Commissioner's intra-agency subject files, 1968-1983 (bulk 1972-1981).

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Commissioner's intra-agency subject files, 1968-1983 (bulk 1972-1981).

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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 intra-agency subject files function as the major repository for information relating to policy development, implementation, and monitoring.

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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...