Warm Springs State Hospital records 1877-1973
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Prior to 1869, Montana Territory made no special provisions for mental patients, their care generally being left to regular hospitals. The Helena Weekly Herald in a September 19, 1867, article on the county hospital commented on the need for a territorial insane asylum, stating that the county hospital was not the proper place for a "lunatic." Two years later the 6th Territorial Legislative Assembly passed a law authorizing an official territorial insane asylum to be own...