Warrants for transfer of prison inmates to state insane hospitals, 1884-1909.

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Warrants for transfer of prison inmates to state insane hospitals, 1884-1909.

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Series consists of copies of warrants as printed forms with data from the original warrants, as maintained by the various state boards operating under the 1880 statute cited above. For copies, 1862-1885, see: Massachusetts. Public Records Division. Pardon and commutation books, 1862-1990 ((M-Ar)332). For original warrants and related documents see: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Requests and warrants for transfer of prison inmates to state insane hospitals, 1854-1909 ((M-Ar)157X)

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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Massachusetts. State Board of Insanity

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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), State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (St 1879, c 291), and 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), Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases (St 1916, c 285), Dept. of Mental Diseases (St 1919, c 350, ss 79-...

Massachusetts. State Board of Lunacy and Charity

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In 1886 the Massachusetts State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity was renamed the State Board of Lunacy and Charity, while a separate State Board of Health was established. The State Board of Lunacy and Charity inherited all powers and duties of its predecessor except those vested in the newly established State Board of Health, i.e., general supervision and investigative powers over charitable, reformatory, and mental health institutions and some authority over the transfer and removal of pat...

Massachusetts. State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity

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The Board of State Charities, which had oversight of charitable and correctional institutions in Massachusetts, 1863-1879, was succeeded in this function by the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity. From the description of F.B. Sanborn confidential letterbooks, 1868-1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 169983043 The State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity was established by St 1879, c 291 to have general supervision over all state charitable and reforma...