Trenton Psychiatric Hospital

The Trenton Psychiatric Hospital is a state run mental hospital located in Trenton, New Jersey.

It previously operated under the name New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton and originally as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum.

Founded by Dorothea Lynde Dix on May 15, 1848, it was the first public mental hospital in the state of New Jersey.

Under the Hospital's first superintendent Dr. Horace A. Buttolph, the hospital admitted and treated 86 patients.

In 1907 Dr. Henry Cotton became the medical director.

Cotton's legacy of hundreds of fatalities and thousands of maimed and mutilated patients didn't end with his leaving Trenton in 1930 or his death in 1933, in fact removal of patients' teeth at the Trenton asylum was still the norm until 1960.^{[citation needed]}

See also[edit | edit source]

• Kirkbride Plan
• Henry Cotton (doctor)
• Willowbrook State School
• Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, the second "lunatic asylum" opened in New Jersey (1876).

References[edit | edit source]

External links[edit | edit source]

• http://www.rootsweb.com/~asylums/trenton_nj/
• http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/156/12/1982
• http://www.forgottenphotography.com