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First recruitment advertisement for Oregon Insane Asylum

July 23, 1862
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Staffing has been a trouble from the first moment in the history of the Oregon State Hospital.  The public view of psychiatry in Oregon started with a recruitment advertisement in The Oregonian on July 23, 1862 for the Oregon State Hospital and Insane Asylum. At that moment, 148 years ago, Dr. James Hawthorne may have […]

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