Summary Information

Title: Dane County Hospital and Home (Wis.): Records
Inclusive Dates: 1854-1985

Creator:

• Dane County Hospital and Home (Wis.)

Call Number: Dane Series 310; C1992/013; C1992/035; C2009/032; PH 6586; C2014/028

Quantity: 10.0 cubic feet (10 archives boxes, 4 flat boxes, and 8 volumes); plus additions of 9.4 cubic feet, 1 oversize folder of blueprints and plans, and 0.8 cubic feet of photographs, etc.

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Dane County Hospital and Home, a Dane County institution established in Verona, Wisconsin in 1854 which has been responsible at various times during its history for the care of the indigent elderly and the mentally ill and for the treatment of alcoholics. Included are annual reports to the State Board of Control, minutes of the board of trustees and the separate governing bodies under which the institution operated during its early history, minutes of the building committee responsible for constructions at the institution, patient and inmate registers containing biographical data and information on the causes of the patients' insanity and/or indigence, a narrative journal of E.P. Titus, overseer of the Poor Farm (1877-1882), restraint records (1883-1887 and 1932-1941), and records of financial expenditures for the period 1875 to 1964. Printed annual reports to the Dane County Board of Supervisors are available in the government documents section of the SHSW Library.

Note:

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Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-dane0310

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