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Jacksonville State Hospital (Jacksonville, Ill.). Commitment papers, 1851-1943.

Title: Commitment papers, 1851-1943.

Jacksonville patient commitment documents from county courts include jury or commission answers to interrogatory concerning patient's mental condition; jury verdict or commission case findings report; and warrant of commitment. Occasionally included are patient medical examinations; superintendent's patient receipt acknowledgement; and patient expense bonds. Information provided includes patient's name, age, sex, race, marital status, occupation, birthplace, town and county of residence; United States and Illinois residency length; parent information (e.g., names; birthplaces; death age; education; literacy); patient or family medical history; assigned insanity cause; current attack description; patient physical and mental condition at judicial inquiry; financial ability statement; juror or commissioner names; presiding judge; hearing date; filing date with clerk; and person transporting patient to the hospital. A small number of commitment papers (1872-1906) concern patients initially admitted to state hospitals at Anna, Elgin, Kankakee, Peoria, and Watertown who were subsequently transferred to Jacksonville.

ArchivalResource: 49 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36677610 View

Illinois. Board of Mental Health Commissioners. Administrative records, 1929-1971.

Title: Administrative records, 1929-1971.

General file contains wide range of material including minutes of Board meetings, 1929-1973; annual reports of Departments of Public Welfare and Mental Health; Departmental budgets, ca. 1951-1971; reports, surveys and investigations of state mental institutions, including mateial from Board's 1962 investigation of Anna State Hospital; correspondence of Board's executive secretary concerning such items as pending legislation, bond issue appropriations, Departmental personnel problems, investigations and speaking engagements; promotional material and publications of Departments of Public Welfare and Mental Health and federal, state and private organizations active in mental health field; Departmental emmoranda; manuals of administrative procedure; and photographs of inmates and employees of Lincoln State School and Jacksonville State Hospital taken during 1963 legislative tour.

ArchivalResource: 30 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37002407 View