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Athens Mental Health Center and The Ridges

a.k.a. Athens Asylum for the Insane, Athens Lunatic Asylum, Athens Hospital, Athens State Hospital, Southeast Ohio Mental Health Center, and South-eastern Hospital for the Insane

View of Athens Mental Health Center from across one lake.
Athens Mental Health Center Images Pictures, postcards, plans, literature
Digitized images are made available by the Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections

The former state hospital that was located on the "Ridges" of Ohio University is mentioned in these State of Ohio publications in a variety of ways; see individual publications for brief description of each.

OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL

Annual Report , Opinions of the Attorney General

OAT 1.1:
1910, pages: 428-432, 1910-1911, page: 681 (title and deeds)

Codes of Law (laws for inmates´ money)

OAT 1.16: 1915, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1929

AUDITOR OF STATE

Report (payments on account of appropriation for erection of the Athens Asylum)

OAU 1.1:1872 [1st mention, disbursements for new asylum] 1957

Revised Statues of Ohio

OGA 1.13/3:
1880 (2 volumes & 2nd Edition 2 volumes); 1884 (2 volumes & Supplement); 1910 (3 volumes.)

OHIO EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS

Annual Reports (in-depth discussion of costs, patients, diagnoses, etc.)

OGV 1.6:
1878, part 3; 1879, part 1; 1880, part 2; 1885, part 2; 1887, part 2
[Alden Archives also has: 1872, 1873, 1878, 1879, 1881, 1907]

OHIO STATE BOARD OF HEALTH

Annual Reports

(dumping of sewage into the water, sanitation)

OH 1.1:
1892, pages: 103-105; 1894, pages: 44-47; 1901/1902, pages: 151-152;
1912, pages: 114-115, 460-461; 1913, pages: 87, 263, 304, 209; 1914, pages: 719-720, 235

OHIO DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH

Annual Reports (statistics on the number of patients, money spent by the hospital)

OMA 1.1:
  1981, pages: 12-13, 32, 42;   1982, pages 12-14, 28, 30, 38, 40;   1983, pages: 12-14, 25, 27, 36, 38;
  1984, pages: 10-12, 22, 24, 31, 33;   1985, pages: 28, 30, 32-33, 37;   1986, pages: 36, 38,40-41, 45;
  1987, pages: 44, 48-49, 52;   1988, pages: 46, 50-51, 54, 57;   1989, pages: 41, 44-45, 48, 50, 53;
  1990, pages: 39, 42-43, 46, 48, 51

OHIO DIVISION OF MENTAL RETARDATION AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Annual Financial and Statistical Report (Financial statements on patients with mental illnesses, and mental retardation and financial report on how much the hospital is spending)

OME 1.1/2:
  1972, pages: 9, 11, 27, 30, 41, 64-68, 72-73, 76-77;
  1973, pages: 11, 13, 27, 35, 40, 48, 50, 55, 58, 71-75, 85-86;
  1974, pages: 10, 12, 25, 33, 38, 46, 51, 54, 71-75, 85, 87-88;
  1975, pages: 10, 12, 33, 38, 46, 51, 54-55, 73-77, 86-87, 89-90;
  1976, pages: 10, 25, 29, 31, 33, 38, 46-47, 51-52, 55-56, 75-79, 88-89, 91-92;
  1977, pages: 10, 12, 19, 25, 29, 31, 38, 43, 47-48, 53-54, 57-58, 78, 86-90;
  1978, pages: 12, 14, 22, 28, 33, 40, 46, 50-51, 56, 58, 61-62, 84, 93-94, 96-97;
  1979, pages: 12, 14-15, 24, 30, 35, 42, 52, 56-57, 63, 65, 68-69, 90, 96, 98-99, 102-103;
  1980, pages: 12,14-15, 24, 30, 35, 42, 59, 64, 66, 69-70, 92-93, 103-104, 106-107

Capital Plan: An Integrated Approach to Program and Facility Improvements

OME 1.2: C 243 pages: 74-77

Motive (Human interest articles on staff and patients)

OME 1.14: pages: 15, 20, 29-30, pages: 21, 22

OHIO DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE AND CORRECTION

Annual Reports

(tables and statistics on patients and employees)

OMH 1.1: 1955, pages: 4, 7, 9-11, 35, 37, 41, 77-78, 88-93

Construction Plan

OMH 1.2: 1967, pages: 18, 30, 32, 44, 46, 48, 50, 173-180; 1969-1970, pages: 128-131

Motive (Human interest articles on staff and patients)

OMH 1.14:
  August 1954 pages: 6, 7;   October 1954 page: 22;
  January 1955 pages: 18, 20, 30, 31;   February 1955 pages: 11, 30;    March 1955 page: 22;
  May 1956, pages: 40-43, 50;   February 1958, pages: 17-18,   January 1959 pages: 23-25;
  May-June 1960 pages: 13, 20-21, 34;   July-August 1960 pages: 16, 34, 50;
  November-December 1967 page: 15;   November-December 1968 pages: 14-15
  July-August 1969 pages: 26-29;   January-February 1970 pages: 22-23;
  March-April 1971 pages: 2-4;   September-October 1971 pages: 16-18;

Comprehensive Community Mental Health Planning in Ohio (plan for the development of mental health facilities and services)

OMH 143.1: 1963-1965 pages: 160-162, 246-248

Comprehensive Mental Health Centers (statistics on mentally ill and mentally retarded)

OMH 144.2:C 758/967-68 pages: 18, 30, 32, 42, 114-118, 123

Ohio‘s Comprehensive Mental Retardation Plan (mental retardation programs and statistics on the mentally retarded in the community)

OMH 144.2: R 437 1969-1970, pages: 56, 128-138, 143-144, 148-149, 510-512

STATE OF OHIO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE

Report of the Department

OPU 1.1: 1922

Ohio Public Welfare Statistics (number of patients, average daily population, rate of death, discharge and release on trial)

OPU 1.17/16: 1946-1955

Public Welfare in Ohio Today (human interest articles)

OPU 1.17/13: 1949-1954, incomplete

SECRETARY OF STATE

Ohio Statistics

OS 1.1:
1873, page:359 (Athens Lunatic Asylum, mentions land donated 1868, as of 1873 no patients, has costs per year 1868-1873);
1874, pages: 344- ;   1875, pages: 497- ;   1876, pages: 361- ;   1877, pages: 84, 357- ;
1878, p .81, 317- ;   1879, pages: 69, 345- ;   1880, pages: 81, 399- ;    1881, page: 602;
1882, page: 383;   1884, pages: 31, 495- ;   1885, pages: 51, 1013- ;   1886, pages: 48, 785- ;
1887, pages: 100, 681- ;   1888, page: 34;   1889, page: 33;
[after 1888, it looks like only rosters of trustees and administrators are in this publication]
1890, 1903, 1906, 1915, 1924

Ohio General Statistics (by fiscal year, costs, employees, race and sex of patients with diagnoses, admissions and removals; information varies depending on year)

OS 1.16/19:
1914-15, page: 224; 1915-16, pages: 269-270; 1916-17, page: 326;
1917-18, page: 478; 1918-19, page: 486; 1919-20, page: 400; 1920-21, page: 286;
1921-22, page: 506

OHIO BOARD OF CHARITIES

Annual Reports (statistics of asylums for insane, showing the number of inmates, costs of main tenancies)

OYC 46.1: 1883, 1888, 1891-92, 1902, 1904, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915

Board of Charities Bulletin (statistics on supplies, operations, and expenses in charts and tables)

OYC 46.16:
  1889, pages: 26, 46, 69-72, 85-86, 90-172;
  1891, pages: 7, 9, 44, 46, 54-55, 76-77, 129-132, 145-146, 149-236, 238, 241, 253;
  1892, pages: 46, 48, 92-95, 108-109, 112-210;
  1902, pages: 20, 22, 66-91, 224;
  1904, pages: 11, 72-73, 83, 100, 258;
  1905, pages: 18, 62, 72-73, 83, 290;
  1907, pages: 24, 58, 100, 111, 151, 160, 297, 338, 347, 466;
  1908-1909, 1908- October pages: 110;
  1909- May pages: 88-90, August pages: 97-99, October pages: 93-95;
  1911- February pages: 19, 120-121, July, pages: 111-113, September pages: 24, 72-74

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