Jo Daviess Residents in
1880 Census of Patients at the Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane

From Supplemental Schedule No. 1 to the 1880 Federal Census

"Insane Inhabitants in Elgin, the County of Kane, State of Illinois - June, 1880"

This is an enumeration of the Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane located in Elgin, IL
İTranscribed by Kim Torp

This is an original source document - you are advised to double-check my interpretations of the handwriting against the original. Spellings are as in the original schedule (or as close as I could make them out!) and in the original order. (Use your browser's "Find" function to locate a surname)

All "length of time" figures are years unless otherwise noted

Columns are from left to right:

1. Name

2. Residence (City or Town) & county

3. Form of disease

4. Duration of present attack (not including previous attacks)

5. Total # of attacks (including present one)

6. Age at which first attack occurred

7. Does this person require to be usually or often kept in a cell or other apartment under lock and key, either by day or at night? Does this person require to be usually of often restrained by any mechanical appliance, such as a strap, strait-jacket, &c? and if yes, state the character of the appliance used.

8. Has this person ever been an inmate of any hospital or asylum for the insane? If yes, name the said hospital or asylum.

9. What has been the total length of time spent by him (or her) during life in such asylums?

10. Is the person also epileptic, suicidal or homicidal?

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Towathan (?), Michael

Apple River, Jo Daviess Co

chr. mania

6

1

34

cell at night

 

6 yrs

 

Claypole, Mary

Elizabeth, Jo Daviess

chr. mania

13

 

26

cell

Central Hosp. Ill

12

 

Mallison, Geo

Dernida, Jo Daviess

Ep Mania

9

1

28

cell

 

4 11/12

eplileptic

Pugh, William

Galena, Jo Daviess

Ep. mania

15

1

30

cell

Central Hosp. Ill

6 ½

 

Crowl, Early

Thompson, Jo Daviess

chr. mania

11 yrs

1

53

cell at night

 

4 4/12

 

Cloran, Thomas

Galena, Jo Daviess

chr. mania

5

1

20

cell

Hosp. in St. Louis

3 10/12

 

Westphal, Rachel

Stockton, Jo Daviess

chr. mania

33

 

23

cell

 

2 8/12

 

Hitt, Lucy

Stockton, JoDaviess

chr. mania

6

1

27

cell - occas. camisole

 

2 7/12

 

Hasse, Mary

Galena, Jo Daviess

Chr. mania

10

2

29

cell

Southern Hosp Ill.

2 5/12

 

Stubenk__, Mary

Dunleith, Jo Daviess

melancholia

2

1

22

cell

 

2 2/12

 

Hill, Elizabeth

Warren, Jo Daviess Co

dementia

17

1

14

cell

 

2 yrs

 

Van Eyck, Charles

Galena, Jo Daviess

mania

3

1

52

cell

 

1 10/12

 

Paul, Thomas

Galena, Jo Daviess

mania

Indef

   

cell

 

1 10/12

 

Barry, John

Apple River, Jo Daviess

melancholia

2 ½

1

46

cell at night

 

1 9/12

suicidal

Long, James

Galena, Jo Daviess

chr mania

     

cell

Southern Hosp. Ill

1 8/12

 

Sheridan, Mary

Stockton, Jo Daviess Co

melancholia

3

1

30

cell

 

1 4/12

 

O'Brien, Elizabeth

Minominee, Jo Daviess

melancholia

2

1

19

cell

 

1

 

McCarthy, James

Galena, Jo Daviess

mania

1 ½

1

20

cell

 

9 mos

 

Thiever, Corena

Scales Mound, Jo Daviess

melancholia

7

1

25

cell

 

8 mos

 

Mellane (or Mellam?), Mary

Derinda

mania

1 ½

2

 

cell

 

1 4/12

 

Symmons, George

Scales Mound, Jo Daviess

melancholia

indef

1

 

cell

 

4 mos

 

Makony, John J.

Galena, Jo Daviess

mania

8 mo

1

18

cell

 

20 days

 

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