Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1940-1941.

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Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1940-1941.

Correspondence from Slagle, director of mental hygiene occupational therapy for the Department, and from Boyan, secretary to Slagle, including copies of letters to and from Blaisdell, medical superintendent.

6 items (7 leaves).

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New York (State). Dept. of Mental Hygiene.

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For the first fifty years of the State's history, local governments and private agencies were responsible for the care of New York State's mentally ill. In 1836 (Chapter 82), the legislature authorized the construction of the State's first mental health institution, the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, which opened in 1843. By 1890, the State had opened nine additional asylums for the mentally ill. Local governments were responsible for expenses of inmates at these asylums and continu...

Slagle, Eleanor C.

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Blaisdell, R. E.

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Boyan, Elizabeth R.

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