Registers of patients in private hospitals, 1884-1914 (bulk 1894-1914).

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Registers of patients in private hospitals, 1884-1914 (bulk 1894-1914).

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The State Board of Lunacy and Charity gathered information about patients in private mental hospitals, presumably under the authority of St 1867, c 243, which required data from private institutions receiving state aid. St 1898, c 433 placed private mental hospitals directly under the authority of the State Board of Insanity. Registers of patients in private hospitals were created by these and succeeding bodies to track and report on mentally ill persons in private care. Vols. 1 and 2 list patients at various private hospitals and include date of hospital license. Information includes whether patient is sane or insane, inpatient registration no., name, age, sex, marital status, birthplace, residence, occupation, admitting authority, from where received, date of admission, date of discharge, nature of discharge, and disposition. Vol. 3 lists patients at the McLean Asylum for the Insane, known from 1892 as McLean Hospital. While registers were used between 1890 and 1919, admission data predates 1890 and concludes in 1914.

0.5 cubic ft. (3 v.)Copies: Partial microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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McLean Hospital

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McLean Asylum for the Insane

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Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases

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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 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...