Philadelphia hospital for the insane, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA is a hospital and its address is 111 N 49th St, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA 19139. Philadelphia hospital for the insane
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know known as the Kirkbride Center
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http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/
"..... By the 1800s, the hospital's psychiatric wards were far too crowded. Physicians believed these patients needed confinement and did not think a cure was possible. The majority of the patients spent many years in the hospital and the hospital needed the space to care for the growing number of medical, surgical and obstetric patients. A new facility was needed just to accommodate the insane. The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, which eventually became the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, opened its doors in 1841. By this time, Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride was in charge and again, treatment for the mentally ill reached new heights.
A Quaker, Kirkbride practiced what was popularly known as the time as "moral treatment." Kirkbride and his contemporaries began to view mental illness differently. There was now hope that those suffering with mental illness could be cured. Kirkbride strongly influenced the construction of the Institute and made sure the facility was built on expansive grounds. It housed occupational therapy suites, libraries and swimming pools that allowed the patients many recreational and educational opportunities. ...."
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The Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital ("Kirkbride's") was a psychiatric hospital located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at 49th and Market St., which operated from its founding in 1841 until 1997. The Institute was built to replace Pennsylvania Hospital’s crowded insane wards located at 8th and Spruce Streets. Thomas Story Kirkbride, its first superintendent, developed a more humane method of treatment for the mentally ill that became widely influential. Today, the former Institute campus exists as a multi-purpose social-service facility.
The new hospital, located in a bucolic 101-acre (0.41 km2) tract of the as yet unincorporated district of West Philadelphia, offered comforts and a “humane treatment” philosophy that set a standard for its day. Unlike other asylums where patients were often kept chained in crowded, unsanitary wards with little if any treatment, patients at Pennsylvania Hospital resided in private rooms, received medical treatment, worked outdoors and enjoyed recreational activities including lectures and a use of the hospital library.
