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Title

Smallpox case report cards

Series Number

B0167

Summary

Physicians across the state were required to report each case of designated communicable diseases to the State Department of Health. This series contains data on smallpox victims. Personal data includes patient's name; age; sex; color/race; marital status; country of mother's birth; and address. Medical data includes first symptom date; date reported; last successful vaccination date; site where infection occurred; reporting physician's signature; changes in diagnosis; vaccination response; declarations of small pox and rescindments of smallpox certifications. Records are restricted pursuant to state and federal laws.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of Communicable Diseases

Access Restrictions

Restricted by New York Public Health Law sect. 18 and New York Code of Rules and Regulations part 10, sect. 50-4; by New York Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law Art. 6) sect. 87.2(b); by New York Personal Privacy Protection Law (Public Officers Law Art. 6-A) sect. 96; and by the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Acct (HIPAA), 42 U.S. Code sect. 1320d-6, and -7.

Title

Local initiatives

Series Number

B2016

Summary

The Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitiveness was charged with studying the structure and operations of New York local government; reducing costs and improving the effectiveness of local government operations; and reforming election laws and procedures. The commission issued its final report, entitled "21st Century Local Government," in April 2008. These records contain background information gathered by the commission regarding local government initiatives to reduce costs and improve the effectiveness of operations.

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Proposed amendments file

Series Number

L0093

Summary

The series consists of two copies of each of the 694 proposed amendments introduced in the Convention. The amendments contain the following: introductory number; title; date introduced; introducer; name of committee referred to; and text of amendment.

Creator

• New York (State). Constitutional Convention, 1938

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund Corporation archived websites

Series Number

B2189

Summary

This series consists of archival copies of the publicly accessible websites of the New York State Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund Corporation.

Creator

• New York State Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund Corporation

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

World War I historical research files

Series Number

A3354

Summary

The series consists of a group of clippings, photographs, training circulars, instructions, and maps, dating from the World War I period. The exact source and association of these records is unclear, although they may be from a collection of Franklin W. Ward, who was Adjutant General from 1926 to 1934. They were apparently kept as background files - perhaps for research purposes - to illustrate New York's part in military training (including intelligence training) and the actual fighting.

Creator

• New York (State). Adjutant General's Office

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

Entry documentation for construction of State Tuberculosis Hospital, Ray Brook, New York

Series Number

A1225

Summary

This series from the Comptroller's office consists of bills, correspondence, receipts, contract statements of certificates, vouchers and certificates stating that construction work was performed by individuals on the hospitals. The records in this series are concerned mainly with the E.H. Denniston Company and address monies paid for labor and supplies to complete contracts annulled by the State Architect.

Creator

• New York (State). Comptroller's Office

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Manhattan State Hospital patient census records

Series Number

B2837

Summary

This series consists of statistical data documenting numbers of patients present, admitted on parole or leave, escaped, and died. Statistics are categorized by male and female. Some average populations are given by month. No patients are identified by name.

Creator

• Manhattan State Hospital
• New York (State). Office of Mental Health
• New York (State). Department of Mental Hygiene

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

War Council Farm Manpower Service Farm Labor Program procedure manuals

Series Number

A4349

Summary

This series contains the procedure manuals used by County Agricultural Extension Agents in the implementation and operation of the Farm Labor Program, coordinated by the Farm Manpower Service. Included in the manuals are lists of potential sources of labor; budget forms; monthly farm labor report forms; policies concerning Cooperative and Membership Corporations; information on the transportation, health maintenance, and insurance of workers; and certificates and insignia given to workers in recognition of satisfactory performance.

Creator

• New York State War Council. Farm Manpower Service

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Hearing officer decisions on individualized education plans (IEPs)

Series Number

19506

Summary

This series from the Office of Special Education Services consists of the hearing officer's findings and decision on cases regarding a special needs child's Individualized Education Plan. The findings detail the positions of the child's parents and of the school system. Pre- 1990 files also include school district name; ; nature of the child's disability; the issue(s) in dispute; and a brief summary of the decision. Most decisions are from the New York City Board of Education's Impartial Hearing Office.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Office of Vocational and Educational Services. Office of Special Education Services

Access Restrictions

Restricted under the Freedom of Information Law (personal privacy) and FERPA. The restrictions of non-directory student information under FERPA last for 100 years unless a student or parent has signed and filed a waiver allowing disclosure of the record.

Title

Board of Charities correspondence

Series Number

A1977

Summary

The correspondence in this series consists of transmittal letters or cover letters sent with routine institutional reports; responses to inquiries from the board about the number of certain types of patients (e.g. insane persons, epileptics) in each institution; requests for or comments on the board's reports; comments on social welfare policy; comments on or requests for copies of bill proposals; and comments by the president of the board on legal action to be taken against institutions refusing inspection.

Creator

• New York (State). State Board of Charities

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Public Employment Relations Board grievance arbitration case files

Series Number

17503

Summary

The Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) Conciliation Unit provides mediation and fact-finding services when union contract negotiations reach an impasse; compulsory arbitration services during public safety union contract negotiations; grievance arbitration services when PERB is a contract-designated arbitrator; and facilitates the formation of labor-management committees. These case files, beginning with "A," relate to grievance arbitration cases in which PERB is named as the arbitrating agency; and to combined mediation-arbitration ("Med-Arb") proceedings. Files contain petitions for arbitration, panel lists and designations, evidence, and decisions.

Creator

• New York (State). Public Employment Relations Board. Conciliation Unit

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Abstracts of Warrants ("Payments from the Public Chest")

Series Number

A3190

Summary

This series originally contained abstracts of warrants recorded in separate volumes of "licenses and warrants" and "treasury warrants". Of the volumes referenced in the abstracts, only one volume of treasury warrants survives (see Series A1887). Warrants were issued by the governor authorizing the state treasurer to pay specified sums to persons who provided goods or services to New York.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Treasurer's Office

Access Restrictions

This series is closed to research due to severe burn damage suffered during the New York State Capitol building fire of 1911.

Title

Syracuse State School medical inspection reports

Series Number

B1644

Summary

This series consists of reports, checklists, and notes of visits to the Syracuse State School and its colony facilities, by Department of Mental Hygiene medical inspectors. Earliest reports show Inspector's arrival and departure dates and times; patient census; new admissions; accidents; educational work and building inspection results. Also included are department transmittal letters, and report receipts. Reports for 1949-1955 are missing. Records are partially restricted.

Creator

• Syracuse State School

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

Special lantern slide sets

Series Number

A4199

Summary

This series consists of instructional glass lantern slides that appear to have been separated from the master set in Series A3045 for unknown reasons. They appear to have been loosely grouped together in sets according to subject matter. Almost all sets pertain to New York State. Sets include Albany schools and hospitals, laboratories, pathology and immunization, blister rust, vocational schools, general education and schools, and the Associated Academic Principals of the State of New York.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department. Division of Visual Instruction

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.

Title

Index to Chancery decrees filed in New York City

Series Number

JN303

Summary

Volumes in this series index the enrolled decrees of the Court of Chancery that were filed with the Chancery clerks in New York City. The volumes do not index decrees filed in Albany, or decrees of the Vice Chancellors in the eight Chancery Circuits. The four volumes contain essentially the same data, but they were prepared at different times after 1847. Each entry states the last name of the indebted party (usually defendant) and the prevailing party (usually complainant), and the year of the decree. There are many annotations, corrections, and additions in each volume. The first three volumes are manuscript; the fourth is a typescript prepared in 1923.

Creator

• New York (Colony). Prerogative Court

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Board of Regents meeting files

Series Number

17265

Summary

This series documents the monthly meetings of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. Included are materials sent to regents prior to the meeting, such as meeting agendas, monthly reports from the Commissioner of Education, budget recommendations, and proposed legislation. Also included are records produced during the monthly meeting, such as informal minutes, petitions for action, roll call votes, and press releases and published journals of meeting actions.

Creator

• University of the State of New York. Board of Regents

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Chancery Fund journal of payments to and from the Manhattan Company

Series Number

JN317

Summary

Volume records court-ordered payments of cash and transfer of other financial assets by parties in Chancery proceedings, and their deposit with the Manhattan Company, a bank in New York City. Volume also contains signed receipts for money disbursed by the Manhattan Company and paid by the clerk of the 1st Circuit to beneficiaries in Chancery proceedings.

Creator

• New York (State). Court of Chancery

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Correspondence files regarding federally funded highway construction projects

Series Number

B0228

Summary

This series consists of correspondence directed to and generated by the commissioner's office of the Division of Highways, Department of Public Works and its predecessor offices. The bulk of the files deal with the administration of federal highway construction aid appropriated by Congress in 1916. Most of the correspondence is between the state official responsible for overseeing the construction of highways and the federal district engineer who ensured that all provisions outlined in the act were being met by the state.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of Highways

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.

Title

Subject and correspondence files of executive staff

Series Number

12309

Summary

This series consists of subject and correspondence files produced by executive staff of the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR). The series documents such issues as New York City housing; proposed housing projects; legislation sponsored by or affecting DHCR; and federal agencies and activities related to housing.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of Housing and Community Renewal

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.