Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 26, 1937
Caption:
End Of Corridor Becomes Dormitory - Pontiac State hospital has been obliged to resort to many makeshifts to provide room for the overload of patients crowded into it. The picture shows a hallway that has been made into a dormitory, with the beds jammed close together. The occupational therapy department has provided curtains and rugs to brighten up the place.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 19, 1937
Caption:
Upper Corridor Their Home - The overloaded Michigan State hospitals in order to take in mentally ill persons assigned to them are forced to use all sorts of living quarters. This dark upper corridor serves as a sitting room for a group of women patients at Pontiac hospital. In reality it is much more dingy than the photograph indicates. The photographer brightened it for an instant with a flashlight bulb.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 22, 1937
Caption:
Behind The Bars For Being Ill - In jails throughout the Lower Peninsula of Michigan are many persons who are there not because they are guilty of crime, but because they have been stricken with mental disease. Although they have been legally committed to a state mental institution for the special hospital treatment and care their illness demands, they are kept in jail for indefinite periods because the hospitals are so overloaded they cannot be taken in. Meanwhile they are robbed of some of their chances for relief or recovery. More than 1,000 sick minds now wait outside the overcrowded hospitals to which they have been assigned. Not all are in jail, many being kept at home or allowed to roam about with possible latent danger to themselves or to others. Not all jails are so "pleasant" as the one pictured above, which is new and modern.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 18, 1937
Caption:
What Hospital "Day Room" Should Be: When the first unit of the Ypsilanti State hospital was built six years ago, day space and night space were designed according to standard practice, about 110 square feet combined for each patient. Attractive, uncluttered sitting rooms were provided and efforts were made to create a cheerful, friendly atmosphere that might have a healthful, stimulating effect upon sick-minded patients. The picture taken at Ypsilanti shows what a "day room" should be in a modern mental hospital and the below shows what "day space" accommodations actually have been in some wards of overloaded older hospitals. Even the new Ypsilanti hospital is now carrying an overload and the original ideal conditions are gradually being impaired.