Scope and Content: The Psychopathic Dept. of Boston State Hospital was established in 1912.  It became Boston Psychopathic Hospital in 1920; that was renamed Massachusetts Mental Health Center in 1956.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent
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Scope and Content: The State Reform School was founded in 1847 and opened in 1848 at Westborough for the instruction, discipline, employment, and reform of male juvenile offenders in Massachusetts. It was renamed the Lyman School for Boys in 1884 and closed in 1972. Series consists of administrative files of the Lyman School, primarily of superintendent John Borys (1956-1964).
Restrictions: Youth services client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 120, s 21. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: The Dept. of Correction is responsible for administering the state correctional system and providing custodial and rehabilitative services to persons sentenced to state correctional institutions.  Administrative files consist of subject files, grant project files, correspondence, memorandums, and reports that relate to specific correctional facilities in Massachusetts.
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Scope and Content: State oversight of treatment for drug abuse in Massachusetts was successively the responsibility of the Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Board, established 1963 in the Dept. of Public Health, and of the Division of Drug Rehabilitation, established 1969 in the department of the attorney general, transferred to the Dept. of Mental Health effective 1971, and then to the Dept. of Public Health, effective 1982.  In 1986 the division was merged with that department’s Division of Alcoholism to form (as of 1989) the Division of Substance Abuse Services.
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Scope and Content: The Division of Mental Retardation of the Department of Mental Health, under the direction of the assistant commissioner for mental retardation, was responsible for supervising, planning, and advising on all programs conducted by the department for mentally retarded persons (responsibilities since 1986 held by the Department of Mental Retardation).  Administrative files are those of the assistant commissioner of mental retardation.
Restrictions: Mental retardation client data restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123B, s 17: cannot be viewed except with the permission of the commissioner of mental retardation, Research Review Committee, or institution superintendent; access by data subjects, guardians, third parties with permission and authorized department employees is not restricted. Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A
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Scope and Content: The Trustees of Massachusetts Hospitals for Consumptives (officially the Trustees of Hospitals for Consumptives) were established preliminarily in 1907, when they were known as the Massachusetts Commission on Hospitals for Consumptives, and permanently in 1910.  They were replaced by the Division of Sanatoria in the Department of Public Health in 1919, which agency was known successively by various names: by 1968, after it ceased to function at the divisional level, as the Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
Notes: Transferred from Department of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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Scope and Content: In its statutory role of advising the commissioner of the Office for Children on policy, planning, and priorities of need for services to children (MGLA c 28A, s 8), the council meets to review office regulations, budgets, programs, and policies.  Series is created to support this activity.
Notes: Scheduled as: Meeting minutes and correspondence
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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: In two subseries: (1) Laboratory reports, 1915-1936; arranged chronologically (2) Correspondence, 1936-1942; arranged chronologically by year, thereunder alphabetically by subject
Restrictions: (Correspondence) Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c), c 66A. (Laboratory reports) Public health hospital/clinic client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 111, s 70. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives in Feb. 1978. Box 1: 1915-1936. Box 2: 1936-1938. Box 3: 1939-1940. Box 4: 1940-1942
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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
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. Public health hospital client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 111, c 70. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Tewksbury Hospital, Tewksbury, Mass., Mar. 1999
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Scope and Content: Massachusetts Resolves 1846, c 117 appointed Commissioners on Idiocy to inquire on: the condition of idiots in the commonwealth and if anything can be done for them. The commission’s report, written by Samuel G. Howe of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, led to the establishment by Resolves 1848, c 65 of the Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children, located at the Perkins Institution. The school was incorporated as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth (St 1850, c 150), located near Perkins in South Boston, with Howe serving as president until his death in 1876. It was renamed the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded by St 1883, c 239, reflecting the establishment of a separate asylum department for those beyond school age or not capable of being helped by the school’s instruction. Funds for the construction of a new facility in Waltham were provided by Resolves 1888, c 82, and occupation of the new site began in 1890, with the South Boston facility closing in 1892. St 1925, c 293 renamed the institution the Walter E. Fernald State School, in honor of the superintendent of the school, 1887-1924. A 2003 gubernatorial initiative to close the Fernald School (known as the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center since 1993) by 2007 was still in litigation as of 2013.
Restrictions: Mental retardation client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123B, s 17. For conditions of access consult repository
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