Scope and Content: Massachusetts has administered water works and sewage disposal for the Boston metropolitan area successively through the Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (Metropolitan Sewerage Commission) (1889-1901) and the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901); the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); and the Water and Sewerage Divisions of the Metropolitan District Commission (1919-1985).  Since 1985, the sewerage works functions have been assigned to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), and the water works functions have been shared by the MWRA (distribution) and the Metropolitan District Commission (to 2003) and the Dept.  of Conservation and Recreation (since 2003) (water supply reservoirs and their watershed management).
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission
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Scope and Content: Massachusetts has administered water works and sewage disposal for the Boston metropolitan area successively through the Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (Metropolitan Sewerage Commission) (1889-1901) and the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901); the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); and the Water and Sewerage Divisions of the Metropolitan District Commission (1919-1985).  Since 1985, the sewerage works functions have been assigned to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), and the water works functions have been shared by the MWRA (distribution) and the Metropolitan District Commission (to 2003) and the Dept.  of Conservation and Recreation (since 2003) (water supply reservoirs and their watershed management). –As part of its function to construct, maintain, and operate a metropolitan water supply system,  the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901) established a Weston Aqueduct Dept. in 1900 to coordinate the engineering work of the construction of a thirteen-mile aqueduct from the Sudbury Reservoir to the main pipe system of the metropolitan water district (through the towns of Southborough, Framingham, Wayland, and Weston, and terminating less than a half mile west of the Charles River), and the construction of the aqueduct’s equalizing reservoir in Weston and named the Weston Reservoir.  Under the board’s successor, the  Water Works of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919), the department was abolished in 1904 upon the completion of the aqueduct and the reservoir in 1903. Remaining construction and the aqueduct’s maintenance was transferred to the Distribution Dept. Preliminary work pertaining to the Weston Aqueduct had been performed by the Dam and Aqueduct Dept. prior to the establishment of the Weston Aqueduct Dept.
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Notes: Transferred to Archives from Metropolitan District Commission
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Scope and Content: Massachusetts has administered water works and sewage disposal for the Boston metropolitan area successively through the Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners (Metropolitan Sewerage Commission) (1889-1901) and the Metropolitan Water Board (1895-1901); the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (1901-1919); and the Water and Sewerage Divisions of the Metropolitan District Commission (1919-1985).  Since 1985, the sewerage works functions have been assigned to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), and the water works functions have been shared by the MWRA (distribution) and the Metropolitan District Commission (to 2003) and the Dept.  of Conservation and Recreation (since 2003) (water supply reservoirs and their watershed management).
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Scope and Content: State oversight and regulatory functions relating to waterways of the Commonwealth have been exercised successively by the following: the Board of Harbor Commissioners (1866-1879) and the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners (1879-1916) (no. 1-4087); the Directors of the Port of Boston (1911-1916) (no. 1-215); the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands (1916-1919) (no. 1-299); the Division of Waterways and Public Lands in the Dept. of Public Works (1919-1927) (no. 1-4??, to 1925 only); the Dept. of Public Works as a whole (1927-1938); the Division of Waterways, within that department (1938-1974) and within the Dept. of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) (1974-1983); and, since 1983, within DEQE (Dept. of Environmental Protection since 1989), the Division of Wetland Protection and Waterways Regulation, renamed Division of Wetlands and Waterways Regulation by 1988 and Division of Wetlands and Waterways by 1989.
Arrangement: Arranged by application no
Restrictions: Originals are restricted; electronic copies (and indexing) available through Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection, 1 Winter St., Boston, MA 02108. For details consult Archives reference desk
Notes: Scheduled as: Waterways drawings
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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 chronologically
Restrictions: Mental health client information restricted by statutory provision MGLA c 123, s 36. For conditions of access consult repository
Notes: Transferred to Archives by Tewksbury Hospital, Tewksbury, Mass., Mar. 1999
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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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Scope and Content: The State Almshouse at Monson provided residence for paupers without settlement in the Commonwealth from 1854 until 1872.  Series was created to record admissions to and discharges from the institution on a weekly basis as reported by superintendent to parent state agency–Board of Alien Commissioners; from 1863, Board of State Charities.
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Scope and Content: The State Primary School, opened at the State Almshouse at Monson in 1866 and continuing after the almshouse’s closing in 1872 until 1895, provided lodging, instruction, and employment for dependent and neglected children under age sixteen without settlement in the Commonwealth and some juvenile offenders.  Series was created to report their admission to and discharge from the institution on a weekly basis to the parent state agency–Board of State Charities; from 1879, State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity; from 1886, State Board of Lunacy and Charity.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Spine title: State Primary School returns
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Scope and Content: In  Massachusetts, the State Board of Lunacy and Charity and its predecessors, the Board of Charities (to 1879) and the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (1879-1886), received weekly reports from institutions under their jurisdiction. Among these was the State Primary School, opened at the State Almshouse at Monson in 1866 and continuing after the almshouse’s closing in 1872 until 1895, provided lodging, instruction, and employment for dependent and neglected children under age sixteen without settlement in the Commonwealth and some juvenile offenders.  Reports list weekly admissions and discharges from the institution. –Format for v. 1-3 (to 1872, closing of the almshouse) for admissions is same as: Massachusetts. State Almshouse (Monson, Mass.). Admission registers ((M-Ar)929X). Printed categories for entries are school no., name, age, birthplace, from, date admitted, condition, remarks.  For discharges categories are school no., name, age, birthplace, date, and where sent.  Weekly summary lists no. last report, admitted, born, discharged, died, deserted, remaining, and whole no. to date, divided by boys, girls, total, and boys, girls, total in school (i.e., receiving instruction) –Format for remaining vols. divides admissions into full admission as pupils (school no., name, age, birthplace, admission date, from, former or support or temporary custody no., remarks) and admission of persons for support or temporary custody (no., name, age, birthplace, admission date, from, sent by, condition).  Discharges are similarly divided (no., name, age, date, how discharged–to State Primary School (i.e., as  full pupil), on trial (with a family), from 1880 on board (with a family), or permanent discharge by state board–but latter not listed if already out of school with a family), wither sent, to whose care).  Those discharged from support or temporary custody will typically be listed the same week under admission as pupils.  Weekly summary lists no. last report, admitted, discharged, died, deserted, remaining: divided through 1882 among pupils (boys, girls, total), juveniles in custody (i.e., offenders: boys, girls, total) and state paupers (men, women, boys, girls, total), with grand total.  Through 1882 juvenile offenders were classed as support or temporary custody; after 1882 they were given immediate full admission, with totals (now in red) for informational not incremental purposes; some dependent and neglected children were also given immediate full admission, including those per St 1882, c 181, ss 2-3, and all after 1890. –Source file is: Massachusetts. State Primary School (Monson, Mass.). Register of weekly admissions and discharges, 1876-1895 ((M-Ar)925X), and see also: Admission registers, 1866-1895 ((M-Ar)917X)
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Spine title: State Primary School returns. Formerly classed under (M-Ar)HS3.05: Massachusetts. State Primary School (Monson, Mass.)
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Scope and Content: In Massachusetts, the Division of Aid and Relief (Dept. of Public Welfare) received weekly returns from institutions under its total or partial jurisdiction. Among these was the State Farm at Bridgewater, the site successively of a State Almshouse (1854-1872) for so-called willing and needlessly dependent paupers, and the State Workhouse (1866-1887). 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. –Although in 1919 the Dept. of Correction became responsible for the State Farm as a whole, the Dept. of Public Welfare, through its Division of Aid and Relief, was responsible for the remaining pauper admissions to the State Farm, largely those admitted to its hospital (Infirmary Dept.) for medical care. The division’s settlements unit remained in charge of investigating settlements (through 1950) of those paupers admitted to the State Farm. The division’s institutional unit had the State Farm Infirmary Dept. under its jurisdiction, and was charged with the admission and dismissal of pauper department. inmates. Although Dept. of Public Welfare charges were generally sent to the State Infirmary at Tewksbury (later Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary), St 1921, c 486, s 28 allowed the department to transfer paupers from one state charitable institution to another, including to the State Farm for those whose labor could contribute to the cost of their support, or in an emergency. From 1930 onward, the Infirmary Dept. inmates admitted from the cities and towns were gradually discharged, with all thereafter sent to the State Infirmary, with the last one dying at the State Farm in 1939. Thereafter the department only oversaw care at the infirmary for those male indigents not chargeable to any city or town, generally those released from the State Farm Prison Dept.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Volume for 1938 lacking. Formerly classed under (M-Ar)HS9.10: Massachusetts. State Farm
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