This collection is a subgroup (Division) of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services records, RS 495. Please see the primary finding aid for more Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services records.

This collection consists of two subgroups. Records of the Warm Springs State Hospital include: patient registers (1877-1963); dockets for two separate investigations of Warm Springs (1917); a history of the hospital written by a hospital employee (1972); two scrapbooks of clippings and other materials about the state acquisition of the hospital from 1910 to 1912; correspondence; financial records; and legal documents. Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Insane consist of: minute books (1891-1962); physicians certificates for commitment of patients (1905-1962); contracts for care of patients (1894-1908); miscellaneous correspondence; financial records; and court papers.