Monthly institutional restraint and seclusion reports, 1972-1976.

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Monthly institutional restraint and seclusion reports, 1972-1976.

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Pursuant to MGLA c 19, the Dept. of Mental Health fulfills its responsibilities toward mentally ill persons in Massachusetts through a comprehensive program of services and facilities. (It exercised a similar function for the mentally retarded until 1986, when a separate Dept. of Mental Retardation was established.) In this connection the department was responsible for monitoring the use of restraint and seclusion at facilities under its jurisdiction per MGLA c 123, s 21 (St 1970, c 888, s 4) and regulations. Monthly institutional restraint and seclusion reports were completed by individual facilities and returned to the central departmental office where they were reviewed and collated. (They were received at the departmental deputy commissioner's office as well as by the department's Quality of Care Review Team.)

2.85 cubic ft. (2 record center cartons and 1 doc. box)

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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), the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (St 1879, c 291), and the 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), the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases (St 1916, c 285), the Dept. of Mental Diseases (St 191...