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 by inmate case no
Restrictions: Criminal offender record information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 6, ss 167-178. Boxes 7-8: Contents have been treated for mold and now specially encased; volumes in third carton originally intermixed. Should only be removed from vault for brief periods in dry weather. Protective mask strongly recommended. For conditions of access consult repository 
Notes: Spine title varies: Register; Receiving book. Registers for inmates 1-275, 900-1057, 2235-2315, 8600-8899, 15801-16100, 17301-17600, 20301-2600, 21501-21800 lacking
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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
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Scope and Content: The State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers, established in 1877, opened in 1878 as Danvers Lunatic Hospital. It was renamed Danvers Insane Hospital in 1898 and Danvers State Hospital in 1909. It was closed in 1992.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Female admissions  (2) Male admissions; Arranged within each subseries chronologically by admission date
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision; MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Volume 1: Female, Oct. 1903-Sept. 1909. Volume 2: Female, Oct. 1909-November 1917. Volume 3: Male, Oct. 1903-Sept. 1909. Volume 4: Male, Oct. 1909-November 1917. Reel GSU 493: volumes 1-2.  Reel GSU 494: volumes 3-4
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Scope and Content: The State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers, established in 1877, opened in 1878 as Danvers Lunatic Hospital.  It was renamed Danvers Insane Hospital in 1898 and Danvers State Hospital in 1909. It was closed in 1992.
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 Temporary Asylum for the Chronic Insane (known also as the Asylum for the Chronic Insane) was established in Worcester in 1877.  It was successively renamed Worcester Insane Asylum in 1887, Worcester State Asylum in 1909, and (when moved) Grafton State Hospital in 1915.  The institution closed in 1974.
Arrangement: Arranged by inpatient registration no
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 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 by registration no. (chronologically assigned)
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: Medfield Insane Asylum was established in 1892 and opened in 1896.  It was renamed Medfield State Asylum in 1909 and Medfield State Hospital in 1914.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by inpatient registration no. (chronologically assigned) in two sequences: 1-160 (1896-1935); A1-138, A107A (1903-1948)
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Includes files for registration no. 1-8018, 34-11679. Containers labeled with obsolete series designation: 30
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Scope and Content: Metropolitan State Hospital opened in Waltham, Mass. in 1930 and was closed in 1992.
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 Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates was established in 1889 and opened in Foxborough in 1893.  It was renamed Foxborough State Hospital in 1905.  Norfolk State Hospital was established in 1912 as a colony of Foxborough State Hospital.  It acquired its own board of trustees in 1914, receiving Foxborough inebriate patients.  The Norfolk facility was not used as a state hospital after 1919.
Arrangement: In  two subseries: (1) Case files (2) Postcards, 1906-1919; Arranged within each subseries alphabetically by patient
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Postcards separated from case files, Mar. 1993
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Scope and Content: North Reading State Sanatorium, one of three additional state institutions authorized by St 1907, c 474 to join the Massachusetts State Sanatorium of Rutland in the care and treatment of tuberculosis patients, opened in Sept. 1909, and was officially named and put under the authority of the Trustees of Hospitals for Consumptives per St 1910, c 198 and c 491. Pursuant to St 1919, c 350, s 98 the sanatoria were placed under the Division of Sanatoria in the Dept. of Public Health. –Both adults and children were admitted as patients, but by 1927 all adults had been moved to other sanatoria. In response to an epidemic of rheumatic fever, St 1945, c 453 authorized admittance of children with that disease and St 1958, c 258 authorized admittance of children with any chronic disease. As part of a reorganization in the state tuberculosis treatment program, North Reading State Sanatorium was closed and its facilities transferred to the Dept. of Mental Health per St 1962, c 598. –Series consists of case files comprising a medical history and treatment record for each patient. Information includes patient name, case no., race, religion, occupation, previous medical history, family history of tuberculosis, treatment records, and dates of admission/discharge. Files may contain physical examination of lung form, temperature chart, dental records, and photograph of patient. Files dating from 1914 are sorted by gender, and within by case no., which were assigned chronologically by date of admittance. Starting from Sept. 1930, files are in strict case no. order and are extant only on microfilm.
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 Western Massachusetts Hospital ca. 1962, when North Reading State Sanatorium closed.  Transferred to Archives, Aug.-Sept. 1982
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