Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by office
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Community service area office advisory council files [Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare State Advisory Board]
Transcripts of public hearings [Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare State Advisory Board]
Scope and Content: The State Advisory Board in the Dept. of Public Welfare (known until reconstitution in 1967 as the Advisory Board) advises the department’s commissioner and approves membership of community service area boards. St 1952, c 602 gave the board authority to hold public hearings on and to approve by majority vote proposed departmental rules and regulations. Series includes transcripts of such hearings (with supporting documentation) and of meetings to vote.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Settlement correspondence files [Massachusetts Division of Aid and Relief]
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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Monthly audit accounts [Massachusetts Division of Aid and Relief]
Scope and Content: The Division of State Adult Poor was established in Massachusetts under the State Board of Lunacy and Charity in 1898, shortly thereafter continued under the State Board of Charity. It was succeeded by the Division of Aid and Relief in the Dept. of Public Welfare in 1919. That division was replaced by the Division of Public Assistance in 1953, which continued until departmental reorganization in 1971. The Division of Aid and Relief was responsible for the welfare of adult poor without legal settlement, either confined to state medical facilities or provided with public relief by local authorities.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Accounts of funds due [Massachusetts Division of Aid and Relief]
Scope and Content: The Division of State Adult Poor was established in Massachusetts under the State Board of Lunacy and Charity in 1898, shortly thereafter continued under the State Board of Charity. It was succeeded by the Division of Aid and Relief in the Dept. of Public Welfare in 1919. That division was replaced by the Division of Public Assistance in 1953, which continued until departmental reorganization in 1971. The Division of Aid and Relief was responsible for the welfare of adult poor without legal settlement, either confined to state medical facilities or provided with public relief by local authorities.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Accounts of funds received [Massachusetts Division of Aid and Relief]
Scope and Content: The Division of State Adult Poor was established in Massachusetts under the State Board of Lunacy and Charity in 1898, shortly thereafter continued under the State Board of Charity. It was succeeded by the Division of Aid and Relief in the Dept. of Public Welfare in 1919. That division was replaced by the Division of Public Assistance in 1953, which continued until departmental reorganization in 1971. The Division of Aid and Relief was responsible for the welfare of adult poor without legal settlement, either confined to state medical facilities or provided with public relief by local authorities.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Monthly reports [Massachusetts Division of Aid and Relief]
Scope and Content: The State Board of Charity was established in Massachusetts per St 1898 c 433 from the Board of Lunacy and Charity, with a Division of State Adult Poor (with Indoor and Outdoor units) responsible for the welfare of adult poor without legal settlement. The division oversaw, funded, and audited programs, run locally, for sick state poor, temporary aid, dangerous diseases, removals, wife settlement, burials, and relief to mothers with dependent children (St 1913, c 763). The State Board of Charity was replaced by the Dept. of Public Welfare in 1919. The Settlements Dept. of its Division of Aid and Relief, using field agents/visitors, continued to investigate legal settlement status and supervised aid administered by the local authorities. Audits were conducted on city and town reimbursement requests. The division also had an Institutional Dept., responsible for admission and dismissal of inmates from the State Infirmary and the pauper department of the State Farm.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s7, d 26(c), c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Some years incomplete. Files for 1919-21, 1927-28 missing. Records from 1930 consist only of lists of children, as above
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Abstract of audit [Massachusetts Division of Aid and Relief]
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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Mothers’ Aid relief registers [Massachusetts Division of Aid and Relief]
Scope and Content: The Division of State Adult Poor was established in Massachusetts under the State Board of Lunacy and Charity in 1898 (shortly thereafter continued under the State Board of Charity). It was succeeded by the Division of Aid and Relief in the Dept. of Public Welfare in 1919. That division was replaced by the Division of Public Assistance in 1953, which continued until departmental reorganization in 1971.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Cities and towns (2) Boston. Arranged chronologically by year, thereunder alphabetically by municipality, and then chronologically by date of notice
Restrictions: Personal information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 4, s7, d 26(c), c 66A. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Cover title: Transfer
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Weekly returns of admissions and discharges at the State Infirmary [Massachusetts Division of Aid and Relief]
Scope and Content: In Massachusetts, the Division of Aid and Relief (Dept. of Public Welfare) and its predecessors, the State Board of Lunacy and Charity (to 1898) and the Division of State Adult Poor (State Board of Charity, 1898-1919), received weekly returns from institutions under their jurisdiction. Among these was the State Almshouse at Tewksbury, opened in 1854, and renamed successively the State Hospital (1900), the State Infirmary (1909), Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary (1939), and Tewksbury Hospital (1959). The almshouse, established as a residence for paupers of the Commonwealth, evolved after closing of other state almshouses in 1872 into an institution for ill or infirm public charges who could not be transferred to the State Workhouse (later State Farm) or otherwise discharged.
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: Spine title varies: State Hospital returns; State Infirmary returns. Lacks returns for 1896, 1909. Formerly classed under (M-Ar)HS6.11: Massachusetts. State Infirmary (Tewksbury, Mass.)
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