Retreat for the Insane at Hartford

found: Its The thirty-second annual report of the officers of the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, Conn., 1856.

found: MWA/NAIP files(hdg.: Retreat for the Insane at Hartford; usage: Retreat for the Insane at Hartford; Retreat for the Insane; note: opened 4/1/1824 as Connecticut Retreat for the Insane; 1841 name changed to Retreat for the Insane at Hartford; between 1901 and 1939 name changed to Institute of Living)

found: Mad Yankees, c2003:t.p. (Hartford Retreat for the Insane) front cover flap, etc. (opened in 1824, and was the first hospital of any kind in Connecticut, as well as the only private mental asylum in the nation founded by a State medical society; Connecticut Retreat for the Insane at Hartford; name changed to the Institute of Living in 1939; became a wholly integrated division of Hartford Hospital in 1994)