Scope and Content: Since 1971 the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 1992) has been responsible through its constitutent agencies for the delivery of a wide range of services to persons with financial, health, social, protective, rehabilitation, and correctional needs. Its role is one of management and fiscal oversight, coordination of interagency planning and program development, and policy analysis. Series is created to communicate with and inform colleagues, advocates, and the general public regarding executive perspectives and policies.
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Scope and Content: Since 1971 the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 1992) has been responsible through its constitutent agencies for the delivery of a wide range of services to persons with financial, health, social, protective, rehabilitation, and correctional needs. Its role is one of management and fiscal oversight, coordination of interagency planning and program development, and policy analysis.  Series is created to administer the office, oversee its departments, and establish policy.
Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c), c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
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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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Scope and Content: The State Reform School for Girls was established in 1855 and opened in 1856 at Lancaster as the State Industrial School for Girls.  From 1911 until its closing in 1972 it was known as the Industrial School for Girls.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Youth services client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 120, s 21. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Deposited in the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, May 4, 1976.  Transferred to Archives, November 11, 1982. Volume 1: 1922-1925. Volume 2: 1925-1928. Volume 3: 1928-1931
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1978, c 552, the Dept. of Social Services since 1980 has provided a comprehensive social service program for families, children, and unmarried parents; the aging; and other adults and population groups with special needs.  As part of its mandate, the department through its area offices provides counseling; legal, homemaker, educational, and training services; and services to prevent the need for foster care for children.  Single service case files are created to determine, authorize, and provide individual services, such as day care, respite care, and homemaking, needed to support and stabilize the family, usually to allow the single parent to hold employment.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by client
Restrictions: Personal data restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c) and c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: Since 1971 the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 1992) has been responsible through its constitutent agencies for the delivery of a wide range of services to persons with financial, health, social, protective, rehabilitation, and correctional needs. Its role is one of management and fiscal oversight, coordination of interagency planning and program development, and policy analysis.  Series was created by the office’s social policy unit to oversee departments and establish policy.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c), c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: Since 1971 the Executive Office of Human Services (Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 1992) has been responsible through its constitutent agencies for the delivery of a wide range of services to persons with financial, health, social, protective, rehabilitation, and correctional needs. Its role is one of management and fiscal oversight, coordination of interagency planning and program development, and policy analysis.  Series was created by the office’s social policy unit to oversee departments and establish policy.
Restrictions: Personal/personal medical/evaluative information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s 7, d 26(c), c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
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Scope and Content: The Psychopathic Dept. of Boston State Hospital was established in 1912.  It became Boston Psychopathic Hospital in 1920; that was renamed Massachusetts Mental Health Center in 1956.
Arrangement: Arranged by outpatient registration no
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Newberry Library, Chicago, Aug. 31, 2005. Case file numbering system changed in 1943; files active at that time were renumbered
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Scope and Content: The State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers, established in 1877, opened in 1878 as Danvers Lunatic Hospital.  It was renamed Danvers Insane Hospital in 1898 and Danvers State Hospital in 1909.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by month, thereunder by account
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Scope and Content: Pondville Hospital was operated by the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health from 1927 to 1981 as a facility to conduct cancer research and to treat cancer patients.  Series contains minutes from the superintendent’s administrative files for various institutional committee monthly meetings .
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Public health hospital/clinic client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 111, s 70. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Feb. 1982. Box 1: 1953-1976. Box 2: 1976-1981
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