Kingsboro Psychiatric Center subagency history record.

New York (State). Dept. of Mental Hygiene.

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For the first fifty years of the State's history, local governments and private agencies were responsible for the care of New York State's mentally ill. In 1836 (Chapter 82), the legislature authorized the construction of the State's first mental health institution, the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, which opened in 1843. By 1890, the State had opened nine additional asylums for the mentally ill. Local governments were responsible for expenses of inmates at these asylums and continu...

Long Island State Hospital

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In colonial New York, only a small number of almshouse infirmaries existed to care for the sick, while the mentally ill were usually imprisoned or placed in poorhouses. It was not until the early to mid-19th century, when the New York City area's dependent and poor population increased dramatically, that hospitals and other health services organizations, such as homeopaths and maternity wards, readily began to emerge. In Brooklyn specifically, the earliest hospitals included the Kin...

Kingsboro Psychiatric Center

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CURRENT FUNCTIONS. The Kingsboro Psychiatric Center, located in Brooklyn, New York, is one of several regional mental health facilities serving the New York City region. The facility is operated and administered by the Office of Mental Health in accordance with its responsibility to execute the Mental Hygiene Law. The facility provides programs and services in the areas of research, prevention, care, treatment rehabilitation, education, and training of the mentally ill. In 1998, Kin...

New York State Office of Mental Health

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Previously known as the Buffalo State Hospital, the facility became Buffalo Psychiatric Center according to Chapter 558 of the Laws of 1974. From the description of Buffalo Psychiatric Center patient case files, 1920-1975. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 82286416 The original cemetery was started at Willard Asylum for the Insane (as the facility was then called) in 1870. Included in the original cemetery grounds was a Civil War cemetery for patien...

Brooklyn State Hospital

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Kings County Lunatic Asylum.

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Brooklyn Psychiatric Center.

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Long Island State Hospital at Flatbush.

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