Ward for violent female mental patients at Central State Hospital, Norman, Oklahoma
- Title:
- Ward for violent female mental patients at Central State Hospital, Norman, Oklahoma
- Creator:
- Tapscott, George
- Date:
- 20 July 1946
- Description:
- This photo accompanied Part 4 (29 September 1946) of Gorman's report on Oklahoma state psychiatric hospitals. The caption on the back of the photograph reads: "A typical scene in one of the wards for violent female patients at Norman's Central State hospital. Patients are kept in seclusion cells for long periods, violating all modern psychiatric standards."
- Periodical:
- Daily Oklahoman
- Publisher:
- Oklahoma Publishing Company
- Rights:
- Reproduced with permission of the Daily Oklahoman.
- Genre:
- Photographic prints
- Subject:
- Health Care Reform and Hospitals, Psychiatric
- 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 Vinita Patients Lack Modern Care (photograph of newspaper page), 1946 Supply Mental Plant Is Weak in All Phases (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 Elderly hospital patients at Eastern Oklahoma Hospital, 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. [Ward for violent female mental patients at Central State Hospital, Norman, Oklahoma]. Daily Oklahoman, (20 July 1946). Photographic Print. 1 Image.. Daily Oklahoman. UI (NLM). TGBBHB. TGBBHB
- Legacy ID:
- TGBBHN
- NLM ID:
- 101743403X114
- Profiles Collection:
- The Mike Gorman Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743403X114
- Story Section:
- From Journalist to Crusader: Exposing the "Snake Pits" in Oklahoma and Beyond, 1946-1953