Scope and Content: The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts appointed a Court Monitor in 1979 to administer court consent decrees relating to five state schools for the mentally retarded. In 1986 the responsibility was transferred to the gubernatorially established Office of Quality Assurance for the Mental Retardation Consent Decrees. In 1993 oversight was transferred to a Governor’s Commission  on Mental Retardation, while specific quality assurance functions were placed under an Office of Quality Enhancement, Office of Quality Management, Dept. of Mental Retardation, which had taken over responsibility for the mentally retarded from the Dept. of Mental Health in 1986.
Notes: From the records of the Governor’s Commission on Mental Retardation, transferred to  Archives, 1994-2008. For details consult the Massachusetts Archives series control file
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Scope and Content: The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts appointed a Court Monitor in 1979 to administer court consent decrees relating to five state schools for the mentally retarded. In 1986 the responsibility was transferred to the gubernatorially established Office of Quality Assurance for the Mental Retardation Consent Decrees. In 1993 oversight was transferred to a Governor’s Commission  on Mental Retardation, while specific quality assurance functions were placed under an Office of Quality Enhancement, Office of Quality Management, Dept. of Mental Retardation, which had taken over responsibility for the mentally retarded from the Dept. of Mental Health in 1986.
Notes: From the records of the Governor’s Commission on Mental Retardation, transferred to  Archives, 1994-2008. For details consult the Massachusetts Archives series control file
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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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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.  Quality of Care Review Team subject files were created by members of the team (and members of the central office of the Dept. of Mental Health) in carrying out team responsibilities.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject
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 Experimental School for Teaching and Training Idiotic Children conducted at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind from 1848 was incorporated by Massachusetts as the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth in 1850.  It was renamed Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded in 1883 and Walter E. Fernald State School in 1925.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The quartermaster general was the main provisioning agent of the Massachusetts militia, 1786-1821, for ordnance, munitions, equipment, tents, and transport.  During this period bills were submitted to the quartermaster for goods that he procured. He, in turn, submitted them annually/biennially to the General Court for reimbursement.  Series consists of these bills, some printed, batched as submitted and numbered sequentially on the verso.
Arrangement: Arranged by bill no. within each submission period; chronologically in Massachusetts archives collection volumes
Restrictions: Restricted series, staff must be present at use
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Scope and Content: During the beginning of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, the Provincial Congress supplied Massachusetts troops through a Committee of Supplies, assisted by a commissary general and a quartermaster general.  The latter was responsible for supplying the army for military operations.  Series documents delivery of certain supplies under the auspices of the first quartermaster general, Joseph Pearse Palmer, appointed Apr. 30, 1775.  The record itself was made by the self-described successor to Cambridge ordnance storekeeper Capt. Thomas Waite Foster, starting Apr. 24, the day Foster went to Watertown to care for the ordnance store there (see: Massachusetts. Committee of Supplies. Ordnance store records, 1775 ((M-Ar)2353X)).  The record ends Aug. 1, 1775, two weeks before Gen. George Washington federalized the quartermaster post.  The deliveries are to certain regiments in the army stationed at Cambridge; there are also a few entries for troops at Roxbury and in New Hampshire.
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Scope and Content: During the beginning of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, the Provincial Congress supplied Massachusetts troops through a Committee of Supplies, assisted by a commissary general and a quartermaster general.  The latter was responsible for supplying the army for military operations, officers’ housing, materials for barracks construction, and, from mid-June 1775, barrack utensils. Series documents order, delivery, and receipt of certain items during the tenure of the first quartermaster general, Joseph Pearse Palmer, from May 1, 1775, the day following his appointment, until Aug. 16, 1775, two days after Gen. George Washington federalized the post.
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