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Umedalen is a residential area in
Umeå Umeå ( , , , locally ; South Westrobothnian: ;). fi, Uumaja; sju, Ubmeje; sma, Upmeje; se, Ubmi) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, U ...
, Sweden, located about 5 kilometers west of the central town.


History

A mental hospital was built in the area in 1934. It was closed in 1986 and the premises are now used for other activities. The residential area was built mostly between the mid-1980s and late 1990s. One of the most infamous cases of psychosurgery mishap involved the state-funded Mental Hospital of Umedalen (Sweden), which conducted many lobotomies under a three-year span resulting in 68% of patients died from post-operational complications. The acceptable rate of death around during its operative years was two percent, yet Umedalen had a mortality rate of three to seventeen percent. File:Umedalsallén 31.JPG, Umedalsallén 31 File:Umedalen Sean Henry 01.jpg, Umeå sculpture park File:Spa husbild augusti.jpg, IKSU spa


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{{Commons category-inline, Umedalen
Umedalen
at Umeå Municipality Umeå