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2 unusual facts about State Hospital


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Noel Ruddle, who served seven years for shooting his next door neighbour with a semi-automatic Kalashnikov type rifle in 1991, was given an absolute discharge by a sheriff because his mental illness was deemed untreatable.

One infamous incident of a break out happened in 1976, when two patients, Thomas McCulloch and Robert Mone, murdered a nurse, patient and a policeman with axes in an escape attempt.



see also

Bartley Campbell

Campbell was declared insane in September 1886 and died in the State Hospital for the Insane in Middletown, New York on July 30, 1888.

Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane

Dodge Correctional Institution, formerly Central State Hospital for the Insane, in Waupun, Wisconsin, United States

Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute, formerly Central State Hospital for the Insane, in Nashville, Tennessee, United States

DeJarnette

Joseph DeJarnette (1866–1957), the director of Western State Hospital (located in Staunton, Virginia) from 1905 to 1943

Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta

The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abeokuta came into existence on 21 April, 1983, when the state hospital, Idi-Aba, was handed over to the federal government by the then state Governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba for development into a federal tertiary health institution for the people of Ogun State and Nigerians in general.

Free State of Coburg

In it, Coburg was given financial guarantees for its State Foundation, its agricultural and forestry trade associations, its Chamber of Commerce, from which the Chamber of Trades section became the new Chamber of Trades, the State Hospital and the State Theater.

Gobabis State Hospital

Gobabis State Hospital is a government-run hospital in Gobabis, Omaheke Region, Namibia.

Grafton State Hospital

In 1957, noted Jazz musician Thelonious Monk was briefly held for observation at the Grafton State Hospital after a State Trooper found him at Logan Airport acting erratically and then becoming unresponsive to questioning.

Henryton State Hospital

Henryton State Hospital is a now-demolished hospital complex in Marriottsville, in southern Carroll County, Maryland, just across the Howard County line.

Independence, Iowa

Among the town's distinctions has been the long-term presence of the Independence State Hospital (formerly called the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane), located on a large, remote tract of land on the west edge of town.

Lenore Ulric

She died of heart failure in Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, New York on December 30, 1970, aged 78.

Meredith Hodges

During this time she began work at Sonoma State Hospital with a rotation at Napa State Hospital as a psychiatric technician.

Norwich and Westerly Railway

The line skirted Laurel Hill Road (now Route 12) at Norwich State Hospital, then ran parallel to Poquetanuck Road (now Route 2A) to Hallville.

Salzburg S-Bahn

Thus the Paracelsus Private Medical University of Salzburg (PMU) and the Salzburg State Hospital will receive a connection to the new S-Bahn.

Silence! The Musical

Dr. Frederick Chilton (high baritone) – The pompous, incompetent director of the Chesapeake State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and later Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

Utica Psychiatric Center

The Utica Psychiatric Center, also known as Utica State Hospital, which opened in Utica in 1843, was New York's first state-run facility designed to care for the mentally ill and was one of the first such institutions in the United States, predating and perhaps influencing the Kirkbride Plan which called for similar institutions nation-wide.

Winnebago Mental Health Institute

Winnebago Mental Health Institute (WMHI), formerly the Winnebago State Hospital, is a psychiatric hospital in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States located in the unincorporated community of Winnebago, Wisconsin.