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Displaying 42 Finding Aids
Title
- Visitor register
Series Number
- B1748
Summary
- This series consists of names, home addresses, and dates of visit for groups and individuals visiting the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital. Additional information describes the nature of the visit (visiting relative, curiosity, affiliated institution, excursion, or official ward visits).
Creator
- Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Records identifying patients are 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 of Mental Health.
Title
- Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital female patient weight books
Series Number
- B1750
Summary
- This series consists of monthly tabular notations documenting, in pounds, female patients' weight. Other information, such as if the patient was ill, resistant, or paroled, is occasionally noted. Information relates to patients in Ashley Hall.
Creator
- Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.)
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 of Mental Health.
Title
- Office of Mental Health subject files
Series Number
- B1973
Summary
- This series, consisting of subject files from several sources within the Department of Mental Hygiene, was assembled by author Leo Polaski. The files relate to various topics and pertain to the mental health facilities of Kings Park State Hospital, Pilgrim State Hospital, and Central Islip State Hospital. Types of records include newspaper clippings, circular letters, nursing school yearbooks, articles, reports, and manuals.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Health
Access Restrictions
- Some boxes are 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 of Mental Health.
Title
- Governor Thomas E. Dewey central subject and correspondence files
Series Number
- 13682_55;_13682_55A
Summary
- Thomas E. Dewey's governorship blended fiscal conservatism with a personal conviction that government bore a share of the responsibility for the welfare of the citizenry. During his tenure, New York's state university system was established and construction of the New York State Thruway was begun. These records also document post-war economic readjustment, sponsorship of social legislation, including the landmark 1945 "Law against Discrimination," and investigations of conditions in mental hospitals, including management and affairs of Creedmoor State Hospital.
Creator
- New York (State). Governor (1943-1954 : Dewey)
Access Restrictions
- Access to certain records documenting Moreland Act investigations is restricted. Records are subject to review by State Archives staff prior to disclosure.
Title
- Willard State Hospital visitation and inspection records
Series Number
- B1469
Summary
- This series consists of reports documenting formal inspections and official visits by Department of Mental Hygiene personnel to Willard Asylum for the Insane (later Willard State Hospital). Included are meeting minutes; observation notes on buildings and grounds tours as well as visitations with staff and patients; recommendations; and requests for changes, improvements, and repairs. Some reports give detailed individual reports for each building. Most recent reports contain printed checklists and fewer narratives. Records are restricted.
Creator
- Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Records identifying patients are 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 of Mental Health.
Title
- Willard State Hospital correspondence
Series Number
- B1468
Summary
- This series consists of correspondence to Willard State Hospital officials and their replies. Most concerns the disposal of the estates of patients who died at Willard State Hospital and/or inheritances bequeathed to patients. Other topics include patient condition inquiries; death and discharge notifications; materials for building or improvement projects; employment opportunities; and patient funding by Overseers of the Poor. Also included are a few blue prints of apparatus and copies of certificates to construction companies for materials and work performed.
Creator
- Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Records identifying specific patients are 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 of Mental Health.
Title
- Utica State Hospital daybooks and journals
Series Number
- B1497
Summary
- This series consists of accounting journals of the State Lunatic Asylum (later Utica State Hospital). Series includes a steward's journal listing payments made for supplies, food, services, labor, and routine maintenance; a vendor specific journal recording accounts payable by companies and providers; and a daybook and journal recording payments for household stores, patients' expenses, miscellaneous expenses, provisions, farm, and petty expenses.
Creator
- Utica State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Partially restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. The daybook and journal for the period 1883-1891 includes accounts of individual patients, whose identity is restricted. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office of Mental Health.
Title
- Autopsy record book
Series Number
- B1747
Summary
- This series consists of autopsy reports for deceased patients of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital. Reports include date and time of death; name of doctor performing autopsy; attending physicians; patient's age at death; form and duration of insanity; cause of death; external appearance of cadaver (nourished or malnourished); weight, in ounces, of organs; and indication whether the cranium, spinal cord, thorax, abdomen, and pelvic organs had been examined. Reports conclude with a detailed postmortem.
Creator
- Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records and the Personal Privacy Protection Law. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office of Mental Health.
Title
- Willard Psychiatric Center administrative records
Series Number
- B1470
Summary
- These records include newsletters, circular letters, and memorandums relating to administrative policies, procedures, and activities distributed to Willard State Hospital (later Willard Psychiatric Center) by the Department of Mental Hygiene. Also included are statistical reports; lists of patients' property on admission; death register books; diphtheria and syphilis test results; and a register of reported diseases. The department's newsletter, "Mental Hygiene News," contains news of staff changes; activities; and mental health related topics. Records are partially restricted.
Creator
- Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Records identifying patients are 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 of Mental Health.
Title
- Willard State Hospital ward inventory
Series Number
- B1471
Summary
- This series consists of inventories of equipment on wards at Willard State Hospital. Items inventoried include office furniture and equipment; recreational, janitorial, and medical equipment; and hospital furniture, apparatus, and equipment. Each item notes quantity, condition, and number requested in the next budget period. Also included for each ward is a brief census of patients, with numbers of male and female patients. Patients are listed as tidy, untidy, and destructive. Numbers of patients are provided in three categories: bedridden, ambulatory, and wheelchair-bound.
Creator
- Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Newsletters
Series Number
- B1922
Summary
- This series consists of newsletters produced at Middletown State Hospital (later Middletown Psychiatric Center). Titles include "Empathy," the quarterly newsletter of staff and volunteers (1965, 1968); "We Speak," patient newsletter (1958-1967); The "Hilltop," patient newsletter (1935-1953); "The Hilltop Herald," and "MPC Herald," staff newsletter (ca. 1978-1996); and other short-lived or untitled publications (1961-2002).
Creator
- Middletown Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Hudson River State Hospital photographic images
Series Number
- B2330
Summary
- This series consists of black and white negatives, glass plate negatives, and glass lantern slides that depict Hudson River State Hospital facilities, patients, staff, and hospital activities.
Creator
- Hudson River State Hospital (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- Photographs depicting identifiable patients are 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 of Mental Health.
Title
- Coffee and Spice Department ledger
Series Number
- B1501
Summary
- This ledger, created at the Utica State Hospital, apparently records sales or transfers of quantities of coffee and spices to other state hospitals. Accounts include date; item and amount purchased; price per unit; and total amount paid. The ledger also contains an account for coffee and spices purchased by Utica State Hospital, and three accounts for purchases from coffee and spice vendors.
Creator
- Utica State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- "The Opal" patient newsletter
Series Number
- B1480
Summary
- This series consists of bound copies of "The Opal," a monthly literary newsletter edited by patients at the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. The newsletter contains poems, essays, news articles, correspondence, and editorials on national and local events and subjects. Subjects and themes are mostly social, literary, religious, and political.
Creator
- New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- State Commission in Lunacy policy and meeting records
Series Number
- B1491
Summary
- This series consists of informational and policy documents issued by the State Commission in Lunacy and maintained by the Utica State Hospital. Documents include meeting minutes; conference transcripts; patient transfer orders; Commission decisions; guidelines; policy resolutions; samples forms; and laws relating to the insane. Issues discussed at the meetings include proposed expenditures, repairs, and construction; condemnation and acquisition of property; personnel issues claims against the hospitals; licensing of private mental health facilities; and other legal and procedural issues and policies.
Creator
- Utica State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- State Commissioners in Lunacy visiting book
Series Number
- B1490
Summary
- This series records visits to the State Lunatic Asylum (later Utica State Hospital) by the members of the State Commission in Lunacy. Information includes date of visit, names and signatures of commissioner, and areas of the hospital visited. Recommendations, including those for safety, orderliness, and cleanliness adopted during meetings are documented. Visitation notes address personal appearance of attendants; sanitary conditions; furniture; maintenance of buildings and grounds; dining and wards; fire prevention; and patient appearance, behavior, treatment, and care.
Creator
- Utica State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center Board of Managers meeting minutes and visiting book
Series Number
- B1484
Summary
- This series consists of visitation books and minutes of meetings of the Board of Managers (later Board of Visitors) of the Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center and its predecessors. Minutes document matters discussed by or reported to the board including resolutions passed; financial reports; conditions and improvements; patients admitted and discharged (some by death); patients recommended for discharge or transfer; committee reports; and officer elections. The visitation register notes the reason for the visit.
Creator
- Mohawk Valley Psychiatric Center
Access Restrictions
- Records identifying patients 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 of Mental Health.
Title
- Medical inspectors' notes of visitation of state hospitals and private institutions
Series Number
- B1861
Summary
- This series was created by the medical inspector for the State Hospital Commission (later the Department of Mental Hygiene) to document observations made on inspection visits to state hospitals, state schools, hospital psychiatric wards, and private mental health care institutions. Narrative notes include date and time of arrival; professional staff on duty; list of staff vacancies; patient census statistics; notes on new admissions; discharges; deaths; and special interviews with patients about complaints regarding care and treatment, accidents, and injuries.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Mental Hygiene. Medical Inspector of the State Hospital Commission
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 of Mental Health.
Title
- Contracts and specifications
Series Number
- B1492
Summary
- This series consists of contracts, specifications, and proposals from contractors and suppliers for construction projects; work on building additions, repairs and improvements; and for equipment for Utica State Hospital. Contracts included work on fire escapes; chimneys; greenhouses; windows; skylights; floors; laundry equipment; sewers; additional buildings; printing; kitchen equipment; beds; doorbells; coal; plumbing installation and telephone equipment. Also included are Board of Managers approvals and authorizations to begin work on projects; farmland lease agreements and insurance agreements.
Creator
- Utica State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Daily reports and census records
Series Number
- B1487
Summary
- This series consists of daily census records maintained by staff of the State Lunatic Asylum (later Utica State Hospital). Records include total number of male and female patients with number admitted and discharged. Information generally includes brief notes concerning visitors; religious services or entertainment programs; departures, destinations and return of staff; thermometer and barometer readings; weather; meetings and unusual canal conditions. Of note are census statistics when half the population was transferred to Marcy State Hospital.
Creator
- Utica State Hospital (N.Y.)
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.