Scope and Content: The Board of State Charities was established in Massachusetts in 1863, replacing the Board of Alien Commissioners, and was succeeded in 1879 by the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: No. 1-2: Public document, no. 19; succeeding reports: Public document, no. 17. Holdings: 1864-1869, 1871-1878 (no. 1-6, 8-15); 1870 (no. 7) lacking. Appendix 1 (1 volumeolumes): Report of the General Agent, no. 6-15 (1869-1878). Appendix 2 (1 volumeolumes): Ancillary documents, 1833-1865.  Report of the commissioners…on the subject of the pauper system, Jan. 1833.  Abstract of the returns…concerning the condition of pauper idiots and lunatics, Jan. 1843. Memorial [of Dorothea L. Dix] to the legislature of Massachusetts, Jan. 1843. [Report on public charitable institutions] (1843 H 38), Feb. 1843. Report of the Special Joint Committee [on] Public Charitable Institutions, 1858.  [Additional copy of Board’s first annual report, Oct. 1864.] Special report of the Board of State Charities on the state almshouse system (1865 S 28), Feb. 1865.
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