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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