Mount Hope Insane Asylum

The Hill’s values were, and may still have not changed. It still remains a historical and genealogical area. Residents in the 1930 thought the hill to be a Attic, or a “view from a ole woman’s porch sitting in a narrow high ceiling room remembering her dead, and feeling the pinch of low wages and Negros invasions.” But on Bolton Hill it wasn’t always parties with artist, writers’, and presidents it was hit just as well with what was deemed trouble at that period. Cars, loss of servants, housing shortage and greed spread what some considered heaven in Baltimore.
Blockbusting (wisegeek) is a discriminatory housing practice which has been banned in many regions of the world, although documented instances of blockbusting continue to occur. Several steps are involved in Blockbusting, with the ultimate result of driving one group of people out of a neighborhood and replacing them with another. Blockbusting often plays on fear and racially-fraught emotions to manipulate people and some people argue that the technique has become less effective as people are more open to integrated communities. In the book it talks about how communities would ban together to fight off the mob or other groups from block busting I had never heard of the term. We note around some areas of Baltimore there appears to be a problem with abandoned home or loitering. We would ask why any one hasn’t done something to make the area look better. But according to Bolton Classic the 1200 block of Bolton Street had been rebuilt three times. Once in 1919, from the actually residents of the neighbor collected up to 40,000 for renovations. Again in the 30’s individual buyers bought the property and restored some back to there originally style. And lastly in the 60’s the federal government stepped in and sent funds to rebuild and restore homes.
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Believe it or not

Not being a normal Baltimorean, I was tickled pink , blue and gold when I saw some of not only the birds (ravens) everywhere, the bugs that sit down with you at your dinner table that come from nowhere and the dog size rats. OMGGGGGGGGGGGGG the rats stories I want to tell my grand kids……… Come to find out not only at one point hanging Negros was a past time events like baseball. There is a war time project (1942-46) by a Dr. Curt P Richter to find a new poison just in case the enemy used rats in germ warfare. Forget bombings or deadly gases, 15 air-raid wardens. Side bar, for those members that are not to old who may remember the drills in school for the 12 alarm to get down and cover your head from being bombed.
Ok these guys and the doctor conduct an experiment in 28 blocks around just his house with other residents willing to see worked through the area “posse” distributed the poison bait on Saturday afternoon on Sunday these people went back and started collecting the dead rats in oil drums. A total of 367 dead rats were recovered on the 1400 block of Bolton and Linden alone. They just wanted to see if they could be struck down if there was and emergency. Dr. Richter was deemed, “Rat-Catcher”. So with the rat population ever growing when is a good time to say Baltimore has and emergency. Just a thought!
But people are running out of this to do check out this YouTube video its BARF.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yv9I33uob0

Medical Care in the City of Baltimore 1752-1919: Mount Hope Asylum for the Insane/ Mount Hope retreat:
Baltimore was a city with its residents were successful in wining over the British, the medical care was still left as homespun enemies diseases like yellow fever, shitts, typhoid, and cholera repeatedly struck the citizens all over the city. The urban poor were particularly powerless due to inadequate diets, dense housing, poor sanitation, and a variety of bad working conditions. At the same time many institutions charged looking after victims with inadequate funding, poor design, and doctors and staff under misconceptions concerning the cause and cure for diseases.
Mount Hope was founded in 1840 by the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity and operated as an insane asylum. In 1946, it became the Seton Institute. Fear of hospitals in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century was so great that most cases were treated at home until the patient was near death. Hospital wards were generally squalid, overcrowded, and badly ventilated. We have seen many cases either in movies or history books. The mental, blind, and disabled were housed together with the ill. Private hospitals would not keep infectious patients so they were transferred to the local almshouse. In almshouse medical wards, little was done to quarantine patients with infectious diseases, who, in turn, could potentially spread to attending doctors, nurses, and other inmates.
In 1844 the Sisters of Charity under the Roman Catholic Church operated as a Hospital. The facility was accused of mistreatment and torture of patients. Nor were the sexes segregated, and prostitutes, often suffering from a variety of illnesses themselves, set up business in the wards with little interruption. As practice has seen the Catholic diocese would remover priest from their churches to prevent them from any scandal or civil punishment. Noted may were sent to these retreats for treatment mostly of sexual misconduct involving minors. People share bed with sometimes lying dead for hours before the corpses were removed. In the lying-in wards, women had a better chance of surviving childbirth by birthing at home with a midwife or physician than by giving birth in a one of the hospitals. Many retreats still operate around the world today from their web site.