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Scope and Content Note

This series consists of a handwritten register of applications for admission to the State Hospital for the Treatment of Tuberculosis at Ray Brook and the action taken (approval or rejection) on each application. They provide a record of applicants and those patients admitted. Entries contain the following: month, day, and year of application; name and residence of the applicant; name of welfare officer making application; acceptance or rejection and date; date sent for; whether admitted or not; name of examing physician and date of examination; and usually remarks such as date of removal, held until a future date, patient died on a certain date, applicant went to another institution or no further information after application approved.

Series also consists of two typed inserts: reports of applicants on waiting lists (nd); procedures to be followed in filling out State Insurance Fund forms (1939).