In a message dated 6/22/01 7:01:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Can someone tell me what the Georgia State Sanitarium in Baldwin Co. Ga > was? It was still operating in 1900. Is it still in operation now? > > Thanks > Evelyn Evelyn, Today, the same facility is known as Central State Hospital. There is also a prison on this campus as well. Before we had regional mental hospitals in Georgia, there was one centralized hospital for patients needing psychiatric and/or other medical care and that was located in Milledgeville, GA. With the mental health reforms that took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the regional mental hospitals were built, like our Georgia Regional Hospital here in Savannah. Patients are now sent to the closest regional hospital versus all of them being sent to "Milledgeville" as I most commonly here the facility there called. When a college student in 1985, I had the opportunity to accompany a social work class there on a field trip. The facility is HUGE and now only a shadow of its former self in terms of the population to be found there relative to its capacity. I suspect that some were there who did not need mental health care, but also needed medical care. One of my relatives with tuberculosis spent his last days there in the 1940s. Perhaps there is someone who can tell us more, but I hope this little bit helps. Russell Bazemore