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United States (United States) (search for this): entry insanity
Insanity.
Until 1840 the insane poor in the United States were cared for almost exclusively by the township and county authorities.
It was estimated that in 1833 there were 2,500 lunatics in jails and other prisons, besides hundreds in the county poor-houses and private famfamilies.
One of the very earliest asylums for the insane was that opened in 1797 at Bloomingdale, in the suburbs of New York City, by the New York Hospital Society.
To the labors of Miss Dorothea L. Dix (q. v.) is ment of State insane asylums, and it is now recognized as the duty of each State to care for its insane.
New York State alone has fifteen corporate institutions of this class.
The following statistics show the number of insane, etc., in the United States.
Until 1850 there were no reliable statistics:
Year. Population of U. S. No. of Insane.To each million of inhabitants.
1850 21,191,876 15,610 673
186031,443,321 24,642 783
187038,558,371 37,432 971
188050,155,783 91,997 1,834
189062,
Bloomingdale (New York, United States) (search for this): entry insanity
Insanity.
Until 1840 the insane poor in the United States were cared for almost exclusively by the township and county authorities.
It was estimated that in 1833 there were 2,500 lunatics in jails and other prisons, besides hundreds in the county poor-houses and private famfamilies.
One of the very earliest asylums for the insane was that opened in 1797 at Bloomingdale, in the suburbs of New York City, by the New York Hospital Society.
To the labors of Miss Dorothea L. Dix (q. v.) is largely due the establishment of State asylums.
Miss Dix devoted herself after 1837 to the investigation of the subject, and visited every State east of the Rocky Mountains, appealing to the State legislatures to provide for the care of the insane.
In April, 1854, a bill appropriating 10,000,000 acres of public lands to the several States for the relief of the pauper insane, passed by Congress under her appeals, was vetoed by President Pierce.
Her efforts, however, led to the establishment of
New York State (New York, United States) (search for this): entry insanity
John A. Dix (search for this): entry insanity
William Pierce (search for this): entry insanity
1833 AD (search for this): entry insanity
Insanity.
Until 1840 the insane poor in the United States were cared for almost exclusively by the township and county authorities.
It was estimated that in 1833 there were 2,500 lunatics in jails and other prisons, besides hundreds in the county poor-houses and private famfamilies.
One of the very earliest asylums for the insane was that opened in 1797 at Bloomingdale, in the suburbs of New York City, by the New York Hospital Society.
To the labors of Miss Dorothea L. Dix (q. v.) is largely due the establishment of State asylums.
Miss Dix devoted herself after 1837 to the investigation of the subject, and visited every State east of the Rocky Mountains, appealing to the State legislatures to provide for the care of the insane.
In April, 1854, a bill appropriating 10,000,000 acres of public lands to the several States for the relief of the pauper insane, passed by Congress under her appeals, was vetoed by President Pierce.
Her efforts, however, led to the establishment of
1850 AD (search for this): entry insanity
April, 1854 AD (search for this): entry insanity
1837 AD (search for this): entry insanity
1840 AD (search for this): entry insanity
Insanity.
Until 1840 the insane poor in the United States were cared for almost exclusively by the township and county authorities.
It was estimated that in 1833 there were 2,500 lunatics in jails and other prisons, besides hundreds in the county poor-houses and private famfamilies.
One of the very earliest asylums for the insane was that opened in 1797 at Bloomingdale, in the suburbs of New York City, by the New York Hospital Society.
To the labors of Miss Dorothea L. Dix (q. v.) is largely due the establishment of State asylums.
Miss Dix devoted herself after 1837 to the investigation of the subject, and visited every State east of the Rocky Mountains, appealing to the State legislatures to provide for the care of the insane.
In April, 1854, a bill appropriating 10,000,000 acres of public lands to the several States for the relief of the pauper insane, passed by Congress under her appeals, was vetoed by President Pierce.
Her efforts, however, led to the establishment of