After Jeremiah's death, the dreadful decision was made to move the patients into asylum A-88 as quickly as possible even though many basic features were far from complete.  The lack of an adequate sanitation system led to a severe outbreak of cholera among the patients and staff.  Twelve patients and three nurses died within the first six months.  At one point, unsupervised patients were asked to share rooms in the completed section of the asylum.  Eight perished before daybreak.  Since the suicide rate is near 100% for these special patients, their access to potentially dangerous materials was always restricted.  Apparently no one considered classifying the patients themselves as "potentially dangerous materials."  In the privacy of the night, they drew straws to see who would play the executioner.

Just short of the second anniversary of A-88's first occupancy, the asylum was complete.  The medical superintendent on staff was an elderly man named John Henry.  He was offered the position to head the asylum, and he accepted.  Unfortunately, the job proved to be too stressful.  Five months later he simply wandered off the grounds, never to return.  Several government officials desperately tried to locate him.  I would like to believe they were concerned for his wellbeing, but I'm sure the truth runs more along the line that they wished to keep him quiet.   John Henry was never found, although the popular rumor was that he spent the remainder of his life as a farmer somewhere in the Midwest.  The only photograph of him here at the asylum was almost destroyed in a fire years later.  The two women seated with him are unknown.