Commissioner's policy statements, 1975-1981.

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Commissioner's policy statements, 1975-1981.

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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 policy statements are issued (since 1983 by the Division of Policy and Planning) to set standards in operations and delivery of services.

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Massachusetts. Department of Mental Health

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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...