This is a blog for the Mental Health Policy Class at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

December 30, 2005

Early St. Louis Hospitals, Homes, and Asylums

Early St. Louis Hospitals, Homes, and AsylumsTHE COUNTY INSANE ASYLUM
"This magnificent establishment is situated on Arsenal Avenue, near the Manchester Road, and is one of the finest asylums in the United States. This is emphatically a public charity, and is supported by the public. This institution contains from 400 to 500 patients, from the county and city. It is conducted by the county court, who regulate all its different departments. It is fitted up with every facility for the cure or amelioration of the condition or the afflicted of God's creatures, who find an asylum within its walls. Dr. D. V. N. Howard is the physician in charge."

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