. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . Ohio and Indiana, each accompanied by a statecommission and an architect or engineer, inspected the detached wards atKankakee in 1883. Later the institutions at Toledo (capacity 1000), atLogansport (capacity 380), and at Richmond (capacity 400), all on thedetached ward plan, were constructed. North Dakota employed MajorWillett, architect at Kankakee, and in 1885 had 160 patients in three de-tached wards. ^Anyone interested in the views on building plans held ^t that periodcan find documents and discussions in the files of
. The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada . Ohio and Indiana, each accompanied by a statecommission and an architect or engineer, inspected the detached wards atKankakee in 1883. Later the institutions at Toledo (capacity 1000), atLogansport (capacity 380), and at Richmond (capacity 400), all on thedetached ward plan, were constructed. North Dakota employed MajorWillett, architect at Kankakee, and in 1885 had 160 patients in three de-tached wards. ^Anyone interested in the views on building plans held ^t that periodcan find documents and discussions in the files of the American Journal ofInsanity, and in the Propositions and Resolutions collected and pub-lished in 1876 by the Association of Superintendents; also the reports ofthe Board of Public Charities of New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvaniaand Illinois (the only State Boards of Charities in existence up to 1869).The report for 1884 of the Illinois Board of Public Charities, Chapter III,page 6s, has a very full resume of the subject from the pen of SecretaryFred. H. KANKAKEE STATE HOSPITAL 223 the secretary of the board, Rev. Fred. H. Wines. The StateBoard of Public Charities had been created and organized andMr. Wines was chosen as its secretary in 1869. In the same yearthe act for the new hospital, later located at Elgin, was beforethe Legislature. A clause was inserted in this act through theefforts of Mr. Wines which would have enabled the trustees ofthe new institution to adopt the so-called cottage system hadthey so elected, but no action in this direction had been taken upto 1877. Therefore, in 1877, when the new Eastern Hospital wascreated, Mr. Wines procured the insertion of a clause in the appro-priation bill which made the approval of the Board of Charities toany building plans which might be adopted at Kankakee Wines had become a convinced advocate of the segregate as against the congregate style of construction for the insaneand the provision of th
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