The real cabbage patch kids - Cloning and Repopulation around the 1900s

Foxboro State Hospital in the neighboring town of Foxboro. It was an old world asylum that housed over 1000 "patients". Another neighboring town of Medfield also had a massive old world asylum that housed over 1000 as well. Back in 1900 (when the were filled to the brim) TWENTY PERCENT of the population of the area were locked up in the asylums. Were all these people "crazy" or were they the one’s who wouldn’t forget the pre reset "old world"?