One of the most vocal proponents of women’s suffrage in Oregon was also the leading proponent of Eugenics legislation which would affect the lives of hundreds of patients at the Oregon State Hospital. Beginning in [...]
It is hard to imagine, but when the Oregon State Hospital was built, it stood in farmland about half a mile outside the city limits of Salem. The route between town and the hospital would, [...]
The following is an inventory list made of drugs housed in the drug room and various other sectors of the Oregon State Hospital as of June 30, 1931. The list appears as part of a [...]
The following list was published in the 7th Biennial Report of the Oregon State Insane Asylum. It lists “causes for insanity” of people admitted to the hospital between December 1894 and November 1896. Cause Male [...]
Probably the most interesting and emotional thing I have found in inventorying historic materials at the Oregon State Hospital was a box of index cards. The orange box didn’t look like much, but the cards [...]
The following is an obituary published in a Salem paper June 15, 1930. Dr. Lewis Frank Griffith, then Assistant Superintendent of the Oregon State Hospital, died June 14. Served faithfully at State institution 39 Years; [...]
The following list contains the names and positions of the staff of the Eastern Oregon State Hospital (Pendleton, Oregon) during its first two years of operation (1913-1914). This list was published in the report [...]
A post on the Capital Taps Blog recently featured an article on Louis Hazeltine, an architect responsible for the design and furnishing the “Physicians’ Cottages” at the Oregon State Hospital. At the start of the [...]
The following is an excerpt from a ledger (T2011.002.071) containing expense reports for the transportation of patients (and an accompanying staff member) from their home to the Asylum in Salem. These are the [...]
The Standard Hospital Asylum and Institution Directory, written by M.F. Teehan and Published by Standard Publishing in Topeka, Kansas, was the directory for hospital workers. In addition to topical essays on general practices within asylums and [...]