Private facility licensing and inspection files, 1917-1976.

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Private facility licensing and inspection files, 1917-1976.

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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.) Pursuant to GL 1921, c 123, s 33 (currently cf. MGLA c 19, s 19 and c 19B, s 15), the department and its predecessors have been authorized annually to license private facilities for the care and treatment of mentally ill, epileptic, and mentally retarded persons, and alcohol and drug abusers. Private facility licensing and inspection files were created by the department's inspector of facilities (also called in the 1960s the director of hospital inspection) and relate to private facilities serving mentally handicapped children and adults, including mentally retarded, autistic, and blind persons.

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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...

Massachusetts. Dept. of Mental Diseases.

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Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases

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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), State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (St 1879, c 291), and 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), Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases (St 1916, c 285), Dept. of Mental Diseases (St 1919, c 350, ss 79-...