Requests and warrants for transfer of prison inmates to state insane hospitals, 1854-1909 (bulk 1885-1909)

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Requests and warrants for transfer of prison inmates to state insane hospitals, 1854-1909 (bulk 1885-1909)

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Series consists of files administered by the state secretary that may include petition from local official requesting removal, letter from state inspector in lunacy (see above) and institution physician, mittimus from district court, and warrant ordering removal of the insane prisoner, until 1880 directed to the sheriff, and later to prison officials holding the prisoner. Series also includes warrants for removal from the State Almshouse at Tewksbury to the State Almshouse at Bridgewater because of overcrowding, 1854-1856; also from East Cambridge Lunatic Hospital, 1855. For copies of warrants as maintained by the various state boards see: Massachusetts. State Board of Insanity. Warrants for transfer of prison inmates to state insane hospitals, 1884-1909 ((M-Ar)994X)

2.1 cubic ft. (6 doc. box)

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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