DR. JOSEPH ALLISON REED.
Dr. Joseph Allison Reed, superintendent of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital at Dixmont, died December 6, 1884, after an illness of several years; for a year before his death he had been unable to leave his room.
He was born in Washington, Pa., December 31, 1823, and was in the 61st year at the time of his death. He was educated at Washington College, and became Master in Arts in 1842. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College in 1847. He settled in Allegheny and became especially successful in the treatment of mental disorders. Owing to this success, in 1857 he was solicited to take charge of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, which needed a competent executive head. He accepted the position and in a year placed the institution on a sound financial basis. After seven years as physician-in-charge he became superintendent of the insane department, and held the position until his death.
On several occasions he had desired to resign because of ill health, but the directors refused to accept his resignation; at a meeting of the Executive Board of the hospital, held a week before his death, he was given a six-months' leave of absence, with the hope that complete rest and freedom from anxiety might so improve his health as to enable him to resume his duties.
Until incapacitated by sickness he was an active worker and deeply interested in everything connected with the welfare of the patients under his charge.
Dr. Joseph Allison Reed, superintendent of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital at Dixmont, died December 6, 1884, after an illness of several years; for a year before his death he had been unable to leave his room.
He was born in Washington, Pa., December 31, 1823, and was in the 61st year at the time of his death. He was educated at Washington College, and became Master in Arts in 1842. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College in 1847. He settled in Allegheny and became especially successful in the treatment of mental disorders. Owing to this success, in 1857 he was solicited to take charge of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, which needed a competent executive head. He accepted the position and in a year placed the institution on a sound financial basis. After seven years as physician-in-charge he became superintendent of the insane department, and held the position until his death.
On several occasions he had desired to resign because of ill health, but the directors refused to accept his resignation; at a meeting of the Executive Board of the hospital, held a week before his death, he was given a six-months' leave of absence, with the hope that complete rest and freedom from anxiety might so improve his health as to enable him to resume his duties.
Until incapacitated by sickness he was an active worker and deeply interested in everything connected with the welfare of the patients under his charge.
DR. JOSEPH ALLISON REED.
Dr. Joseph Allison Reed, superintendent of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital at Dixmont, died December 6, 1884, after an illness of several years; for a year before his death he had been unable to leave his room.
He was born in Washington, Pa., December 31, 1823, and was in the 61st year at the time of his death. He was educated at Washington College, and became Master in Arts in 1842. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College in 1847. He settled in Allegheny and became especially successful in the treatment of mental disorders. Owing to this success, in 1857 he was solicited to take charge of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, which needed a competent executive head. He accepted the position and in a year placed the institution on a sound financial basis. After seven years as physician-in-charge he became superintendent of the insane department, and held the position until his death.
On several occasions he had desired to resign because of ill health, but the directors refused to accept his resignation; at a meeting of the Executive Board of the hospital, held a week before his death, he was given a six-months' leave of absence, with the hope that complete rest and freedom from anxiety might so improve his health as to enable him to resume his duties.
Until incapacitated by sickness he was an active worker and deeply interested in everything connected with the welfare of the patients under his charge.
Dr. Joseph Allison Reed, superintendent of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital at Dixmont, died December 6, 1884, after an illness of several years; for a year before his death he had been unable to leave his room.
He was born in Washington, Pa., December 31, 1823, and was in the 61st year at the time of his death. He was educated at Washington College, and became Master in Arts in 1842. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College in 1847. He settled in Allegheny and became especially successful in the treatment of mental disorders. Owing to this success, in 1857 he was solicited to take charge of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, which needed a competent executive head. He accepted the position and in a year placed the institution on a sound financial basis. After seven years as physician-in-charge he became superintendent of the insane department, and held the position until his death.
On several occasions he had desired to resign because of ill health, but the directors refused to accept his resignation; at a meeting of the Executive Board of the hospital, held a week before his death, he was given a six-months' leave of absence, with the hope that complete rest and freedom from anxiety might so improve his health as to enable him to resume his duties.
Until incapacitated by sickness he was an active worker and deeply interested in everything connected with the welfare of the patients under his charge.
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SUPT & PHYSICIAN
WEST PENNA HOSPITAL
DIXMONT
1857 - 1884
"IN AS MUCH AS YE HAVE DONE IT
UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE
YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME."
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