Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded

Dates:
Active 1898
Active 1978

Biographical notes:

The Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850. It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925.

From the description of Equipment and supplies reference files, 1899-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122506093

From the description of Quarterly census reports, 1869-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122372722

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Subjects:

  • Mental retardation facilities
  • Mental retardation facilities patients

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  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Waltham (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Waltham (as recorded)

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