Restraint and seclusion reports, 1952-1967

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Restraint and seclusion reports, 1952-1967

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This series consists of data used to compile reports submitted to the Dept. of Mental Hygiene by psychiatric institution directors and consisting of separate daily average numbers of patients in camisole restraint (straitjackets), restraining sheets, and seclusion. A 1952 directive from Newton Bigelow, Commissioner of the Dept. of Mental Health required all mental health facilities to record daily the number of patients in each type of seclusion or restraint. The Dept. of Mental Hygiene used these figures to provide each facility director with a record monthly showing where his or her institution stood with respect to the average for other institutions in the department.

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New York State Archives

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