Background
Clarence Haviland was born on August 15, 1875, in Spencertown, New York, United States, the son of Dr. Norman H. Haviland, a physician, and Henrietta (Newman) Haviland.
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Clarence Haviland was born on August 15, 1875, in Spencertown, New York, United States, the son of Dr. Norman H. Haviland, a physician, and Henrietta (Newman) Haviland.
While Clarence was a boy the family moved to Fulton, New York, where he attended the public schools and graduated from the local high school in 1893. He at once entered the medical school of Syracuse University from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1896.
In1897 Clarence Haviland became an interne at the Manhattan State Hospital, New York City, and was promoted in succession to junior physician and second assistant physician, under Dr. William Mabon. After thirteen years of service here he was promoted in 1910 to first assistant physician at King’s Park State Hospital. In 1914 he prepared at the request of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene a survey of the care of the insane in Pennsylvania, which was published in book form the following year (Treatment and Care of the Insane in Pennsylvania, 1915). In 1915 he left the King’s Park hospital to take charge of the Connecticut State Hospital at Middletown, Connecticut. During his connection with this institution, from 1916 to 1921, he was chairman of the executive committee of the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene.
In 1921 Haviland was made president of the Connecticut Conference for Social Work, but in the same year returned to New York to serve until 1926 as medical member and chairman of the New York State Hospital Commission. On July 1, 1926, Haviland became superintendent of the Manhattan State Hospital. In 1927 he was appointed professor of clinical psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. On December 3, 1929, accompanied by Mrs. Haviland, he sailed from New York for a Mediterranean cruise; in Cairo he was attacked by influenza-pneumonia, and although he was treated by American medical men at the Anglo-American Hospital there, he succumbed to the infection.
Although Haviland lacked the academic training received by many of his contemporaries in modern psychiatry, he was, nevertheless, an able representative of that school. Influential only after he became a member of the New York State Hospital Board, he is given the major share of credit for various advances made during his few years' incumbency. Among his favorite projects were state psychiatric clinics at the Medical Center, New York, and at Syracuse University. He was greatly interested in mental hygiene and all forms of social prophylaxis, including eugenics. He was one of the editors (1923 - 1930) of the Modern Hospital, and the author of a number of professional papers.
During his career Clarence Haviland did a lot for improving the care of the insane and for prevention of insanity. In the belief that mass insanity could be benefited by occupational therapy, he succeeded in having such treatment standardized throughout all the state hospitals. He caused die quality of service rendered in the state hospitals by doctors, nurses, and attendants to be investigated, and instituted courses of instruction for attendants and nurses, and a series of mental diagnostic clinics for the enlightenment of the staff physicians. The mental clinics were extended to include problem children. He also formulated a building program designed to prevent overcrowding and give the best fire protection, in accordance with which plan two new state hospitals were constructed and additions were made to others.
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Haviland was president of the American Psychiatric Association.
On June 26, 1908, Haviland married Amy Amelia Miller.
