Logansport State Hospital

Logansport State Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Logansport, Indiana, United States.

It was founded July 1, 1888, as the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane and is Indiana's oldest operating psychiatric hospital. Its first superintendent was Dr. J.G. Rogers.

The origin of the hospital goes back to March 7 of 1883 when the Indiana General Assembly allotted funds for three State Hospital facilities: Logansport in the northern region, Evansville in the southern region, and Richmond in the eastern region. The three new hospitals were to help with the increasing population of the mentally ill at Central State Hospital in Indianapolis.

In the 1950s, Logansport State Hospital had a surgery unit in which they did lobotomies. They also had a ward that housed tuberculosis patients. The facility also had a morgue and pathology lab. Since that time it has been used for a TV Studio and administrative offices. It is now the home of a museum, which was formerly known as the Longcliff Museum. They also had a chapel which is still in use.

The majority of the patients prior to 1960 were admitted for symptoms of organic brain syndrome. Some of the patients were born mentally incapacitated so the families would admit them to the State Hospital because they did not want to handle them at home. That is not true currently for most of the patients.

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