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From: "Lisa Lepore" <>
Subject: Re: [PAALLEGH] question on "institutions"
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:18:58 -0400
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The site given in the previous message is for the current usage of
that hospital.

http://www.clpgh.org/locations/pennsylvania/orphanages/MSH.html

This site has the history of the facility where it says they accepted
acute & chrhonically ill people at one time. So, the person in
question may not have been mentally ill. Home for aged males, as
it says on the top of the census sheet implies it was also used as
what we would call a nursing home today. He could have had TB
like his wife, or he could have been in the poor farm.

Also Known As:
Pittsburgh Almshouse
Poor Farm/City Farm
City Home and Hospital
Marshalsea - began to accept the insane from Dixmont in 1898

There is also information on this site about where the records are
located.

Lisa



----- Original Message -----
From: "Connie Burkett" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [PAALLEGH] question on "institutions"


> Mayview State Hospital is still in operation. Here's a web-page
about it. If you
> scroll down near the bottom, it has a paragraph about the history of
the state
> hospital.
>
>
http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/Family/MentalHealthServ/StateMentalHospAndRest/003670
> 151.htm
>
> Connie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
[mailto:] On
> Behalf Of Jeannine
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 8:11 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [PAALLEGH] question on "institutions"
>
> It says Mayview, Pittsburgh City Homes and Hospitals, and along the
side it says
> "Home for Aged-Males".
>



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