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Abstract of audit [Massachusetts Division of Aid and Relief]

Part of: Massachusetts Division of Aid and Relief

Abstract of audit, 1886-1935.

101 volume
Call no.: HS5.01/1328X

Scope and Content: The State Board of Lunacy and Charity, formed per St 1886, c 101, through its Dept. of Outdoor Poor was responsible for adults in need of state medical or general assistance not committed to state institutions under the board’s jurisdiction, and of juvenile wards of the state under three years of age. Outdoor Poor oversaw funding for sick state poor, temporary aid, wife settlement, burial, foundlings and infants, auditing of claims, and contagious diseases. It was succeeded by the State Board of Charity’s Division of State Adult Poor, whose outdoor department continued to provide supervision and reimbursement for programs of public relief administered by local authorities. Expanded benefits per St 1913, c 763, ss 5-7 provided relief to mothers with dependent children under the age of fourteen. The Division of State Adult Poor’s outdoor department  was succeeded in 1919 by the Subdivision of Settlements of the Division of Aid and Relief, Dept. of Public Welfare; the division’s indoor department was succeeded by the Subdivision of Social Service of the Division of Aid and Relief.
Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s7, d 26(c), c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: 1886 lacks volume for sick state poor. 1907, 1932/1933-1934/1935 lack volumes for Boston
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Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s7, d 26(c), c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository

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