The article from the Boston Globe covers a federal court judge being asked to postpone for six months a 1978 decree that would phase out the Northampton State Hospital and send more than 2000 patients to community facilities. The consent decree signed by the state calls for the reduction of the hospital population to 50 by 1981.
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