Craig Developmental Disabilities Services Office Board of Visitors Meeting Minutes

Chronological

Craig Colony for Epileptics was established in 1894 to offer residential, educational, occupational, and medical facilities for epileptics. It remained an institution for epileptics until 1967.

Format and content of minutes change over time. Topics include those present; lists of employees appointed, promoted, resigned, and dismissed; lists of patients admitted and discharged; patient census statistics; resolutions; transcripts of correspondence; and statistical and narrative reports on all aspects of staff and patient activities and conditions including accidents, escapes, staff changes, census statistics, and other matters of special note. Signatures of members attending and recording secretary are present.

Other topics include conditions, repairs, and improvements to facilities; proposals and approval of contracts and expenditures for services and material; and reports from various committees and officers, notably, the Medical Superintendent.

Until about 1927, the board is referred to as the Board of Managers. Two early volumes are exclusively Executive Committee minutes.

B1714Series B1714, Patient admission histories, 1921-1941

14197Series 14197, Patient case files, [ca. 1896-1948]

B1813Series B1813, Property maps, 1895

B1898Series B1898, Photographs, [ca. 1900-1967]

B1901Series B1901, Medical superintendent memoranda, [ca. 1909-1935]

Container list is available at the repository.

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 for People with Developmental Disabilities.