Scope and Content: The Executive Office of Environmental Affairs administers and creates policy for the departments, commissions, and authorities concerned with the natural resources of Massachusetts.  It is responsible for informing and educating the public regarding the activities and concerns of the office.  Series consists of copies of selected speeches given by the office’s secretary on these issues, 1976-1978, Apr. 1993-Jan. 1998.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: List of speeches by organization, 1976-1978.
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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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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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Scope and Content: The Office of Toxics Use Reduction Assistance and Technology (currently known as the Office of Technical Assistance for Toxics Use Reduction) was established in 1989 as a Massachusetts state agency to assist toxics users in complying with the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act.  Series records and summarizes central and regional activities in realizing this mission.
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Scope and Content: Pursuant to orders of the General Court (Mar. 16-17, 1916), the governor appointed three members of the Council to serve as a special committee to investigate and report on a plan to standardize salaries and other compensation for state and county officials and employees.  This series contains two typescripts, the committee’s report, submitted December 1917, printed as 1918 H 1175, and enacted as St 1918, c 228 (An act to provide for the classification of certain positions in the Commonwealth and to regulate promotion therein), and various chapters of the acts of 1919; also a report by the Supervisor of Administration compiled at the committee’s request.
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Scope and Content: Cushing Hospital in Framingham, Mass., intended for the care and custody of elderly persons, was purchased by the Commonwealth from the federal government in 1955, opened in 1957 under the Dept. of Mental Health, transferred to the Dept. of Public Health in 1984, and closed in 1991.
Arrangement: Arranged by chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Tewksbury Hospital, Tewksbury, Mass., Mar. 1999
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Scope and Content: As the unit responsible for managing the governor’s mail, the Governor’s Correspondence Office maintained these files of correspondence between the governor and state agencies.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by term, thereunder alphabetically by agency
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Scope and Content: The post of Supervisor of Administration was established in 1916, and succeeded by the Commission on Administration and Finance in 1922, in turn succeeded by the Executive Office for Administration and Finance in 1963.

Arrangement: Arranged by agency.

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Scope and Content: Massachusetts St 1948, c 637 transferred managerial functions of the Massachusetts Aeronautics Commission and functions of the Bureau of Airport Management to a State Airport Management Board, under a commissioner of airport management.  The board was to assure the adoption and carrying out of sound business policies in the management and operation of Logan Airport and Hanscom Field and any other state-owned airport that might be established. It was abolished and absorbed into the Massachusetts Port Authority by St 1956, c 465 (revised by St 1959, c 599), effective Feb. 1959. Minutes record deliberations and actions of the board at its meetings at least several times monthly.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Massachusetts Port Authority, May 1997
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Scope and Content: Bridgewater, Mass., was the site successively of a State Almshouse (1854-1872) for so-called willing and needlessly dependent paupers, and the State Workhouse (1866-1887), for paupers convicted of misdemeanors as well as paupers generally (from 1872), and incorrigible juveniles (1869-1948). The State Workhouse was renamed the State Farm (1887-1955), which also included a State Farm Hospital for the medical needs of all inmates, as well as locals and poor admitted solely for medical treatment. The change in name was in deference to the admission of insane male paupers (1886), although it was  followed by the admission of aged and physically or mentally infirm inmates of the State Prison (1890). Insane admissions were then limited for a time to criminals (1894), forming a division called the State Asylum for Insane Criminals (1895), which was renamed Bridgewater State Hospital (1909). Units at Bridgewater were later added for female prisoners (1909-1930), so-called defective delinquents (males from 1922, females 1926-1954)–mentally impaired inmates requiring segregation from standard inmate or institutionalized populations–and for drug and alcohol addicts (from 1922, females to 1930 only), eventually mostly voluntary admissions. All Bridgewater State Farm facilities and divisions (including prison, almshouse, insane, and medical hospital functions) were administered by a common superintendent. The running of the State Farm, including industries and extensive agricultural operations, relied on work performed by all capable inmates.
Arrangement: Arranged by inmate no
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