Scope and Content: 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 1919, c 350, ss 79-81), and the Dept. of Mental Health (St 1938, c 486)
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Facility survey books; arranged by facility; (2) Survey books; arranged by survey, thereunder by facility
Notes: Files at one time maintained by the department’s Division of Quality Assurance. Also known as: Housing survey files
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