Minutes of Committee on After Care, 1906-1938.

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Minutes of Committee on After Care, 1906-1938.

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This series consists of meeting minutes of the Willard State Hospital Committee on Mental Hygiene and After Care. Members of the committee were mostly private citizens interested in the well being of patients after they were discharged from Willard State Hospital . Committee members attempted to visit or otherwise contact former patients in their homes and report to the committee on their conditions. The minutes of the earliest meetings are largely taken up with establishing the goals and policies of the committee and determining the roles to be taken by members. Later minutes typically include date of meeting; members present; procedures of order; summaries of addresses by outside speakers; and reports of the members on former patients contacted in their districts.

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New York State Archives

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