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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Lunatic House
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:58:51 -0500
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powerful
in their disarming quiet

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
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On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Susan Ryan wrote:

> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/skalte/Lunatic+House-1.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/skalte/Lunatic+House-2.jpg.html
>
> In Ohio, the Wood County Historical Society Museum is located in  
> the old county home, the "poorhouse".  On the grounds is the old  
> "Lunatic House" where people were housed then there weren't any  
> better ideas about what to do with them. One could be housed in the  
> Lunatic House for such "disturbances" as chronic fighting to post- 
> partum depression to masturbation to epilepsy, in addition to  
> illnesses we recognize today as true, serious mental illness. It  
> also served as temporary jail space when the jail was full. It was  
> state of the art for the times and probably as humane as could be  
> expected for the turn of the 20th century. Its last occupancy was  
> sometime in the early 1960s.
>
>
>
> C&C as always....
>
> Sue
>
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In reply to: Message from scoutfinch at chartermi.net (Susan Ryan) ([Leica] IMGs: Lunatic House)