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	Record Group Number:	000841
	Series/Collection Number:	.S 2661
	Creator:	Florida State Hospital.
	Title, Dates:	Mortician ledgers and cemetery records, 1835-1932.
	Amount:	.5 cubic ft.
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	Organization/Arrangement:	Arranged by record type (mortician's ledgers, cemetery records) and then chronological.
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	Biographical/Historical:	The Florida State Hospital was created in 1877 as the Florida Asylum for the Indigent Insane (Ch. 3035, Laws of Florida, 1877). In 1886, it was renamed the Florida Hospital for the Insane. In 1919, it received its present name, the Florida State Hospital. The hospital is located at Chattahoochee in Gadsden County, Florida. The Board of Commissioners of State Institutions (Ch. 3578, Acts, 1885) had general supervision over the state psychiatric hospital until 1969. At that time, it was placed under the supervision of the Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services (Ch. 69-106, Laws) and later under the Department of Children and Families (Chapter 96-403, Laws). The state hospital is responsible for providing care and treatment to both paying and indigent mentally ill patients.
	Summary:	The series consists of photocopies of mortician ledgers and cemetery records compiled in the operation of the Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee. The Chicora Foundation (an archaeological consultant company out of South Carolina) produced these copies while conducting a preservation assessment of cemeteries at the State Hospital. The mortician ledgers in this series date from 1909 to 1932 and record the names of the deceased, the dates and where the deaths occurred (some were furloughed patients away from the hospital) and how the mortician disposed of the remains. Some patients were buried on the grounds of the hospital while others were sent elsewhere in the state for burial. The cemetery records date from 1835 to 1931; they note the plot sections and grave numbers of the named individuals buried on the hospital grounds. Some copies are difficult to read, and some are marked with notations by the report compilers that aided in their production of the report.
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	Location of Originals/Duplicates:	Florida State Hospital. These records are photocopies of originals held at the Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee, Florida.
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	Subject Access Fields:	Florida State Hospital. Undertakers and undertaking Florida Cemeteries Florida Funeral directors and embalmers. Hospitals, State. Ledgers. aat Registers (lists) aat Cemetery records.
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