ST. PETER STATE HOSPITAL: MINNESOTA SECURITY HOSPITAL:
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
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OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Minnesota Security Hospital. | |
| Title: | Records. | |
| Dates: | 1911-2007. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Records documenting the population and activities in the security hospital, including admission and transfer book (1911-1938), admissions index (1911-1963), admission and discharge registers (1933-2007), admissions book (approximately 1976-1986), 600 unit admissions and discharges (1982-2003), daily movement of population record, dangerous insane (1911-1913), and scrapbook (1937-1987) kept by longtime Medical Director Dr. Charles G. Sheppard. The latter includes clippings, correspondence, and photographs. | |
| Quantity: | 1.11 cubic feet (4 partial boxes). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
HISTORICAL NOTE
The Minnesota Security Hospital, formerly known as the Asylum for Dangerous Insane, received patients (men only) committed by the courts or transferred from other hospitals and correctional institutions. The establishment of such a hospital was authorized by the legislature in Chapter 38, Laws of 1907. Its name was changed in 1957 (Laws 1957 c196). The security hospital was maintained in conjunction with the St. Peter State Hospital, but since at least the mid-1960s it had a separate medical director.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Access Restrictions:
Includes private information about individuals. Records with private information are closed for 75 years from date of last entry in the record. 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]. Minnesota Security Hospital. Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
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Accession Information:
Accession numbers: 200; 998-120; 2007-30; 2021-27
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 007158677
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 102.E.2.6F | Admissions index, 1911-1963. 1 volume. | ||||||||||
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| Admission and transfer book, 1911-1938. 1 volume. | |||||||||||
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| 115.I.2.11B | Admission and discharge registers, 1933-2007: | ||||||||||
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| Includes such information as name, number, date, county of commitment. 1973-2007 records include social security numbers. | |||||||||||
| Nos. 469-1438, 1933-1963. | |||||||||||
| Nos. 1439-2233, 1964-1974. | |||||||||||
| Nos. 2234-3345, 1973-1982. | |||||||||||
| Nos. 3365-5077, 1982-1991. | |||||||||||
| Nos. 5078-5614, 1992-1996. | |||||||||||
| 1996-2007. | |||||||||||
| Admissions book, approximately 1976-1986. | |||||||||||
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| Organized alphabetically by last name. | |||||||||||
| 600 unit admissions and discharges, 1982-2003. | |||||||||||
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| 109.H.17.4F | Daily movement of population record, dangerous insane, 1911-1913. 4 folders. | ||||||||||
| Arranged chronologically; daily record of the total number of patients in residence (May 22, 1911–January 8, 1913), with the names of any patients received, discharged, transferred, or deceased. Also includes the numbers of patients working, numbers of patients ill, and a short report of any accidents, emergencies, or other nonroutine event on the ward. | |||||||||||
| 113.D.1.1B | Scrapbooks, 1937-1987 (bulk 1979, 1983-1984). 4 folders. | ||||||||||
| Materials removed from scrapbooks that appear to have been maintained by Dr. Charles G. Sheppard, who began at St. Peter State Hospital as a doctor in 1964, was named Assistant Medical Director of both the state hospital and the Minnesota Security Hospital in 1969, and later that year, Medical Director of the security hospital. He retired August 31, 1982. The records include clippings relating to events at the hospital, staff and patients, funding and security issues, and Sheppard's career and professional activities; personal, business, and professional correspondence, including items documenting his early years as a Hutchinson, Minnesota physician and his continuing interest in and involvement with the hospital after retirement; photographs of the site and November 1979 groundbreaking for the new 165 bed hospital; and scattered copies of the staff newsletter. | |||||||||||
RELATED MATERIALS
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:
- Dangerously mentally ill -- Minnesota -- Medical care.
- Medicine -- Minnesota.
- Mentally ill -- Minnesota.
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Minnesota.
- People with mental disabilities -- Institutional care -- Minnesota -- Registers.
- Physicians -- Minnesota -- Hutchinson.
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Minnesota -- Registers.
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Diseases -- Minnesota.
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Photographs.
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Administration.
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Minnesota -- Admission and discharge.
- Public institutions -- Minnesota.
- State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Administration.
- State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Admission and discharge.
- State hospitals -- Minnesota -- Officials and employees.
- Persons:
- Sheppard, Charles G.
- Organizations:
- Asylum for Dangerous Insane (Minn.).
- St. Peter State Hospital -- History.
- Places:
- Saint Peter (Minn.)
- Document Types:
- Scrapbooks.
- Photographs.
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