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I Start At Eloise A Little Scared

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4
Month
May
Year
1965
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Sometimes I Could Just Cry

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6
Month
May
Year
1965
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Many Retarded Left -- And Forgotten

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7
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May
Year
1965
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Music, Too, Is Medicine Photographer: Eck Stanger

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Year:
1937
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 1, 1937
Caption:
Music, Too, Is Medicine: Any activity that helps to bring sick minds back to normal interests has a curative value. So the state hospitals through their recreational therapy work encourage the formation of choirs, orchestras, dramatic groups and the like. In addition to furnishing entertainment for others, the efforts of patients along these lines are of direct benefit to themselves. Choir singing helps to keep them in touch with the realities of life, with religous expression, with the festivals that mean so much to the healthy world outside. It helps, too, to make them ready to resume their normal places in that world when they are cured of their ailments.

Beauty Parlor Spurs The Mind Photographer: Eck Stanger

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Year:
1937
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 3, 1937
Caption:
Beauty Parlor Spurs The Mind: Mental Illness often causes loss of a normal desire to look sightly to others. The restoration of pride in personal appearance may be a step toward recovery. So Ypsilanti State hospital has established a beauty parlor among its mental therapeutical agencies.

Working Back To Mental Health Photographer: Eck Stanger

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Year:
1937
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 11, 1937
Caption:
Working Back To Mental Health: Here is an occupational therapy shop. Tasks that interest and stimulate the mind help patients toward recovery and toward greater mental comfort. In addition to having curative results -- the main objective of occupational therapy -- the activities of patients produce many articles of use, such as rugs for sitting rooms and dormitories, curtains, chair covers, clothing, and the like. Nearly all the hospitals are using makeshift or inadequate quarters for occupational therapy. A separate building for this purpose at Ypsilanti is scheduled in the hospital building program.

Overcrowded Dormitory In State Hospital Photographer: Eck Stanger

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Year:
1937
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 19, 1937
Caption:
Overcrowded Dormitory In State Hospital - This sleeping room at Ypsilanti State mental hospital was designed to give about 55 square feet of night space to each patient. But the 6-year-old institution is already so overloaded and has so many waiting to get in that accepted comfort and hygiene "standards" have to be abandoned temporarily under pressure of grim necessity. So this dormitory is jammed with as many beds as can be forced into it -- fully one-third more than should be there. This condition bas as it is, is far better than found in older hospitals with much less window space, much less artificial ventilation, much less pleasant and possibly less sanitary walls, ceilings, and floorings. Contrast this picture with the one below taken in an older institution.

Books A Hospital Helps Photographer: Eck Stanger

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Year:
1937
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 10, 1937
Caption:
Books A Hospital Helps - The library is a comfort and often a curative aid to many state hospital patients, particularly to those who retain a grasp on the normal things of life or who are on the way to recovery. Not all hospitals have such pleasant hospital quarters as those provided in the Ypsilanti State hospital, pictured above, but all strive to make their libraries attractive and seek to encourage their use by patients. No library is supplied with all the books it could employ to advantage.