Pennsylvania State Archives
RG-23
Records of the DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE
The Departments of Public Assistance and Welfare were merged in 1958 to form the Department of Public Welfare. As the primary state agency concerned with the social welfare and financial needs of the citizens of the Commonwealth, the Department of Public Welfare administers a wide range of services which include: public assistance, medical assistance, aid to the handicapped, mental health and retardation programs and institutions, State hospitals, and the licensing and inspection of nursing homes, day-care centers and hospitals.
The department can be traced directly back to the Board of Public Charities, which was created in 1869 to inspect all charitable and correctional institutions in the Commonwealth, and the Board's Committee on Lunacy, which was established in 1883 to examine places for the confinement of the insane. In 1921 the Board of Public Charities and the Committee on Lunacy were abolished, and the Department of Public Welfare was created to coordinate and administer welfare programs. In 1923 the name of the Department of Public Welfare was changed to the Department of Welfare. Supervision over penal and correctional institutions was transferred in 1953 from its Bureau of Penal Affairs to the Department of Justice.
In 1937 the Department of Public Assistance was created to administer a centralized relief program. The State Emergency Relief Board, established in 1932 to handle unemployment relief and work relief, was abolished and its powers and duties, along with those of the Welfare Department's Bureau of Assistance, were transferred to the new agency.
- Administrative Correspondence, 1963, 1969-1970. (4 cartons) {#23.1}
[Description]
- Correspondence Relating to Birth Control and Planned Parenthood, 1958-1959.
(1 box) {#23.2} [Description]
- Minutes of the Board of Trustees for State Institutions, 1968-1970. (5 cartons)
{#23.3} [Description]
- News Releases, 1955-1964, 1972-1974. (3 boxes, 1 carton) {#23.4}
[Description]
- Speeches, 1955-1962. (2 folders) {#23.5}
- State Institution Files, 1959-1971. (2 cartons) {#23.6} [Description]
- Minutes and Correspondence Relating to the Governor's Committee on Aging,
1954-1960. (3 cartons) {#23.7} [Description]
- Minutes, Reports, Correspondence and Printed Materials Relating to the Governor's
White House Conference Committee on Aging, 1959-1962. (3 cartons) {#23.8}
[Description]
Child Welfare Institution Historic Files, 1922-1965. (2 cartons) {#23.9}
[Description]
Office of Children, Youth and Families
- Pennsylvania Children's Trust Fund Annual Reports, 1990-2000. (1 box) {#23.422}
- State Supervised Hospitals' History File, 1914-1973. (12 cartons) {#23.10}
[Description]
- Board and Committee Meeting Files, 1963-1968. (1 carton) {#23.12}
[Description]
NOTE: Access to patient-related records from state hospitals is controlled
by the Department of Public Welfare. Due to the new Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Compliance Regulations, which took
effect on April 14, 2003, the Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Services will restrict records concerning patient information in Record
Group 23 more comprehensively than before. Unless specific criteria are
met, the OMHSAS will no longer authorize waivers for the Pennsylvania State
Archives to release records of deceased mental hospital patients. Access
to state hospital records and other patient-related records will be provided
only to a deceased patient's "chosen executors, or administrators or
other personal representative, [or] by a person otherwise appointed by court
order to receive control over the records." The only other exceptions
to these criteria are for qualified health care providers and law enforcement
officials. Discharged patients may gain access to their own records by sending
a release form to the address below.
Researchers who believe they meet the above criteria should contact Dr.
Aiden Altenor, Director of Hospital Operations, Department of Public Welfare,
P.O. Box 2675, Harrisburg, PA 17105, for authorization to access state hospital
records at the Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Danville State Hospital
- Accounts Payable Book, 1895-1913. (1 volume) {#23.13} [Description]
- Admission Paper Copies, 1884-1889. (5 volumes) {#23.14} [Description]
- Agreements, 1887-1890. (1 volume) {#23.15} [Description]
- Alphabetical Register of Female Patients, [ca. 1886-1926]. (2 volumes)
{23.16} [Description]
- Alphabetical Register of Male Patients, [ca. 1886-1926]. (3 volumes)
{#23.17} [Description]
- Construction and Improvement Account Operating Ledger, 1926-1927 and
undated. (1 volume) {#23.18} [Description]
- County Registers, 1872-1923. (2 volumes) {#23.19} [Description]
- Court Commitment Books, 1884-1924. (3 volumes) {#23.20} [Description]
- Daily Report Books of Male and Female Wards, 1879-1956. (11 volumes)
{#23.21} [Description]
- Employees' Payroll Books, 1873-1924. (7 volumes) {#23.22} [Description]
- Female Attendants' Payroll Books, 1890-1917. (2 volumes) {#23.23}
[Description]
- Female Admission Registers, 1884-1923. (2 volumes) {#23.24} [Description]
- General Indexes to Patient Ledgers, 1882-1921. (9 volumes) {#23.25}
[Description]
- Index to Ledgers for Private Patients, undated. (2 volumes) {#23.26}
[Description]
- Index to Patient Ledgers, undated. (22 volumes) {#23.27} [Description]
- Journal, 1895-1912. (1 volume) {#23.28} [Description]
- Ledger, 1870-1878. (1 volume) {#23.29} [Description]
- Ledgers for Private Patients, 1885-1921. (2 volumes) {#23.30}
[Description]
- Mail Book, 1963-1969. (1 volume) {#23.31} [Description]
- Male Attendents' Payroll Books, 1890-1921. (3 volumes) {#23.32} [Description]
- Male Case Index Book, undated. (1 volume) {#23.33} [Description]
- Male Nurses' Payroll Book, 1921-1923. (1 volume) {#23.34} [Description]
- Male Admission Register, 1884-1923. (1 volume) {#23.35} [Description]
- Mechanics' Payroll Book, 1920-1923. (1 volume) {#23.36} [Description]
- Medical Journals, 1884-1917. (7 volumes) {#23.37} [Description]
- Minute Book of the Medical Board of the Hospital for the Insane, 1896-1922.
(1 volume) {#23.38} [Description]
- Officers' Payroll Book, 1920-1923. (1 volume) {#23.39}
[Description]
- Patient Ledgers, 1872-1921. (23 volumes) {#23.40}
[Description]
- Patient Population Record Book, 1930-1953. (1 volume) {#23.41}
[Description]
- Patient Register and Record of Burial Plots, 1872-1937. (1 volume) {#23.42}
[Description]
- Payroll Record Books, 1924-1938 and undated. (5 volumes) {#23.43}
[Description]
- Record Book of Female and Male Epileptics, 1887-1891. (1 volume) {#23.44}
[Description]
- Special Appropriations Ledger, 1907-1924. (1 volume) {#23.45}
[Description]
- Statement of Expenditures, 1895-1922. (3 volumes) {#23.46}
[Description]
- Tickler Account Books, 1885-1923. (2 volumes) {#23.47} [Description]
- Women Nurses' Payroll Book, 1917-1923. (1 volume) {#23.48} [Description]
- Dixmont State Hospital
- Accounts Receivable Papers, 1938-1940. (1 folder) {#23.49} [Description]
- Address File (Includes a National Survey of Mental Hospitals), 1928,
1930-1932, 1936. (1 folder) {#23.50} [Description]
- Admission Books, 1883-1944. (3 volumes) {#23.51} (Description)
- Annual and Biennial Reports, 1848-1972. (99 volumes, 2 folders) {#23.52}
(Description)
- Annual Supply Schedule Book, 1926-1927. (1 volume) {#23.53} (Description)
- Applications for Parole and Leave of Absence, 1946-1947. (1 folder)
{#23.54} (Description)
- Appropriation Files, 1927-1939. (1 folder) {#23.55} (Description)
- Attendants' Daily Reports, 1940-1941. (4 folders) {#23.56} (Description)
- Attendants' Night Reports, 1940. (2 folders) {#23.57} (Description)
- Autopsy Records, 1920-1939. (1 folder) {#23.58} (Description)
- Bank Deposit Books, 1941-1945. (1 folder) {#23.59} (Description)
- Bank Statements and Cancelled Checks, 1942-1945. (1 folder) {#23.60}
(Description)
- Bills, 1869. (12 folders) {#23.61} (Description)
- Blueprint of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Through
Western Pennsylvania Hospital Property, 1908. (1 item) {#23.62}
(Description)
- Cash Books, 1897-1930. (12 volumes) {#23.63} (Description)
- Cash Receipt and Disbursement Books, 1924-1948. (2 volumes) {#23.64}
(Description)
- Checkbooks, 1917-1919, 1926-1945. (4 folders) {#23.65} (Description)
- Confidential Report by the Board of Fire Underwriters, 1930. (1 item)
{#23.66} (Description)
- Construction and Renovation Agreements, 1893. (1 folder) {#23.67}
(Description)
- Construction Plans and Specifications, 1929. (1 folder) {#23.68}
(Description)
- Daily Journals, 1859-1955. (17 volumes) {#23.69} (Description)
- Daily Registers of Patients, 1908-1972. (2 volumes) {#23.70}
(Description)
- Day and Night Report Books, 1936-1937. (6 volumes) {#23.71} (Description)
- Death Cards, 1922-1936. (1 folder) {#23.72} (Description)
- Death Certificates, 1909-1912. (1 folder) {#23.73} (Description)
- Death Discharge Notices, 1897-1906. (2 folders) {#23.74} (Description)
- Discharge Books, 1883-1930. (3 volumes) {#23.75} (Description)
- Discharge Cards, 1922-1943. (8 folders) {#23.76} (Description)
- Employees' Wage Books, 1880-1908. (4 volumes) {#23.77} (Description)
- Employees' Agreement Books, 1891-1939. (6 volumes) {#23.78} (Description)
- Expenditure Books, 1879-1941. (7 volumes) {#23.79} (Description)
- Farm Account Order Book, 1893-1896. (1 volume) {#23.80} (Description)
- Farm Record Book, 1910-1920. (1 volume) {#23.81} (Description)
- Farm Wage Book, 1894-1908. (1 volume) {#23.82} (Description)
- Female Patients' Clothing and Property Book, 1890-1903. (1 volume) {#23.83}
(Description)
- Financial Reports, 1929-1945. (1 folder) {#23.84} (Description)
- Financial Statements, 1910-1923, 1935-1938. (3 folders) {#23.85}
(Description)
- First Admission and Re-Admission Cards, 1891-1935. (8 folders) {#23.86}
(Description)
- General Correspondence, 1896-1933. (30 folders) {#23.87} (Description)
- General Correspondence, 1885-1940. (56 folders) {#23.88} (Description)
- General Orientation File, 1915, 1967. (1 folder) {#23.89} (Description)
- Hospital Record Books, 1856-1895. (3 volumes) {#23.90} (Description)
- Hydro-Therapy Reports, 1913-1923. (3 folders, 6 volumes) {#23.91}
(Description)
- In-Patient Record Cards for World War I, 1919-1920. (1 folder) {#23.92}
(Description)
- Indigent Patient Cards, 1893-1916. (5 folders) {#23.93} (Description)
- Insurance File, 1901, 1915. (1 folder) {#23.94} (Description)
- Invoice Book, 1903-1908. (1 volume) {#23.95} (Description)
- Journals, 1852-1945. (12 volumes) {#23.96} (Description)
- Ledgers, 1852-1945. (6 folders, 15 volumes) {#23.97} (Description)
- Letter Press Books, 1917-1945. (15 volumes) {#23.98} (Description)
- Male Patients' Clothing and Property Books, 1895-1908. (3 volumes) {#23.99}
(Description)
- Medical Lecture Notebook of Dr. Hutchinson, 1875-1877. (1 folder) {#23.100}
(Description)
- Meeting Notices and Notes, 1931-1941. (1 folder) {#23.101} (Description)
- Meeting Proceeding Books, 1878, 1910-1911, 1916. (5 volumes) {#23.102}
(Description)
- Minute Book of the Building and Executive Committee, 1866-1870. (1 volume)
{#23.103} (Description)
- Minutes of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors, 1885-1945.
(1 volume, 9 folders) {#23.104} (Description)
- Miscellaneous Account Book, 1857-1861, 1869-1907. (5 volumes) {#23.105}
(Description)
- Miscellaneous Accounts, 1902, 1920, 1939-1940. (1 folder) {#23.106}
(Description)
- Miscellaneous Papers, 1857-1886, 1914-1916. (1 folder) {#23.107}
(Description)
- Monthly Balance Sheet Books, 1882-1945. (6 volumes, 1 folder) {#23.108}
(Description)
- Monthly Record of Wards, 1912-1914. (7 folders) {#23.109} (Description)
- Nurses' Lecture Roll Book, 1930-1933. (1 folder) {#23.110} (Description)
- Order Book, 1936-1937. (1 volume) {#23.111} (Description)
- Patient History Books, 1859-1950. (64 volumes) {#23.112} (Description)
- Patient Population Statistical Tables, 1936-1946. (3 folders) {#23.113}
(Description)
- Payrolls, 1919-1946. (11 folders) {#23.114} (Description)
- Photographs, 1908-1940. (1 folder) {#23.115} (Description)
- Prints of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, Dixmont,
and the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, 12th Ward, Pittsburgh, undated.
(1 folder) {#23.116} (Description)
- Proceeding Book of the Committee on the Ninth Ward Hospital, 1870-1871.
(1 volume) {#23.117} (Description)
- Public Patients Boarding Accounts, 1938-1940. (3 folders) {#23.118}
(Description)
- Record of Condition of Female Patients When Received, 1876-1904. (16
volumes) {#23.119} (Description)
- Record of Distribution of Expenditures, 1921-1945. (1 folder, 2 volumes)
{#23.120} (Description)
- Record of Patients on Parole and Furlough, 1939-1953. (1 folder) {#23.121}
(Description)
- Record of Payment for Isolated Hospital Buildings, 1906. (1 folder)
{#23.122} (Description)
- Record of People to be Notified, 1855-1952. (8 volumes) {#23.123}
(Description)
- Record of Requisitions Directed to Purchasing Agent, 1893-1914. (3 volumes)
{#23.124} (Description)
- Report on the Cost of Indigent Insane, 1908, 1919-1926. (13 folders)
{#23.125} (Description)
- Superintendent's Reports, 1928-1932. (5 folders) {#23.126} (Description)
- Supervisor's Daily Reports, 1938-1940. (5 folders) {#23.127}
(Description)
- Treasurer's Books, 1879-1940. (4 volumes) {#23.128} (Description)
- Voucher Record Books, 1898-1947. (7 volumes) {#23.129}
(Description)
- Ward Inventory Book, 1859-1968. (1 folder) {#23.130} (Description)
- Warrant Books, 1867-1906. (7 volumes) {#23.131} (Description)
- Will Book of Charles Brewer, 1860-1878. (1 volume) {#23.132}
(Description)
- Harrisburg State Hospital
- Account of Clothing Issued to Female Patients, 1851-1862. (2 volumes)
{#23.136} [Description]
- Account of Clothing Issued to Male Patients, 1851-1858. (2 volumes)
{#23.137} [Description]
- Admission Card File, 1885-1952. (3 cartons) {#23.138} [Description]
- Admission Registers, 1851-1969. (8 volumes) {#23.139} [Description]
- Advancement Requisitions, Appraisals, and Treasurer's Quarterly Statements,
1916-1926, 1928-1931. (1 folder) {#23.140} [Description]
- Alphabetical Registers of Patients, 1851-1895. (2 volumes) {#23.141}
[Description]
- Annual and Biennial Reports, 1851-1928. (4 volumes) {#23.142}
[Description]
- Annual Financial Statements of Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital to
Board of Charities, 1898-1921. (1 box) {#23.143} [Description]
- Annual Reports of the Board of Public Charities, 1870-1882, 1885-1906.
(32 volumes) {#23.144} [Description]
- Annual Reports of the Harrisburg State Hospital, 1851-1921. (70 volumes)
{#23.145} [Description]
- Architectural Drawings, [ca. 1900-1937]. (18 items) {#23.146}
[Description]
- Bailey Fund Account Book and Bank Statements, [ca. 1931-1937, 1951].
(1 folder) {#23.147} [Description]
- Biennial Reports of the Harrisburg State Hospital, 1921-1958. (8 volumes)
{#23.148} [Description]
- Blotters, 1891-1921, 1926-1971. (13 volumes) {#23.149} [Description]
- Correspondence Concerning Dr. Clery Rutan Treat, 1916-1918. (1 folder)
{#23.151} [Description]
- Correspondence Regarding the Ordering of Supplies, 1896-1919. (1 folder)
{#23.152} [Description]
- Correspondence with Dr. Henry I. Klapp, Superintendent of the State
Homeopature Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 1912-1922. (1 folder) {#23.372}
[Description]
- Correspondence with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1901-1913. (1
folder) {#23.153} [Description]
- County Register, 1851-1918. (1 volume) {#23.154} [Description]
- Court Order Books, 1883-1924. (19 volumes) {#23.155} [Description]
- Daily Registers, 1851-1969. (6 volumes) {#23.156} [Description]
- Death, Discharge and Transfer Card File, 1947-1958. (2 cartons) {#23.157}
[Description]
- Electroshock Treatment Record Book, [ca. 1941-1958]. (4 volumes) {#23.158}
[Description]
- Employee Index, 1893-1894. (1 volume) {#23.159} [Description]
- Employers' Reports of Industrial Injury, 1961-1964. (1 volume) {#23.160}
[Description]
- Employment Record Card File, 1892-1908. (4 boxes) {#23.161} [Description]
- Exhibit Documents, 1851-1910. (10 items) {#23.162} [Description]
- History File, 1851-1972. (1 box) {#23.163} [Description]
- Incidental Expense Account Book, 1851-1908. (1 volume) {#23.165}
[Description]
- Incidental Prescriptions, 1881-1883. (2 volumes) {#23.166}
- Index to Register of Patients, 1851-1881. (1 volume) {#23.167}
[Description]
- Indexes of Persons to be Notified, undated. (3 volumes) {#23.168}
[Description]
- Journal of John Curwen, 1851-1885. (1 volume) {#23.169} [Description]
- Ledger, 1875-1885. (1 volume) {#23.170} [Description]
- Ledger and Journal of Bills Rendered and Received 1851-1852, 1871-1875.
(1 volume) {#23.171} [Description]
- Ledger of Patient Accounts, 1851-1866. (1 volume) {#23.172} [Description]
- Letter Press Book of J.Z. Gerhard, 1883. (1 volume) {#23.173}
[Description]
- Letter Press Book of J.B. Livingstone, Steward, 1890-1895. (1 volume)
{#23.174} [Description]
- Letter Press Book of John Curwen, 1853-1854. (1 volume) {#23.175}
[Description]
- Malarial Treatment and Anti-Typhoid Vaccine Record Book, 1924-1950.
(1 volume) {#23.176} [Description]
- Medical Case Book, 1851-1867. (1 volume) {#23.177} [Description]
- Medical Case Books of the Female Department, 1880-1922. (30 volumes)
{#23.178} [Description]
- Medical Case Books of the Male Department, 1881-1924. (43 volumes) {#23.179}
[Description]
- Medical Journals, 1922-1936. (6 volumes) {#23.180} [Description]
- Medical Reference Books, 1844-1971. (26 volumes) {#23.181} [Description]
- Medical Record of Prescriptions, 1889-1892. (2 volumes) {#23.182}
[Description]
- Minute Books of the Board of Trustees of Harrisburg State Hospital,
1851-1861, 1895-1928. (4 volumes) {#23.183} [Description]
- Minute Book of the Commissioners of the State Lunatic Hospital and Union
Asylum, 1845-1853. (1 volume) {#23.184} [Description]
- Minute Book of the Executive Committee of the Harrisburg State Hospital,
1925-1934. (1 volume) {#23.185} [Description]
- Minute Book of the Executive, Local and Visiting Committees of the Board
of Trustees, 1851-1924. (1 volume) {#23.186} [Description]
- Minutes and Other Records of the Transitional Living Program, 1966-1968.
(1 box) {#23.187} [Description]
- Miscellaneous Plans and Reports, 1932-1973. (19 volumes) {#23.188}
[Description]
- Monthly Census Reports, 1922-1956. (1 box) {#23.189} [Description]
- Order, Statement and Certificate Books, 1889-1903. (11 volumes) {#23.190}
[Description]
- Parole Book, 1962-1973. (1 volume) {#23.191} [Description]
- Patient History Books, 1893-1916. (19 volumes) {#23.164} [Description]
- Patient Register, 1930-1932. (1 volume) {#23.192} [Description]
- Pennsylvania Hospital Report Books, 1817, 1845-1897. (37 volumes) {#23.193}
[Description]
- Photographs, Engravings, Drawings and Postcards, [ca. 1885-1967]. (1
carton, 1 flat box) {#23.194} [Description]
- Quarterly Account Book, [ca. 1851-1869]. (1 volume) {#23.195} [Description]
- Receipt Book, 1880-1884. (1 volume) {#23.196}
- Register of Discharges, Removals and Deaths, 1851-1892, 1927-1964. (5
volumes) {#23.197} [Description]
- Register of Female Patients, 1852-1884. (1 volume) {#23.198}
[Description]
- Register of Male Patients, 1851-1895. (1 volume) {#23.199} [Description]
- Staff Conference Record Books, 1941-1969. (75 volumes) {#23.200}
[Description]
- Staff Conference Record Books Index, 1941-1969. (10 drawers) {#23.201}
[Description]
- Staff Diagnosis Books Relating to Parole, 1942-1966. (5 volumes) {#23.202}
[Description]
- Staff Meeting Record Books, 1918-1932. (5 volumes) {#23.203}
[Description]
- Telegram Books, 1903-1911, 1919-1925. (2 volumes) {#23.204} [Description]
- Veterans' Fund Bank Statements, 1950-1951. (1 folder) {#23.205}
[Description]
- Visitor Record and Prescription Book, 1881-1882. (1 volume) {#23.206}
[Description]
- Voucher Register for Departmental Accounts and Expense Recapitulation
Book, 1928-1931. (1 volume) {#23.207} [Description]
- Weekly Operation Report Book of the Sewage Disposal Plant, 1918-1923.
(1 volume) {#23.208} [Description]
- Marcy State Hospital
- Construction Contract, 1916. (1 folder) {#23.209} (Description)
- History of the Hospital, 1965, 1974-1982. (1 folder) {#23.210}
(Description)
- Human Sexuality Correspondence, 1976-1981. (1 folder) {#23.211}
(Description)
- Infection Control Policy, 1979. (1 folder) {#23.213} (Description)
- Minutes of the Advisory Committee of the Haven of Rest, 1908-1916. (1
folder) {#23.214} (Description)
- Minutes of the Human Sexuality Committee, 1977-1981. (1 folder) {#23.215}
(Description)
- Minutes of Infection Control Committee, 1975-1981. (1 folder) {#23.216}
(Description)
- Minutes of Internal Management Review Committee, 1977-1981. (1 folder)
{#23.217} (Description)
- Minutes of Labor Management, 1975-1981. (1 folder) {#23.218}
(Description)
- Minutes of Library Committee, 1975-1980. (1 folder) {#23.219}
(Description)
- Minutes of the Linen Control Committee, 1981. (1 folder) {#23.220}
(Description)
- Minutes of the Medical Appraisal Committee, 1975-1979. (1 folder) {#23.221}
(Description)
- Minutes of the Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee, 1974-1981. (1 folder)
{#23.222} (Description)
- Minutes of the Research Committee, 1976-1981. (1 folder) {#23.223}
(Description)
- Minutes of the Resident Food Committee, 1976. (1 folder) {#23.224}
(Description)
- Minutes of the Safety Committee, 1974-1981. (1 folder) {#23.225}
(Description)
- Minutes of the Utilization Review Committee, 1975-1981. (1 folder) {#23.226}(Description)
- Payroll Vouchers, Salary Schedules and Appropriations, 1916-1947. (1
folder) {#23.227} (Description)
- Photographs, 1959. (1 folder) {#23.228} (Description)
- Procedural Manuals, 1919-1968. (4 volumes) {#23.229} (Description)
- Resident Worker Committee Policies, 1979. (1 folder) {#23.230}
(Description)
- Safety Committee Correspondence, 1975-1981. (1 folder) {#23.231}
(Description)
- Mayview State Hospital
- Admission Book of the Insane Department of the Pittsburgh North Side
City Home, 1911-1916. (1 volume) {#23.232} (Description)
- Admission Registers, 1925-1941. (3 volumes) {#23.233} (Description)
- Alms House Registers, 1876-1884. (2 volumes) {#23.234} (Description)
- Alphabetical Admission and Discharge Register, 1850-1881. (1 volume)
{#23.235} (Description)
- Case Book of Allegheny City Farm, 1884-1887. (1 volume) {#23.236}
(Description)
- Case Books of Pittsburgh City Home and Hospital, 1879-1912. (23 volumes)
{#23.237} (Description)
- Death Registers, 1939-1956. (3 volumes) {#23.238} (Description)
- Patient History Books, 1879-1884. (2 volumes) {#23.239} (Description)
- Register of Discharges and Deaths, 1950-1958. (1 volume) {#23.240}
(Description)
- Norristown State Hospital
- Annual Report of the Commission to Inquire into Conditions of the Insane
in Pennsylvania Hospitals, 1902. (1 volume) {#23.241} (Description)
- Annual Report of the Commissioner of Health, 1910. (2 volumes) {#23.373}
(Description)
- Annual Reports of the Board of Health and Vital Statistics, 1886, 1896.
(3 volumes) {#23.242} (Description)
- Annual Reports of the Board of Public Charities and Committee on Lunacy,
1894, 1897, 1907. (3 volumes) {#23.243} (Description)
- Annual Reports of the Committee on Lunacy, 1885, 1887-1890. (5 volumes)
{#23.244} (Description)
- Annual Reports of the Norristown State Hospital, 1882-1959. (47 volumes)
{#23.245} (Description)
- Architectural Drawings, undated. (2 items) {#23.246} (Description)
- Audio Tapes and Motion Picture Films, 1961-1962, 1968. (7 reels) {#23.248}
(Description)
- Bill Book, 1892. (1 volume) {#23.249} (Description)
- Book of Steward Reports to the Board of Trustees' Executive Committee,
1896-1900. (1 volume) {#23.250} (Description)
- Business Manager's Reports to the Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees, 1927-1940. (1 volume) {#23.251} (Description)
- Contract File, 1907-1936. (10 cartons) {#23.252} (Description)
- Daily Register of Admissions, Visits, Deaths and Discharged Female Patients,
1938-1940. (1 volume) {#23.253} (Description)
- Daily Register of Admissions, Visits, Deaths and Discharged Male Patients,
1938-1940. (1 volume) {#23.254} (Description)
- Index of 1,180 Post Mortems of the Insane, 1908-1940. (1 volume) {#23.255}
(Description)
- Index to Invoice Book, 1898-1903. (1 volume) {#23.256} (Description)
- Indexes to the Minute Books of the Board of Trustees. 1880-1957. (9
volumes) {#23.257} (Description)
- Indexes to the Minute Books of the Executive Committee of the Board
of Trustees, 1888-1939. (8 volumes) {#23.258} (Description)
- Letter Press Books of John L. West, Steward, 1880-1900. (26 volumes)
{#23.259} (Description)
- Memorial Tablet Dedication Book, 1921. (1 volume) {#23.261} (Description)
- Minute Books of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, 1885-1939.
(4 volumes) {#23.262} (Description)
- Monthly Financial Report Books, 1929-1939. (1 volume) {#23.263}
(Description)
- Newspaper Clipping Books, [ca. 1955-1959]. (1 volume) {#23.264}
(Description)
- Outgoing Shipments Record Book, 1933-1959. (1 volume) {#23.265}
(Description)
- Patient Population Record Book, 1953-1956. (1 volume) {#23.266}
(Description)
- Payrolls, 1929-1933, 1935-1937. (1 carton) {#23.267} (Description)
- Proceedings of the Thirty Second Annual Meeting of the Association of
Trustees and Medical Superintendants of State and Incorporated Hospitals
for the Insane and Feeble Minded of Pennsylvania, 1918. (1 volume) {#23.247}
(Description)
- Record of Proceedings before the Legislative Committee on Charges Against
Hospital Management, 1895. (1 volume) {#23.268} (Description)
- Report of the Commission to Inquire into Conditions of the Insane in
Pennsylvania Hospitals, 1902. (1 volume) {#23.269} (Description)
- State Board of Agriculture Report Books, 1894. (1 volume) {#23.270}
(Description)
- Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania at
its Thirty Seventh Annual Session, 1886. (1 volume) {#23.260} (Description)
- Transmittals of Revenue, 1947-1949. (1 volume) {#23.271} (Description)
- United States Secretary of Agriculture Report Books, 1892-1893. (2 volumes)
{#23.272} (Description)
- Philadelphia State Hospital
- Alphabetical Index of Rules and Regulations, 1938-1941. (1 volume) {#23.273}
(Description)
- Annual Report Book, 1928-1935. (1 volume) {#23.274} (Description)
- Census Book, 1940-1941. (1 volume) {#23.275} (Description)
- Death Registers of Females, 1909-1942. (4 volumes) {#23.276}
(Description)
- Death Registers of Males, 1920-1942. (3 volumes) {#23.277} (Description)
- Discharge Registers of Females, 1907-1942. (2 volumes) {#23.278}
(Description)
- Discharge Registers of Males, 1907-1942. (2 volumes) {#23.279}
(Description)
- General Registers of Female Patients, 1895-1908, 1920-1939. (4 volumes)
{#23.280} (Description)
- General Registers of Male Patients, 1895-1939. (6 volumes) {#23.281}
(Description)
- Juvenile General Record Book, 1938-1939. (1 volume) {#23.282}
(Description)
- Medical Journals, 1932-1933, 1938-1939. (4 volumes) {#23.283}
(Description)
- Patient Characteristics and Statistical Register Book, 1940-1942. (1
volume) {#23.284} (Description)
- Property Record Books, 1920-1928. (1 volume) {#23.285} (Description)
- Stock Record, 1942-1945. (1 volume) {#23.286} (Description)
- Transmittal of Revenue Books, 1938-1943. (1 volume) {#23.287}
(Description)
- Retreat State Hospital
- Admission Registers, 1900-1980. (2 volumes) {#23.288} (Description)
- Annual Reports, 1902-1921, 1924, 1926-1936, 1944-1949. (42 volumes,
3 folders) {#23.290} (Description)
- Biennial Reports of the Board of Trustees, 1948-1964. (4 folders) {#23.291}
(Description)
- Cash Receipts, 1930-1941. (7 folders) {#23.292} (Description)
- General Registers, 1900-1968. (2 volumes) {#23.293} (Description)
- Historical File, 1900-1978. (13 folders) {#23.294} (Description)
- Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1949-1980. (1 volume, 10 folders)
{#23.295} (Description)
- Payroll Books, 1930-1942. (3 volumes) {#23.296} (Description)
- Photographs, 1950-1972, 1975, 1979. (5 boxes, 5 folders) {#23.297}
(Description)
- Scrapbooks, 1956-1980. (6 volumes) {#23.298} (Description)
- Slides, 1961-1968, 1975. (3 cases) {#23.299} (Description)
- Warren State Hospital
- Address Book, 1924. (1 volume) {#23.300} (Description)
- Death, Discharge and Parole Books, 1945-1972. (22 volumes) {#23.301}
(Description)
- Document Record Book, [ca. 1873-1919]. (1 volume) {#23.302} (Description)
- Female Admission Books, 1883-1910. (2 volumes) {#23.303} (Description)
- Female Case Books, [ca. 1883-1913]. (17 volumes) {#23.304} (Description)
- Hospital Visiting Committee Journal, 1880-1890. (1 volume) {#23.305}
(Description)
- Index to Female Case Books, [ca. 1883-1913]. (1 volume) {#23.306}
(Description)
- Index to Male Case Books, [ca. 1883-1913]. (1 volume) {#23.307}
(Description)
- Male Admission Books, 1883-1910. (2 volumes) {#23.308} (Description)
- Male Case Books, [ca. 1883-1913]. (19 volumes) {#23.309} (Description)
- Minute Books of the Association of Trustees and Superintendents of State
Hospitals, 1903-1948. (3 volumes) {#23.310} (Description)
- Patient Record Books, 1907-1971, 1941-1959. (3 volumes) {#23.311}
(Description)
- Permission for Autopsy Record Books, 1912-1949. (2 volumes) {#23.312}
(Description)
- Staff Leave Record Book, 1941-1951. (1 volume) {#23.313} (Description)
- Staff Meeting Minute Book, 1946-1947. (1 volume) {#23.314} (Description)
- Trustee Minute Books, 1881-1969. (7 volumes) {#23.315} (Description)
- Woodville State Hospital
- Account Book for Patients, 1974-1982. (1 folder) {#23.316} (Description)
- Admission and Discharge Registers, 1900-1962. (2 volumes) {#23.317}
(Description)
- Admission Register for Woodville State Hospital, 1900-1912. (1 volume)
{#23.318} (Description)
- Admission Ledgers, 1984-1991. (2 volumes) {#23.319} (Description)
- Allegheny County Home Admission and Discharge Register, 1960-1969. (1
volume) {#23.320} (Description)
- Cemetery Diagram for the Allegheny County Home for the Insane and Tuberculosis,
1920. (1 folder) {#23.321} (Description)
- Discharge, Death and Transfer Books, 1942-1984. (1 box) {#23.322}
(Description)
- Discharge Ledger, 1984-1989. (1 volume) {#23.323} (Description)
- Floor Plan of Woodville State Hospital, 1965. (1 folder) {#23.324}
(Description)
- Funeral Director Release Registers, 1951-1967. (3 folders) {#23.325}
(Description)
- Log Listing Student Interns, 1959-1970. (1 volume) {#23.326}
(Description)
- Meeting Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1971-1991, (1 carton) {#23.327}
(Description)
- Meeting Minutes of the Executive Council, 1988-1991, (3 cartons) {#23.328}
(Description)
- Movement of Population Records for the Allegheny County Institution
District, 1939-1940. (1 folder) {#23.329} (Description)
- New Admissions Registers, 1959-1970. (1 carton, 2 volumes) {#23.330}
(Description)
- Patient Register, [ca. 1913-1962]. (1 volume) {#23.331} (Description)
- Patient Register Books of the Allegheny County Hospital for the Insane,
1900-1935. (4 volumes, 1 folder) {#23.332} (Description)
- Physicians Night Ledger, 1971-1972. (1 folder) {#23.333} (Description)
- Population Account Ledger, 1922-1941. (1 volume) {#23.334} (Description)
- Register of Aliens, 1955-1960, 1964-1981. (2 folders) {#23.335}
(Description)
- Return Admissions Register, 1970-1984. (2 folders) {#23.336}
(Description)
- Transfer Book, 1956-1959. (1 folder) {#23.337} (Description)
Office of Mental Retardation
- Map Directory of State and Semi-State Institutions of Pennsylvania,
1923. {#23.374}[Description]
- Mental Health News, 1961. (1 folder){#23.375}[Description]
- Miscellaneous Photographs, undated. (2 folders){#23.376}[Description]
- Miscellaneous Reports, 1967-1997. (6 folders){#23.377}[Description]
- Pennsylvania Message From Pennsylvania Association of Retarded
Citizens, 1966-1986. (3 folders){#23.378}[Description]
- Scrapbooks, 1977-1983. (2 volumes){#23.379}[Description]
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NOTE: Access to patient-related records from state hospitals is controlled
by the Department of Public Welfare. Due to the new Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Compliance Regulations, which took
effect on April 14, 2003, the Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Services will restrict records concerning patient information in Record
Group 23 more comprehensively than before. Unless specific criteria are
met, the OMHSAS will no longer authorize waivers for the Pennsylvania State
Archives to release records of deceased mental hospital patients. Access
to state hospital records and other patient-related records will be provided
only to a deceased patient's "chosen executors, or administrators or
other personal representative, [or] by a person otherwise appointed by court
order to receive control over the records." The only other exceptions
to these criteria are for qualified health care providers and law enforcement
officials. Discharged patients may gain access to their own records by sending
a release form to the address below.
Researchers who believe they meet the above criteria should contact Dr.
Aiden Altenor, Director of Hospital Operations, Department of Public Welfare,
P.O. Box 2675, Harrisburg, PA 17105, for authorization to access state hospital
records at the Pennsylvania State Archives.
- Altoona Center
- A Community Decides: A Need and Feasibility Study with Addendum, 1974.
(2 volumes){#23.380}[Description]
- Ebensburg Center
- Brochure on the Ebensburg State School and Hospital, 1970. (1 folder){#23.381}[Description]
- Court Documents for United States v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
and Ebensburg Center, 1996. (1 folder){#23.382}[Description]
- Ebensburg State School Employees' Year Book, 1956-1959. (1 folder){#23.383}[Description]
- Ebensburg State School and Hospital Guide for Parents, 1967. (1 folder){#23.384}
[Description]
- Ebensburg State School and Hospital Informational Data, 1969. (1 folder)[#23.385}
[Description]
- Philosophy of Ebensburg State School and Hospital, undated. (1 folder){#23.386}
[Description]
- Embreeville Center
- Admission and Transfer Logs, 1955-1985. (17 volumes) {#23.387}
[Description]
- Settlement Agreement for United States v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
and Embreeville Center, 1994. (1 folder){#23.388} [Description]
- Daily Census, 1952. (1 volume){#23.389} [Description]
- Discharge and Leave Logs, 1954-1956, 1973, 1975. (4 volumes){#23.390}
[Description]
- Log of Drug Addict Admissions and Inventory of Philadelphia County Patients
in Hospital, 1962-1967. (1 volume){#23.391}
[Description]
- Log of Patients by County, 1971-1972. (1 volume){#23.392}
[Description]
- Miscellaneous Narcotics Inventories and Records, 1952-1969. (6 volumes){#23.393}
[Description]
- Photographs of Activities, 1974-1990. (1 volume){#23.394} [Description]
- Record of Surgical Operations, 1962-1973. (1 volume){#23.395} [Description]
- Register of Lancaster County Patients Admitted as of October 1962 and
Voluntary Commitments and Emergencies as of 1967, 1962-1970. (1 volume){#23.396}
[Description]
- Register of Veteran Data and Alien Admissions, 1966-1967. (1 volume){#23.397}
[Description]
- Rendering of Maintenance Shops and Automotive Storage, [ca. 1950]. {#23.398}
[Description]
- Report of Ten Years at Embreeville State Hospital, 1955-1965. (1 folder){#23.399}
[Description]
- Hamburg Center
- Hill-Site News, 1966, 1970. (1 folder){#23.400}
[Description]
- List of Residents By County, 1975. (1 folder){#23.401}
[Description]
- Payroll Records for Hamburg State Sanatorium, 1925-1951. (1 volume){#23.402}
[Description]
- Rendering of Hamburg State Sanatorium, undated. {#23.403}
[Description]
- Reports of the Superintendent of Hamburg State Hospital, 1960-1961. (1
volume){#23.404} [Description]
- Hamburg State Sanatorium Cemetary Record, 1915-1930. (1 folder){#23.405}
[Description]
- Laurelton Center
- Postcards of Laurelton State Village, [ca. 1950]. (1 folder){#23.406}
[Description]
- Pennhurst Center
- Admission and Discharge Log, 1959-1960. (1 volume){#23.407} [Description]
- Annual Fiscal Report, 1934-1935. (1 volume){#23.408} [Description]
- Court Documents for Terri Lee Halderman v. Pennhurst State School and
Hospital, 1994. (1 folder){#23.409} [Description]
- Daily Census, 1930-1967. (2 volumes){#23.410} [Description]
- Numerical Index to Patient Roster, 1908-1977. (1 volume){#23.411}
[Description]
- Patient Register, 1908-1961. (2 volumes){#23.412} [Description]
- Pennhurst Community Bank Scrip and Scrip Savings Book, 1973. (1 folder){#23.413}
[Description]
- Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Association of Trustees
and Medical Superintendents of State and Incorporated Hospitals for the
Insane and Feeble-Minded, 1918. (1 volume) {#23.414} [Description]
- Polk Center
- Annual and Biennial Reports of State Institutions for Feeble-Minded of
Western Pennsylvania, 1897-1928. (2 volumes){#23.415} [Description]
- Clay Modeling in the School Room, 1892. (1 volume){#23.416} [Description]
- Franklin Area Chamber of Commerce Gold Shovel Award, 1989. (1 folder){#23.417}
[Description]
- Leo E. Sattler Memorial Award Plaque, 1952. {#23.418} [Description]
- Miscellaneous Large Photographs, undated. {#23.419} [Description]
- Miscellaneous Loose Photographs, undated. (1 folder){#23.420} [Description]
- Miscellaneous Mounted Photographs, [ca. 1900-1940}. (1 folder){#23.421}
[Description]
- Miscellaneous Programs, 1938-1965. (1 folder){#23.422} [Description]
- Monthly Trial Balance Sheet, 1897-1911. (1 volume){#23.423} [Description]
- Paper and Scissors in the School Room, 1893. (1 volume){#23.424}
[Description]
- Plaque of Newspaper Clipping, 1897. {#23.425} [Description]
- Voucher Record, 1897-1900. (1 volume){#23.426} [Description]
- Wages Account Record, 1897-1900. (1 volume){#23.427} [Description]
- Webster's Practical Dictionary: Popular Edition, 1909. (1 volume){#23.428}
[Description]
- Selinsgrove Center
- Chatterbox, 1985. (1 folder){#23.429} [Description]
- Miscellaneous Loose Photographs, [ca. 1960s-1970s]. (4 folders){#23.430}
[Description]
- Mounted Photographs, 1965. (1 folder){#23.431} [Description]
- Photograph Album, undated. (1 volume){#23.432} [Description]
- Photographs of Toymakers at Work, undated. {#23.433} [Description]
- Selinsgrove State School Softball Schedule, 1960. (1 folder){#23.434}
[Description]
- Western Center
- Picture History of Youth Development Center, 1966. (1 volume){#23.435}
[Description]
- White Haven Center
- Miscellaneous Loose Photographs, undated. (1 folder){#23.436} [Description]
- Poco Notes Newsletters, 1975-1976. (2 volumes){#23.437}
[Description]
- White Haven State School and Hospital News, 1966. (1 volume){#23.438}
[Description]
- United Services Agency Files, 1972-1983. (12 cartons) {#23.338} [Description]
- Minutes of the County Boards of Assistance, 1965-1966, 1969-1973. (8 cartons)
{#23.339} [Description]
- Public Information Motion Picture Films, 1948-1976. (300 reels) {#23.340}
[Description]
- Minutes of the Boards of Trustees of State Hospitals and Superintendents'
Reports, 1957-1964. (2 cartons, 3 boxes) {#23.342}
[Description]
- Nursing Department Reports, 1959-1967. (3 boxes) {#23.343} [Description]
- Miscellaneous Manuals, Reports and Related Printed Materials, 1934-1967.
(1 carton) {#23.344} [Description]
- Administrative File of the Secretary of Welfare, 1955-1958. (14 cartons)
{#23.349} [Description]
- Audits of Hospitals and Correctional Institutions, 1923-1949. (35 boxes)
{#23.350} [Description]
- Institutional Dietary Committee Minutes, Reports, Hospital Questionnaires
and Miscellaneous Records, 1954-1955. (3 boxes) {#23.351} [Description]
Bureau of Community Work
- Reports on County Homes, 1917-1935. (6 boxes) {#23.352} [Description]
- Reports on County Poor Relief, 1932-1939. (3 boxes) {#23.353} [Description]
- Bulletins, 1939-1959. (1 volume) {#23.360} [Description]
- Circular Letters, 1937-1942. (2 volumes) {#23.361} [Description]
- Employees' Manual, 1938-1949. (5 volumes) {#23.362} [Description]
- General Correspondence, 1942-1946, (1 folder) {#23.363} [Description]
- Handbook of Assistance, 1937. (1 volume) {#23.364} [Description]
- Handbook of Procedures, 1939-1951. (3 volumes) {#23.365} [Description]
- Memoranda, 1942-1943, 1951-1959 (2 volumes) {#23.366} [Description]
- Minutes of the State Board of Public Assistance, 1938-1959. (1 carton)
{#23.367} [Description]
- Procedural Manuals, 1933-1943, undated. (11 volumes) {#23.368}
[Description]
- Public Welfare History File, 1937-1952. (1 box, 1 carton) {#23.369}
[Description]
- Reports, 1937-1938. (3 volumes) {#23.370} [Description]
- Special Releases, 1952-1959. (2 volumes) {#23.371} [Description]