Legal files of the Office of Counsel, 1972-1986.

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Legal files of the Office of Counsel, 1972-1986.

These files were generated by the department's Office of Counsel which acts as such to both the Commissioners of Mental Health and of Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8270767

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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...

New York (State). Office of Mental Health. Office of Counsel

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Under the provisions of Chapter 978 of the Laws of 1977 the Department of Mental Hygiene was reorganized into three autonomous offices: the Office of Mental Health, the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, and the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse. From the description of Legal files of the Office of Counsel, 1972-1986. (New York State Archives). WorldCat record id: 81814873 ...

New York State Association for Retarded Children

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