Howarth Richard J, Aleguas Shirley A
University College London, UK.
Genealogist, Waverly, IL, USA.
Hist Psychiatry. 2019 Jun;30(2):150-171. doi: 10.1177/0957154X18821059. Epub 2019 Jan 11.
The State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, was the first public hospital of its kind to be established in the state and among the earliest to be built on the 'Kirkbride Plan'. It opened for patients in 1851. We describe the background to the establishment of the hospital and, so far as is possible from publicly available sources, its catchment area, the nature of the patients held there up to 1880, its mechanisms of discharge, and supposed causes of death. We end with a plea that after over 150 years, the release of hospital casebooks and similar records in digital form would be of considerable benefit to historians of psychology, scientific biographers, genealogists and demographers.
伊利诺伊州摩根县杰克逊维尔市的州立精神病院是该州首家此类公立医院，也是最早按照“柯克布里德计划”建造的医院之一。它于1851年开始收治病人。我们描述了该医院建立的背景，并尽可能从公开资料中了解其服务区域、截至1880年在院患者的性质、出院机制以及假定的死亡原因。最后，我们呼吁，在150多年后，以数字形式发布医院病历和类似记录将对心理学历史学家、科学传记作者、系谱学家和人口统计学家大有裨益。
