Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 18, 1937
Caption:
Dark Corridor Their Sitting Room: All the state hospitals once had reasonably comfortable "day rooms" comparable to the "sitting room" back home. Day rooms are where patients spent most of their waking hours. Demands for bed space, caused by new patients crowding in, have resulted in many "day rooms" being converted in whole or in part into dormitories. Sometimes the patients have been jammed into smaller day rooms; sometimes they have been compelled to sit in corridors. The picture above shows a corridor at the Pontiac State hospital that is used as a "day room" because the institution is overcrowded. This typical scene is duplicated and multiplicated, with variations, in this and other state hospitals.,

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 17, 1937
Caption:
What Overloading Hospitals Means: The picture shows the "day space" in a "disturbed" or violent ward in a state hospital. These patients because of their liability to "disturbed" spells have to be confined and watched more closely than more "comfortable" patients, even though between attacks they may appear normal or near-normal. In good mental hospital practice such patients should have pleasant sitting rooms or attractive recreation rooms in which to spend their waking hours. In the typical case pictured patients, because of the hospital overload, have no recreation room and are forced to sit hour after hour and day after day in a crowded corridor. Pictures, rugs, and curtained windows show the efforts that have been made by the hospital authorities to add brightness and cheerfulness to a drab hall-way.

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.