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  Insane Asylum Number 3, Nevada, Missouri
The massive building was completed in 1887 and was the largest single building in the state of Missouri at that time.
In the early years, the sign in the lobby referred to it as "Lunatic Asylum Number 3".
See a book of drawings probably done by an asylum patient in the early 1900's.
www.lyndonirwin.com /asylum.htm   (269 words)

  
  The Fire at the Insane Asylum
The insane asylum was burned to ashes, and forty-one of the forty-four inmates were cremated.
The system was the outgrowth of a forced necessity, the guiding principal of which was to house, clothe and feed the incurably insane at the smallest possible expense to the county.
The result of this investigation had the effect on the next Legislature to enact a law abolishing all of these county insane asylums, and the State assumed entire support, control and management of the insane, and the count asylums were abolished.
www.dover.lib.nh.us /DoverHistory/fire_at_the_insane_asylum.htm   (2223 words)

  
 Agnews Insane Asylum, Santa Clara County, California -- National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
Today known as the world famous Sun Microsystems/Agnews Developmental Center, the campus-like setting of the former Agnews Insane Asylum consists of a grouping of numerous reinforced concrete, brick, stucco and tile buildings.
The treatment of the insane in California dates from the earliest days of the Gold Rush.
The first provisions for the insane were to lock them up with criminals in the ship Ephemia, purchased in 1849 by the City of San Francisco, and later to house them at the San Francisco marine hospital in 1850, used primarily for ailing seamen.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/santaclara/agn.htm   (770 words)

  
 Insane Asylum & Century Manor - The Haunted House - Care2.com
March 05, 2007 11:57 AM For over a century the Hamilton Insane Asylum has stood as a monument overlooking the city's west-end neighborhoods that housed the insane.The asylum is perched close to the edge of the escarpment, as seen in the photo above.
The first asylum buildings were nearly completed when the provincial goverment decided that there was a greater need for accommodation of those deemed to be "insane", inspite of the efforts of the temperance advocates came to nought with the switch in roles of the institution.
In the first few years the asylum had opened their doors it was not unusual for folks to come by on a Sunday summer afternoon to taunt the patients that were out for some fresh air.
www.care2.com /c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=3047&pst=875365   (957 words)

  
 Sonoma County Residents Committed to Insane Asylums
The first provisions for the insane were to lock them up with criminals in the ship Ephemia, purchased in 1849 by the City of San Francisco, and later to house them at the San Francisco Marine Hospital in 1850, used primarily for ailing seamen.
McAnally, pronounced insane and was, on the oder of Judge Overton taken by Sheriff Latapie on Tuesday to the Insane Asylum at Stockton.
In 1889, the Agnews Insane Asylum opened in Santa Clara on farmland purchased from Abraham Agnews and was the third institution in the state established for the mentally ill. In the 1906 earthquake, the main treatment building collapsed, crushing 112 residents and staff under a pile of rubble.
users.ap.net /~chenae/socoasylums.html   (3946 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hanwell Insane Asylum was a mental hospital that was built in 1831 in England.
Hanwell was built to the west of London as the pauper lunatic asylum for the county of Middlesex.
Nevertheless Conolly's successful implementation of non-restraint at Hanwell Asylum was one of the factors in its general adoption in Britain and in other parts of Europe.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Hanwell_Insane_Asylum   (365 words)

  
 Insane Asylum of North Carolina. Annual Report of the Board of Directors and the Superintendent of the North Carolina ...
Long ago, the declaration of Horace Mann, that the insane were the wards of the State, was stamped as an axiom by political economists.
And if the insane are justly wards; if we may, as we do, take charge of their estates by legal process, to preserve them from dilapidation and waste, in the hands of proper and discreet guardians, can the State do less for their bodies than for their perishing property?
The introduction of many improvements in asylum management and much labor-saving apparatus, and a more perfect system, of recent years, makes it much more practicable than was formerly the case, to care for a larger number of patients than it was customary to assemble together.
docsouth.unc.edu /nc/asylum1884/asylum1884.html   (4541 words)

  
 Insanity at Milledgeville
The second leader of the asylum, Thomas Green, believed firmly in the idea that the sooner an insane person was brought under professional care the more likely it would be that he or she would be cured.
The Milledgeville Asylum is a result of the concern of the Georgia public to have a place to care for the less fortunate of their state.
The superintendents of the asylum had varying viewpoints on how to treat their patients, but must be understood that these views were based on the knowledge that was available to them during their tenure at the asylum.
mgagnon.myweb.uga.edu /students/kAnderson.htm   (3019 words)

  
 TV.com Forums - Timeline of Hurley w/numbers and insane asylum
Timeline of Hurley w/numbers and insane asylum
But it was in the asylum that he found out about the numbers in the first place.
Re: Timeline of Hurley w/numbers and insane asylum
www.tv.com /lost/show/24313/timeline-of-hurley-w-numbers-and-insane-asylum/topic/11431-623640/msgs.html   (921 words)

  
 MPR: Canton Insane Asylum for American Indians
Even for its time, the asylum did not meet minimum standards required of an institution treating the mentally ill. Gerald Grob, a professor of history and medicine at Rutgers University is a leading authority on the history of US mental health policy.
The asylum was a major contributor to Canton's economy in 1933; a time when the country was plunged deep into economic depression.
Bruguier: We took care of them, and then all of a sudden we have this insane asylum, and they say this Indian's insane and we're going to move him to Canton, and he's going to be with people like him.
news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/199712/09_stawickie_asylum   (1829 words)

  
 The Confinement of the Insane - Cambridge University Press
Recently, academics around the world have begun to direct their attention to the origins of the confinement of those deemed ‘insane’, exploring patient records in an attempt to understand the rise of the asylum within the wider context of social and economic change of nations undergoing modernisation.
The confinement of the insane in Switzerland, 1900–70: Cery and Bel-Air asylums Jacques Gasser and Geneviève Heller; 3.
Passage to the asylum: the role of the police in committals of the insane in Victoria, Australia, 1848–1900 Catharine Coleborne; 6.
www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521802067   (626 words)

  
 VDARE.com: 06/15/04 - America's Insane Asylum For Terrorists
Federal homeland security officials are unable to detain asylum seekers for background checks without the civil liberties brigade screaming "racial profiling." And there is still a woeful shortage of detention space—just 2,000 beds nationwide— to hold those with suspect claims.
He claimed political asylum based on alleged persecution by Israelis, was released on a reduced $5,000 bond posted by a man who was himself an illegal alien, and then skipped his asylum hearing after calling his attorney and lying about his whereabouts.
While his asylum application was pending, he obtained a driver's license and an AK-47, murdered two CIA agents, and wounded seven others.
www.vdare.com /malkin/insane_asylum.htm   (719 words)

  
 Re: Insane Asylum - Nintendo DS Games - Nintendo NSider Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Insane Asylums were a place to get people away from buisy life.
Employees to insane asylums were friends to patients and got to know them personaly.
Before insane asylums were in existance, insane people were treated as criminals being thrown in jails to rot.
forums.nintendo.com /nintendo/board/message?board.id=ds&message.id=2628241   (328 words)

  
 Asylum Summary
In Bedlam and in the French asylum Bicetre during this time, inmates were considered to be less than human and their treatment was aimed at protecting society from their odd behavior.
In Colonial America before the establishment of any asylums, the insane were often auctioned off to be cared for by farmers, while others were sent to the poorhouse or driven out of town.
Destitute Asylum, an institution built in the 1850's in Adelaide, Australia for isolating cases of extreme poverty.
www.bookrags.com /Asylum   (562 words)

  
 Arkham Asylum
Arkham Asylum, wer kennt nicht das Gefängnis oder besser gesagt: die psychiatrische Anstalt, in der all die geisteskranken Bösewichte, Irren, Superschurken und Widersacher von Batman untergebracht sind.
Die Lage des neuen Arkham Asylum (12) ist einer Kopie des Stadtplanes, der unten beigefügt ist, zu entnehmen.
Arkham Asylum oder besser der dort existierende Wahnsinn wird personifiziert und erzählt von sich selber:
www.batmans.de /Gothamites/arkham-asylum.html   (3399 words)

  
 insane asylum at pueblo co (isnane asylum at pueblo co) information.
insane asylum at pueblo co (isnane asylum at pueblo co) information.
Expansion of the State Insane Asylum in Pueblo was also another accomplishment for McIntire..
A boy, about 13 years old, was sentenced to the insane asylum in Pueblo, Colorado, about two hours outside of Denver.
www.translation-directory.com /i/insane_asylum_at_pueblo_co.html   (212 words)

  
 Insane Asylum: How America Welcomes Terrorists [Weblog] - Daniel Pipes
In today's column she notes a particularly distressing one: immigrants claiming "political asylum" who are later accused or indicted on terrorism charges.
Claiming political asylum, he was briefly detained for illegal entry, then allowed to enter the United States because the immigration authorities lacked space to hold him.
He was allowed to remain while his application was being considered, which time he used to guide his disciples who blew up the World Trade Center in 1993 and then plotted to blow up New York City landmarks in 1995; he now sits convicted in a U.S. jail for the latter offense.
www.danielpipes.org /blog/276   (673 words)

  
 Tartarean Desire - Insane Asylum - Enter My Corridors - review by Vincent Eldefors
Insane Asylum is a band that I know hardly anything about except for the fact that it formed in about 1999.
In fact, it is not entirely correct to refer to Insane Asylum as a band since it consists of merely one man going by the alias Assassin.
Assassin uses Insane Asylum as a creative outlet for his most extreme and destructive thoughts, resulting in some very powerful electronic sampling with sick and twisted song structures.
www.tartareandesire.com /reviews/Insane_Asylum/Enter_My_Corridors/1418   (321 words)

  
 Abandoned Asylum
I have been to 30 asylums in several state in the east some partailly abandoned some completly abandoned by state's in America.
This asylum is very interesting and its the one that inspired me to photograph and visit the asylums I have.
Dixmont Insane Asylum - Many photographs of the endangered state hospital near Pittsburgh, PA. The word is going around that this historic asylum is about to disappear and be replaced by a Walmart.
www.abandonedasylum.com /oldindex.html   (496 words)

  
 City Insane Asylum. Record of Patients
She has been insane for the last 3 — 5 days — To-day her papers are made out for Jackson, LA. Her past life has been one of Melancholy & Retired dispositions.
Recommended his commitment to the Insane Asylum of the State at Jackson, La. on October 26th/82 as he was suffering from Incendiary Mania.
He says he is not insane, and a few minutes after he states that he is the “Governor of La. elected by a majority of 64,000 votes”.
nutrias.org /inv/cityinsaneasylum1_50.htm   (5875 words)

  
 Old Salem Insane Asylum - Exposure
This warehouse is slowly being transformed into an insane asylum-themed, haunted house in Murfreesboro, the only one in the area.
The Old Salem Insane Asylum is an outflow of Mayo's long-standing preoccupation with the paranormal.
Thomas Scott, Mayo's assistant director who also plays an orderly in the insane asylum, couldn't be more at home in his eerie surroundings.
media.www.mtsusidelines.com /media/storage/paper202/news/2006/09/28/Exposure/Old-Salem.Insane.Asylum-2313834.shtml?sourcedomain=www.mtsusidelines.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com   (442 words)

  
 Townhall.com::America's insane asylum for terrorists::By Michelle Malkin
He was briefly detained for illegal entry and fingerprinted, but was allowed to remain in the country after invoking the magic words "political asylum." The then-INS released him because it didn't have enough space in its detention facility.
He claimed political asylum based on alleged persecution by Israelis, was released on a reduced $5,000 bond posted by a man who was himself an illegal alien, and then skipped his asylum hearing after calling his attorney and lying about his whereabouts.
While his asylum application was pending, he obtained a driver's license and an AK-47, murdered two CIA agents, and wounded three others.
www.townhall.com /columnists/MichelleMalkin/2004/06/16/americas_insane_asylum_for_terrorists   (1438 words)

  
 Worcester, Mass - Places of the Past, Asylum For the Insane
The Lunatic Hospital was located at Lake Quinsigamond and the Insane Asylum, the first to be established in the state, was on Summer Street.
I had always known my grandmother to work at a hospital, but I never knew it was an insane asylum until I drove onto the grounds and read the sign "Worcester Insane Asylum".
On January 12, 1833, the old Worcester Insane Asylum opened, and was the first of it's kind built in the state of Massachusetts.
www.worcestermass.com /places/asylum.shtml   (5490 words)

  
 Women and the Insane Asylum - FamilyLobby.com
Her husband would put her in the insane asylum and then file for divorce.
Some of these asylums were built next to, or a part of, the prison system.
Some wills will declare if someone is insane or having lunacy; thus the person's Will declared to care for the person committed or does not include them in their estate.
articles.familylobby.com /349-women-and-the-insane-asylum.htm   (667 words)

  
 Insane Asylum Gifts
Insane Asylum gift image 1 - catalog reference shu0096
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Copyright in this image is owned by the original artist, rights to reproduce or use the image may be obtained from www.CartoonStock.com.
www.cartoonstock.com /directory/i/insane_asylum_gifts.asp   (473 words)

  
 Hiawatha Insane Asylum (Historic Asylums)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The doors of the asylum, located justover the Nebraska border in Canton, South Dakota, were first opened for the reception of patients in January 1903.
Department of Interior investigators revealed that during the time the asylum housed patients, many died because they were denied medical care.
According to Harold Iron Shield, founder of the Native American Reburial Restoration Committee, patients were "traditional spiritual people or teenagers who misbehaved or people the Indian Agent didn't like." A 1933 investigation conducted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs determined that "a large number" of patients showed no signs of mental illness.
www.rootsweb.com /~asylums/canton_sd   (235 words)

  
 Renegade Insane Asylum - Content
The Renegade Insane Asylum is a guild with one goal - and that is to create a community of likeminded gamers with a desire for a long term guild membership with the goal to make friends...
But aren't we all a little insane to spend so much time in a virtual world for enjoyment when we could take a walk and enjoy...
Our Asylum is centered around our forums, because regardless of what gaming section we all play, we're all a part of the same community.
renegade.insane-asylum.dk /modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=29   (924 words)

  
 Poor Farm, Pauper Cemetery, Insane Asylum - Waukesha County Wisconsin GenWeb
On September 1, 1903, a resolution was presented to the county board by Supervisor A.W. Jones stating that the county insane asylum building, having been accepted by the county board, the same was hereby turned over to the board of trustees.
In a recommendation to the county board by Matt Howitt, chairman of the county board, recommended that the inmates of the old county farm be transferred to the new county asylum farm as soon as possible and that the old farm be sold.
In a report of the trustees of the Waukesha county asylum farm to the county board they said that three days prior to November 1, 1903, the county poor were removed from the poor farm in the town of Vernon and placed in the asylum building which had just been completed.
www.linkstothepast.com /waukesha/poorfarmwauk.php   (1919 words)

  
 Insane Asylum | TIME
Asylum seekers, including 60 squalling babies, sprawled on mattresses spread in halls, offices and reception rooms.
The former Health Minister, also in asylum, delivered the baby, a boy, whom Fortuny gratefully saddled with the name Cuauhtéemoc, in honor of Mexico's last Aztec prince.
One of the asylum seekers at the Chilean embassy turned out to have typhus—and was hastily turned out.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,857482-1,00.html   (627 words)

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