This accretion consists of registers created by the staff of Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (later Middletown State Hospital) for the purpose of officially admitting, discharging, and paroling patients. Release of Information Unit. Let it be repeated that the passage of this bill will confer privileges which the institution never before enjoyed, and which an examination of the statutes heretofore enacted will clearly show were never intended to be given. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital ( N.Y.) Title: Patient correspondent address books Series: B1756 Dates: 1885 -1910 Abstract: This series consists of addresses of patient contacts and correspondents arranged alphabetically by patient name. The site has a built in reminder of its past in its street names. From 1877 until 1902, Dr. Seldon H. Talcott was the superintendent and developed a series of occupational therapy for all patients at Middletown. Some content may contain outdated and offensive terminology. Singularly, too, no restrictions have surrounded the question of the determination of who desire homeopathic treatment. Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.). Release Information Form, (Solicitud de Divulgacin del Registro Mdico del Paciente). Minimum rate, ten dollars per week. And incidentally, it may be added at the Lunacy Commission office the fact is freely admitted that they would, personally, be glad to be relieved of all connection with the matter, provided that some other efficient safeguard against imposition and abuse in the matter of transportation charges were suggested. Middletown Psychiatric Center. Wood, M. D., Physician in Charge. WALDEMERE Mamaroneck, Westchester County. Office of Mental Health, Psychiatric hospital patients--New York (State). Many are named for people who worked at the hospital or made a difference in how we treat mental illness. Sing Sing, Westchester County. 1885 -1910]. Chesbro was eventually inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. In the 1960s, the institution reached its peak with nearly 4,000 patients. Public carriages may also be obtained at railway stations. For some patients an identification number accompanies the case number, the reference of this number is unknown. This agreement was carried out to only a very limited extent. Also easily accessible from Brooklyn, by carriage, via Myrtle avenue, to Flushing avenue, Wood Haven. What MEDICUS was basically stating among other things was: After 1890 with the passage of THE STATE CARE ACT, all New York State Hospitals accepted both CHRONIC and ACUTE patients from their corresponding districts so that the patients would be able to remain in their hometown area. In 1836 the State hospital at Utica was established for the reception and treatment of acute cases of insanity only. Its History And The Laws Which Govern It. Reports conclude with a detailed post mortem. Office of Mental Health, New York (State). Join me on my adventures! HOMEOPATHY: a system of medical practice that treats a disease especially by the administration of minute doses of a remedy that would in healthy persons produce symptoms similar to those of the disease. Our Services Retention and Disposition Schedules State Records Center Introduction for Records Managers Topics Publications Forms and Tools Laws and Regulations PRESERVATION Archives Management Family History Preservation Services Historical Records Theft Prevention and Response GRANTS Overview Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund Medical Records Department P.O. They eventually won their case. MIDDLETOWN STATE HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL Middletown, Orange County. Accessible by public carriages, always to be found at the station. Ferry tickets and railroad tickets (at reduced rates, to those entitled to same) and permits for admission can be obtained only at the office of the Department of Public Charities and Correction, 66 Third Avenue, cor. H. C. Evarts, M. D., Medical Superintendent. 35, or Brigham Hall.. All volumes in this subseries This series consists of autopsy reports for deceased patients of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital. The hospital, which opened in 1874 with 69 patients. In fact, the words private patients are for the first time recognized in the statutes of the State. The rules and regulations of the Civil Service Commission, so far as they relate to schools of medicine, place them upon an equality, and always have done so. Records include admission, death and discharge records, patient photographs, census statistics, and autopsy reports of patients in facilities across the State Creator: New York (State). This act provided that such private or pay patients might be received whenever there were vacancies. Minimum rate, $25 per week. This included a split with the Cuban Giants, one of the top baseball teams at the time. Going from Brooklyn, take the Greenpoint or crosstown street car to Long Island City. The laws of the State of New-York, with the exception above indicated, have never recognized any particular school of medicine whatsoever, and do not do so now. The State was induced to waive the carrying out of the remainder of the agreement, and the institution was fully organized and equipped as a State institution in all respects whatsoever, differing in no regard from the other hospitals of the State, with the exception of the insertion of a special clause in the statute which provided that the treatment should be wholly of the homeopathic order. Photo, Print, Drawing Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital. However, if an asylum became overcrowded, the state would transfer patients to another state hospital out of the patients district. It caused a relapse in about a third of the counties of the State to the old poorhouse system, with all its horrors. Under the charge of the Sisters of Charity. The passage of the State Care act did not in any other manner whatever change existing laws upon the subject. DR. WELLS SANITARIUM FOR MENTAL DISEASES. In 1889 the State Commission in Lunacy was created and the commission assumed most of the duties and functions formerly belonging to the Board of Trustees. DR. COMBES SANITARIUM. The right of the indigent insane for whom homeopathic treatment is desired to free admission to the Homeopathic Hospital from any part of the State might, perhaps, be conceded without any intervention or concurrence on the part of the Lunacy Commission, although in practice, as already stated, the occasion for such concurrence seldom arises. Of Mental Hygiene. J. D. Lomax, M. D., Physician in Charge. Volume 4 (1917-1929) lists, for male patients only, information in the following order: case book number, name, county, and Transactions of the Homeopathic Medical Society of New York State 1902 (382 pp.) 261. Discover the citys most unique and surprising places and events for the curious mind. This series was transferred to the State Archives from Middletown Psychiatric Center in June 2000 and accessioned in March Autopsy record book, 1891-1905. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Volume 3 (ca. It is claimed by the friends of the Middletown State Hospital that medical liberty has been encroached upon by the passage of the State Care act. The hospital, located in Orange County, first opened in 1874. George Tuck Turner went on to play for the Philadelphia Phillies and Jack Chesbro played for the New York Highlanders. P. M. Wise, M. D., Medical Superintendent. This would, in practical effect, destroy the distraction system, would greatly embarrass the operation of the law, and would necessitate making large additional provisions for the insane poor, since the amount of space for the insane poor, since the amount of space occupied by the wealthy private or pay patients is out of proportion to that occupied by the insane poor. It did not, however, enforce the law as rigorously as it might have done. No telephone. But inquiry at the office of the commission shows that since the State Care act went into effect on the lst of October, 1890, less than thirty applications to go beyond the limits of the district have been received, thus clearly showing that a comparatively small number of people have any choice or care anything whatever as to what particular institution their insane relatives of friends shall be cared for in. 510 2 _ a Middletown State Hospital (N.Y.) 510 2 0 a Middletown State Hospital (N.Y.) 510 2 _ a State Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane (Middletown, N.Y.) 510 2 0 a State Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane (Middletown, N.Y.) Number of patients limited to fifty. New York (State). 1874-[ca. Middletown Psychiatric Center. Indexes are roughly alphabetical by patient name. The former hospital campus is now home to the headquarters of the Cornell Cooperative Extension and many buildings have been acquired by the Fei Tian Collegeand Academy of the Arts. One mile from Wood Haven Junction station, on the Long Island Railway. Institution situated about one-half mile from Long Island railway station and accessible by public carriage. Minimum rate, $25 per week. Trustees' or visitors' record book, 1884-1902. [10], In 1970 they had 3,000 patients. Upon the mere say-so of the patient or his friends, which would be sufficient to a Superintendent of the Poor, a patient may be transported hundreds of miles across the State to this institution simply for the purpose of adding to the fees and emoluments of a Superintendent of the Poor. [7], The facility, located in Orange Country,[4] was previously known as Middletown State Hospital for the Insane. Number of patients limited to eighteen. Floyd S. Crego, M. D., Consulting Physician. The institution may be reached by an electric railway, which runs within three-quarters of a mile from the Hudson River railway station; also public conveyances at the station. The free and unrestricted right of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital to give homeopathic treatment has not been abridged in any manner, nor, so far as it is known, is it claimed to have been abridged. BUFFALO, Sunday, April 12, 1891. Patient case files, [ca. Department of Mental Hygiene, New York (State). The future of Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, a groundbreaking care center that employed homeopathic techniques in treating mental illness that opened in 1874 as the State Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane at Middletown, is still in limbo.Its history remains in a sprawl of buildings off State Route 211 in Middletown, New York. Both subseries are roughly alphabetical by patient name. (nourished or malnourished); weight, in ounces, of brain, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, and uterus; whether the cranium, State Homeopathic Hospital, Middletown. New York (State) State Commission in Lunacy. Published April 19, 1891. It held that, at least within the spirit and intent of the law, private patients whose means are limited to the extent of being able to pay but a small sum per week might be admitted, and such patients have been admitted without objection from that time to this: That it declined to permit the admission of wealthy or high-priced private patients on the ground that the admission of such patients was not provided for by the statute, and that they could be provided for in the private asylums of the State, of which there are a large number representing the two principal schools of medicine, or equally open to both. The effect of the passage of such an act could not fail to be most pronounced upon State care of the insane, for it can hardly be denied that if this privilege is extended without restriction to the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital it will ultimately, if not immediately, be claimed for and must be given to all other State hospitals of the State. But, if medical liberty is to be enjoyed by one school of medicine, it is difficult to see why it should be denied to the others; in other words, why a wealthy private patient who desires homeopathic treatment should be afforded by the State magnificent opportunities for its enjoyment at Middletown, while another patient who, for example, desires allopathic treatment in the Buffalo State Hospital or the Utica State Hospital, should be denied an equal privilege.