HOSPITAL AT ANNA AND SOME OF THE MEN WHO TOOK PART IN OR WITNESSED ITS DEDICATION. [This building and its equipment provide modern, scientific treatment for the insane. The hospital was dedicated on April 16, 1909.] NEW PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITAL AT ANNA. The new Psychopathic Hospital at Anna is a pressed brick, fire-proof structure, situated on a hill-side just north of the main building. The structure is two stories in height in front, and three stories in the rear. It is 190 feet in length by 43 feet in width, and is divided into a middle building and two wings. The middle. building contains two dormitories which provide room for 20 patients, six smaller rooms for nurses, an operating room, two continuous bathrooms, and a completely equipped hydrotherapeutic department. Each wing is divided into two wards, each of which accommodates 18 patients. At the end of either ward there is a large. solarium where convalescent patients enjoy the benefit of sunlight. The lower floor is devoted to kitchen, laboratory, class room for training school for nurses, and sleeping rooms for domestics employed in the building. The hospital is heated by direct and indirect radiation, and is equipped with a most complete system of forced ventilation. A corps of twenty trained and pupil nurses is employed to care for the patients treated in the new hospital. The hospital cost $50,000. From left to right, beginning with first row: Governor Charles S. Deneen; Superintendent W. L. Athon; Dr. Frank Billings, President State Board of Charities; Dr. Eugen Cohn, Assistant Physician at Anna. Second row: H. H. Kohn, President Board of Trustees; Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, member State Board of Charities; Dr. H. G. Hardt, Superintendent at Lincoln; William C. Graves, Executive Secretary State Board of Charities; Dr. J. L. Greene, Superintendent at Kankakee. Third row: Dr. George A. Zeller, Superintendent at Peoria; Dr. W. H. C. Smith, President Lincoln Trustees; Hon. W. T. Hollenbeck, member Forty-sixth General Assembly; William B. Moulton, President State Civil Service Commission; Dr. V. H. Podstata, Superintendent at Elgin; Dr. C. H. Anderson, Superintendent at Menard; Dr. H. Douglas Singer, State Psychopathologist; Dr. J. T. McAnally, member State Board of Charities; and Dr. Samuel Dodds of Cairo, formerly in the State insane service. TWENTY-FIRST FRACTIONAL BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF STATE COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC CHARITIES OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS Being Statistical Record of the Public Charity Service for the Period SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS: ILLINOIS STATE JOURNAL CO., STATE PRINTERS |