Annual reports, 1953-1973.

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Annual reports, 1953-1973.

As a residential treatment center and educational facility for mentally retarded persons in Massachusetts, the Walter E. Fernald State School is required to prepare and submit annual reports to its parent agency, as did its immediate predecessor, initially to the Board of Education (St 1886, c 298). These reports prepared by the superintendent contain statistical data and summary information on the school's activities over the past year and serve as the basis for the published annual report of the trustees.

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Walter E. Fernald State School

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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 Movement of population log, <1920-1977> (bulk <1960-1977>). (Unknown). WorldCat re...