Agency history record, 1852-1872.

Maryland. Commissioners for Erecting a Hospital for the Insane.

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In 1852, Dorothea Dix, outspoken advocate for the mentally ill, addressed the Maryland legislature on the inadequacy of the state's sole facility for the treatment of the insane, Maryland Hospital in Baltimore City. The General Assembly passed a law which created a commission to "select and purchase" a tract of land for the purpose of erecting a 200 to 250 bed hospital for the insane (Laws of 1852, ch. 302). The Commission acted quickly. On 27 October 1852 it purchased 136 acres of ...

Maryland Hospital

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Maryland Hospital for the Insane

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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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Dix was a humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill. She investigated the conditions of the hospitalized insane in many U.S. states and some European countries, and petitioned state and national legislatures for reforms. She was also superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War. Eliot was a Unitarian minister, an educator, and assisted in the founding of Reed College in Oregon. From the description of Letters to Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1869-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Spring Grove State Hospital (Catonsville, Md.)

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The Maryland Hospital for the Insane was renamed as Spring Grove State Hospital in 1912 when funds were approriated for additional hospital buildings (Laws of 1912, ch. 187). While the hospital continued unchanged for several years, World War I affected Spring Grove in diverse ways. First, construction of a major medical building (the Psychopathic Building) wa delayed by the demands of a wartime economy. Then, in 1918, the U.S. Veterans' Bureau, recognizing the impending need for a ...