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  • Thumbnail for Lunatic asylum
    The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the...
    66 KB (7,997 words) - 16:58, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
    The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital...
    22 KB (2,153 words) - 00:49, 13 September 2024
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    The Athens Lunatic Asylum, now a mixed-use development known as The Ridges, was a Kirkbride Plan mental hospital operated in Athens, Ohio, from 1874 until...
    22 KB (3,037 words) - 22:59, 3 June 2024
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    1814 he had a major role in uncovering the abuse of patients at the York Lunatic Asylum after rumours of serious misconduct had come to his attention. He...
    14 KB (1,810 words) - 01:51, 7 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Rockwood Asylum
    Rockwood Asylum (also known as Rockwood Lunatic Asylum or Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane) was one of the first criminal asylums in Upper Canada...
    6 KB (566 words) - 02:47, 16 September 2024
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    Archbishop of York, decided along with "twenty-four Yorkshire gentlemen" to establish an asylum, to be known as the "County Lunatic Asylum, York". A committee...
    7 KB (673 words) - 01:16, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Friern Hospital
    Friern Hospital (formerly Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum) was a psychiatric hospital in the parish of Friern Barnet close to a crossroads which had a hamlet...
    21 KB (2,300 words) - 10:44, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Danvers State Hospital
    Hospital, also known as the State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers, The Danvers Lunatic Asylum, and The Danvers State Insane Asylum, was a psychiatric hospital located...
    18 KB (1,564 words) - 22:27, 25 June 2024
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    institutions in the United States. It was originally called the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. The Greek Revival structure was designed by Captain...
    15 KB (1,558 words) - 08:06, 27 August 2024
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    The Retreat (redirect from York Retreat)
    at the York Retreat". History of Psychiatry. 18 (1): 61–80. doi:10.1177/0957154X07070320. PMID 17580754. S2CID 28459632. "The York Lunatic Asylum Scandal"...
    19 KB (2,077 words) - 19:23, 4 March 2024
  • "Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum") Adam Berry – paranormal investigator, formerly of Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters Academy (Episode 1.1: "Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum")...
    44 KB (1,611 words) - 13:59, 23 May 2024
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    New York City. It originally served as the main entrance to the New York City Mental Health Hospital (also known as the New York City Lunatic Asylum), which...
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    moved to the newly opened New York City Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island) and the Bloomingdale Asylum became the exclusive preserve...
    11 KB (1,304 words) - 15:02, 25 September 2024
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    London NHS Trust. The hospital was first known as the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Completed in 1863, it was built to a design by Sir Joshua Jebb, an...
    120 KB (6,876 words) - 21:45, 1 October 2024
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    there in 1889–1890 at a time when the monastery had been converted to a lunatic asylum. At this site, van Gogh created his magnum opus, The Starry Night. The...
    4 KB (304 words) - 15:05, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital
    was previously known as Kissy Mental Hospital. Kissy Lunatic Asylum was the first Lunatic Asylum established in colonial Sub-Saharan Africa. It was established...
    5 KB (431 words) - 19:21, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Western State Hospital (Staunton, Virginia)
    Western State Hospital, called Western State Lunatic Asylum in its early years, is a hospital for the mentally ill in Staunton, Virginia, which admitted...
    11 KB (903 words) - 03:46, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kirkbride Plan
    effort led to the construction of the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, the first complete asylum built on the Kirkbride Plan. Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883)...
    48 KB (3,208 words) - 19:16, 26 September 2024
  • with a knife. He was first held at Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, and then transferred to the Leavesden Asylum. Police officials from the time of the murders...
    36 KB (4,259 words) - 19:58, 11 October 2024
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    William Tuke (category Tuke family of York)
    Hannah Mills, a melancholic Quaker widow, who died unexpectedly at York Lunatic Asylum. Although her cause of death was unclear, mistreatment was suspected...
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