum.

Although successive superintendents pleaded with the county authorities for additional buildings, no provision for relief was made.

Finally, when conditions became intolerable after patients had been crowded into the basements of the large asylum building and into an old frame building quite unfit for the purpose, public sentiment compelled to action by the county authorities, and in 1885 about 850 acres of land were purchased at St. Johnland, 43 miles to the east, on Long Island, and a branch asylum was established. Click here for more...

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