Good news/ bad news re: Essex County Hospitals. Overbrook Hospital (formerly Branch Hospital?) still exists and is now called the Essex County Hospital Center. SOHO Hospital is no longer in operation and the building may have been sold. Requests for old patient records from either facility should be addressed to Essex County Dept. of Health and Rehabilitation Essex County Hospital Center 123 Fairview Avenue Cedar Grove, NJ 07009 Lucia Guarini, Director Please understand that this does NOT guarantee that any record can be found at this time. With all of this new stuff about medical record privacy I would expect that you might need some documentation to have them release any records that they might be able to locate. Several years ago in order to get a copy of my Father's death certificate I had to supply a statement that I was his sole surviving child, in addition to a copy of my birth certificate and my parent's marriage certificate. Good luck, Don -----Original Message----- From: Donald Ball [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NJESSEX] CONTAGIOUS DISEASE HOSP, AND INSANE ASYLUMS Re: SOHO which was properly called the Essex County Isolation Hospital, It is located near the Newark/Belleville/Bloomfied lines, not close to the Turnpike. My brother and I were confined there when we had Scarlet Fever in 1938 It is now used to care for the elderly... Greystone hospital is located in Morris Plains ( Morris County ), NJ. My wife did her nurses training at St. Michaels Hospital in Newark and As part of her education, spent 6 or 8 weeks nursing mentally ill patients at Overbrook Hospital in Verona/Cedar Grove ( Essex County ), NJ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 9:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NJESSEX] CONTAGIOUS DISEASE HOSP, AND INSANE ASYLUMS DURING THE 30S AND 40S AT LEAST(ERA I AM AWARE OF) THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASE HOSPITAL FOR THE NURSES IN TRAINING AT BETH ISRAEL, NEWARK WAS SOHO. THE INSANE ASYLUM THEY TRAINED AT WAS GREYSTONE. SOHO WAS AS I REMEMBER, SOMEWHERE NEAR THE TURNPIKE WHEN WE WOULD DRIVE INTO NYC. FROM THE JERSEY SHORE. HOWEVER, GREYSTONE WAS FURTHER INLAND. SOHO HAD EVERYTHING FROM WHOOPING COUGH TO POLIO AND TETNUS. LINDA ==== NJESSEX Mailing List ==== Visit the Essex County Genealogy Web Site at: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex/> ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 ==== NJESSEX Mailing List ==== Know the town name but not county? Search: <http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/locality.htm> ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237