Life On The Wards: Back Wards

Life On The Wards: Back Wards

Mental health

Mental illness

Institutional care

A photo from Sarah Sitton's book, "Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997," which displays the one of the asylum's back wards, designated for patients who misbehaved or were thought to have little chance of improvement.

Perry-Castañeda Library PCL Stacks

Texas A&M University Press

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