DeJarnette argued that mentally disabled people should be sterilized because it amounted to a crime and a burden on society to allow them to procreate. In his 1908 annual report he recommended that the state prohibit marriage among the insane, alcoholics, epileptics, syphilitics, people with tuberculosis, and the feebleminded. In 1932 adjacent to Western State he opened a self-supporting, semiprivate mental hospital for middle-income patients, which two years later the General Assembly renamed the DeJarnette State Sanatorium.DeJarnette was in the vanguard of Virginia's eugenic sterilization movement.
During his administration the hospital expanded in size, including a number of buildings and additions DeJarnette designed himself and one of which bore his name. Reflecting the reform ethos of the Progressive period, he revamped the hospital's therapeutic standards, banned physical restraints, unlocked many patients' rooms, and instituted more sympathetic treatment. She discontinued practicing medicine after their marriage and died on December 7, 1947.DeJarnette became the first president of the Augusta County Medical Society in 1904, and in 1906 he was appointed superintendent of Western State Hospital. On February 14, 1906, he married a colleague and fellow physician, Chertsey Hopkins. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home for a year before joining the staff of Western Lunatic Asylum (after 1894 Western State Hospital) in Staunton. He considered himself the genetically gifted descendant of colonial Virginians and practiced at Richmond's R. She educated DeJarnette and prepared him to enter the Medical College of Virginia, from which he graduated in 1888. After the American Civil War (1861-1865), his mother wrote stories, many in the then-popular Negro dialect genre, for national periodicals, including Century Illustrated Magazine and Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. DeJarnette, served in both the United States and Confederate States House of Representatives. He was the son of Elliott Hawes DeJarnette, formerly a captain in the Confederate States Army, and Evelyn May Magruder DeJarnette. media_player?mets_filename=evr8284mets.xml to verify autosJoseph Spencer DeJarnette was born on September 29, 1866, in Spotsylvania County. GARENTEED TO PASS ANY AND ALL PSA DNA AUTHENTICATING. THIS IS PIECES OF STAUNTON, VA HISTORY THAT THEY WOULD PREFER WE ALL FORGET.
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