Modesto_State_Hospital

Modesto State Hospital

Modesto State Hospital

Former public hospital (1946–1972)

Modesto State Hospital was a public psychiatric hospital in the city of Modesto in Stanislaus County, California, and was established in 1946, opened in late-1947 and closed in 1972.[1] It is the same location of the former Hammond General Hospital (1942–1946), a United States Army hospital during World War II.

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History

Modesto State Hospital was purchased from the United States federal government in November 1946 (under statutes 1946, ch. 129).[1] The hospital operated as a temporary state mental hospital and when it opened in late-1947 it took in patients from other overcrowded state hospitals, specifically the mentally ill and the mentally deficient patients.[1][2]

By September 1951 the Hospital started an admissions department and receive new psychiatric patients. In 1951, the hospital had its most patients 2,369, which it maintained until 1963.[3] In 1963, the patient population declined, in 1969 it was announced the hospital would close, and was closed in 1972.[1][4]

This hospital was one of the many state asylums that had sterilization centers.[5]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Inventory of the Department of Mental Hygiene - Modesto State Hospital Records". The Online Archive of California (OAC), California Digital Library.
  2. [2]
    Assembly Bills, Original and Amended. Vol. 8, Volume 57. California Legislature Assembly. 1947.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. [3]
    Dowd, Katie (2016-06-16). "Historic asylums and sanitariums of Northern California". SFGATE. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
  4. [4]
    Weiner, Samuel; Place, Dorothy M.; Ahmed, Paul I. (1972). "A Report On The Closing Of A State Hospital". Administration in Mental Health, Volumes 1972-1975. National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Human Sciences Press. pp. 13–20.
  5. [5]
    Black, Edwin (November 9, 2003). "Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection". SFGate. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
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