Patient medical records, <1887-1977> [ongoing] [microform].

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Patient medical records, <1887-1977> [ongoing] [microform].

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These records are the case files of patients at the mental hospital. Information includes patients' name, age, date of admission, emergency contact, home address, the reason they were admitted to the hospital and details of treatments received. Records date from the opening of the hospital in Marion, VA.

<655 reels (5 reels (16 mm) and 650 reels (35 mm).

Library of Virginia

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SNAC Resource ID: 6787693

Library of Virginia

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Virginia. Dept. of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services.

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The Dept. of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services traces it beginnings to the first institution in the New World designed for the treatment of the mentally ill, which opened in Williamsburg in 1773. Now known as Eastern State Hospital, it was followed by Western State Hospital, in Staunton (1828), Central State Hospital, in Petersburg (1885), and Southwestern State Hospital, in Marion (1887). The hospitals were constructed and maintained as public corporati...

Virginia. Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute.

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Virginia. Southwestern State Hospital.

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