. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . rent condition prevailed. Through its effortsfunds were furnished for the establishment of the HartfordRetreat. This institution was of a semi-private class, but also hadan arrangement with the towns of Connecticut and received in-digent patients at a rate of payment less than the actual cost oftreatment. It fortunately came under the guidance of Dr. EliTodd, who became its first superintendent, and seems to have had ageneral interest in the better treatment of the insane throughoutthe New England states. The building of
. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . rent condition prevailed. Through its effortsfunds were furnished for the establishment of the HartfordRetreat. This institution was of a semi-private class, but also hadan arrangement with the towns of Connecticut and received in-digent patients at a rate of payment less than the actual cost oftreatment. It fortunately came under the guidance of Dr. EliTodd, who became its first superintendent, and seems to have had ageneral interest in the better treatment of the insane throughoutthe New England states. The building of the Hartford Retreatdirectly influenced the establishment and building of the institutionat Brattleboro, Vt.; it also had much to do with the establishmentof the State Asylum under Dr. Woodward, at Worcester, Mass.,and to a less degree with the establishment of the Boston City Hos-pital for the Insane. The work in New Hampshire was connectedclosely with the establishment of the Brattleboro Retreat. Theslow growth of public sentiment in the state is shown by the strug-. 00 < ao C3 i-l <en nzw 3 THE ERA OF AWAKENING 95 gle in New Hampshire prior to the erection of the New HampshireState Hospital. It took n years of continuous agitation before aninstitution was established at Concord. Even when established itwas not a state institution, although it received state aid. Had itnot been for the benefactions of benevolent friends it is doubtfulwhether it could have attained the degree of usefulness whichafterwards came to it. In fact only within the past decade has themovement been concluded, which began in New Hampshire morethan 70 years ago, to provide state care for the indigent insane. The Eastern Lunatic Asylum, now the Eastern State Hospital,Lexington, Ky., was opened as a state institution, May, 1824. Thiswas the second state institution to be established in the UnitedStates, Williamsburg being the first. On July 25, 1828, Virginiaprovided a second state institution for th
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