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Displaying 15 Finding Aids
Title
- Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office annual reports
Series Number
- B2442
Summary
- This series consists of annual reports published by the Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office and predecessor entities, the Rome State School and the Rome State Custodial Asylum. The annual reports describe the functions, activities, and events of each year.
Creator
- New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Register of school district establishment, consolidation, and centralization
Series Number
- B0494
Summary
- These school district registers include district numbers, names, and dates of organization for union free, town, consolidated, central high school and central rural school districts. This information was compiled after a fire in the State Capitol destroyed many school district records in 1911. Not all union free schools established before 1911 are included.
Creator
- New York (State). Central New York Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office patient case files
Series Number
- B2553
Summary
- This series consists of clinical case files for clients of Rome Developmental Center and its predecessor institutions. Case files contain documentation of court commitment or voluntary admission; patient mental health history at time of admission; subsequent progress or regress; medical treatment; transfers to and from residential units; disciplinary measures; family contacts; and discharge by release, transfer, or death.
Creator
- New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Admission and discharge registers
Series Number
- B2368
Summary
- The registers in this series contain handwritten entries of admissions, discharges, and case observations, among other critical patient information. Data includes name, date of admission, age, county and/or municipality of origin, date of commitment, maintenance, and staff remarks. The indexes in this series record the patient's name, casebook volume and page number(s), existence of clinical records, burial record, autopsy record, or prescription record, or date of discharge.
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Employee time books
Series Number
- B2382
Summary
- This series documents employee time worked and pay rate at the Rome State Custodial Asylum, Rome State School, and Rome Developmental Center. Information includes employee's name, dates worked, pay rate, days and hours worked, and amount paid for period. Information for some patients who served as "de facto" employees at the School is also present.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Access Restrictions
- Because these time books may include entries for patients informally serving as employees, these records are restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office centennial files
Series Number
- B2685
Summary
- This series consists of programs, posters, news articles, correspondence, meeting minutes, memorandums, and related records that document the centennial celebration of the Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office and its predecessor institutions.
Creator
- New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Rome State School colony inventory of supplies and equipment files
Series Number
- B2680
Summary
- This series documents the equipment and supply inventories kept at the Burr and Gloversville colonies between 1932 and 1940.
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office historical background files
Series Number
- B2388
Summary
- This series contains reports, correspondence, memorandums, policy documents, manuals, newsletters, and other publications that were collected or retained by several entities at the Rome State School (later Rome Developmental Center). The records were assembled for their historical interest, to provide information to the public, or for research value in the areas of treatments and conditions, patient life, staff training, facility expansion, and infrastructure repair and improvement.
Creator
- New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Access Restrictions
- Records identifying patients are restricted permanently in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Photographs of custodial institutions for the mentally deficient
Series Number
- A4228
Summary
- This series consists of several hundred black and white photographs illustrating conditions at custodial institutions for the mentally deficient in New York and other states. The photographs were gathered by the Commission to Investigate Provision for the Mentally Deficient to illustrate its final report. The photographs show a wide range of views including building exteriors, interior facilities and rooms, and patients working, eating, in classroom activities, and at play or rest.
Creator
- New York (State). Commission to Investigate Provision for the Mentally Deficient
Access Restrictions
- Access to photographs depicting patients is restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office Board of Visitors records
Series Number
- B2384
Summary
- This series chiefly contains records related to institutional activities as reported to the Board of Visitors. The records include reports from managers or directors of individual departments, offices, and programs (Board of Managers) to the director of the Rome State Custodial Asylum, Rome State School, Rome Developmental Center, and Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office.
Creator
- New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Access Restrictions
- Partially restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of patient clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Patient census records
Series Number
- B2385
Summary
- This series contains registers which record the number of patients in the custody of the Rome State School and its predecessor, the Rome State Custodial Asylum. Information includes a daily count of males and females for each month and notes regarding patient admissions, discharges, deaths, physicians travelling, inspections, visits by board members, and other significant event information on the day each occurs.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office staff development and training files
Series Number
- B2682
Summary
- These records document mandated and optional training courses for employees that were developed by staff, the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and expert vendors.
Creator
- New York (State). Rome Developmental Disabilities Services Office
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Rome Developmental Center census and attendance records
Series Number
- B2709
Summary
- This series contains scattered attendance records for individual patients or students and summary statistical information, in the form of census rosters, for treatment units.
Creator
- Rome Developmental Center (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Patient index cards
Series Number
- B2372
Summary
- These cards provide summary patient information. The front of the card includes patient's name, case number, county of origin, address if known, patient number, date of admission, and emergency contact. The reverse of the card gives visitor and/or transfer information and other notes regarding patient such as behavioral tendencies, marital status, previous attacks, etc. The cards also serve as an index and cross reference to patient case files. Cards for male patients beginning A-Fis are missing.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Mental Hygiene
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Section 33.13, Mental Hygiene Law, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access permitted under certain conditions upon application to and approval by the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.
Title
- Monthly reports and minutes of meetings of boards of managers of state institutions
Series Number
- A0283
Summary
- This series consists of reports and minutes of meetings submitted to the governor by boards of managers of state institutions documenting their visitation and inspection of these institutions as required by law. The reports provide information on the condition of the facilities, financial and administrative matters, and population of the institution. The minutes detail the organization of the board and election of officers, and provide similar information on the institution and its population as do the reports.
Creator
- New York (State). Governor
Access Restrictions
- Partially restricted in accordance with Executive Law, Section 501-c(1)(b), relating to confidentiality of individuals in custody of the Division for Youth (now Office of Children and Family Services).