State Hospitals
State Hospitals Click here to view the entire Album Throughout history the treatment of vulnerable populations has been a dire experience for most of the people who were consigned to institutions of various kinds. The ubiquitous Asylum might be specific to physical conditions like Tuberculous or Polio. Others were created to house and allegedly treat feeble mindedness and insanity. The euphemistic "wayward women" encompassed many maladies and alleged maladies specific to the female gender. Orphanages abounded it times of global plagues and warfare. Any child who might pose an embarrassment to the family name would be spirited away to be raised by nuns and other clerical persons at locations far from the cities of their birth and family residence. A relatively few institutions gained infamy in the annals of literature and cinema. The lion's share were perfunctory places people lived out their ordinary albeit unusual lives. Before medical science was able to figur...