byberry patient records - Historic Asylums Message Board In 1946, the new kitchen/dietary building, N-5, was opened for clinical use. Hospital administrators had transferred 79% of their clinical population to other state facilities, such as Norristown State Hospital and Haverford State Hospital. With a small amount of remaining staff who still chose the option to live on the grounds, W7 was re-designated, bricked off from the connecting tunnels, and turned into staff housing as well as staff offices and make-shift lounges. Two years later, admissions of the insane to Blockley ended, and Byberry provided shelter and custodial care, usually at the most minimal levels and with considerable overcrowding. A Grand Tour - Photos of the Abandoned Philadelphia State Hospital The Keigler, Mulligan, Kessler, Jenks (a relative of Thomas Story Kirkbride), Grub, Tomlinson, Osmund, Carver, Alburger, Updyke, Comly, and Carter families all had no qualms about the sale of their property to the city. It was approximately 90 acres Byberry finally shut its doors in 1990 after two more patients died on their watch. However, some patients who wandered off ended up committing suicide not far from the hospital. BUY The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry: A History of Misery and Medicine ON AMAZON I was told that one of my fathers sisters was a patient in BYBERRY HOSPITAL in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In contrast, Friends Hospital, a private institution, held 155 patients, less than its rated capacity of 190, and private sanitoria such as Fairmount Farm had even fewer (twenty-two residents, with a rated capacity of forty-four). Significantly dropping funds forced the hospital to stop accepting admissions and continue transferring patients to other facilities in the mid 1970s. You'll find that info at the top of this page. closure its story has been twisted and demonized, and misinformation has clouded its reputation. New York: Anchor Books, 1961. One of the earlier 20th century buildings was salvaged and refurbished, Building E-6, which still stands today, and is visible from Southampton Road, housing an active outpatient drug rehabilitation clinic. Additionally properties were obtained by the same means in 1911 and 1913. A Haunting Place - Hidden City Philadelphia closet of skeletons. 5 Notorious Insane Asylums - Psychology Of Crime At its zenith in the late 1960's, it was the largest state hospital in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and held a clinical population of over seven thousand psychiatric patients.