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In 1821, a disaster occurred in Auburn Prison that shocked even the governor into pardoning hardened criminals. He wrote, "A large number of insane, instead of rusting out their lives in
the confines of some vast asylum, should be placed... http://www.esh.dmhmrsas.virginia.gov/libservices/patlib2.htm

After the War of 1812, reformers from Boston and New York began a crusade to remove children from jails into juvenile detention centers.

After being locked down in solitary, many of the eighty men committed suicide or had mental breakdowns. Tiny and timid, she rose to the platform of the Massachusetts Legislature to speak. in the neighboring community... Chained, beaten with rods, lashed into obedience." Thus, her crusade for humane hospitals for the insane, which she began in 1841, was reaching a climax.

The mentally ill were another group suffering oppression at this time.
Chaining and other forms of long-term restraint were common at Eastern Lunatic Asylum until the late 1830s,
when Moral Management thinking introduced the ideals of human dignity and least restraint. Dr. Galt's reaction (he was then 23) is not known, but he did not send payment.

The Galt Papers

Today, many of The Galt Papers can be read on-line at Eastern State Hospital.

Eastern State had been an integrated hospital since its beginning in 1773, and in 1846 Dr. Galt
successfully submitted a bill to admit slaves as patients.

Dr. Galt claimed to treat patients equally "without regard to race." In fact, he published no records as to the
racial breakdown of the patient population. However, patients that escape were sometimes cruelly treated by the surrounding
community.

The letter dated September 4, 1843 is a bill for the castration of an Eastern State patient who was captured near
Lynchburg, Virginia.

However, patients that escape were sometimes cruelly treated by the surrounding
community.

The letter dated September 4, 1843 is a bill for the castration of an Eastern State patient who was captured near
Lynchburg, Virginia. Dr. Galt introduced therapeutic activities and talk therapy.
He was probably alone among contemporary asylum superintendents to advocate that the psychiatric hospital
undertake in-house research and claimed to treat African-American patients on an equal footing with whites.
Dr.

Galt used restraint very sparingly (one year restraining none) and sought a calming medication to replace restraint.
He dispensed opium liberally to patients in a foreshadowing of our twentieth century neuroleptics.

The "Third Revolution in Psychiatry" became clear in 1857, when Dr. Galt was the first to advocate deinstitutionalization
and community-based mental health care.

were any other class of persons
than the insane collected together in such large numbers as is the case in some asylums, we are satisfied that
the greatest disorder would be likely to ensue." Dr. Galt's was a lone voice, over a century ahead of its
time--there were no echoes of agreement beyond his office, and the Hospital's Court of Directors three times
prevented his accomplishing these plans his disappointment and consequent depression probably contributed to his
suicide five years later.

Thus, it was that at Eastern State Hospital all the components of the modern psychiatric hospital may have first
been put into practice--human dignity for the mentally ill, therapeutic activities, talk therapy, calming medication,
in-house research, deinstitutionalization, and community-based mental health care.

Symptoms of a Dysfunctional Age: The Nineteenth Century in America was characterized by a lack of civil rights for
the majority of the people.

In some years,
Dr. Galt used no restraints at all. He wrote, "A large number of insane, instead of rusting out their lives in
the confines of some vast asylum, should be placed...

Dr. Galt had many revolutionary ideas about treating the insane, based on his conviction that they had dignity. This taught, as Dr. Galt said, that the mentally ill
"differ from us in degree, but not in kind" and are entitled to human dignity. Among his enlightened approaches were the use of drugs, the introduction of "talk therapy" and advocating outplacement rather than lifelong stays.

In addition to the problems in asylums, prisons were filled to overflowing with everyone who gave offense to society from committing murder to spitting on the street.

It was a revolutionary idea in the beginning of the 19th century that society rather than individuals had the responsibility for criminal activity and had the duty to treat neglected children and rehabilitate alcoholics.

In reality it became clear that, despite intervention by outsiders, prisoners were often no better off, and often worse off, for their incarceration.

“Having space at Central would be fantastic if we can pull it off,” he said.

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