Scope and Content: In Massachusetts, as of 1880, Trustees of the State Primary and Reform Schools (i.e, the State Primary School at Monson, the State Reform School at Westborough, and the State Industrial School for Girls at Lancaster) replaced the primary school inspectors and the other individual trustee boards. In 1895, after the abolition of the primary school, the board was renamed the Trustees of the Lyman (following a 1884 reform school name change) and Industrial Schools. In 1911, the board was merged with trustees of the Industrial School for Boys at Shirley (founded 1908) to form the Trustees of Massachusetts Training Schools. The trustee boards had been placed successively under the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (1879), State Board of Lunacy and Charity (1886), State Board of Charity (1898), and Dept. of Public Welfare (1919). In 1948 the trustee board was replaced by the Youth Service Board, and as of 1952 jurisdiction over the individual institutions was delegated to a Division of Youth Service. The board and division were abolished in 1969, to be succeeded by the Bureau of of Institutional Services of the Dept. of Youth Services.
Arrangement: In four subseries: (1): Trustees of the State Primary and Reform Schools. (2) Trustees of the Lyman and Industrial Schools. (3) Trustees of the Massachusetts Training Schools. (4) Youth Service Board/Division of Youth Service; Arranged within each series chronologically
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Scope and Content: Medfield Insane Asylum was established by Massachusetts in 1892 and opened in 1896.  It was renamed Medfield State Asylum in 1909 and Medfield State Hospital in 1914.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 59. –Reports for 1942-1951; 1959; 1962 missing
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Scope and Content: Metropolitan State Hospital was established by Massachusetts and opened in Waltham in 1930.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 150. Reports for 1942-1951 missing
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Scope and Content: Middlesex County was incorporated on May 10, 1643 (Mass Recs 2:38), continuing under successive governments of Massachusetts, most recently the Commonwealth (1780), as outlined in MGLA c 34.  Administrative powers and duties previously exercised at various times under the laws of the Commonwealth by county treasurers and clerks of the county courts of general sessions of the peace, county courts of common pleas, and circuit courts of common pleas, were assigned to commissioners in Middlesex and other counties upon their establishment per St 1827, c 77 (1828).  The commissioners maintained financial information concerning highways, county property, reservoirs and buildings (including jails), other county assets, as well as county debt. The government of Middlesex County was abolished as of the effective date of St 1997, c 48 (approved July 11, 1997).
Notes: Extracted from: Middlesex County (Mass.). County Commissioners. Orders ((M-Ar)2154X), including parts of that series currently interfiled with: Dockets ((M-Ar)2151X)
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Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics was established in 1895 and opened at Monson in 1898.  It was renamed Monson State Hospital in 1909 and Monson Developmental Center in 1979.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 62. Reports for 1933, 1939, 1942-1947, 1950-1953, 1961-1962, 1964 missing
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Scope and Content: Norfolk State Hospital was established by Massachusetts in 1912 as a colony of the Foxborough State Hospital.  It acquired its own board of trustees in 1914, receiving Foxborough’s inebriate patients.  The Norfolk facility was not used as a state hospital after 1919.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 106. Reports for 1912-1913 can be found in those of Foxborough State Hospital ((M-Ar)1318 (subseries)/HS7.20).
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Scope and Content: The State Lunatic Hospital at Northampton was established by Massachusetts in 1855 and opened in 1858.  It was successively renamed Northampton Lunatic Hospital in 1862, Northampton Insane Hospital in 1898, and Northampton State Hospital in 1906.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 21. Reports for 1909, 1923-1925, 1942-1951, 1962 missing
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Scope and Content: The Myles Standish State School was established by Massachusetts in 1950 and opened in Taunton in 1952.  It was renamed the Paul A. Dever State School in 1959.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Report for 1963 missing
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Scope and Content: The New England Asylum for the Blind was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1829; it opened in Boston in 1832 as the New England Institution for the Blind.  It was successively renamed the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in 1839, the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in 1877, and the Perkins School for the Blind in 1955.  The institution relocated in Watertown in 1912.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 27. Reports for 1852-1856, 1897-1898, 1900 missing.
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Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Public document, no. 3. Reports for 1955-1959 missing
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