1235 D. BINGHAMTON STATE HOSPITAL Binghamton, Broome County. Second That the consent of the Superintendent of the hospital and the consent of the Chairman of the State Commission in Lunacy shall be obtained. 118. Hahnemann further stated that the potency of a curative agent increases as the substance is diluted. The laws of the State of New-York, with the exception above indicated, have never recognized any particular school of medicine whatsoever, and do not do so now. Floyd S. Crego, M. D., Consulting Physician. BRIGHAM HALL HOSPITAL Canandaigua, Ontario County. The Rockland Psychiatric Center has all the records for Middletown and will give the date of admission, date of death, and the marker number of your ancestor / loved one. The establishment of this hospital was largely inspired by John Stanton Goulds 1866 speech to the State Homeopathic Medical Society. Middletown State Hospital (N.Y.). Selden H. Talcott, M. D., Medical Superintendent. No telephone. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital Autopsy Record Book by Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.) ( ) 1 edition published in 1891 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide This series consists of autopsy reports for deceased patients of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital. With the rise of alternative medicine, it has seen resurgence., ALLOPATHY: a system of medical practice that aims to combat disease by use of remedies (as drugs or surgery) producing effects different from or incompatible with those produced by the disease being treated. We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. (For insane criminals only.) It opened on April 20, 1874, and was the first purely homeopathic hospital for mental disorders in the United States. Fifty minutes from New York on the New York and New Haven railway. Telephone No. Telephone No. It was the first homeopathic hospital for treatment of mental disorders in the United States. Third That the patients friends or relatives should pay the expense of transportation beyond the limits of the district in which the patient resides. No matter how pressing may be the necessities of the insane poor, the rich who are able to provide for themselves may have the preference if the Trustees choose to give it. There was even a newsletter written by patients. Only a short distance from railway station. By the passage of this act and the erection of this asylum the Legislature of 1870 did what had never before been done in the history of its dealings with the dependent insane, to wit, recognize a particular school of medicine-a distinction which to this day no other school has sought or had-yet, so far as a study of the statutes reveals, it was indisputably intended that the corporation of this asylum should be held to as strict a measure of legal accountability as any one of the other State asylums, an that it should enjoy no other or greater privilege than was possessed by all of them. Upon the mere say-so of the patient or his friends, which would be sufficient to a Superintendent of the Poor, a patient may be transported hundreds of miles across the State to this institution simply for the purpose of adding to the fees and emoluments of a Superintendent of the Poor. Frederick Sefton, M. D., Physician in Charge. NEW YORK CITY ASYLUMS FOR THE INSANE. Discover the citys most unique and surprising places and events for the curious mind. Minimum rate for care and treatment of private patients, five dollars per week. indication whether the cranium, spinal cord, thorax, abdomen, and pelvic organs had been examined. 1936] (bulk 1874-1898). G. C. S. Choate, M. D., Physician in Charge. Thirty days are allowed for carrying its provisions into effect, and then the system for the State care and maintenance of the dependent insane will be completed, save for perfecting the accommodations and facilities required. Let it be repeated that the passage of this bill will confer privileges which the institution never before enjoyed, and which an examination of the statutes heretofore enacted will clearly show were never intended to be given. A reference to the organic act will show that, with the above exception, it was placed precisely upon the same footing as the other, at that time, so-called acute asylums for the insane, said act of 1870 providing for the doing of that which had been and might be done without its passage, namely, that to the extent of its capacity courts and Judges should have the power to commit such pauper and insane poor from any part of the State as might desire to secure homeopathic treatment. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, New York (State). A. Smith, M. D., Acting Medical Superintendent. Pleasantville is thirty miles north of New York city. In 1901, Ralph Albert Blakelock became a patient at the hospital where he continued painting his landscapes. [3] The New York State Archives is part of the Office of Cultural Education, an office Public carriages may also be had at the station. How Proposed Legislation Would Affect The Insane Poor. Dates for the indexes overlap as information was carried over from earlier to later volumes. Albany, NY 12230. Order and commitment books, 1885-1893, New York (State). The bill which has passed the State Senate, if it becomes a law, will for the first time in the history of the State establish a principle which has been justly regarded as foreign to the spirit of our institutions, namely, the principle of paternalism in government the duty of the State to provide for a class of its citizens able to provide for themselves. Nursing The Insane by Clara Barrus, M.D., 1908 (428 pp.) Reports conclude with a detailed post mortem. System of therapeutics founded in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann on the principle that like cures like. That is, substances that in healthy persons would produce the symptoms from which the patient suffers are used to treat the patient. Telephone call, Glenmary., FALKIRK Central Valley, Orange County. Research You are here Mental Hospitals and Special Schools Mental hospital clinical case records, 1843-1995, include voluminous records of Buffalo, Matteawan, St. Lawrence, Utica, and Willard State Hospitals; and of Craig Colony for persons with epilepsy. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Sixty years ago all the indigent insane in this State whose friends or relatives could not or would not take care of them were sent to the county poorhouses. are present for case book numbers 1362 through 6682. casebook page numbers (in black ink) for male and female patients. information in the following order: ward number, name, case number, whether transferred, and if admitted as an emergency case. H. Ernst Schmid, M. D., Attending Physician, White Plains. But upon the taking effect of the State Care act on the 1st of October, 1890, it was found that there were about two thousand more insane poor to be provided for than could be accommodated in all the State hospitals in the State, and, of course, there ceased to be any vacancies for the admission of private or pay patients in the State hospitals. [7], The facility, located in Orange Country,[4] was previously known as Middletown State Hospital for the Insane. Minimum rate ten dollars per week. Sanitarium two minutes walk to the right. Visitor register, 1900-1920. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital patient case files, 1874-[ca. New York State Archives Statement on Language in Descriptive Resources, Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.). Records include admission, death and discharge records, patient photographs, census statistics, and autopsy reports of patients in facilities across the State Creator: New York (State). Today, the more than 200 acre campus is a mix of structures that are in ruin and under renovation. Post-office and telegraph, Bronxville. From the foregoing it will readily be seen that the Legislature unquestionably intended that, while the treatment given should be purely of the homeopathic order, in all other respects the hospital should be conducted under the same laws and in the same manner as all the other State insane asylums. Rockland Psychiatric Center 140 Old Orangeburg Road Orangeburg, NY 10962 By the 1900s there were one hundred buildings on the site. With increased caseloads in the 1890s, the baseball focus of the Middletown hospital decreased and the Asylums withered away.[12]. Patient case files, [ca. Reports include date and time of death; name of doctor performing autopsy; attending physicians; patient's age at death; form and duration of insanity; cause of death; external appearance of cadaver (nourished or malnourished); weight, in ounces, of organs; and indication whether the . Historical background files, 1874-1998. Patient correspondent address books, [ca. It received appropriations from the Legislature and its capacity was enlarged from time to time, the laws under which it was governed remaining the same as when established, except as modified by the State Care act, which was prepared, it is understood, by Theodore W. Dwight, the distinguished Warden of the Columbia College Law School-than whom a more just or equitable man never lived-provided, as is well known, for the division of the State into as many districts as there were State asylums for the insane, and provided that the insane poor of any particular district should be sent to the hospital situated within said district. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.). P. M. Wise, M. D., Medical Superintendent. We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. The name of the institution was changed to the "Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital." Soon after, the patient population of the This series indexes accretion 14231-01, Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital patient case files. This is a very lengthy Letter to the Editor of The New York Times written byMEDICUS,The Medicus A Journal for the Busy Practitioner, of the nineteenth century. The push for a state homeopathic institution for the treatment of mental disorders began in 1866 when John Stanton Gould delivered a speech to the State Homeopathic Medical Society entitled The Relation of Insanity to Bodily Disease. Number limited to ten. The free and unrestricted right of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital to give homeopathic treatment has not been abridged in any manner, nor, so far as it is known, is it claimed to have been abridged. H. E. Allison, M. D., Medical Superintendent. Vernon, or by Harlem railroad to Bronxville. Forty-five miles from New York city; accessible by trains on the Long Island railway; surface and elevated roads from Grand Central station, New York, to Thirty-fourth street ferry, connecting with Long Island City station of the Long Island railway; also from Flatbush avenue station, via Jamaica, Long Island railway. Post-office and railroad station, Fiskill-on-the-Hudson. State Homeopathic Hospital. But upon the taking effect of the State Care act on the 1st of October, 1890, it was found that there were about two thousand more insane poor to be provided for than could be accommodated in all the State hospitals in the State, and, of course, there ceased to be any vacancies for the admission of private or pay patients in the State hospitals.