Summary Information

Title: Douglas County Hospital and Sanatorium Records
Inclusive Dates: 1900-1965

Creator:

• Douglas County Hospital and Sanatorium (Wis.)

Call Number: Douglas Series 128

Quantity: 2.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 10 volumes)

Repository:

Housed at the Area Research Center, Jim Dan Hill Library, University of Wisconsin-Superior; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Superior Jim Dan Hill Library / Superior Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records of a Douglas County mental health institution located in the town of Parkland that was opened in 1909 and operated under various names until closing in 1991. Throughout the institution's lifetime it served as an asylum, poor house, tuberculosis sanatorium, and home for the elderly, and maintained a farm and garden. The records document the administration of the facility and provide limited information about the residents. Administrative records include minutes of the board of trustees (1909-1958), financial records (1913-1938), monthly population statistical reports (1951-1956) and correspondence (1951-1956) and correspondence (1955-1956). Patient records contain biographical data and information on the patients' physical condition and care. Cemetery and death records provide record of the facility's residents and others buried in Parkland Cemetery, 1900-1946, and information on some individuals who died while at the institution from 1916 through 1965.

Note:

There is a restriction on access to some of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-doug0128

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