![]() ![]() 55 Eighteenth century medical practice was crude, even counter productive by modern day standards, but the treatment of the mentally ill was particularly harsh. At various periods the Managers were enabled to possess themselves also of one upon the south-west, and another opposite to the Hospital on the south so that, with their buildings all completed, and surrounded on every side except on the north, with beautiful green fields, kept in the nicest order, they could boast an institution, if not the largest, assuredly in all points of beauty, healthfulness, and general prosperity, unsurpassed on this continent.įrom its inception, the Hospital admitted both the physically ill and injured and the mentally ill. Reference has already been made to the purchase of two lots east and west of the Hospital. Wood, the Hospital’s centennial historian, was a flourishing institution: 54 The result of these improvements, in the opinion of George B. The Hospital also purchased vacant land on its perimeter: the entire city square on its east most of the city square on its south and half the city square on its west. The west wing was opened in 1796 and the center wing in 1805. Finally, in the mid-1790s, the Pennsylvania state legislature appropriated funds sufficient to complete the original plan. The founders were successful in designing and constructing the first of the three wings, which opened in 1756, but thereafter, for forty years, their building plan languished. 53 They planned a hospital building in the shape of an "E," with east, center, and west wings. Thomas Bond, Benjamin Franklin and other civic-minded Philadelphians. The Pennsylvania Hospital, located at 8th and Spruce Streets in center city Philadelphia, was founded in 1751 by Dr. P.8.1751 to 1830: Origins and Early Years of the Pennsylvania Hospital “Building Our Sanatoriums.” Jerry Vessels, Everybody’s Health. Sources: "A Famous 'T.B.'er' - Harold Stassen," The Moccasin, Walker, MN Greetings 1917, a Pokegama Sanatorium calendar Announcing the Completion of the Reception Hospital, pamphlet, Pokegama Sanatorium, 1918. His sanatorium closed in 1944 when World War II created shortages in both supplies and staff. He was elected governor of Minnesota in 1938. Pokegama's most famous patient-in-residence was Dakota County attorney Harold Stassen who was there in 1930. A reception hospital added in the early 1920s contained a modern surgical suite, a long-distance telephone system, and elevators. They had steam heat with private bedrooms and bathrooms shared with only two or three people. ![]() Pokegama was built with 15 open-air cottages, but in 1918 new cottages were added. Stock market quotations were available for the businessmen. Pokegama also furnished electric blankets for each bed, rather than the five to 10 woolen blankets issued at the county institutions. Rates per week ranged from $30 to $50. When the county sanatoriums opened, their rates ranged from free for the indigent person to $7 for those who could pay. Pokegama catered to patients who could pay their own way. It was named Pokegama Sanatorium for its location on the lake of that name. Pokegama is an Ojibwe word meaning "at the side." He became frustrated with the slow pace at which state government was dealing with a serious health problem. In 1905 he used his own money to open a private institution near Pine City. Paul. He served on legislative committees that studied potential construction of public sanatoriums. In 1903 he established a tuberculosis ward in Luther Hospital at John and Tenth streets, also in St. Henry Longstreet Taylor was an active anti-tuberculosis crusader in Minnesota. In 1902 he had worked with doctors Ancker and Boeckmann to establish a tuberculosis ward in the City and County Hospital in St. ![]()
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