Scope and Content: The State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers, established in 1877, opened in 1878 as Danvers Lunatic Hospital.  It was renamed Danvers Insane Hospital in 1898 and Danvers State Hospital in 1909.
Arrangement: Arranged by autopsy no. (chronologically assigned)
Restrictions: Personal medical information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Hospital for Consumptives and Tubercular Patients was established in 1895 and opened at Rutland in 1898.  It was successively renamed the Massachusetts State Sanatorium in 1900, Rutland State Sanatorium in 1910, Rutland Hospital in 1963, and after the move to a new facility, Rutland Heights Hospital in 1965.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Personal medical information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives in Aug. 1982. Incomplete. Box 1: 1933-1938.  Box 2: 1939-1941, 1944-1947
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Scope and Content: Westfield State Sanatorium, renamed Western Massachusetts Hospital in 1962, provided care and treatment for tuberculosis patients from its opening in 1910 until 1974, and for cancer patients from 1937 to 1974.  Autopsy reports were created by sanatorium physicians for such patients who died there.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Personal medical information restricted by statutory provision MGLA C 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Aug.-Sept. 1982, Feb. 1991. Box 1: 1937-1951. Box 2: 1952-1959. Box 3: 1960-1966. Box 4: 1967-1975
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Scope and Content: 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 was the then-controversial unit for defective delinquents (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, 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.
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Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Monson provided residence for paupers without residence in the Commonwealth from 1854 until 1872.  The institution managed an annual budget to sustain its operations.  Attendant financial records include bills received for purchased goods and services, including transportation charges.
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Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Monson provided residence for paupers without settlement in the Commonwealth from 1854 to 1872.  The institution managed an annual budget to sustain its operations.  Attendant financial records include bills and correspondence between almshouse and municipalities relating to medical expenses incurred in caring for and transporting sick paupers.
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Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Monson provided residence for paupers without settlement in the Commonwealth from 1854 to 1872.  Per St 1872, c 45, s 3, a few adult paupers (nearly all women) were allowed to remain or be admitted after its closing as inmates of the State Primary School, opened at the almshouse in 1866 and continuing until 1895.  St 1855, c 366 required an annual report of births by the institution superintendent (in lieu of the town clerk) to the state secretary, based on this series, continued after the almshouse closed.
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Scope and Content: The Commissioners of Prisons were established pursuant to St 1870, c 370.  As reconstituted under St 1879, c 294, they were also known as the Board of Commissioners of Prisons.  They were succeeded in turn by the Board of Prison Commissioners (St 1901, c 364), the Massachusetts Bureau of Prisons (St 1916, c 241), and the Dept. of Correction (St 1919, c 350, s 82)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Volume 1: May 3, 1879-Dec. 12, 1884. Volume 2: Dec. 30, 1884-Apr. 10, 1888. Volume 3: Apr. 17-June 26, 1888
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Scope and Content: The State Prison was opened in 1805 at Charlestown, Boston, as a successor to the prison on Castle Island.  During 1878-1884 the prison was closed and inmates kept at Concord.  With that exception, Charlestown remained the state prison until replaced by Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, 1955-1956.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from MCI Walpole, 1981
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Scope and Content: Rainsford Island in Boston Harbor was the site since 1736 of various hospital and other charitable institutions administered and funded alternately or jointly by Massachusetts and Boston.  In 1854 a hospital for sick state paupers opened there, first under the auspices of the Board of Alien Commissioners and then from 1863 under that of the Board of State Charities; it was also used as a military hospital from 1864 and closed in 1866.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Flyleaf: Rainsford Island Hospital records
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