Record availability

Record availability


List of CSH records

(based on Enhanced finding aid, current as of 2/9/2017)

Key: 

Cell backgroundAccess
GreenRecords are available to this user group (text in the cell provides more details)
RedRecords are unavailable to this user group (text in the cell provides more details)
Gray

Records are not digitized or otherwise not included in the CSH collection

YellowRecords that might be available or partially available to this user group (text in the cell provides more details)

Sub-series

TitleDemographics
FamiliesScholarsOtherPublic

I.1

CSH board minutes (6 volumes, 1870-1937)    
I.2State hospital board minutes, letters, and memos (1939, 1943, 1954-1986)From July 1928 to May 1964, the minutes list the names of patients who are being petitioned to be sterilized each month
Except July 1928-May 1964Except July 1928-May 1964Except July 1928-May 1964
I.3Local Building Committee (1963-67)    
I.4State hospital board photographs (1909, 1995)    
IIANNUAL REPORTS    
II.1State Hospital Board, Mental Hygiene & Hospitals (1911, 1914, 1918-19, 1938-46, 1951-57, 1959-61, 1965-71, 1978-79, 1986)    
II.2VA mental hospitals (1961-63, 1965-72)    
II.3CSH (1880-1910, 1912-23, 1925-54, 1956, 1958-81)    
II.4Statistical Annual Report of the VA State Department of Health (1962-64)    
II.5CSH Statistical Reports (1923-1976)    
III (NOT SCANNED)MANUALS OF PRACTICES, PROCEDURES, AND PROGRAMS    
III.1Transorbital Lobotomy (1954)    
III.2State Hospital Board Rules and Regulations (1905, 1955, 1977)    
III.3VA mental institutions (1957-58, 1965, 1972, 1980-82)    
III.4CSH instruction manuals (1955-56, 1960, 1964-92, 2002)    
III.5CSH treatment programs (1980-84)    
III.6Revised formulary (1972, 1991)    
IVFINANCES    
IV.1Deeds (1882-1958)    
IV.2Ledger (1923-34, 1950-54, 1924-45)    
IV.3Financial reports (1941-80)    
VPATIENT REGISTERS    
V.1Records of Application and Admission (1868-1990)    
V.2Ward books (1924-1957)    
V.3Indexes (1930s-1940s)    
V.4Returns, furloughs, discharged, escaped, deaths (1923-69)    
V.5Correspondence (1926-45)    
V.6

Census (1939-1990)

    
V.7Patient files    
VIImages    
VI.1Buildings (1885-1998, n.d.)Some contain patient faces   
VI.2

Staff (1908-1998, n.d.)

Some contain patient faces   
VI.3Patients, activities, and procedures (1904-1981, n.d.)Most contain patient faces   
VI.4Slides (n.d.)    
VI.5Negatives (n.d.)    
VI.6

Reproductions (n.d.)

    
VI.7Panoramas (1960-1962, n.d.)    
VIICENTRAL STATE HISTORY    
VII.1Centennial (1969)    
VII.2Reports, brochures, and handbooks (1958-59, 1961-62, 1965, 1967-71, 1975-76, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1995, 2010)    
VII.3Patient library (1974, 1983, 1985, 1989)    
VII.4Dr. William F. Drewry (n.d.)    
VII.5Guest book (1960-1982)    
VII.6Placards (n.d.)    
VIIINEWSLETTERS    
VIII.11. The Central State Hospital Observer (CSH staff newsletter, 1967-74)    
VIII.2C.S.H. Observer (CSH staff newsletter, 1976-77)    
VIII.3CSH News Update (CSH staff newsletter, 1979-1999)    
VIII.4CSH News Update planning (CSH staff newsletter, 1978-80, 1982)    
VIII.5Mental Health News (1970-71); Advance Notice, 1979:  VA Mental Hygiene and Hospitals/VA Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation    
VIII.6The Correspondent newsletter (National staff newsletter, 1958-68)    
IXClippings (scanned?)    
XMonographs (scanned?)    
XIMiscellaneous objects (scanned?)    
XIICommitment papers (scanned, disk location unclear)    

Determining suitability of including records in the the CSH digital library

The project team will determine the availability of the records using the following principles:

  1. All documents containing PHI will be withheld from access. The project team will develop processes and policies for providing access to specific demographics.
  2. All documents already in the public sphere will be made available available publicly and without restrictions. Examples include:
    1. VA state legislature records
    2. Hospital reports
    3. Newspaper articles
  3. All non-public documents that are likely to contain personally identifiable information information about patients or hospital staff [Lorrie: I would like to further define restricted staff information] will be withheld from access. The project team will develop procedures and policies for providing access to these documents.