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You may be entitled to access those records now, if they still exist.
May be that nothing more than date of admission, date of discharge, and
chief diagnosis remain; if that. <br>
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Grandma is deceased so privacy of medical information is less of an
issue. Your wife, as a descendant of hers, might want, and be entitled
to, grandma's medical information as a matter of family medical
history. If you do get them, you will need to take them with a grain
of salt. Accuracy was in the hands of the writer, if you get my drift.<br>
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What you suspect was not uncommon in the past. Take a baby at birth,
put it up for adoption, tell the mother the baby was still-born. The
old, "we know what's best" routine.<br>
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To one degree or another these sorts of practices went on into the
1950's in some places.<br>
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Leslie Chapman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Yes as I understand it the distinction between poor houses and asylums was
rather vague, and the "state Hospital" seems to be where a lot of my family
has ended their days. I am not sure exactly why, for a lot of them, they
weren't poor, they weren't, as far as I know, suffering from mental
abberations (sp?) but apparently it was deemed the way to go or some such
when nursing homes were uncommon in early 20th century.
As to the hysterectomies etc, that particular pattern of action is one of
the reasons the census info struck a chord with me, as my wife's grandmother
whom we cared for for the last ten years of her life had been a resident in
Salem a few times due to a thyroid deficiency and one of her visits she
insists they delivered a child of hers and told her it was still born, but
she was sure they lied to her.
I regret that we never made an attempt to access her records while she was
alive, though if it had turned out she was right it would have opened an
even bigger can of worms. I don't know how she would have dealt with it if
she had had her suspicions confirmed.
Les C
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