Patient case files, 1950-1985.

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Patient case files, 1950-1985.

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This series consists of case files of patients who died while residing at Willowbrook. The case files document patients' admission, treatment, therapy, and education. Case files typically contain admission phase sheets; records of visitors and correspondents; ward admission records; legal admission records; psychiatrist's psychological reports; Willowbrook school reports; physical examination information; progress notes by doctor; social service notes by case social worker; laboratory notes; consultation requests (for x-rays, etc.) signed by doctor; prescription records; nurses notes; dental and weight charts; medication records; clothing lists; and correspondence from other institutions.

246 cu. ft.

New York State Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8351753

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New York (State). Dept. of Mental Hygiene.

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For the first fifty years of the State's history, local governments and private agencies were responsible for the care of New York State's mentally ill. In 1836 (Chapter 82), the legislature authorized the construction of the State's first mental health institution, the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, which opened in 1843. By 1890, the State had opened nine additional asylums for the mentally ill. Local governments were responsible for expenses of inmates at these asylums and continu...

Willowbrook State School

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New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

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Prior to 1978, the Dept. of Mental Hygiene was responsible for various services to the mentally disabled and mentally ill and for treatment oversight. It received patient admission lists from various public and private treatment facilities throughout New York State. Despite the 1978 split of the department into the Office of Mental Health (OMH) and the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD), facilities under the jurisdiction of OMRDD continue...

Staten Island Developmental Center

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Willowbrook State School was constructed in the late 1930s as a model school for the mentally retarded. Willowbrook's population differed considerably from that of other state schools. It was the only school to receive children under age 5 (it had up to 90 residents during the 1950s). Willowbrook received persons from New York City or by transfer from other state schools. Most of the transfers were severely retarded, handicapped, and/or undisciplined cases. Furthermore, Willowbrook ...