Scope and Content: The State Colony for the Insane was established by Massachusetts in 1900 and opened at Gardner in 1902.  It was renamed Gardner State Colony in 1909 and Gardner State Hospital in 1935.  It was closed in 1976.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 70. Reports for 1909-1913, 1925, 1942-1952, 1955-1959 missing
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Scope and Content: The Temporary Asylum for the Chronic Insane (known also as The Asylum for the Chronic Insane) was established by Massachusetts in Worcester in 1877.  It was successively renamed Worcester Insane Asylum in 1887, Worcester State Asylum in 1887, Worcester Sate Asylum in 1909, and with the planned opening of a new facility, Grafton State Hospital in 1915.  That institution was closed in 1974.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 112. Reports for 1909-1914, 1939, 1942-1952 missing
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Scope and Content: The Hospital Cottages for Children opened at Balwinville, Maassachusetts in 1882 as a charitable corporation.  State involvement with the institution began in 1887 and ended in 1952.
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Scope and Content: The Industrial School for Boys, established in Massachusetts in 1908, was opened at Shirley in 1909 and closed in 1971.
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Scope and Content: The Board of Alien Commissioners was established in Massachusetts in 1851 and abolished in 1863, succeeded by the Board of State Charities.
Notes: Public document, no. 15. Holdings: 1858, 1861-1863; 1859-1860 lacking. Report for 1861 accompanied by report of Superintendent of Alien Passengers (1848-1869), Boston (Public document, no. 16)
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Scope and Content: The Board of State Charities was established in Massachusetts in 1863, replacing the Board of Alien Commissioners, and was succeeded in 1879 by the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: No. 1-2: Public document, no. 19; succeeding reports: Public document, no. 17. Holdings: 1864-1869, 1871-1878 (no. 1-6, 8-15); 1870 (no. 7) lacking. Appendix 1 (1 volumeolumes): Report of the General Agent, no. 6-15 (1869-1878). Appendix 2 (1 volumeolumes): Ancillary documents, 1833-1865.  Report of the commissioners…on the subject of the pauper system, Jan. 1833.  Abstract of the returns…concerning the condition of pauper idiots and lunatics, Jan. 1843. Memorial [of Dorothea L. Dix] to the legislature of Massachusetts, Jan. 1843. [Report on public charitable institutions] (1843 H 38), Feb. 1843. Report of the Special Joint Committee [on] Public Charitable Institutions, 1858.  [Additional copy of Board’s first annual report, Oct. 1864.] Special report of the Board of State Charities on the state almshouse system (1865 S 28), Feb. 1865.
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Scope and Content: The Commissioners of Prisons were established in 1870.  They reconstituted as the Board of Commissioners of Prisons in 1879, and were succeeded in turn by the Board of Prison Commissioners in 1901, the Massachusetts Bureau of Prisons in 1916, and the Department of Correction 1919.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 115
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Insanity, established in 1898, was replaced successively by the Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases in 1916 and the Department of Mental Diseases in 1919; that body was renamed the Department of Mental Health in 1938.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 63. Reports for 1941-1951, 1953-1954 missing
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Health, established in 1869, was abolished in 1879, and its functions absolved by the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity until 1886, when it was reestablished.  It was succeeded in turn by the State Department of Health in 1914 and the Department of Public Health in 1919.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 34. Reports for 1926, 1941, 1969, 1979-1983 missing. Reports for 1879-1885/86 can be found with those of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity ((M-Ar)1318 (Subseries)/HS 19).
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Welfare replaced the State Board of Charity in 1919.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Annual reports. (2) Annual reports of state institutions
Notes: Public document, no. 17
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