Patients Play Badminton In Ypsilanti State Hospital Gymnasium, January 1937
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Ann Arbor News, February 27, 1937
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Badminton Banishes Bad Dreams - Sports are included among curative means at state hospitals. Interest in them wins patients away from the fantasies of mental illness and helps to restore a normal relationship with real life. They are prescribed with a view to their beneficial effects on patients, just as medicines and treatments are prescribed in hospitals for physical ailments. This picture was taken in Ypsilanti State hospital gymnasium, the identity of patients being concealed through work of an artist who retouched it. This gymnasium is equipment desired in all hospitals, but lacking in most of them.
Ann Arbor News, February 27, 1937
Caption
Badminton Banishes Bad Dreams - Sports are included among curative means at state hospitals. Interest in them wins patients away from the fantasies of mental illness and helps to restore a normal relationship with real life. They are prescribed with a view to their beneficial effects on patients, just as medicines and treatments are prescribed in hospitals for physical ailments. This picture was taken in Ypsilanti State hospital gymnasium, the identity of patients being concealed through work of an artist who retouched it. This gymnasium is equipment desired in all hospitals, but lacking in most of them.
Year
1937
Month
January
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14
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