Augusta Mental Health Institute (1840-2004)

Scope and Contents From the Schedule/Series: Sanitorium Annual Reports, Board of Trustee Minutes, patient property receipts, register of patients, regulations notebook, case files, court observation cases. Content Warning These records reflect the treatment practices and terminology of the time. Some of the language and treatments are not considered acceptable today and may be uncomfortable for some readers. Recognizing that historical medical terms do not always completely or...

Scope and Contents From the Schedule/Series: Sanitorium Annual Reports, Board of Trustee Minutes, patient property receipts, register of patients, regulations notebook, case files, court observation cases. Content Warning These records reflect the treatment practices and terminology of the time. Some of the language and treatments are not considered acceptable today and may be uncomfortable for some readers. Recognizing that historical medical terms do not always completely or...

Scope and Contents From the Schedule/Series: Sanitorium Annual Reports, Board of Trustee Minutes, patient property receipts, register of patients, regulations notebook, case files, court observation cases. Content Warning These records reflect the treatment practices and terminology of the time. Some of the language and treatments are not considered acceptable today and may be uncomfortable for some readers. Recognizing that historical medical terms do not always completely or...

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Files of the Director of the Bureau of Mental Retardation--materials relating to the day-to-day operations of the Bureau, including records of its organization, functions, policies, procedures, decisions, essential transactions and correspondence related thereto.

Scope and Contents These medical case histories of patients at the Augusta Mental Health Institute span the years 1840-1910 and are in leather-bound volumes 01-40. The numbered, paginated volumes that provide personal medical histories for patients from October 1840 until 1910 have a relatively structured, chronological format and often extensive entries. Volumes provide the patient’s name, dates of admission and discharge (by hospital staff), removal (by family), or death, the patient’s place of...