Elderly hospital patients at Eastern Oklahoma Hospital
- Title:
- Elderly hospital patients at Eastern Oklahoma Hospital
- Creator:
- Tapscott, George
- Date:
- 27 July 1946
- Description:
- This photo accompanied Part 2 (24 September 1946) of Gorman's report on Oklahoma state psychiatric hospitals. The caption on the back of the photo reads: "Hospital patients cooped up--Elderly mental patients in one of the senile wards at Eastern Oklahoma Hospital. There are more than 250 old patients at Eastern and, due to the shortage of attendants, they are cooped up inside the wards day in and day out. Note, also, the proximity of the beds.". NOTE: The original photograph was retouched to obscure the faces of the people in the photograph.
- Periodical:
- Daily Oklahoman
- Publisher:
- Oklahoma Publishing Company
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of the Daily Oklahoman.
- Genre:
- Photographic prints
- Subject:
- Hospitals, Psychiatric and Health Care Reform
- Format:
- Still Image
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Relation:
- Misery Rules in State Shadowland (series reprint), 1946 Misery Rules in State Shadowland (photograph of newspaper page), 1946 Supply Mental Plant Is Weak in All Phases (photograph of newspaper page), 1946 Crowded Hope Hall Quick to Disillusion Visitors in Hospital (photograph of newspaper page), 1946 Shock Therapy Helps Mental Patients at Norman Hospital (photograph of newspaper page), 1946 Equipment Shortages Doom Many Patients in Norman (photograph of newspaper page), 1946 All Types of Negro Patients Are Mixed at Taft (photograph of newspaper page), 1946 Epileptics Get Food, Shelter, Little Else (photograph of newspaper page), 1946 Mental Hospital at Enid Is Best (photograph of newspaper page), 1946 Public Apathy Is Given Full Blame for Conditions in Mental Hospitals (photograph of newspaper page), 1946 Cafeteria scene of women patients at Central State Hospital in Norman, Oklahoma, 1946 Central kitchen at Western Oklahoma Hospital, 1946 Ward for violent female mental patients at Central State Hospital, Norman, Oklahoma, 1946 Dayroom scene of patients at the State Hospital for the Negro Insane at Taft, Oklahoma, 1946
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Periodical. Tapscott, George. [Elderly hospital patients at Eastern Oklahoma Hospital]. Daily Oklahoman, (27 July 1946). Photographic Print. 1 Image.. Daily Oklahoman. UI (NLM). TGBBGY. TGBBGY
- Legacy ID:
- TGBBHM
- NLM ID:
- 101743403X113
- Profiles Collection:
- The Mike Gorman Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743403X113
- Story Section:
- From Journalist to Crusader: Exposing the "Snake Pits" in Oklahoma and Beyond, 1946-1953