'Madness' 'Crownsville hospital'

Crownsville was a dumping ground for deaf mute children, epileptic childen... 

'The children's buildings are among the most crowded... One hundred and fifteen girls spend most of their days in a single, long bare play room with virtually nothing to play with. 

'There are so few attendants that the older girls have to carry the helpless ones bodily to and from meals. 

'Not one of the more than 200 boys and girls at Crownsville is getting any formal schooling at all. Some of the epileptics lie all day on the bare floor.

'Elsie was institutionalized here for epilepsy until she died in 1955 at the age of 15.^[1]

'Approximately 1,600 patients are buried in graves marked by numbers only, with the more recent having patient names.'