Books about Financial Report of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting a Copy of Letter from the Superintendent of the St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Transmitting the Financial Report. December 7, 1916. -- Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia
Authors: Martin Summers, Associate Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies Martin Summers
Categories: Psychiatric hospitals
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Founded in 1855 to treat insane soldiers and sailors as well as civilian residents in the nation's capital, the institution became