She presented two lengthy memorials to the legislature, the first describing conditions at the state penitentiary at Alton and the second discussing the sufferings of the insane and urging the establishment of a state hospital for their care. She also wrote a series of newspaper articles detailing ...
She presented two lengthy memorials to the legislature, the first describing conditions at the state penitentiary at Alton and the second discussing the sufferings of the insane and urging the establishment of a state hospital for their care. She also wrote a series of newspaper articles detailing ...
Illinois in the Historic Pollak Hospital Building. The Peoria State Hospital Historic District, also known as Bartonville State Hospital or Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane, was a psychiatric hospital operated by the State of Illinois from 1902 to 1973. The hospital is located i...Read Mo...
Illinois in the Historic Pollak Hospital Building. The Peoria State Hospital Historic District, also known as Bartonville State Hospital or Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane, was a psychiatric hospital operated by the State of Illinois from 1902 to 1973. The hospital is located i...Read Mo...
Biennial Report of the Trustees, Superintendent, Etc., of the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane ..., Volume 18...作者: Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insan 页数: 80ISBN: 9781274114471豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价:
In 1860, Packard was institutionalized against her will in the (now鈥恈losed) Illinois State Asylum and Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville. At the time, Illinois law allowed men to have their wives involuntarily committed. Packard disagreed with her husband, a Calvinist priest, over ...