Census data for a hospital?
I'm thinking about writing a book about a "colony" for epileptics in Indiana that was built early in the 20th century. Whether you call it a colony, an asylum or a hospital, admission was for the rest of the patient's life. The population would've been stable.
I want to understand who was there, how old they were, etc. I think census >Update:
(edit) There was a colony/asylum/hospital. It was called the Indiana Village for Epileptics, in New Castle. Seizures were largely uncontrolled there until the advent of phenytoin. . What I'd like to understand was who lived there. Maybe I can tell their stories. https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/18...
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http://www.in.gov/icpr/2671.htm
This facility opened in 1907 on 1300 acres in rural Henry County as the Indiana Village for Epileptics. It was one of only seven facilities in the world built especially to care for persons with convulsive disorders. Prior to New Castle’s opening many epileptics had been housed in county jails and poor asylums. Its mission expanded in 1955 to include treatment of the neurologically disabled. It was an important center for anticonvulsant drug research in the 1960s and 1970s. Prior to its closure in 1996 New Castle had admitted 6461 patients. The State Archives has the master card index, two admission registers, a sample of the early medical records, and complete records for patients discharged from 1988-1998.
Use Ancestry or the LDS FamilySearch website for census 1910 to 1940 Look in Henry County, Prairie township. In the 1930 census looks like the "Patients" of the Villiage are blank in "relationship to head" unless they work there. Prairie Twsp District 32 is 13 pages and all listed are living in the Village (workers with families). Either Drs, Nurses, Attendants, Housework or None.
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If you have a name of an administrator, you can possibly find the hospital or sanitarium on the census that way. Otherwise you will need an address and then to locate the institution in the census records by enumeration district (ED). Use Steve Morse One Step Pages to use the street address to find the ED and then search that way. I had a great aunt who was in a TB sanitarium for a time and I found her on the census living there.
http://stevemorse.org/census/ed2040.php
Map out the residents for each 10 years to see how stable the population was. Also check the Indiana State Census. There are some records for 1901, 1913, and 1919.
Do you think there was a 'colony' of epileptics anywhere? In the Indiana census for 1900 there are inmates in a hospital for the insane and homes for orphans. I can't find a grouping of epileptics and I doubt there would be one.
If you had listed the name of the doctor, the search might have been easier. There are 13 pages in the 1930 census for this institution. Maybe you can get a trial subscription to ancestry.com so you can go through the census and compile the data for yourself.
Name: Doctor Walter C Van Nuys
Respondent: Yes
Age: 62
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1878
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Indiana
Marital Status: Widowed
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Prairie, Henry, Indiana
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Street: Muncie Road, Prarie Twp
Farm: Yes
Inferred Residence in 1935: Prairie, Henry, Indiana
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 1A
Institution: Indiana Village For Epileptics
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 1
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Household Members:
Name Age
Walter C Van Nuys 62
Martin W Dean 62
Estella E Dean 53
Name: Walter C Van Nuys
[Walter C Van Mays]
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1877
Birthplace: Indiana
Race: White
Home in 1930: Prairie, Henry, Indiana
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Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Margaret Van Nuys
Father's Birthplace: Indiana
Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky
Household Members:
Name Age
Walter C Van Nuys 53
Margaret Van Nuys 47
Mary Alice Van Nuys 20
Walter C Van Nuys 17
Martin Dean 52
Stella Dean 43
in the beginning are you a hundred% effective you have the final mom? if so then it replaced into probably in basic terms a mistake, a individual went around and picked up the help for the census and then wrote it out on the sheets, maybe he forgot what line he replaced into as much as and wrote another call rather. The censuses are crammed with errors like that. So in 1891 is it purely him lacking or the finished relatives? in case you prefer to submit the information we are in a position to have a shot finding for him. additionally it would be worth finding on the mum interior the 1911 census, if she continues to be married she has to respond to the question approximately what number little ones she has had and how many are nevertheless residing, who's familiar with maybe there is one greater female descendant?
i do not believe there are any hospitals which patients live permanently if their only problem is epileptic. Most patients live at home or in group homes which house patients with other disabilities.
Some States have State Hospitals for the mentally ill patients but that is all I am aware of.
How people would have been treated and thought of early in the 20th century in Indiana would be very different to now......... it is likely they would have been in an asylum...certainly they would have been in the UK and the US is/has been even more institutionalised than the UK ............
Census every 10 years going back from 1940 in the US
Maybe useful for historical research
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~asylums/
http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/insane_asylum...
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/18000.html
http://www.census-online.com/links/IN/
Add: http://archive.org/details/howuncaredforepi00comm