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Geel

The Geel Public PsychiatricHospital (OPZ)

Registre des permisde visiter ltablissement

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Geel visitors from foreign countries

(1892-1935)

North America (11%)

Europe (78%)

Central & SouthAmerica (6%)

Asia (4%)Africa &Oceania (1%)

403 (persons)

54

31

18

6 (persons)

In Europe (78%) , 19 visitorsfrom Russia are included.

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0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140

1892-1895

1896-1900

1901-1905

1906-1910

1911-1915

1916-1920

1921-1925

1926-1930

1931-1935

year

number of visitors

Geel visitors from foreign countries(1892-1935)

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0 5 10 15 20 25 30

1892-1895

1896-1900

1901-1905

1906-1910

1911-1915

1916-1920

1921-1925

1926-1930

1931-1935

year

number of visitors

Germany USA

Geel visitors from Germany and USA

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The earliest visitor

Pliny EarleGeel, 1849

No American has described it, and probably, previous to 1849, no one had visited it.

the interests of the patients now at Gheel would be advanced if they could be placed in public Asylums

(Earle, 1851)

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State Board of Charity(Massachusetts)

Samuel G. HoweGeel, 1867

chairman of the State

Board of Charity

Franklin B. SanbornGeel, 1890 and 1893

secretary of the StateBoard of Charity

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A law establishing a family caresystem in MA

First recommendation to the Legislatureregarding family care (1867)

An Act Providing for the Care of CertainInsane Persons (1885)

in suitable families, insane persons of the chronic, quite class shall be paid from the appropriation of the Board

Section 1.)

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Family care in New York Stephen Smith

Geel, 1893

state commissioner of lunacypositive attitude

toward family care

Charles W. Pilgrim

Geel, 1885

physician, State Asylum Utica

negative impression of Geel

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Antwerp Congress in 1902 and after Ca.250 participants

Owen Copp (MA) and Stephen Smith (NY)

NY State Commission in Lunacy met anumber of serious objections to thesystem

the issue of family care was shelved more than a quarter of a century (Pollock, 1945)

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Some famous visitors

William A. WhiteGeel, 1906Elmer E. Southard

Geel, 1911

Adolf MeyerGeel, 1926

Gregory ZilboorgGeel, 1928William Healy

Geel, 1929

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The First International Congress onMental Hygiene, Washington in 1930

Fritz SanoDirector of Geel Colony

psychiatrists in this country [USA] were led to view family care in a more favorable light

(Pollock, 1945)

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Adoption of family care in USAfrom 1930 onwards

Edgar A. Doll

Geel, 1933

Legislation or introduction of family careNew York (1933), Pennsylvania & Utah (1935),California (1939), Rhode Island (1940),Illinois (1941)

A colony at Walworth:

An American Geel

Home for patientsat Walworth, NY

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Adoption of family care in Canada

Toronto (Ontario Province) M. Robb and John W.S. McCullough

Geel, 1931 Legislation of family care (1933) Archibald J. Kilgour

Geel, 1935

James T. Steeves

Geel, 1892 Medical superintendentProvincial Lunatic AsylumSt. Jones, New Brunswick

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The context of Geel visit from USAand Canada

Early interests in Geel Legislation of family care inMassachusetts (1885)

Objection in New York (ca. 1903) Establishment of family care in the whole

of the United States (and Ontario,Canada) after 1930Geel visitors