Commissioner’s files relating to the special legislative commission on mental retardation [Massachusetts Department of Mental Health]
Part of: Massachusetts Department of Mental Health
Commissioner's files relating to the special legislative commission on mental retardation, 1963-1974.
2 record center cartons and 1 document box
Call no.: HS7/1304X
Call no.: HS7/1304X
Scope and Content: The Dept. of Mental Health exercised responsibility for mentally retarded persons in Massachusetts (specifically from 1966 through its Division of Mental Retardation) until 1986, when a separate Dept. of Mental Retardation was established. To fulfill the function of providing for the efficient, economical, and humane management of state facilities for the retarded, the department through its commissioner cooperated with the Special Commission on Belchertown State School and Monson State Hospital, established by Resolves 1970, c 19 to study the operation of and conditions at those facilities, creating these files.
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