Historic prints and negatives, [ca. 1922-1924]
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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...
Syracuse Developmental Center
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The Syracuse State School was renamed the Syracuse Developmental Center (SDC) in 1973. It provided institutional services for persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities requiring the most intensive level of care. The Syracuse Developmental Disabilities Services Office (SDDSO) was one of a statewide network of Developmental Disabilities Services Offices (DDSOs) that provided programs and services for the care, treatment, rehabilitation, education, and training of the mentally ...
New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
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Prior to 1978, the Dept. of Mental Hygiene was responsible for various services to the mentally disabled and mentally ill and for treatment oversight. It received patient admission lists from various public and private treatment facilities throughout New York State. Despite the 1978 split of the department into the Office of Mental Health (OMH) and the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD), facilities under the jurisdiction of OMRDD continue...
Syracuse State School for Mental Defectives (N.Y.)
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