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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts School and Home for Crippled and Deformed Children, established in 1904, opened at Canton in 1907 as the Massachusetts Hospital School.  Since 1932 it has been known officially as the Massachusetts Hospital School and Hospital for State Minor Wards.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 82. Reports for 1941, 1943-1958, 1964-1967 missing
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Scope and Content: The Psychopathic Department of Boston State Hospital was established by Massachusetts in 1912.  It became Boston Psychopathic Hospital in 1920; that was renamed Massachusetts Mental Health Center in 1956.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 137. Reports for 1916-1920; 1942-1950; 1952; and 1969-1971 missing. Reports through 1920 can also be found in those of Boston State Hospital ((M-Ar)1318 (subseries)/HS7.10).
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Reformatory was opened at Concord in 1884 and renamed the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Concord in 1955.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 13. Reports for 1889-1895 missing
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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
Notes: Public document, no. 13. Reports for 1879, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1886, 1888, 1890-1893, 1895-1898 missing
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Scope and Content: From 1917 the vital statistics unit of the state secertary’s office was referred to as the Division of Vital Statistics or Vital Statistics Division.  In 1964 its personnel were transferred to the Department of Public Health, currently functioning as the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics (Division of Health Statistics and Research).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Published to 1916 by the Office of the Secretary of State under various titles. Published from 1917 as: Annual report on the vital statistics of Massachusetts. Published from 1964 by the Department of Public Health currently by its Registry of Vital Records and Statistics
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Scope and Content: In 1898 the State Board of Lunacy and Charity in Massachusetts was divided into the State Board of Insanity and the State Board of Charity. The latter was succeeded by the Dept. of Public Welfare in 1919.
Arrangement: In two sub-series: (1) Annual reports. (2) Annual reports of state institutions
Notes: Public document, no. 17
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity was established in Massachusetts in 1879, replacing the State Board of Health and the Board of State Charities. In 1886 the State Board of Health was reinstated as a separate agency, the remainder of the larger board now being known as the State Board of Lunacy and Charity.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 17. Holdings: 1879-1882, 1884-1885 (no. 1-4, 6-7); 1883 (no. 5) lacking. Supplementary volumes relating to public health topics are cataloged with the annual reports of the State Board of Health ((M-Ar)HS6)
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Lunacy and Charity was established in Massachusetts in 1886, the result of detaching the public health function from the State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity, and reinstating the State Board of Health as a separate entity. In 1898 it was in turn divided into the State Board of Insanity and the State Board of Charity.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Annual reports. (2) Annual reports of institutions
Notes: Public document, no. 17
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