Patients Bowling circa 1925
Patients in the Gymnasium circa 1925
Patients Bowling circa 1925 |
Patients in the Gymnasium circa 1925 |
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1920 one of the major goals of the Vermont mental health institutions was
to familiarize the greater population both with what the hospitals were
and what they did. The Brattleboro biennial report ending in June 1920 quoted
excerpts from the will of Anna Marsh, founder of the Brattleboro Asylum,
as a means of explanation: “I give…ten thousand dollars in trust,
for the purpose of erecting and supporting…in the County of Windham,
near the Connecticut River, a hospital…for the relief of insane persons.”
In their own report, the supervisors of the Vermont State Hospital wrote,
“This is a well-ordered institution in which the state may take just
pride and, while the expense to the state is large, it is absolutely necessary
in order to care for and restrain the mentally afflicted who, if allowed
to be at large or under private care, would be a positive danger or social
menace.” Perhaps part of the reasoning behind this push for transparency was because the hospitals were now using various therapies and treatments which were meeting with more success than ever before. Hydro- and electrotherapeutic treatments were at this time being used extensively and with “excellent” results. |
Principal
Psychoses 1920 |
| Patients on the Veranda circa 1925 |
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