Alton State Hospital (Ill.)
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Alton State Hospital (Ill.)
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In order for the state to assume all public mental health care and treatment responsibilities (1909), the Illinois General Assembly appropriated funds to the Board of Administration (1911) for another state hospital for the insane. Although construction was not completed at the Alton State Hospital site until July 1917, forty patients were transferred from Anna State Hospital (December 1916) and housed in temporary quarters until the formal opening. The Civil Administrative Code of 1917 abolished the Board of Administration and transferred control of Alton State Hospital to the newly created Dept. of Public Welfare, the Dept. of Mental Health assumed control in 1961 and changed the hospital's name to Alton Mental Health Center in 1975. A training school for nurses was opened in 1921.
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