Insane asylums have a horrific history.
This is just a small sample of all the horrible things that went on behind the brick walls of the State hospitals, but there are many more secrets yet to be revealed..
Medical procedures included hydrotherapy sprays, electric shock treatments, lobotomies and other tortuous procedures.
Included are actual accounts from patients who witnessed abuse, neglect, Torture and murder.
Asylum Scandals offers a glimpse of what daily life was like in the State Hospitals from 1867 to 1915.
Many times, people were committed involuntarily and never released.
Back then, laws allowed families to commit their spouses, relatives or friends with little supporting evidence.
Peter, which opened in 1866, followed by Rochester in 1879.
This book gives the history of Minnesota\'s two oldest State Hospitals - St.
By the 1980s, many State Hospitals were closed.
As time went on, more and more patients were admitted, making it difficult to keep up with the demand for better care.
State funding could not keep up with the high cost of maintaining the monstrous structures.
Due to overcrowding, untrained staff, and corrupt administrators, these institutions gradually became places of squalor and negligence.
The asylums were palatial buildings surrounded with vast landscaped grounds and beautiful vistas.
Originally intended to provide a place to keep away madness within society, asylums eventually paved the way for medical professionals to study patients with mental illness.
Insane asylums have a horrific history
