Anna Varney

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By 1920, the Crownsville Hospital property was worth almost half a million dollars. There to serve the more than five hundred patients at the time were two physicians and seventeen nurses. That year, twenty-eight patients were discharged as improved, eleven more were sent home despite a lack of improvement, and a shocking ninety-seven people died.
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
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