Matteawan Hospital for the Criminally Insane
Beacon, New York, United States.
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Thursday 18th of April 1957 (x) — Electrician George Metesky is declared "hopeless and incurable both mentally and physically" and committed Expected to live only a few weeks due to his advanced tuberculosis Metesky had to be carried into the hospital. After a year and a half of treatment, his health had improved, and a newspaper article written fourteen years later described the 68-year-old Metesky as "vigorous and healthy looking".