The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry by J.P. Webster

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/124506 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry Author: J.P. Webster Narrator: Patrick Lawlor Format: mp3 Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins Release date: 04-15-25 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: History & Commentary Publisher's Summary: The Quaker City and its hospitals were pioneers in the field of mental health. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, its institutions were crowded and patients lived in shocking conditions. The mentally ill were quartered with the dangerously criminal. By 1906, the city had purchased a vast acreage of farmland incorporated into the city, and the Philadelphia Hospital dubbed its new venture Byberry City Farms. From the start, its history was riddled with corruption and committees, investigations and inquests, appropriations and abuse.