At their peak in 1959, the hospitals housed 37,489 people, but by then, mental hospitals had acquired a bad reputation as snake pits, treating their patients as inmates and doing little to treat their illnesses.
In 2004, 37 years after LPS was passed, voters passed Proposition 63, which placed an additional tax on incomes over $1 million and dedicated proceeds to local mental health services.
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