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
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Dept. of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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Scope and Content: Westfield State Sanatorium, renamed Western Massachusetts Hospital in 1962, provided care and treatment of tuberculosis patients from its opening in 1910 until 1974.  Case files were kept by sanatorium medical staff to provide a medical history and treatment record for each patient.
Arrangement: Arranged by case no./chronologically
Restrictions: Public health hospital/clinic client information restricted 
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Aug.-Sept. 1982
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Scope and Content: In Massachusetts the Executive Office of Manpower Affairs was established in 1969; it was informally renamed Executive Office of Economic Affairs in 1975, and after a period in which it was also known as the Executive Office of Economic Development  and Manpower Affairs, its name was legislatively changed to Executive Office of Economic Affairs in 1987.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject
Notes: Series first collated in 1989 from files belonging to the undersecretary in his previous capacity as economic advisor to the governor
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Scope and Content: Since 1971 the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 1992) has been responsible through its constitutent agencies for the delivery of a wide range of services to persons with financial, health, social, protective, rehabilitation, and correctional needs. Its role is one of management and fiscal oversight, coordination of interagency planning and program development, and policy analysis.  Series is created to oversee its departments and establish policy.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject
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Scope and Content: The post of undersecretary in Massachusetts’s Executive Office of Environmental Affairs was established by MGLA c 21A, s 1. The principal duty assigned to this officer is oversight and coordination of state’s waste management programs. Series is created to develop policies, regulation, and legislation in the areas of hazardous, solid, and low level radioactive wastes.
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Scope and Content: The Special Commission to Investigate and Study the Uniform Commercial Code, established in 1953, submitted a report to the General Court in Jan. 1954, consisting of draft legislation (1953 H 2400) eventually adopted as St 1957, c 765 (MGLA c106).  Included with the report was this appendix, consisting of official comments of the commission that were in fact those of the code’s sponsoring organizations, the American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.  Since the comments were eventually to be included in the annotated version of Massachusetts General Laws, this copy of the appendix,  consisting of edited printed copy, was filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives on Jan. 27, 1954 but not reprinted as part of the commission report.
Notes: Title page: Appendix B to Report to the Special Commission to Investigate and Study the Uniform Commercial Code
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Notes: Sent to Governor Francis W. Sargent in 1973 by United Service Organizations, Inc
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Scope and Content: Since 1919 the Dept. of Public Utilities has been responsible for regulating Massachusetts gas, electric, water, telecommunications, and transportation utility companies (currently pursuant to MGLA c 25).  It requires annual returns in the form of financial statements from these companies, specifically per St 160, s 242 (railroads), St 161, s 138 (street railways), St 164, s 63 (municipal gas and electric), St 164, 83 (gas and electric), St 165, ss 2, 7 (water), and St 166, s 11 (telephone and telegraph).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Containers numbered by agency as: 1001-1066, 1073-1077, 1079-1080. –Appendix: Boston Consolidated Gas Company and Old Colony Gas Company, utilities whose annual returns would fall within the scope of this series, although not specified by name in its finding aid, were subsidiaries of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates, which published the periodical: Associate. Issues from 1946 to 1986 are available in the Archives reference library. For detailed holdings see appendix finding aid
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Scope and Content: The Boston Lunatic Hospital was established as a municipal agency in 1839; it was renamed Boston Insane Hospital in 1897.  It was made a Massachusetts state agency under the name Boston State Hospital in 1908 and closed in 1981.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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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.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by patient.
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
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