[Mobile ebook] Leman The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry: A History of Misery and Medicine (Landmarks)
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| #193636 in Books | The History Press | 2013-05-14 | 2013-05-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.31 x6.00l,.65 | File Name: 1626190828 | 176 pages |
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Wow!|By M. Jacobs|Talk about a plethora of information. While I realize the patients suffered the most in this facility, every single person involved in any aspect of this institution suffered as well. As a former Philadelphian. I am fully aware of the political tension and corruption in the city government in the past. But to see this corruptive behavior filtering into a f|About the Author|J.P. Webster is an avid Philadelphia historian, amateur photographer and urban explorer. His photos have been published in the Northeast Times, City Paper, Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Germantown Crier. John is a member of the Northeast Phila
The Quaker City and its hospitals were pioneers in the field of mental health. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, its institutions were crowded and patients lived in shocking conditions. The mentally ill were quartered with the dangerously criminal. By 1906, the city had purchased a vast acreage of farmland incorporated into the city, and the Philadelphia Hospital dubbed its new venture Byberry City Farms. From the start, its history was riddled with corruption a...
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