Superintendent B.F. Whitner business correspondence, 1905-1910.

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Superintendent B.F. Whitner business correspondence, 1905-1910.

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The series contains three letterpress books of the outgoing business correspondence of Superintendent B.F. Whitner of the Florida Hospital for the Insane from July 14, 1905 through March 9, 1910. The correspondence contains inquiries regarding the requisitioning of supplies and equipment, employment, and other general business matters pertaining to the administration of the state psychiatric hospital.

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Whitner, B. F.

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The Florida State Hospital was created in 1877 as the Florida Asylum for the Indigent Insane (Ch. 3035, Laws, 1877). In 1886, it was renamed the Florida Hospital for the Insane. In 1919, it received its present name, the Florida State Hospital. The hospital is located at Chattahoochee in Gadsden County, Florida. The Board of Commissioners of State Institutions (Ch. 3578, Acts, 1885) had general supervision over the state psychiatric hospital until 1969. At that time, it was placed under the supe...