gr00086.xml St. Peter State Hospital: Minnesota Security Hospital An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by Cheri Thies. Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul, MN.

Government Records

Finding aid encoded by Cheri Thies, July 2010. Finding aid written in English. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota Security Hospital. Records. 1911-1987. Materials in English. Records documenting the population and activities in the security hospital, including admission and transfer book (1911-1938), admissions index (1911-1963), 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. 0.51 cu. ft. (3 partial boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. CATALOG HEADINGS

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

Topics: Dangerously mentally ill -- Minnesota -- Medical care. Medicine -- Minnesota. Mentally ill -- 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. 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. Functions: Admitting. Releasing. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Access Restrictions:

A portion of these records contain private information on individual prisoners admitted less than 75 years ago. They are noted in the finding aid. Researchers may apply to use these records in accordance with the State Archives access statement.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota Security Hospital. Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession number(s): 200; 998-120; 2007-30

Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 007158677

DETAILED DESCRIPTION 102.E.2.6F Admissions index, 1911-1963. 1 volume.

RESTRICTED

Admission and transfer book, 1911-1938. 1 volume.

RESTRICTED

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.