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From: "Hannah M. Fisher" <>
Subject: A list of Pennsylvania State Hospitals circa 1933
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:46:46 -0700 (MST)


This is from a 1933 directory called "American and Canadian Hospitals: A
Reference Book Giving Historical, Statistical, and other Information on
the Hospitals of the United States and Possession and the Dominion of
Canada" Edited by James Clark Fifield with the cooperation of the American
Hospital Association. Midwest Publishers Co. : Minneapolis, 1933.

Please also note that some of the listings are called by what we would
adjudge politically correct.

Alphabetically:

Allentown State Hospital--Specialized institution--services in nervous and
mental diseases. 1,464 beds. Owned by state of PA. Teaching hospital
affiliated with Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. Building began
in 1904--hospital district was comprised of 12 counties. Opened for
patients Oct. 3, 1912. (Patients were then transferred there from
Danville State Hospital and Norristown. In 1913 census was 934.
Weekly rates: $4.00.
Care and treatment of the insane from the following counties:
Bradford, Bucks, Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton, Pike,
Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming


Cresson State Sanitorium
Cresson, Cambria County
Specialized hospital for all stages of pulmonary tuberculosis
Separate building for children
Services free, a state institution
Opened 1912
Average number of patients 721.


Danville State Hospital Montour County

Specialized in nervous and mental diseases.
1808 beds
A hospital for the insane in the northern counties of the state
Monroe, Carbon, Pike, Wayne, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Luzerne, Columbia,
Montour, Sullivan, Bradford, Lycoming, Tioga, Clinton, Center, Clearfield,
Elk, Cameron, McKean and Potter.
First patient admitted 1872.
Average number in 1931 1,818

Chester County Hospital for Insane
Note--this one was owned by the county.
400 bed.
1900 first patients transferred from Norristown State Hospital.


Hamburg State Sanitorium for Tuberculosis
All stages of pulmonary tuberculosis
Patients 534



Harrisburg State Hospital
Specializing in mental and nervous disorders
1,721 beds
First called the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital & Union Asylum for
the Insane.
Building began 1851


Hollidaysburg, Blair County
Blair County Hospital for Mental Diseases
Opened 1907
Before this the mentally ill from Blair County were kept in Harrisburg
State Hospital
270 beds


Lancaster County Hospital and Hospital for the Insane
Lancaster, PA
Opened in 1798
315 bed
For Lancaster and Lancaster County

County Institution
Monaca, Beaver County
Beaver County Sanatorium
For all stages of pulmonary tuberculosis
63 bed

Norristown State Hospital
Specializing in nervous and mental disorders
3,368 bed
In 1876, there were 1,129 insane patients in wards intended for 766.
Then in 1876, the legislature passed the act to select a site for the
insane of the city and county of Philadelphia, the counties of Bucks,
Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, Northhampton, and Lehigh to be called the
State Hospital for the Insane for the Southeastern District of
Pennsylvania.
Received patients 1880.
Weekly rates paid patients 6.00
Private patients. 8.00



Pennsylvania Epileptic Hospital and Colony Farm
Oakbourne, Chester County
Services in epilepsy, Not admitted, insane cases

110 bed
Privately endowement




Pennhurst State School
Pennhurst, Chester County
Specialized in mental and nervous disorders.

1,280 beds


Will start with the state hospital in Philadelphia tomorrow night.






Hannah Millward Fisher
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