[or-roots] Oh to have them all so concientious

[Harguess, Dale]

As long as we are on this subject of asylums I went to the website for
the Oregan State Insane asylum about a year ago.  They had quite a lot
of information but one of the things I found most interesting was that
in the late 1800's early 1900's they would put people in the asylum for
being "holy rollers".  

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Cc: JudyRobertson39 at aol.com
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Oh to have them all so concientious

---- JudyRobertson39 at aol.com wrote: 
> The asylum, now a prison, in Pendleton has records showing that they
did  
> hysterectomies on the women who were sent there for any disturbance
before they  
> were allowed to return to society.  No such records exist for the male

> patients, inmates, whatever you want to call them.
The same thing was done at the main State Hospital facility in Salem,
but of course at the time the discusion was made by men so only women
suffered this fate!!!
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