History of the Psychopathic Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts / LLoyd Vernon Briggs.

  • L. Vernon Briggs
Date:
1922
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Credit: History of the Psychopathic Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts / LLoyd Vernon Briggs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. On Motion of Senator Pickford, the Legislature passed a Resolve calling upon the State Board of Insanity to REPORT NOT LATER THAN MARCH I 5, IQIO, WHAT PROGRESS THEY HAD MADE TOWARD ESTABLISHING AN OBSERVATION Hospital. — Dr. Briggs’ Bill for Observation Hospital is passed. — Letters of Commendation. — Governor Draper influenced by- the Board ..... Contract for Psychopathic Hospital. — Still No Place for Delirium Tremens Cases. — City Hospital later OBLIGED TO RECEIVE THEM. -AFTER PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPI¬ TAL opens, Dr. Southard accepts and treats Cases of Delirium Tremens ........ Psychopathic Hospital opens June 24, 1912. — First Year of Work. — Activities of State Board of Insanity in Relation to the Hospital. — Massachusetts State Psy¬ chiatric Institute established May i, 1919. Psycho¬ pathic Hospital separated from the State Hospital and made an Independent Unit, December i, 1920 . PART II. ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION. The Administration Problem of the Psychopathic Depart¬ ment of the Boston State Hospital, by its Administrator, Elisha H. Cohoon, M.D., now Superintendent of the Medfield State Hospital, Medfield, Massachusetts The Out-Patient Department of the Psychopathic Hospi¬ tal, by Douglas A. Thom, M.D., Chief of the Out-Patient Department, Boston Psychopathic Hospital; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Advisory Con¬ sultant, United States Public Health Service; Direc¬ tor of Children's Habit Clinic, South Bay Union Settlement; Director of the Section of Mental Hygiene in the Department of Mental Diseases of Massachusetts ........ The Social Service, 1913 to 1918, of the Psychopathic Hospi¬ tal, by Mary C. Jarrett, formerly Chief of Social Serv¬ ice, Psychopathic Department, Boston State Hospital; now Associate Director, Smith College Training School for Social Work, Northampton, Massachusetts The Alcohol Club, by A. Warren Stearns, M.D., late of the Medical Staff of the Psychopathic Hospital, now Assistant Professor of Neurology, Tufts Medical School; Chief of Clinic, Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Boston Dispensary . PAGE 60 111 126 145 154 172 184
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