Scope and Content: The State Board of Charity’s Division of State Adult Poor provided state support for poor without legal settlement in Massachusetts (defined by St 1911, c 669 as continuous residence for five years in a given municipality). Its settlements unit investigated legal settlement status of those receiving state aid, as well as supervising aid administered by local authorities. In 1919 it was succeeded by the Subdivision of Settlements of the Division of Aid and Relief, Dept. of Public Welfare. The Division of Aid and Relief, in addition to determining settlement of paupers, was responsible through its Subdivision of Social Service (Institutions Dept.) for the admission and dismissal of inmates from the State Infirmary and the pauper department of the State Farm.
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