ST. PETER STATE HOSPITAL:

An Inventory of Its Subject Files and Miscellaneous Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Government Records

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	Creator:	St. Peter State Hospital.
	Title:	Subject Files and Miscellaneous Records.
	Dates:	1855-2010.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Cemetery records (1896-1998), daily ward record (1891-1892), land records (1855-1925), nurse employment record books (1880s-1950s), doctors time book (1964-1975), outdated procedures manual sections (approximately 1895-2010), and subject files. Topics covered in the latter include census prelists, chaplaincy, Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals, medical staff, Minnesota Security Hospital, monthly population reports, nursing policies, the 125th anniversary celebration, photographs of dormitory and building interiors, Recruitment Assessment Committee, St. Peter weather statistics, strategic planning, and visitors.
	Quantity:	11.25 cubic feet (9 boxes; 5 partial boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Doctors order book and census prelists include private information about individuals. Records with private information are closed for 75 years from date of last entry in the record. The restricted records are noted in the finding aid. Researchers must apply for permission to use these records. Please consult library staff for more information.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. St. Peter State Hospital. Subject Files and Miscellaneous Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 200; 387; 988-191; 993-27; 998-120; 2007-16; 2007-30; 2012-51; 2017-33; 2021-27

Processing Information:

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Digitized by: Minnesota Historical Society, June 2021.

Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.

Catalog ID number: 007158027

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION


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102.E.2.1B		Active treatment, 1994-1995.


		Campus Executive Committee, Review of, 1987.


	Cemetery records:
		1896-1985. 1 folder.
			Photocopies of cemetery records compiled in 1988 by a staff member of the hospital. Consists of a 1925 memo concerning notes on the hospital cemetery (no names given), a list of those buried in the hospital cemetery (1896-1901), and a chronological list of burials, compiled from extant death record books (1909-1966, 1985).
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115.I.2.9B		Subject files:
			Alphabetical list of burials, approximately 1896-1962.
				Digital version
			Articles on St. Peter State Hospital Cemetery, 1997-1998.
				Digital version
			Civil War veterans who died at St. Peter: Woodlawn Cemetery, 1964, 1993.
				Digital version
			Drawings of numbered St. Peter grave sites, undated.
				Digital version
			Health Department: List of Institutional Deaths for St. Peter State Hospital, 1963-1964.
				Digital version
			Names of patients buried in hospital cemetery, 1896-1901.
				Typewritten; includes date, name, and number.
				Digital version
			Notes on hospital cemetery or burial records in books no. 1-4, 1925.
				Digital version
		Cemetery books:
			Includes such information as number, name, residence, death, where buried.
			Book 1, Nos. 1-521 (old numbering), 1867-1895.
				Digital version
			Book 2, Nos. 687-750 (old), 1901-1904.
				Digital version
			Book 3, Nos. 751-826 (old), Nos. 306-329 (new), 1904-1908.
				Digital version
			Book 4 (labeled 3), Nos. 330-1041 (new), 1909-1929.
				Includes partial transcribed list.
				Digital version
			Book 5 (labeled 4), Nos. 1042-1365 (new), 1930-1938.
				Includes partial transcribed list.
				Digital version
			Book 6 (labeled 5), Nos. 1366-1608 (new), 1938-1944.
				Includes partial transcribed list.
				Digital version
			Book 7 (labeled 6), Nos. 1609-1861 (new), 1944-1950.
				Includes partial transcribed list.
				Digital version
			Book 8 (labeled 7), Nos. 1862-1976 (new), 1950-1955.
				Includes partial transcribed list.
				Digital version
			Book 9 (labeled 8), Nos. 1977-2037 (new), 1956-1989.
				Includes partial transcribed list.
				Digital version
			Book 10 (labeled 9), 1964-1978.
				Organized by type of burial, e.g. hospital cemetery, University of Minnesota, etc.
				Digital version


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115.H.2.7B-1	Census prelists, March 1976-October 1978. 6 folders.
		RESTRICTED.
		Censuses occurred approximately weekly and include such information as name, number, days in hospital, demographic information, medical diagnosis.


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102.E.2.1B		Chaplaincy Department, 1980-1993.


		Collaboration/Consolidation, 1994.


		Community Services, 1990-1994.


		Constitution of the Minnesota State Hospitals for the Mentally Ill and Mentally Retarded, 1967.


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113.J.2.4-2	Daily ward records, November 1891-October 1892. 1 volume.
		Statistical record of patients, activities, and conditions in each ward (male and female). Records numbers of patients; numbers of beds; numbers of patients sick in bed, under medical treatment, on extra diet, refusing food, fed without force, fed medicinally, noisy by day, noisy by night, noisy by day and night, with soiled clothes, or soiled beds; numbers of patients received on ward, removed from ward, not out of ward; numbers of patients in restraint (seclusion, restraints, covered beds); and numbers of patients engaged in various recreations and occupations at the hospital.


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102.E.2.1B		Diversity, 1994-1996.


		Doctors order book, November 18, 1942–April 24, 1949. 1 volume.
			RESTRICTED


		Doctors time book, 1964-June 14, 1975. 1 volume.


		Employees list, September 1, 1966.


		Employee turnover, FY 1992 report.


		Executive Order 85-17 Renaming State Hospitals (Original), December 13, 1985.


		Flood, Spring 1969.


		Gluek Memorial Cabin, 1972-1974.


		Impact on surrounding area, February 1994.


	Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals:
		Correspondence, 1958-1995. 6 folders.
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102.E.2.2F		Correspondence, 1995-1996. 1 folder.


		Mock survey, 1995.


		Land records, 1855-1925.
			Primarily deeds, leases, and a few items of correspondence relating to land acquisition and disposition; arranged chronologically.


		Legislative Building Commission, brochures, February 1966, November 1967.


		Legislative Interim Commission to Study State Building Needs, 1956.


		Medical Staff-Services, 1989-1994.


		Medical Staff Bylaws, 1991, 1995. 2 folders.


		Medical Staff Service Plan, May 1995.


		Mental Health Division, 1993-1994.


		Minnesota Security Hospital:
			New building, 1978-1980.
			Dedication, December 11, 1981.


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115.I.2.11B	Monthly population reports:
		Includes average daily census information, resident admisisons by county. Includes patient names.
		July 1992-December 1995. 4 folders.
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115.I.2.12F		January 1996-December 1999. 4 folders.


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102.E.2.2F		Monthly record, Second North Hall, November 1891.


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109.H.15.4F	Nurse employment record books, [188-]-[195-]. 2 volumes.
		Two volumes, one for female nurses and one for male nurses, including names, date arrived, date left or resigned, and remarks regarding job performance. Although the data begins in the 1880s, the compilation was not begun until August 1906.


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102.E.2.2F	Nursing Policies:
		A-Z, 1989. 2 folders.
		Infection control, 1989. 2 folders.
		Written nursing plan for service provided, 1989.


		125th Anniversary:
			Planning, 1989-1990. 2 folders.
			Time capsule, 1992.


		Organization review/reorganization, 1990s.


		Performance Improvement Plan, June 1995.


		Photographs and scrapbook items, 1954-1987.
			Includes dormitory and building interiors photographs and news clippings.


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102.E.2.3B	Procedures:
		Campus-wide manual, approximately 1895-2010:
			Outdated procedures arranged by procedure number; not all numbers are present.
			Nos. 1000-41000.
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102.G.2.1B			Nos. 41100-51625.
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102.G.2.2F			Nos. 51650-64000.
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102.G.2.3B			Nos. 70050-81900.
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102.G.2.4F			Nos. 82000-91200.
		Department procedures, 1993-2004:
			Procedures specific to certain departments at St. Peter State Hospital.
			Administration policies: A206-A246. 2 folders.
			Clinical procedures: C305-C342.
			Security procedures: S113-S138. 2 folders.
		General procedures, approximately 1986-2005:
			Nos. 10100-50300.
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103.H.8.1B			Nos. 50350-90800.


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102.E.2.2F		Psychiatry Department, general information, 1992-1995.


		Record of 1877 Commission Identifying Patients to be Discharged from Hospital for the Insane, 1877.
			Portion of a handwritten report of the commission.


		Recruitment Assessment Committee:
			Visit to St. Peter RTC, June 1-3, 1987. 2 folders.
			Forensic Division, 1987-1988.
			Minnesota Security Hospital, December 15, 1987.


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102.E.2.3B		St. Peter, Minnesota, weather statistics, 1893-1989.


		Security, 1987-1994.


		Senior class notes, Dorothy Sieburg, St. Peter Training School, 1914-1915.


		Strategic planning, 1994-1997. 3 folders.


		Surplus land and property, 1979-1986.


		Treatment Program Task Force, 1977-1978.


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113.J.2.4-2	Visitors record, May 13, 1899–December 23, 1910. 1 volume.
		Contains date, name of visitor, residence of visitor, relation to patient, and name of patient.


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102.E.2.3B		Ward C-3, Time-off log book, 1956-1962.

CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Chaplains -- Minnesota.; Employee handbooks.; Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- Minnesota -- Nicollet County.; Medicine -- Minnesota.; Mentally ill -- Minnesota.; People with mental disabilities -- Institutional care -- Minnesota.; People with mental disabilities -- Mortality -- Minnesota.; Physicians -- Minnesota.; Psychiatric hospital care -- Minnesota -- Statistics.; Psychiatric hospital patients -- Minnesota -- Statistics.; Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Photographs.; Psychiatric hospitals -- Accreditation -- Minnesota.; Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Administration.; Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Employees.; Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Employee rules.; Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Nurses.; Psychiatric nurses -- Minnesota.; Psychiatric nursing -- Minnesota.; State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Photographs.; State hospitals -- Accreditation -- Minnesota.; State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Nurses.; State hospitals -- Officials and employees -- Minnesota.; State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Visits and correspondence with inmates.

Organizations:: Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals.; St. Peter State Hospital -- Photographs.; St. Peter State Hospital -- Anniversaries, etc.; St. Peter State Hospital -- Personnel records.

Places:: Minnesota -- Statistics, Vital.; Saint Peter (Minn.) -- Climate -- Statistics.

Document Types:: Photographs.; Deeds -- Minnesota -- Nicollet County.; Leases -- Minnesota -- Nicollet County.; Death records -- Minnesota.; Burial records -- Minnesota.; Personnel records.

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ST. PETER STATE HOSPITAL:

OVERVIEW

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

CATALOG HEADINGS