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Subject: Re: [NORCAL] State Mental Asylums/Agnews
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:12:07 EDT




Sorry folks,

My brain just kicked into gear & it was Alum Rock where my aunt spent
some time when she had TB & that my grandmother donated a fountain for the
grounds.
Is Alum Rock still there?

Shelley


Hi,
I believe Agnews served at a TB sanitarium (sp)? at one time also, as
my aunt spent some time there as well as other places, & my grandmother
donated a fountain for the landscape there.
Shelley

>Marge - There's a whole library of books that couldl be written about the
asylums. Thanks for the stories.
>
>What about Agnews? I've found family on both sides (explains one or two
things!) who were in Agnews at census-taking time. One died of tb shortly
after. Was Agnews always just a mental hospital, or did it have other
wards?






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