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A decade before the national movement toward deinstitutionalization, Georgia governors Carl Sanders and Jimmy Carter began emptying Central State in earnest, sending mental patients to regional...
Georgia's state mental asylum located in Milledgeville, Georgia, now known as the Central State Hospital (CSH), has been the state's largest facility for treatment of mental illness and developmental disabilities.
28 kwi 2017 · Discover Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia: One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
29 lis 2017 · This growth lead to a 100:1 physician to patient ratio that persisted for nearly a hundred years. In 1897, the facility came to be known as the Georgia State Sanitarium. But to most Georgians, it was simply known as “Milledgeville”. It was universally known in the state as a place to avoid.
2 cze 2024 · Today Central State Hospital is no longer the state's only mental health facility. The construction of regional facilities has reduced Central State's population while helping to improve its level of care and expanding the variety of its client services, which today range from adult and adolescent mental health care to the provision of secure ...
This book contains the admission records for the first 888 patients admitted to Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia. Each patient record contains the basic facts of the individual, symptoms, and possible causes of their illness.
Over the next century, the institution transitioned with the changing trends in the treatment of people living with mental illness, as well as existing under many names, operating as the Georgia State Sanitarium, Milledgeville State Hospital, and Central State Hospital.
