Commissioner's intergovernmental subject files, 1979-1985 (bulk 1980-1981).

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Commissioner's intergovernmental subject files, 1979-1985 (bulk 1980-1981).

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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.) The commissioner of mental health exercises supervision and control of the department. Commissioner's intergovernmental subject files consist of correspondence, memorandums, and reports to and from other state agencies that document their interrelationships.

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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...