Scope and Content: Bristol County Hospital, formerly known as Bristol County Tuberculosis Hospital, one of the Massachusetts county institutions established for the treatment of tuberculosis in accordance with MGLA c 111, ss 78-90, was closed pursuant to St 1968, c 487, which abolished the hospital trustees and the Bristol County Hospital District, and authorized the sale of the hospital’s assets. Client case files were transferred to Lakeville Hospital, a state institution for the treatment of tuberculosis and chronic diseases. Bristol County Hospital had treated not only tuberculosis patients, but also those with emphysema, cancer, heart disease, and other chronic disorders. Case files contain personal and medical data on patients from admission to discharge.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
Restrictions: Personal medical information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Lakeville Hospital, June 1992
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Bristol County Hospital client case files [Lakeville Hospital (Mass.).]
Client case files [Lakeville State Sanitorium (Mass.).]
Scope and Content: Lakeville State Sanatorium opened in 1910. It was renamed Lakeville Hospital in 1963, which closed in 1992.
Arrangement: Arranged by case no./chronologically by date of admission
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 Archives, June 1992. Cases 8775-8859, 9000-9332, 9411-11798, admitted 1939-1954. Box 1: A-Car. Box 2: Cas-E. Box 3: F-He. Box 4: Hi-L. Box 5: M-N. Box 6: O-She. Box 7: Shi-Z
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Annual reports [Massachusetts Hospital School]
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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Records [Massachusetts Department of Public Health Antitoxin and Vaccine Laboratory]
Scope and Content: The Anitoxin and Vaccine Laboratory was established within the Massachusetts State Board of Health in 1904 for the preparation (initially by injecting toxins into or extracting naturally-occurring toxins from animals), storage, and distribution of diphtheria antitoxin serum and smallpox vaccine. Other vaccines were added as developed, including those for influenza, meningitis, pneumonia, and poliomyelitis (derived from polio convalescents, eventually abandoned in the late 1930s as ineffective). Antitoxin production began in the State House in 1894 but in 1895 was moved to Harvard University’s Bussey Institution, until the establishment of the state laboratory. By 1915 the laboratory functioned as part of the Division of Biologic Laboratories under the state board (renamed Dept. of. Public Health in 1919); by the 1950s the division no longer named or reported separately on the laboratory.
Arrangement: In seven subseries; Arranged chronologically within each subseries
Restrictions: (Wassermann test results) Personal medical information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University, Oct. 23, 2013
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Administrative files [Massachusetts Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control]
Scope and Content: The Trustees of Massachusetts Hospitals for Consumptives (officially the Trustees of Hospitals for Consumptives) were established preliminarily in 1907, when they were known as the Massachusetts Commission on Hospitals for Consumptives, and permanently in 1910. They were replaced by the Division of Sanatoria in the Department of Public Health in 1919, which agency was known successively by various names: by 1968, after it ceased to function at the divisional level, as the Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject
Notes: Transferred from Department of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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Photographs of sanatoriums [Massachusetts Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control]
Scope and Content: The Trustees of Massachusetts Hospitals for Consumptives (officially the Trustees of Hospitals for Consumptives) were established preliminarily in 1907, when they were known as the Massachusetts Commission on Hospitals for Consumptives, and permanently in 1910. They were replaced by the Division of Sanatoria in the Dept. of Public Health in 1919, which agency was known successively by various names; by 1968, from which time it ceased to function at the divisional level, as the Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control.
Arrangement: In four subseries: (1) Rutland State Sanatorium (2) North Reading State Sanatorium (3) Lakeville State Sanatorium (4) Westfield State Sanatorium
Notes: Westfield photographs may include those belonging to Henry Dexter Chadwick, first superintendent. Transferred to Archives from Dept. of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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Minute books [Trustees of Massachusetts Hospitals for Consumptives]
Scope and Content: The Trustees of Massachusetts Hospitals for Consumptives (officially the Trustees of Hospitals for Consumptives) were established preliminarily in 1907, when they were known as the Massachusetts Commission on Hospitals for Consumptives, and permanently in 1910. They were replaced by the Division of Sanitoria in the Department of Public Health in 1919, which agency was known successively by various names: by 1969, after it ceased to function at the divisional level, as the Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred from Department of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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Annual reports [Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary]
Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Tewksbury was opened by Massachusetts in 1854. It was successively renamed the State Hospital in 1900, the State Infirmary in 1911, Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary in 1939, and Tewksbury Hospital in 1958.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 26. Reports for 1900-1901, 1937, 1940 missing
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Daily reports of inmates [Massachusetts State Infirmary (Tewksbury, Mass.).]
Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Tewksbury opened in 1854. It was renamed successively the State Hospital (1900), the State Infirmary (1909), Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary (1939), and Tewksbury Hospital (1959)
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by inmate, thereunder chronologically
Notes: Fragmentary sample only
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Daily census of inmates [Massachusetts State Infirmary (Tewksbury, Mass.).]
Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Tewksbury opened in 1854. It was renamed successively the State Hospital (1900), the State Infirmary (1909), Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary (1939), and Tewksbury Hospital (1959)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Cover title: Summary
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