The cow barn at St Elizabeths burned on Saturday.
The billowing smoke that streamed across the District on Saturday afternoon served as more than evidence of a fierce fire. In a way it also told a part of the story of evolution in the treatment of mental illness.The fire blazed on the campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Southeast Washington, the first federally operated psychiatric hospital in the United States, and a place where innovative techniques were introduced in psychiatric treatment.
The building that burned, according to the D.C. fire department, was a large wooden barn. Histories indicate that the barn had housed cows. It was part of an agricultural operation that not only was aimed at making the hospital self-sufficient but also represented and symbolized a departure from the policy and practice of warehousing the mentally ill.It stood for efforts at treatment that involved offering a salubrious environment, with fresh air and serene surroundings.
After being alerted to the blazing barn about five minutes to 4 p.m., arriving firefighters found it “well involved” in flame, said D.C. Fire Chief John A. Donnelly Sr.The structure had been vacant and boarded up “for a long time,” said D.C. fire department spokesman Vito Maggiolo. The blaze “pretty much gutted” it, he said.
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