1. Bedlam Times Article Photos

8/17/2019 1. Bedlam Times Article Photos

1/18

On May 6, 1946, Lifpublished "Bedlam exposé of to state

ennsyl#ania$s BybOhio$s &le#eland 't*ount%y sha+en by %%e#elations of azi the pi*tu%es e%e da-e*ting(


2/18

"All of a sudden America sees these photos thlook like concentration camp photos. You seehuddled naked along walls, strapped to benchand it really is this descent into this shamefulmoment. And the country did say, we have to

something about this." . /obe%t 0hita+e%, %i


3/18


4/18


5/18

Ali

ud!

#


6/18

$%hrough puneglect and

legislative p pinching, ststate has alinstitutions

care and cumentally sicdegeneratemore thanconcentratio

on the &else


7/18

A pthele!ta

e


8/18

a paanforilln(h


9/18

)ilg#oinm


10/18

n a roomlev!tate#osp


11/18


12/18


13/18

$ourt and grand-0document scores o patients following b

attendants. #undreinstances of abuseshort of manslaughsimilarly documentreliable evidence, f

hospital after hospindicates that thesetiny fraction of the that occur, day afteto be covered up b

conspiracy of mutu


14/18

$Yet

and mhardlsigni2indighave

upon344,4 patieof ovmeta

instit


15/18


16/18

$6orst of all, for these wards of society we provide physiciaand attendants in numbers far below even the minimum stset by state rules. nstitutions that would be seriously unma

if not overcrowded 2nd themselves swamped with 47, 84even *447 more patients than they were built to hold. %hewartime conditions but have e9isted for decades. :estraintand constant drugging of patients become essential in wardone attendant must herd as many as 344 mentally derangecharges'.

Response- How do you think the public re

to the article?- How do you think the governm

its institutions responded?

-What were the possible conseq


17/18

Response1( )his a%ti*le appe

One le O#e% test as publissixteen yea%s la*ontent the%efo%

the *ontext of thxplain53( s the%e any his

info%mation he%elin+s to elementno#el5

8( o is the a%d

p%esented in 7edi-e%ent to the

Read the artic&edlam *+3


18/18

)he *%isis in state mentalhospitals moti#ated :%( 0alte%

%eeman to de#ise a simple#e%sion of the lobotomyp%o*edu%e, one that *ould beused on a mass s*ale( :ue tothe situation in publi* mental

health institutions and thepubli*s aa%eness autho%itieshad an appetite fo%alte%nati#e solutions(

1. Bedlam Times Article Photos

Documents