Scope and Content: The Fall River Mental Health Center apparently originated in 1968 as a successor to the Union Hospital (Fall River, Mass.) Mental Health Center; by 1971 it was called the Dr. John C. Corrigan Mental Health Center.  The Corrigan Mental Health Center is a public mental health facility operating under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Dept. of Mental Health (DMH), providing acute care for local residents and continuing care services for DMH eligible clients, with limited inpatient facilities.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically in annual or biennial segments by year of discharge, thereunder chronologically by case no./admission date
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. 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: 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 Aug. 1982
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Scope and Content: The Penikese Hospital was founded in 1905 for the care and treatment of lepers.  These case histories and register show the medical and social background of the patients at the hospital.
Notes: Acquired from the Department of Public Welfare in 1981.  Some materials were created after the loss of patient records to fire in 1912
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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 by case no./chronologically by date of admission
Restrictions: 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 (8 volumes), Apr. 1978 (5 volumes), and Aug. 1982 (5 volumes)
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Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Tewksbury opened in 1854.  It was renamed successively the State Hospital (1900), the State Infirmary (1909), Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary (1939), and Tewksbury Hospital (1959)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by month
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Scope and Content: St 1872, c 45 abolished the Massachusetts state almshouses at Monson and Bridgewater, with Bridgewater continuing as the State Workhouse and Monson as the State Primary School. All state paupers were to be transferred to the almshouse at Tewksbury, although the legislation indicated that state paupers could continue to be sent to Monson and Bridgewater as needed to help maintain the institutions. Under the jurisdiction of the Board of State Charities until 1879, and thereafter under the Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, state paupers supported at the two institutions are listed in this volume, 1872-1881, with some discharge information into 1882. –Arranged by institution (Monson, Bridgewater), entries give name, age (primarily children at Monson), birthplace, age admitted, from  (locality, State Almshouse i.e., at Tewksbury), sent by (state board or agent), condition (illness or well; from 1874, previous institutional number), discharged, how discharged (per state board, died), where sent (Boston, Primary School), remarks (old number, health, discharged at own request). Monson paupers were given support and temporary custody numbers 1-2209, 1872-Oct. 1881. Bridgewater paupers were given numbers 1-1149, 1872-Nov. 1881. Upon readmission both places assigned a new number, with old number shown in remarks.
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Scope and Content: The Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850.  It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925; it was closed in 2014.
Restrictions: Mental retardation client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123B, s 17. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Majority of original prints transferred  Jan. 2011, some from: Research Unit photographs ((M-Ar)N069X)
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Scope and Content: Lakeville State Sanatorium opened in 1910.  It was renamed Lakeville Hospital in 1963, which closed in 1992.
Notes: Copied from originals, 1992
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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.
Notes: Photographs taken by William J. Hamilton of State Farm staff (Almshouse Dept.).  Transferred to Archives by his granddaughter, Margaret L. Manning Warrell, July 1, 1982
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