Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930
1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890  

1887: Lunatic at Large (cont)


Medical treatment in public hospitals for the insane and mentally deranged was plagued by the same corruption and inefficiency which characterized other public health facilities in Chicago.

The first public mental hospital was part of the County Hospital.

For further reading, Thomas Neville Bonner, Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950, U. Illinois Press, Chicago,1991.
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