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Uncas on Thames

Agency Web page | Statutory Authority |Agency History |
Published histories/articles | State Library Collections | List of Commissioners

Agency Web page :
Not available

Statutory Authority : 
Not available

Agency History :

1913, February opened as the State Sanatorium at Norwich by the State Tuberculosis Commission.
1926, renamed Uncas on Thames Sanatorium.
1956, Oct. began accepting state welfare wards with chronic diseases needing hospital care.
1957, administration transferred to the Commission on Tuberculosis and other Chronic Illness
1959, transferred to the Health Dept., Office of Tuberculosis Control, Hospital Care, and Rehabilitation (per P.A. 148, 1959?) (Renamed Uncas on Thames Hospital?)
1984, July 1, University of Connecticut Health Center assumes control over Uncas-on-Thames Hospital.
1995, June 30, Inpatient services were terminated.

Published Histories/Articles :
Thorough information including photographs available in the annual reports of the State Tuberculosis Commission, [CSL Call Number ConnDoc T791sc]

Agency Documents and Records in the State Library Collections :
Check the State Library catalog, CONSULS, under these author headings for publications by the agency available in the State Library :

Uncas-on-Thames Hospital.

Annual Reports are located in :

[CSL Call Number ConnDoc T791sc]
1947-1983, Digest of Administrative Reports to the Governor. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc F40 d]

State Archives Record Group : RG 179 (Special Care Sanatoria)

List of Superintendents :

Name

Years of Service

Hugh B. Campbell 1912-May 15, 1944
William H. Weidman (Acting) 1944
William H. Weidman 1945-July 1948
George C. Wilson Sept. 1, 1948-1970
Norman L. Cressy 1971-1974
Harold W. Schell 1975-1977
Thomas W. Redding 1978-1985

Prepared by the Government Information and Reference Services Unit, page revised 8/2008.