Scope and Content: As the unit responsible for managing the governor’s scheduled time, the Governor’s Scheduling Office prepares these daily briefing packets for the governor, developed from an automated system.
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Scope and Content: Bristol County Hospital, formerly known as Bristol County Tuberculosis Hospital, one of the Massachusetts county institutions established for the treatment of tuberculosis in accordance with MGLA c 111, ss 78-90, was closed pursuant to St 1968, c 487, which abolished the hospital trustees and the Bristol County Hospital District, and authorized the sale of the hospital’s assets. Client case files were transferred to Lakeville Hospital, a state institution for the treatment of tuberculosis and chronic diseases. Bristol County Hospital had treated not only tuberculosis patients, but also those with emphysema, cancer, heart disease, and other chronic disorders. Case files contain personal and medical data on patients from admission to discharge.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
Restrictions: Personal medical information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Lakeville Hospital, June 1992
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Scope and Content: Since 1971 the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 1992) has been responsible through its constitutent agencies for the delivery of a wide range of services to persons with financial, health, social, protective, rehabilitation, and correctional needs. Its role is one of management and fiscal oversight, coordination of interagency planning and program development, and policy analysis. MGLA c 6A, s 4 rquires the office to review and act on budgetary and other fiscal matters for its agencies. Series was created to aid in carrying out this responsibility.
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Scope and Content: Pondville Hospital was operated by the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health from 1927 to 1981 as a state facility to conduct cancer research and to treat cancer patients. Its superintendent prepared a budget annually to be submitted to the Dept. of Public Health. Budget files include materials submitted to the superintendent by various staff, preliminary requests, and a listing of items requested in various categories such as staff, equipment, building maintenance, and construction.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Feb. 1982
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Scope and Content: As the unit responsible for managing the governor’s mail, the Governor’s Correspondence Office gathered information to assist the governor in preparing the state budget, as maintained in this series.
Arrangement: Arranged by agency
Notes: Also known as: MSD 1/501
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Scope and Content: Bridgewater, Mass., was the site successively of a State Almshouse (1854-1872) for so-called willing and needlessly dependent paupers, and the State Workhouse (1866-1887), for paupers convicted of misdemeanors as well as paupers generally (from 1872), and incorrigible juveniles (1869-1948). The State Workhouse was renamed the State Farm (1887-1955), which also included a State Farm Hospital for the medical needs of all inmates, as well as locals and poor admitted solely for medical treatment. The change in name was in deference to the admission of insane male paupers (1886), although it was followed by the admission of aged and physically or mentally infirm inmates of the State Prison (1890). Insane admissions were then limited for a time to criminals (1894), forming a division called the State Asylum for Insane Criminals (1895), which was renamed Bridgewater State Hospital (1909). Units at Bridgewater were later added for female prisoners (1909-1930), so-called defective delinquents (males from 1922, females 1926-1954)–mentally impaired inmates requiring segregation from standard inmate or institutionalized populations–and for drug and alcohol addicts (from 1922, females to 1930 only), eventually mostly voluntary admissions. All Bridgewater State Farm facilities and divisions (including prison, almshouse, insane, and medical hospital functions) were administered by a common superintendent. The running of the State Farm, including industries and extensive agricultural operations, relied on work performed by all capable inmates. Also located on the Bridgewater campus, 1954-1970, was the Institute for Juvenile Guidance, established as a security unit at the Industrial School for Boys, Shirley, in 1951, then transferred to Bridgewater (housed in the quarters recently vacated by the female defective delinquents unit) but remaining under the control of the Division of Youth Service (Dept. of Education) (Dept. of Youth Services from 1969). –In 1955 the Massachusetts correctional system was reorganized, so that the State Farm at Bridgewater became the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater, commonly called MCI Bridgewater. With this change, Bridgewater’s admittance of misdemeanor convicts (since 1866), state charges (i.e., almshouse paupers, since 1872), and aged or infirm state prisoners (since 1890) was terminated, leaving the prison population (i.e., aside from Bridgewater State Hospital) almost entirely those with alcohol or drug-related convictions. In 1958, a specialized unit serving the whole state corrections system, the Massachusetts Treatment Center of the Sexually Dangerous, was added. The population of MCI Bridgewater changed again with St 1971 c 1076, which abolished the crime of public intoxication, limiting drug and alcohol admissions to civil commitments, voluntary or otherwise; also abolished (per St 1970, c 888, s 6) was the by then controversial unit for defective delinquents (operating since 1922). The Bridgewater State Hospital serving the insane was placed under separate administration in 1987, the Old Colony Correctional Center opened in 1987, and in 1990 the MCI addiction center was placed under the Southeastern Correctional Center (SECC), which had opened in 1976. Since by 1990 the Treatment Center of the Sexually Dangerous had also become a separate unit, at that point the existence of MCI Bridgewater as an administrative entity ended. After SECC’s closing in 2002, addiction treatment was provided at the Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center. A Massachusetts Boot Camp for youthful offenders was located at Bridgewater from 1992 until after 2000.
Restrictions: Some restrictions apply
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Southeastern Correctional Center, Bridgewater, 2002
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Scope and Content: In 1948 the Bureau of Airport Management, which supervised the General Edward Lawrence Logan Airport, was removed from the Division of Waterways and became a separate organizational entity within the Department of Public Works. Minutes of its commissioners’ weekly meetings were created to describe official actions taken on matters concerning the maintenance and operation of the airport.
Notes: These copies of the bureau’s minutes were apparently preserved by the Division of Waterways, whose personnel continued to work for the bureau on a temporary basis (Minutes, December 6, 1946), and whose director frequently attended meetings of the bureau’s commissioners
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Welfare has the responsibility to provide and administer a comprehensive public welfare financial assistance program (MGLA c 18 s 2). Memorandums issued by the federal Social Security Administration’s Bureau of Public Assistance through 1958 and after that by the administration proper notified the department of changes in policy and procedures affecting the administration of federally-funded public assistance plans. Files of such notifications for 1950-1952 were maintained by the department’s Division of Aid and Relief and from 1953 by its successor, the Division of Public Assistance.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: Eugene N. Foss, active in manufacturing and Democratic politics during the Progressive Era, was governor of Massachusetts, 1911-1914.
Notes: Business and personal records of Eugene N. Foss apparently comprised part of Foss’s estate. They include checkbooks and receipts from the estate, 1938-1942, the Suburban Realty Corporation (Boston), 1938-1939, and the Massachusetts Bond & Mortgage Co. (Boston), 1939-1940; also military draft data and correspondence regarding wartime workers at the Maverick Mills and Northern Rayon Weaving Mills, 1942-1943
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Scope and Content: Cushing Hospital in Framingham, Mass., intended for the care and custody of elderly persons, was purchased by the Commonwealth from the federal government in 1955, opened in 1957 under the Dept. of Mental Health, transferred to the Dept. of Public Health in 1984, and closed in 1991.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Tewksbury Hospital, Tewksbury, Mass., Mar. 1999
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