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TIL The first public institution in the United States dedicated exclusively to the treatment of the mentally ill was the Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds in Williamsburg, Virginia (now Eastern State Hospital), incorporated in 1768 and admitting its first patients in 1773.

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