New Orleans City Insane Asylum Patients Records

Responsibility for insane patients housed in the City Insane Asylum fell to the City Physician, who was to visit patients at least once a day and to discharge those patients who had sufficiently recovered. This volume contains information on insane patients visited by the City Physician and recommended to the State Asylum.

For each patient, the record includes name, race, sex, age, place of birth, type of insanity and sometimes a description of the patient's behavior.

Mary Prague - Entered Februaryy 23rd, 1869 – native U.S. – Kind of Insanity when she entered – Furious Mania. Does not know her name. Has a bony eminence at the center of the fore-head. Thinks herself to be the Virgin Mary – The lump on her forehead was there when she entered the institution. Might be 43, but probably not.