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To Visit a Similar Spot: Medfield State Hospital, 45 Hospital Road, Medfield, MA 02052

Episode Source Material: 

• History of Psychiatric Hospitals • Nursing, History, and Health Care • Penn Nursing
• Dr. Joseph H. Ladd School
• Days of Darkness
• From the archives: FINAL DAY: Ladd Center shuts down quietly
• The Fall of an Icon, the End of an Era
• The Asylum Antiquarian – Medium
• https://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss231sg1.htm
• Something About Snow. “Well, I had thought of giving you… | by Jason Carpenter | The Asylum Antiquarian
• https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2012-01-06/the-psychology-of-ruin-porn
• One of the Forgotten Two Percent
• Ladd School 25 Years After, Series November 16
• The Abandoned Ladd School (Exeter, RI)
• To Manage the Darkness: Why We Are Drawn to What We Fear
• A God Damed Shame: The Demolition of the Ladd School : RhodeIsland
• Former Ladd School property was becoming problematic
• True Hauntings of America: The Haunting of the Ladd School
• The World’s Most Haunted Places: The Joseph Ladd School 
• Detroitism – Guernica
• Providence ranked as one of worst cities in US for people with disabilities
• Feeble-minded
• Eugenics
• Eugenics in the United States
• Rhode Island Eugenics/Eugenic Sterilizations