Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Welfare has the responsibility to provide and administer a comprehensive public welfare financial assistance program (MGLA c 18, s 2). Until 1967 the department organized the state into districts to carry out this program, originally staffed by the Division of Aid and Relief (Division of Public Assistance from 1953), under a district supervisor, and from the early 1950s (cf. St 1952, c 602) also by the Division of Child Guardianship, with respective district supervisors under a district director. Monthly staff meetings were held in each district. These minutes were created to document planning and decisions of meetings in the Worcester district.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Also known as: Staff notes
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Staff minutes of Worcester District [Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare]
Public assistance policy statements [Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare]
Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Welfare has the responsibility to provide and administer a comprehensive public welfare financial assistance program (MGLA c 18, s 2). Decisions concerning policy and procedures of the department, largely by staff of the Division of Public Assistance, were excerpted from meeting minutes or correspondence.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically (1953-1958, 1959-1962), thereunder alphabetically by subject, and then chronologically
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Memorandums to local boards of public welfare [Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare]
Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Welfare has the responsibility to provide and administer a comprehensive public welfare financial assistance program (MGLA c 18, s 2). It prepared official releases for the courts and local boards of public welfare (abolished by St 1967, c 658), informing them of changes in policy, procedures, programs, and legislation on a state and national level.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Also known as: Official releases
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Files of the Massachusetts Committee for the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth [Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare]
Scope and Content: The Dept. of Public Welfare has the responsibility to provide and administer a comprehensive public welfare financial assistance program (MGLA c 18, s 2). The commissioner of public welfare served as chair of the Massachusetts Committee for the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth, which organized Massachusetts participation in the conference held in Washington, D.C. in 1950, creating this series.
Arrangement: Arranged by topic
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Minutes [Massachusetts Homestead Commission]
Scope and Content: Beginning in 1911, a Homestead Commission studied how to improve housing for the urban working class. From 1917 to 1919 (after which the function was placed in the Dept. of Public Welfare) it had the power to acquire and sell suburban homesteads to relieve urban congestion. Minutes document decisions and actions at meetings of the commission.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Includes minutes of 42nd through 84th meetings
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Board of State Charities minutes and correspondence relating to Rainsford Island Hospital [Rainsford Island Hospital (Mass.).]
Scope and Content: Rainsford Island in Boston Harbor was the site since 1736 of various hospital and other charitable institutions administered and funded alternately or jointly by Massachusetts and Boston. In 1854 a hospital for sick state paupers opened there, first under the auspices of the Board of Alien Commissioners and then from 1863 under that of the Board of State Charities; it was also used as a military hospital from 1864 and closed in 1866.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Flyleaf: Rainsford Island Hospital records
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Weekly reports [Rainsford Island Hospital (Mass.).]
Scope and Content: Rainsford Island in Boston Harbor was the site since 1736 of various hospital and other charitable institutions administered and funded alternately or jointly by Massachusetts and Boston. In 1854 a hospital for sick state paupers opened there, first under the auspices of the Board of Alien Commissioners and then from 1863 under that of the Board of State Charities; it was also used as a military hospital from 1864 and closed in 1866.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Restrictions: Some restrictions may apply
Notes: Volume 1: May 1854-Jan. 1856. Volume 2: 1861. Volume 3: 1862. Volume 4: Oct. 1863-Oct. 1866
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Register [Rainsford Island Hospital (Mass.).]
Scope and Content: Rainsford Island in Boston Harbor was the site since 1736 of various hospital and other charitable institutions administered and funded alternately or jointly by Massachusetts and Boston. In 1854 a hospital for sick state paupers opened there, first under the auspices of the Board of Alien Commissioners and then from 1863 under that of the Board of State Charities; it was also used as a military hospital from 1864 and closed in 1866.
Arrangement: Organized in two subseries: (1) Hospital register, 1854-1855, 1865-1866 (2) Admissions to hospital, 1865-1866; Arranged within each subseries chronologically
Notes: Formerly classified under PS1 (Surgeon General’s Office) Flyleaf inscribed: Record kept by George L. Underwood, surgeon in charge of hospitals, Rainsford Island, Boston
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Records and accounts [Rainsford Island Hospital (Mass.).]
Scope and Content: Rainsford Island in Boston Harbor was the site since 1736 of various hospital and other charitable institutions administered and funded alternately or jointly by Massachusetts and Boston. In 1854 a hospital for sick state paupers opened there, first under the auspices of the Board of Alien Commissioners and then from 1863 under that of the Board of State Charities; it was also used as a military hospital from 1864 and closed in 1866.
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Ledger [Massachusetts Board of State Charities Visiting Agency]
Scope and Content: The Board of State Charities and its successors from 1863 onward oversaw the Massachusetts state immigration and pauper relief functions, as well as the state’s charitable and correctional institutions. In 1866 the board appointed a visiting agent, under its secretary, to track and visit state wards sent out to indenture. The Visiting Agency was made a separate department within the board in 1869 to investigate applicants wanting to adopt or indenture children, approve placements, conduct visits of children that were adopted, indentured, or otherwise placed out, and provide ongoing follow-up.
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