Krankzinnigengesticht (Sabang), a psychiatric hospital, appears in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in connection with Aceh. Psychiatric hospital near the road to the kazematten at Sabang.
Type
psychiatric hospital
Description
Psychiatric hospital near the road to the kazematten at Sabang. Houses ~1300 patients. Worktherapy (werktherapie) is applied with favorable results. Staff: 2 doctors, 4 European and 34 native nurses/verplegers, plus 150 oppasseressen/oppassers (attendants).
Significance
Krankzinnigengesticht (Sabang) is recorded by Jongejan as part of the institutional landscape of Aceh.
See Also
Source
Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 47.