Trenton State Hospital

Originally named New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, has a long history of helping mentally ill patients, and harming them.

Opened in 1848 and welcomed 86 patients. The first superintendent, Horace Buttolph, was a good man, and provided an excellent care for the people in this care. 

Then dr. Henry Cotton took over and the horror began. He began his tenue in 1907, Cotton thought infections caused mental illness. 

To test his theories he removed his patients teeths, limbs or any body parts with the slightest sign of infection.

He continued this practice until 1924, when Cotton was put to a review by a peer board. A well respected psychiatrist, Phyllis Greenacre, provides critical reviews and questioned Cotton's work.

In 1925, the New Jersey State Senate held an investigation and found the doctor provided cutting edge treatment and approved his work. He continued killing patients until 1930, when he retired. The hospital staff continued to remove teeth, limbs and organs through the 1950s.

After his death in 1933 a review found his medical procedures killed 45 o/0 ofhis patients.

When the hospital discontinued his gruesome methods, many wings were abandoned and left to fall into disrepair. Still a fully operational psychiatric hospital and a correctional facility remain on the grounds. Currently, the facility is facing its fair share of controversy.

An analysis of State hospital data (by the express-times) from the 2005 through 2010 shows Trenton recorded the highest rates of violence and patient restraint compared to New Jersey's other state psychiatric  hospitals.
Department of human resources shows that 112(71 o/*)  of the incidents occured in the Trenton State Hospital

Dark asylums

Hello, my dear audience, and hope you will waiting for me...!!

Today I will talk about several hospitals, my favourite part od the dark world! ( hope your too...)

1. Letchworth Village

After testing the polio vaccine, this mental hospital sits in ruin.

It was a pacefull, small town fell, and in 1911 is was choosen to be the home of a progressive experiment: an utopian village, where the mentally ill could fins calm and refuge. Nowadays we seem it like a sinister place, but from the start, it was a progressive place: there were a power station, shops, sprawling grounds and places of worships.

Despite such od goos intentions, unfortunately Letchworth Village was almost immediately overcrowded, with the majority of its patients being children. It seemed to follow a trajectory from a "noble-facility-for-healing", to "abusive-humam-rights-horror-show" to finally "haunting-ruins".

The facility was up-front about its intentions to use the patients bas guinea pigs in clinical trials. The most camous case was the experimental polio vaccine, which was successfully tested on an eight-year old boy in 1950.

It was finally closeď in 1996, after years of reports of abuse, neglect and abysmal conditions. We will never know what truly happened in this hospital, but there is an evidence about a mile from Letchworth, a small cementery hidden in the forest off Call Hollow Rood, most of the graves are about the size of a child. In plan of names, the graves are merely numbered.

2. Alcatraz's Off Limits hospital

With an operating room, psychiatric cells, wards with beds, and other resources, a visiting surgeon and specialists gave regular care to the maximum security prisoners, without risking their escape. Medical care was one of the only four basic rights granted to pisoners.

3. Gonjiam Pshychiatric Hospital

It has been called one of the most haunted places on South Korea, and CNN has claimed it was "one of the most freakiest places in the world". Gonjiam was forced to close mainly sue to economic downturns, insanitary conditions and problems with the sewage disposal system, not due to insane doctors or murderous patients.
The buildings stand complete with rushed out machines, hospital remnants, trash, and filthy  mattresses, adding to its creepy and haunted reputation.

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Severalls Hospital, England

Just found another hospital, exciting and creepy!

many people dosen't feel anything about abandoned places, but they hang a really special aura, and transmit something !!

There also were done electroshoking therapy and lobotomies, like in all the rest of mental asylums. 

Several of the female patients were committed by their families after birthing bastard children, often the result of being raped.

The hospital opened in 1913, and had shut down in 1997.  

Insane asylums of the past

Reading this article, I was just replaying Outlast !! They made it so real, as it was in the past.

Just read the reasons to be admitted in the asylum

1. Lobotomy

It was one of the most used treatements used to patients, it wouls result the patient became zombie, with no expression. 

2. Electroconvulsive therapy

Also known as shock therapy, the patients were subject to electric shocks to numb all their feelings and cure their illness.

2. Horrible conditions

Those who could not control themself, where hold in cages for days or even months or years.

Some asylums held as many as ten times the amount of patients it could hold and some just had only three attendees for these patients, leaving them to sleep in filth and their own excrement.

3. Left naked

The patiets were left naked and with no activity. There was no cleanliness and the patients were left to wallow in their own filth. 

The hospital were build to hold 2500 patients, but hold 6000 with o care and facilities.

4. Unquilifyied staff

There were small number of trained stuff, so they employed help from whenever they got it, no matter of the qualifications.

Blackwell prison hired prisoners to take care of the patients.

And the rest you know, terrible experiments made in patients, terrible facilities> patients were left in darkness at night, 

Asylum stories: most strange "cure" for patients

I always loved to see movies and play games with this genre. My favourite.

I loves playing Outlast, for its story, the stories of the patients, subjected to experiments, when they turn really insane. 

The medicaments sometimes could make the patient feel worst than when it was submitted to the hospital, because of the horrible experiments doctors made on them. Well, those poor patients always suffer the most, because of their illness and because of doctors who make experiments on them.

1. Asylums where doctors prescribed LSD

Dr. Abramson, the former director of research at the Amityville Insne Asylum, was called a Psychiatric Dracula by his collegues for his cruel methods. He would prescribes LSD to his patients.

He was involved in programme called MKULTRA in which he performed mind colntrol experiments for the CIA.

The doctor never told what he prescribed to his patients, so several of them turned addicted.

If you remember, this method was one of the used in Mount Massive asylum, in Outlast.The ones who have read the documents, will remember this.

2. Bethlam Royal Hospital in London

This asylum was desorganized and and insane. The word "bedlam" stands for confusion and noise. This is the oldest asylum in the world, admitting since 1357. Known by atrocious conditions and cruel treatments of its patients.

The public were invited to watch the victims in cages and even poke them with sticks.

3. Pilgram psychiatric center 

Centered in Long Island. Could house as many 14.000 patients at a time. 

This hospital used extremely agressive methods of curing. 

Lobotamy and electric shock therap were the norm. The doctors started using large doses of insulin and metrozol to drive patients into a violent coma, just to be rid of them. 

High Royds Hospital, Menston, West Yorkshire, England

It was first opened in 1888 as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic asylum. 

Treatment of the Victorian patient ranged from opium, the main sedative in the mid 19th century, to laudanum, bromide to chloral hydrate. Physical treatment included turkish or hot baths, wet sheet packs and electric stimulations.

Experience in hospitals wasn't required, if you were phisycally fit and be a good sportsman or able to play a musical instrument you were very likely to be offered a position. 

At one time the asylum included: ballroom, library, surgery, dispensary, butcher's, baker's, diary, even a ballroom. 

Hovrinskaya's hospital: Abandoned hospital

This giant abandoned hospital in Moscow, Russia, begun to construct in 1980, but stopped in 1985.

This hospital have a Brutalist architecture style, developed between from 1950s 'til 1970s. Descending from the modernist archecture from the early 20th century. 

The term is originated from the french word "raw"in the term used by Le Corbusier, to describe his choice of material, béton brut (raw concrete).

This hospital have few gossips of why it has stopped building: because of the fundation of the base, and because of the satanic sect that was habitating there.

Nowadays this territory is hugely protected by several companies and the goverment, and there are plans to revive this hospital and return it to life.))

Mount Massive Asylum: Outlast

If you have played this game, you will love all related things to this asylum!

I love abandoned places, hospitals much more: It's a special place, where people where waiting for help, and in case of mental hospitals aka asylums, people just died there, without chance of coming out from there.

It's a place full of pain, tragic lives, suffering and death.

The most famous hospital from games we have, is the Mount Massive asylum, from Outlast.

Really, I don't know if there is really a map of thi plae, because its very, very, very big, giant place, with so many metres to the ground. Sorry for my US friends, I can't mesure in foots, but It could be tousands of them. The place is huge!

Actually, the creators based Mount Massive asylum in a real place, Richardson Olmsted Complex

Read about the hospital

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richardson_Olmsted_Complex