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Life On The Wards: Overcrowding
A photo from Sarah Sitton's book, "Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997," which displays the close quarters of patients at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum (now the Austin State Hospital).
Mental Hygiene and the Texas Society for Mental Hygiene, 1935
An educational "yearbook" about the mental hygiene movement and the work of the Texas Society of Mental Hygiene.
Seven Challenges: A Report on Conditions in the State Hospitals of Texas
A 1950 report on the state of various Texas mental institutions.
A Break for Johnny Doe
A 1956 Amarillo Globe-Times Article about the rehabilitation of a child at the Children's Unit at Topeka Hospital. Advocates for a similar unit in Texas mental hospitals and for a focus on rehabilitation instead of life in an institution. Part of a…
Behind the Scenes in a State Hospital
A 1956 Amarillo Globe Times newspaper article against the Texas jury trial law to determine if someone needs institutional care for mental illness. In favor of implementing a similar law to the Kansas law that separates groups of mentally ill…