1851: The New Asylum
1945: Patients Over Politics
1960: Ending Segregation
1930-1970: Hospital Staff
1962-1976: The Peterson Years
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The new asylum building was equipped to handle one hundred patients.
Seven men, chosen by the Senate, were to serve as a Board of Managers.
They would hire the superintendent, would review all operations and
expenditures, and would visit the facility at least once a month to
insure humane treatment of patients. This system remained in place
until 1921 when a single governing board assumed these functions for
all Missouri asylums.
"The law of kindness shall be the governing one in the
institution, and all other qualifications will pass as nothing,
if the disposition to carry out this law is absent."
Report of the Asylum Commissioners, 1854
"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do you,
do ye even so to them,"
Report of the Asylum Commissioners, 1854
Missouri State Archives |
State Hospital nurses, c. 1914 |
| "Probable Causes of Insanity" among the inmates of
the State Lunatic Asylum from the Report of the Superintendent
of the State Lunatic Asylum, Dr. Turner R. H. Smith, 1854. |
Missouri State Archives |
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