Hospitals--Mississippi

During the nineteenth century, Mississippi operated a sporadic hospital system, which was primarily focused on creating state institutions to provide mental health care for people imprisoned in the state's penitentiary in Jackson and the Mississippi State Hospital, which operated in Jackson from 1855 to 1926 when it was moved to Rankin County. Otherwise medical and mental health care was typically handled locally, especially for enslaved people on plantations. ("Whitfield (Mississippi State Hospital)," Mississippi Encyclopedia) Here, you can find references to hospital care in Mississippi where the name of the hospital is unknown.