Institutional registers, 1863-1947 (bulk 1863-1907).

Massachusetts. State Hospital (Tewksbury, Mass.)

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St 1852, c 275 authorized the building of three state almshouses for paupers without settlement in the Commonwealth as certified by overseers of the poor or other local authorities, each with a superintendent and three inspectors who could bind out minors as apprentices. St 1853, c 352 appropriated funds for almshouses in Bridgewater, Monson, and Tewksbury, which opened in 1854. St 1855, c 366 provided for recording by the almshouse superintendent of birth and deaths and the making...

Massachusetts. State Board of Lunacy and Charity

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In 1886 the Massachusetts State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity was renamed the State Board of Lunacy and Charity, while a separate State Board of Health was established. The State Board of Lunacy and Charity inherited all powers and duties of its predecessor except those vested in the newly established State Board of Health, i.e., general supervision and investigative powers over charitable, reformatory, and mental health institutions and some authority over the transfer and removal of pat...

Taunton Insane Hospital (Mass.)

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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-...

Hospital Cottages for Children (Baldwinville, Mass.)

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Massachusetts. State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity

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The Board of State Charities, which had oversight of charitable and correctional institutions in Massachusetts, 1863-1879, was succeeded in this function by the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity. From the description of F.B. Sanborn confidential letterbooks, 1868-1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 169983043 The State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity was established by St 1879, c 291 to have general supervision over all state charitable and reforma...

Westborough Insane Hospital (Mass.)

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Massachusetts. Board of State Charities

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The Board of State Charities and its successors from 1863 onward oversaw the Massachusetts state immigration and pauper relief functions, as well as the state's charitable and correctional institutions. The Massachusetts Infant Asylum, founded by F.B. Sanborn among others, was a private institution incorporated in 1867 to house abandoned and destitute infants. Infants were admitted aged nine months and under, and were discharged at two years, unless health conditions warranted a longer stay. Per...

Worcester Insane Asylum (Mass.)

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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. State Board of Insanity

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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-...

Worcester Insane Hospital (Mass.)

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Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind

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Boston Insane Hospital

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The Boston Lunatic Hospital was established as a municipal agency in 1839; it was renamed Boston Insane Hospital in 1897. It was made a Massachusetts state agency under the name Boston State Hospital in 1908 and closed in 1981. From the description of Commitment papers, 1848-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81313194 ...

Medfield Insane Asylum (Mass.)

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Northampton State Hospital (Mass.)

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Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded

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The Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850. It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925. From the description of Equipment and supplies reference files, 1899-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122506093 ...

Danvers Insane Hospital (Mass.)

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Massachusetts. State Colony for the Insane (Gardner, Mass.).

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Monson State Hospital (Mass.)

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Massachusetts. Dept. of Mental Diseases.

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Foxborough State Hospital (Mass.)

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