ILLINOIS ASYLUM FOR THE INCURABLE INSANE
An institution founded under an act of the General Assembly passed at the session of 1895, making an appropriation of $65,000 for the purchase of a site and the erection of buildings with capacity for the accommodation of 200 patients.
The institution was located by the Trustees at Bartonville, a suburb of the city of Peoria and the erection of buildings begun in 1896. Later these were found to be located on ground which had been undermined in excavating for coal, and their removal to a different location was under taken in 1898.
The institution is intended to relieve the other hospitals for the insane by the reception of patients deemed incurable.