Hospital inspection register, 1898-1903.

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Hospital inspection register, 1898-1903.

In addition to formal visits made twice a year in accordance with St 1898, c 433, members of the State Board of Insanity made routine visits to hospitals for the mentally ill to monitor specific cases and concerns. Hospital inspection register is a record of these visits.

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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-...