Speaking of Genealogy:  I stumbled across early 1910 or 1920 Census of
Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg.  It showed "Inmates" there and women
"boarders" listed by name and age.  Couldn't believe it was public; but then
again - it was "back then".
Shirley Cox Schroeder

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Catherine OBrion <
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>
> Wednesday, October 29
> Book Talk:
> The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the
> World of Mental Illness
> Time: Noon
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> Richmond
> Author Jack El–Hai will discuss his groundbreaking new biography of
> neurologist
> and psychiatrist Walter Freeman, featured in the PBS documentary The
> Lobotomist. El–Hai, whose work is based in part on archival research in
> Freeman's personal papers at the George Washington University, takes
> readers
> into one of the darkest chapters of American medicine—the desperate attempt
> to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help
> during the middle decades of the 20th century, before the introduction of
> effective psychiatric medication in the 1950s. A book sale and signing will
> follow the talk.
>
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> Libraries,
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> Archives
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