"This book contains the admission record for the first 888 patients admitted to the Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia. The hospital, the state's first mental institution, was authorized in 1837 and opened to patients at the end of 1842. Each patient record begins with a list of basic facts, with their name, county of origin, age, marital status, and other facts depending on the particular patient. The introductory information is followed...

While these abstracts are representative of Georgia's extant 47 counties in 1820, those counties within the closest proximity of Milledgeville are the most frequently cited. The contiguous counties are: Hancock, Jones, Putnam, Washington, and Wilkinson.