Word: creedmoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Island's Creedmoor State Hospital, the staff was given cautiously optimistic reports on the use of histamine in treating...
Last week, to a specially called staff meeting at Long Island's Creedmoor State Hospital, they gave a cautiously optimistic report on their work. They had given injections of histamine to 38 disturbed patients. Ten (about 26%) improved; five of the ten improved enough to leave the hospital. The results were about the same as with a control group who had been given the more dangerous electric shock treatment. The doctors also found that patients who were first given histamine reacted better when given electric shock. In another series of treatments on 48 office patients with histamine alone, eleven...
Behind the case histories of each one of the 4,421 patients at Creedmoor, the 8,634 at Pilgrim, the 7,117 at Central Islip, the 5,855 at Rockland-in the padded violent cells and in the disinfected halls-there are human stories. The ache of ceaseless fear and the agony of ordered purposelessness are ever present in these crowded wards...
...commission, appointed by Governor Dewey after the Creedmoor scandal last May (TIME, June 7), has been investigating New York State's mental hospitals. Head of the commission is smart Lawyer Archie 0. Dawson. Findings...
...been working in a State mental hospital; 3) injuries to patients should be promptly investigated; 4) new sources of attendants should be found-possibly among conscientious objectors; 5) patients who have escaped and remained at large for one year should not be automatically discharged as at present (one of Creedmoor's dementia praecox patients got a job as a Government employe in Philadelphia). He later added that patients merely senile should not be herded into institutions for the insane...