Research

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Creator:

Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of scrapbooks primarily containing newspaper clippings relating to a variety of topics: Willard State Hospital; other mental institutions; mental health professions; medical societies; legislation; mental illness and its treatment. Also included are public announcements; proposed .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)

 

 

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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 .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

3

Creator:

Willard State Hospital (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of published annual reports of commissions and institutions with management oversight of those deemed to be mentally deficient. The volumes were maintained at the Willard Psychiatric Center library, most likely for research purposes and later as historical references. Also included .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of registers of admitted and discharged patients at Willard State Hospital (later Willard Psychiatric Center). Also included are a few quarterly or annual statistical summaries. Earliest registers include marital status; habits (snuff, tobacco, etc.); nativity; occupation; religion; .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

5

Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of a variety of inspection reports including night watch reports, which document supervising nurses' visits to sick patients; weekly ward inspections by assistant physicians, which contain observations regarding cleanliness of facilities and recommendations for improvement of conditions .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

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Creator:

Willard Psychiatric Center (N.Y.)

 

 

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This series consists of photographic materials such as prints, slides, postcards, and film from Willard Psychiatric Center. Images span the institution's history providing extensive visual documentation of most daily activities. Images of staff and patients, both in groups and individually, include .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives