Also, I know Touro was trying to identify the graves in the Jewish Cemetery. She spend time teaching me sew looking out the window at people pass, fixing our hair and feeding me and was always appropriately interactive, sweet and kind.. All of Central Islip State Hospital records are located in the New York State Archives, series 20200. Why if she was admitted for TB was she then given hysterectomy. The projects cost is estimated at more than $100 million because of the work required to rehabilitate the buildings. Someone in the family (he had 12 older siblings) said they were told he had "run away to join the circus as a hired hand". You need a Find a Grave account to continue. March 2022 In order to be granted access, one must write to a letter requesting disclosure to the Office of Mental Health (OMH) at: In the letter, Ill be including the probable admission time, why we believe she was a patient there, and proof that I am indeed her descendant. These people are fighting to get records released (and NOT stuck behind a paywall). He told me that when he was age 6, 1933, his mother was taken away from the home while he was screaming. Any help would be appreciated. There is a cemetery near the old buildings still that has mainly unmarked graves, but Touro college was working to help people identify their family members. He died at CIH on 10 December 1904. C.I.S.H. My great aunt would be 124 years old and died 50 years ago. These registers were created by mental health facilities to document patient admissions and discharges. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I'll update if there's any news! Fink, Paul. I wish I knew more! I sent them to Albany for review. Archaeologists surveyed the area prior to digging the graves to ensure that no unmarked graves would be disturbed in the I think it is terrible that records cannot be released for 100 years. January 2022 One of my father's uncles was committed (via the Bellevue route someone mentions earlier) and lived there 36 years. If you are a family member of the deceased patient and the information from the patients record is relevant to your own health care, we can release the information to your physician, provided the physician submits a written request to us on your behalf, once kinship has been established. She died there in 1951. so thats what i think the baseball field or fields were built for. My mother tried getting her great grandfather's records from Pilgrim in 2002. https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/records-request/22/. The project aims to help restore the larger cemetery as well. The family here knew of a child he had fathered whilst in the states from his letters, but no-one knew what happened to him. I have been very sad about the fact that my Aunt Rebecca was put away. February 2019 We DO have to look at it with open eyes and minds. September 2021 I too am shocked at the interest many of us have in long departed ancestors. I live in California. JewishGen USA Database B1974 New York State Office of Mental . I see no rationale for the secrecy surrounding these records. It bothers me that my g.grandmother was placed there, and never heard from again. The hospital opened on October 1, 1931 as a close knit community with its own police and fire department, courts, post office, a LIRR station, power plant, potter's field, swinery, cemetery, water tower and houses for doctors, psychiatrists, and asylum administrators. 25. Thsenterprises@aol.com. Dewitt Clinton that a gentleman name Thomas Eddy was asked by the Governor to find a way for the state prisons and hospitals to be more efficient and conducive to rehabilitation and recovery. central islip state hospital cemetery & records My great grandmother's uncle's life partner or wife, Mathilda Massy was admitted to Central Islip in 1901 & died there in the mid 1930's I assume she must be buried there too. His index card had visitor names on the back of it too! !sign Mary Ann Gordon Branch. I am also a past patients relative searching for any info on my grandfather. These farm communities had become so productive they were putting funds INTO the state coffers.