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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Scope and Content: The State Lunatic Hospital at Northampton was established 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. It was closed in 1993.
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 Consumptives and Tubercular Patients was established in 1895  and opened at Rutland in 1898.  It was successively renamed the Massachusetts State Sanatorium in 1900, Rutland State Sanatorium in 1910, Rutland Hospital in 1963, and after the move to a new facility, Rutland Heights Hospital in 1965.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by case no./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 in Feb. 1978, Apr. 1978, Oct. 1979, and Oct. 1991.Case files 1-13040, 22070-22695 lacking
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Scope and Content: Massachusetts Resolves 1846, c 117 appointed Commissioners on Idiocy to inquire on: the condition of idiots in the commonwealth and if anything can be done for them. The commission’s report, written by Samuel Gridley Howe of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, led to the establishment by Resolves 1848, c 65 of the Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children, located at the Perkins Institution. The school was incorporated as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth (St 1850, c 150), located near Perkins in South Boston, with Howe serving as president until his death in 1876. It was renamed the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded by St 1883, c 239, reflecting the establishment of a separate asylum department for those beyond school age or not capable of being helped by the school’s instruction. Funds for the construction of a new facility in Waltham were provided by Resolves 1888, c 82, and occupation of the new site began in 1890, with the South Boston facility closing in 1892. St 1925, c 293 renamed the institution the Walter E. Fernald State School, in honor of the superintendent of the school, 1887-1924. A 2003 gubernatorial initiative to close the Fernald School (known as the Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center since 1993) by 2007 was contested during the subsequent decade, until the institution was shut down permanently in Nov. 2014.
Restrictions: Mental retardation client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123B, s 17. For conditions of access consult repository
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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.
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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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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: In two subseries: (1) Male inpatients (2) Female inpatients; Arranged within each subseries alphabetically
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
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