Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877.  It was renamed the Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181, and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from the Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to the Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24.  Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Spine title: Re-commitments
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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 by number of times convicted, thereunder chronologically
Notes: Arranged by number of times convicted, thereunder chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Anitoxin and Vaccine Laboratory was established within the Massachusetts State Board of Health in 1904 for the preparation (initially by injecting toxins into or extracting naturally-occurring  toxins from animals), storage, and distribution of diphtheria antitoxin serum and smallpox vaccine.  Other vaccines were added as developed, including those for influenza, meningitis, pneumonia,  and poliomyelitis (derived from polio convalescents, eventually abandoned in the late 1930s as ineffective).  Antitoxin production began in the State House in 1894 but in 1895 was moved to Harvard University’s Bussey Institution, until the establishment of the state laboratory. By 1915 the laboratory functioned as part of the Division of Biologic Laboratories under the state board (renamed Dept. of. Public Health in 1919); by the 1950s the division no longer named or reported  separately on the laboratory.
Arrangement: In seven subseries; Arranged chronologically within each subseries
Restrictions: (Wassermann test results) 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 Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University, Oct. 23, 2013
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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.
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Scope and Content: The Board of State Charities had oversight of charitable and correctional institutions in Massachusetts from 1863 to 1879.  Series consists of volumes compiled in the board secretary’s office (F.B. Sanborn, secretary).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically within each volume
Notes: (1) No volumes 18, 1863-Dec. 22, 1864. (2) May 4, 1864-Sept. 7, 1864. (3) July 28, 1864-Aug. 2, 1865. (4) Oct. 1, 1864-Sept. 20, 1865
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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.
Notes: Title from transcript
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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: Organized in two subseries: (1) Hospital register, 1854-1855, 1865-1866 (2) Admissions to hospital, 1865-1866; Arranged within each subseries chronologically
Notes: Formerly classified under PS1 (Surgeon General’s Office) Flyleaf inscribed: Record kept by George L. Underwood, surgeon in charge of hospitals, Rainsford Island, Boston
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts State Board of Lunacy and Charity (1886-1898) had responsibility to monitor immigration, including examining passengers, procuring passenger lists, collecting bonds or head money, returning passengers, and, through its Dept. of Outdoor Poor, caring for alien passengers requiring medical assistance who were not committed to state institutions. A Nov. 1882 contract between the state and the U.S. Treasury Dept. had provided federal reimbursement care of alien passengers requiring care within five years of landing at Massachusetts ports. Transfer of immigration authority from the states to the federal government occurred with the federal Acts of 1891, c 551. A Feb. 1892 contract with the board allowed federal reimbursement for state care of immigrants for their first year of residence and for state deportation of such immigrants.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by registration date
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Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877.  It was renamed the Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181, and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from the Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to the Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24.  Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Criminal offender record information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 6, ss 167-178. For conditions of access consult repository 
Notes: Volume 1: 1877-1891. Volume 2: 1892-1937. Volume 2 includes: Register of children, 1931-1962 (see (M-Ar)517X)
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Scope and Content: The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877.  It was renamed the Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181, and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from the Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to the Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24.  Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Criminal offender record information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 6, ss 167-178. For conditions of access consult repository 
Notes: Entries for 1931-1962 bound with: Register of births, volumes 2 ((M-Ar)561X)
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