page_title: Mombello Psychiatric Hospital
section_title: Gazzetta del Manicomio della Provincia di Milano Mombello
hierarchical_section_title: Mombello Psychiatric Hospital / History / Gazzetta del Manicomio della Provincia di Milano Mombello
caption_attribution_description: English: Internal journal of the Psychiatric hospital in Mombello
context_page_description: The Mombello Psychiatric Hospital, also known as the "Giuseppe Antonini of Limbiate Psychiatric Hospital", was the largest asylum in Italy, covering 40,000 m² with multiple buildings located as to form a "small village". It is located in the Italian commune of Mombello, in the administrative district of Monza and Brianza, Lombard Province. Officially inaugurated in 1878, it was the last psychiatric hospital to be closed after the approval of the Legge Basaglia in 1978.
context_section_description: The journal was created in 1880 and was published until 1905 every two months and was shipped free to all the communes of the Province of Milan. For private people, it was possible to subscribe to the journal and receive it at their home address. The newspaper highlighted the movement of admitted people inside the asylum during the period of a  year: from January to December, there were registered the incoming, the outcoming and the deaths of the patients. 
  In 1887 the Gazzetta reported on Mombello's presence at the International Exhibition of Equipment (for grinding, baking and other associated industries) which was held in Milan in that year. The hospital's attendance at the event underlined and emphasized the connection between psychiatry and hygiene, along with psychiatrists' engagement with the education of the population about socially important health issues, such as Pellagra.
  In the hygiene room at the Exposition, several pictures drawn by a patient of the hospital regarding the different phases of the skin disease pellagrous Erythema, were shown. About 400 free copies of the book Dialoghi written by the writers Edoardo Gonzales and Giovanni Battista Verga (Andrea's nephew) were given to visitors, in order to promote new ways of preventing the Pellagra disease.
  Gonzales also presented a packed bread with wheat and potato flour. 
  The "Gazzetta" was also used to report the internal situation, mental issues and deaths occurred over a specific time, other than general problems faced by the doctors, the directors and the psychiatrists of the hospital itself.
caption: Gazzetta del Manicomio della Provincia di Milano in Mombello, edition of October - December 1904
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