Annual/biennial/quadrennial reports : state publication, 1901-1964.

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Alabama. State Hospitals. Annual/biennial/quadrennial reports : state publication, 1901-1964.

Annual/biennial/quadrennial reports : state publication, 1901-1964.

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Annual reports of the Alabama Insane Hospitals, called Alabama State Hospitals by the Code of 1940, reflect the activities of the Bryce and Mount Vernon Hospitals. The name of the Mount Vernon Hospital, which was designated for black patients, was changed to The Searcy Hospital in 1919. In the report of 1922, activities of the Alabama Home or Alabama Home for Mental Inferiors, authorized in 1919, are included. It was renamed the Partlow State School for Mental Deficients in 1927 and was called the Partlow State School and Hospital from about 1962 in annual reports. Included are reports of the Board of Trustees to the Governor, of the Superintendent to the Board, financial statements of the Steward and Treasurer, and statistical information. Usually, a general summary of activities of the hospitals is followed by individual hospital reports, arranged by departments. Besides patient data which shows admissions, discharges, diagnoses, and causes of death, some reports contain tabular information on the economic condition of patients in relation to their diagnosis, the relationship of alcohol use to the diagnosis (222 male patients were abstainers, 155 were temperate, 79 were intemperate, and 103 were unknown), the marital status by diagnosis, degree of education, employment, age, race, citizenship, religion, and dental, surgical, and pathological reports. Also included are lists of Trustees and Officers, Officers for the Hospitals, Trustees since 1857, and Medical Officers since 1860, with Superintendents, Assistant Physicians, and Resident Dentists. Photographs identify staff members, buildings, recreation rooms, dining halls, wards, a hog which netted 846 pounds of pork and other animals, and patients playing ping-pong, planting shrubbery, or harvesting produce, etc. Some reports are issued biennially or quadrennially.

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