Main driveway approach, Hospital for the Insane of Nebraska, Norfolk
Description
A man walks up a dirt driveway in this 6-1/2" x 4" black and white plate. Many trees are in full-leaf on each side of the driveway and a large building with white columns sits in the background.
Contributors
Nebraska. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions
Excerpted from: "Fourteenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane of Nebraska, Norfolk, Nebraska" In Second Biennial Report of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions to the Governor and Legislature of the State of Nebraska for the Biennium Ending November 30, 1916 (Lincoln: Nebraska Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, 1914), plate between pp. 284-285.
Historical Notes
At the beginning of the biennium, the hospital served 457 patients, 226 males and 231 females, and at the end of the biennium, November 30, 1916, there were 705 patients, 391 males and 314 females. As the facilities were overcrowded and the hospital had had to turn away patients, the superintendent requested funds to build another building with a capacity of 100 patients.
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