1880 Public Hospital Mental Clinic Building: Reconstruction Perspective Diagram

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Material Name Public Hospital Mental Clinic Building: Reconstruction Perspective Diagram
Year(Japanes Era Name) Meiji 13
Year 1880
Description Albrecht von RORETZ (1846-1884), unable to endure seeing the treatment of people suffering from mental illness in Japan, where such patients were locked away in filthy conditions, proposed to Aichi Prefecture the establishment of a mental clinic in the prefecture based on the philanthropic and humanitarian non-restraint system; and in Meiji year 13 (1880) had the construction of a mental clinic building in the Public Hospital completed.
Physical Description 1
Material Type Figures, postcards

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