Stories from the Delaware State Hospital 1894-1920
Members of several DGS teams have worked with the author Katherine Dettwyler to bring this information to you.
Overview:
This book, Remembering Farnhurst, published in 2019, includes a detailed look at the lives of 186 patients admitted to the Delaware State Hospital at Farnhurst between 1894 and 1920. Despite usually being thought of as having been simply a “mental hospital” or “lunatic asylum,” the institution cared for people with many different conditions. From brain injuries, syphilis, epilepsy, and schizophrenia to deafness, blindness, and age-related senility, a wide variety of conditions were treated because, at a time, there were few or no other options for care.
The Author:
Katherine Dettwyler
DGS Searchable Name Index:
The DGS website has a searchable Name Index. The table is searchable with a list of names with the page numbers on which they appear in Remembering Farnhurst.
The Rememberg Farnhurst page with the searchable Name Index can be found by clicking this link.