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|Body= The old insane department was of brick, with small barred windows, iron doors, and heavy wooden doors outside, with apertures and hinged shutters for passing food. The cells were about seven by eight feet; they were not heated, except by a stove in the corridor, which did not raise the temperature in some of them above freezing point; the cold, however, did not freeze out the vermin with which the beds, walls, and floors were alive. The number of cells in this department was 21, 10 on the lower floor and 11 on the upper floor; many of them contained two beds,
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|Body= Mendota opened on July 14, 1860, when it admitted a patient who had been brought from Oconto County...a long trip by horse and wagon. Even though the hospital was not yet ready to open, that Saturday, it was decided that, because of the distance the patient had been brought, he should be received. Thus began Mendota's ready response to the needs of patients and communities, which has been its tradition.
  
The other buildings were all frame; they were more like barns or barracks-immense areas of bare floors, crowded with cheap iron strap bedsteads. The heating was insufficient; there was no ventilation; the arrangements for bathing were so imperfect, there is no hot water, that during the winter months, the inmates were not bathed; even in summer the number of tubs was too small and they were inconveniently located. There were no halls in these buildings, the entire space is divided into rooms; the stairways were either outside or in the center of the room.
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Mendota has undergone significant changes since then, some of which are reflected in the changes to its name. It opened as an "Asylum", appropriate in an era when little could be done for the mentally ill except to house and care for them...i.e. to give them asylum...when their families and communities could no longer cope with their needs.  [[Mendota Mental Health Institute|Click here for more...]]
 
 
In the report for 1878 it is stated that the Cook County poorhouse: is a rookery and should be torn down." John G. Cochrane, the architect, drew the plans for additional buildings for the infirmary, and the county adopted the designs he submitted on the 22d of September, 1881.  [[Chicago State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
 
 
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Latest revision as of 10:36, 3 August 2025

Featured Article Of The Week

Mendota Mental Health Institute


Mendota03.jpg

Mendota opened on July 14, 1860, when it admitted a patient who had been brought from Oconto County...a long trip by horse and wagon. Even though the hospital was not yet ready to open, that Saturday, it was decided that, because of the distance the patient had been brought, he should be received. Thus began Mendota's ready response to the needs of patients and communities, which has been its tradition.

Mendota has undergone significant changes since then, some of which are reflected in the changes to its name. It opened as an "Asylum", appropriate in an era when little could be done for the mentally ill except to house and care for them...i.e. to give them asylum...when their families and communities could no longer cope with their needs. Click here for more...