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Scope and Content Note

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.