Facility survey files, 1927-1965.

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Facility survey files, 1927-1965.

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Pursuant to MGLA c 19, the Dept. of Mental Health fulfills its responsibilities toward mentally ill persons in Massachusetts through a comprehensive program of services and facilities. (It exercised a similar function for the mentally retarded until 1986, when a separate Dept. of Mental Retardation was established.) Housing survey files were created by the department and its immediate predecessor to provide a source of information about the use of space in state-controlled mental health, mental retardation, and other facilities.

5 cubic ft. (4 record center cartons)

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Massachusetts. Department of Mental Health

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Programs and institutions for the mentally ill and retarded of Massachusetts were among the responsibilities successively of the Board of State Charities (St 1863, c 240), the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (St 1879, c 291), and the State Board of Lunacy and Charity (St 1886, c 101). They were then the sole responsibility successively of the State Board of Insanity (St 1898, c 433), the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases (St 1916, c 285), the Dept. of Mental Diseases (St 191...

Massachusetts. Dept. of Mental Diseases.

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Massachusetts. Dept. of Mental Health. Division of Quality Assurance.

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