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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Inpatient case files [Danvers Lunatic Hospital (Danvers, Mass.).]
Annual reports, [Westborough State Hospital (Mass.).]
Scope and Content: Westborough Insane Hospital was established by Massachusetts in 1884 and opened in 1886. It was renamed Westborough State Hospital in 1909.
Notes: Public document, no. 30. Reports for 1941-1950, 1955, 1962 are missing
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Inpatient commitment registers [Westborough State Hospital (Mass.).]
Scope and Content: Westborough Insane Hospital was established in 1884 and opened in 1886. It was renamed Westborough State Hospital in 1909.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Volumes numbered 1-3, 5-8: register for 1905-1910 (no. 6672-9178) lacking
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Inpatient histories [Westborough Insane Hospital (Mass.).]
Scope and Content: Westborough Insane Hospital was established in 1884 and opened in 1886. It was renamed Westborough State Hospital in 1909.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by inpatient registration no. (chronologically assigned)
Notes: Volumes lettered A-I; include registration no. 1-2250
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Inpatient case files [Westborough State Hospital (Mass.).]
Scope and Content: Westborough Insane Hospital was established in 1884 and opened in 1886. It was renamed Westborough State Hospital in 1909. It was closed in 2010.
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
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Weekly returns of admissions to and discharges from institutions [Massachusetts Department of Mental Health]
Scope and Content: Programs and institutions for the mentally ill and retarded of Massachusetts were among the responsibilities successively of the Board of State Charities (St 1863, c 240), State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (St 1879, c 291), and State Board of Lunacy and Charity (St 1886, c 101). They were then the sole responsibility successively of the State Board of Insanity (St 1898, c 433), Massachusetts Commission on Mental Diseases (St 1916, c 285), Dept. of Mental Diseases (St 1919, c 350, ss 79-81), and Dept. of Mental Health (St 1938, c 486). The Dept. of Mental Health and its predecessors have had general supervision of all public and private institutions for the mentally ill, mentally retarded, epileptic persons, and persons addicted to alcohol and narcotics.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Public institutions (2) Private institutions; Arranged within each subseries by institution, thereunder chronologically, then by patient no
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Departmental personnel manual [Massachusetts Department of Mental Health]
Scope and Content: Pursuant to MGLA c 19, the Dept. of Mental Health fulfills its responsibilities toward mentally ill persons in Massachusetts through a comprehensive program of services and facilities. (It exercised a similar function for the mentally retarded until 1986, when a separate Dept. of Mental Retardation was established). In administering such services the department is responsible for personnel policies in mental health and mental retardation facilities under its jurisdiction. To standardize personnel procedures and practices for these facilities, the department prepared a department-wide personnel manual.
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Restraint and seclusion comparative statistical reports [Massachusetts Department of Mental Health]
Scope and Content: The Dept. of Mental Health is responsible for mentally ill persons in Massachusetts (and for mentally retarded persons until 1986, when the Dept. of Mental Retardation was established) through a comprehensive program of services and facilities. The department conducts research to assist in its planning, review, and delivery of services to clients and to prepare reports mandated by the legislature, including collection of data about clients and statistics from public and private institutions providing residential care. This includes gathering data on the use of restraint and seclusion as a therapeutic procedure for patients endangering themselves or others, institutionalized at facilities under the department’s jurisdiction.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Inspection reports of the Walter E. Fernald State School [Massachusetts Department of Mental Health]
Scope and Content: The Dept. of Mental Health exercised responsibility for mentally retarded persons in Massachusetts (specifically from 1966 through its Division of Mental Retardation) until 1986, when a separate Dept. of Mental Retardation was established.
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Quality of Care Review Team coordinator’s files [Massachusetts Department of Mental Health]
Scope and Content: Pursuant to MGLA c 19, the Dept. of Mental Health fulfills its responsibilities toward mentally ill persons in Massachusetts through a comprehensive program of services and facilities. (It exercised a similar function for the mentally retarded until 1986, when a separate Dept. of Mental Retardation was established.) In the 1970s a Quality of Care Review Team, comprised of representatives from various divisions of the department, was established to develop, coordinate, evaluate, and monitor mental health and retardation services in Massachusetts. Series is the files of the team’s coordinator, also a staff member in the Office of Manpower Training and Development.
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted bt statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. Mental retardation client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123B, s 17. For conditions of access consult repository
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