Scope and Content: The Public Health Council was established in 1914 as part of the State Dept. of Health (Dept. of Public Health from 1919) to make and promulgate rules and regulations, take evidence in appeals, consider plans and appointments required by law, hold hearings, and discharge other duties relating to public health as required by law.  Minutes have been created to record its activities, discussions, and actions.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Minutes (2) Exhibits; Arranged within each subseries chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Dept. of Public Health, July 1983
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Scope and Content: The Public Service Commission was established in 1913 as an enlargement of the Board of Railroad Commissioners and with additional functions transferred from the Highway Commission.  It was abolished in 1919, when its functions were combined with those of the Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners in the Dept. of Public Utilities.
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Scope and Content: The council was established to advise the commissioner of mental health on policy, program development, and priorities of need for comprehensive programs in mental health and retardation in Massachusetts.  Minutes were created to record decisions and actions taken by the council and its Executive Committee.  They contain information on public hearings held by the council to obtain the views of area boards and the public on departmental policy and programs; reports of the commissioner; and reports of the council’s committees on mental retardation, mental health, children, budget, management, and legislation.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Minutes of the full advisory council (2) Minutes of the Executive Committee; Arranged within each subseries chronologically
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Health, established in 1869, was abolished in 1879, and its functions absorbed by the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity until 1886, when its was re-established. It was succeeded in turn by the State Department of Health in 1914 and the Department of Public Health in 1919.
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Scope and Content: The State Board of Docks and Terminal Facilities was established in 1895 to investigate public ownership and other issues relating to improvement of docks, wharves, and terminal facilities for the Port of Boston.  Minutes were created by the board clerk to record actions, decisions, and expenditures.
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to St 1895, c 284 and RL 1902 c 10, s 17, the State House Commission approved state agency requisitions for new furniture and fixtures for the State House and other state office buildings.  Minutes were created to record commission actions and decisions in this area.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: The Teachers’ Retirement Board administers the Teachers’ Retirement System for public school teachers of Massachusetts. Minutes are created to record and administer its votes on allotment of pensions and related matters Information includes meeting date, time, place, and attendees; and particulars of allotment of benefits to retiring teachers and disposition of benefits for deceased teachers

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Scope and Content: The Worcester City Hospital was established by state mandate in 1871, reconstituted in 1953, placed under the Worcester Health and Hospitals Authority in 1990, and closed in 1991.  It was then placed under interim management of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and since the authority’s dissolution in 1993 has been operated as the center’s City Campus.
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Scope and Content: State responsibility for the insane was assigned to the State Board of Lunacy and Charity per St 1886, c 101. In an era of heavy immigration, Massachusetts sought to relieve taxpayers of the burden of supporting insane persons originating from other states or countries, who were being cared for in Massachusetts state institutions. The board’s Committee on the Removal of Insane Persons out of the State (board chair, vice-chair, and one other board member–first mentioned in the board’s 1894 annual report (p.4)) proposed names of those to be returned to their place of origin; these recommendations were acted on by the board at its monthly meeting and implemented by the Superintendent of Indoor Poor. The State Board of Lunacy and Charity was replaced by the State Board of Insanity in 1898.
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Scope and Content: The Division of Fiscal Affairs and Management of the Board of Regents, under the vice chancellor for fiscal affairs and management, is responsible for overall budgetary planning and facility management for the state system of higher education.  Minutes of the boards of trustees for individual institutions are submitted to apprise the vice chancellor of policy decisions made on the institutional level that will have fiscal ramifications.  These policy decisions then become a factor in preparing the annual budgetary request to the General Court.  The minutes are the primary record of decisions and discussions of policy issues undertaken by the boards of trustees for individual community colleges, four-year colleges, and universities.
Arrangement: In three subseries: (1) Minutes of community colleges (2) Minutes of colleges (3) Minutes of universities; Arranged within each subseries alphabetically by institution, thereunder chronologically
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