Deputy commissioner's special investigation files, 1971-1973 (bulk 1973).

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Deputy commissioner's special investigation files, 1971-1973 (bulk 1973).

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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.) As delegated by the commissioner of mental health (MGLA c 19, s 3), the deputy commissioner was involved in an investigation into the deaths of patients at Metropolitan State Hospital in 1973. Deputy commissioner's special investigation files consist of correspondence, memorandums, and reports generated during the investigation.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives

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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...

Metropolitan State Hospital (Waltham, Mass.).

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Walter E. Fernald State School (Waltham, Mass.).

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