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Home for the Friendless, Lincoln
Lincoln
Hospital for the Insane.
This hospital
ranks among the first institutions of the kind in the
United States. It is entirely modern in its appointments
and is capable of accommodating six hundred patients. It
was put into use April 17, 1871 and was at that time the
only public institution owned by the state. The first
building was burned, but it was replaced soon after. The
hospital is situated southwest of Lincoln and is
surrounded by eight hundred and eighty acres of
cultivated land. The buildings, together with the land
connected with them have been an expense of over
$750,000.00. Dr. J. L. Greene is Superintendent of the
Institution.
State
Home for the Friendless.
The State Home for
the Friendless is located in Lincoln. The property
belonging to it consists of 2.07 acres of ground on which
there are five buildings and a small greenhouse. Every
department of this institution is carried on in a careful
and systematic manner and is one of the most deserving
public institutions in the state in the interest of
charity. There are the main and school buildings,
laundry, cottage, or hospital, and barn. The annual
expenditure for operating the institution is about
$16,000.00. Mrs. Mary B. Sohus is the Superintendent, and
on December 1, 1902, there were seventy-two inmates in
the Home for the Friendless.
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