Summary of state laws relating to the dependent classes, 1913.

  • United States Census Bureau
Date:
1914
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Credit: Summary of state laws relating to the dependent classes, 1913. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Brandeis University Libraries, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

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    MAINE. AUTHOBITIES : Revised Statutes, 1903. Laws, 1897 to 1913. [The side-note references are to pages and sections of Revised Statutes and of Session Laws. The years in which the session laws were passed are shown in boldface type.] I. Administrative and supervisory agencies. A. Public. 1. General.— (1) The state board of charities and corrections is 1913: 242 composed of five members (unsalaried) one of them a waman, appointed by the governor by and with the consent of the council. The board appoints a salaried secretary and other agents, the total cost of salary and expenses not to exceed a specified amount. The board is required to investigate and inspect the whole system 9f public charities and correctional institutions in the state, ex- amine into the condition and management of all prisons, jails, reform schools, industrial schools of a charitable or correctional nature, children's homes, hospitals, sanatoriums, almshouses, orphanages, hospitals for the insane, schools or homes for feeble- minded, and other similar institutions, supported wholly or in part by state, county, or municipal appropriations, except purely educational or industrial institutions; and any private charitable or correctional institutions which may desire to be placed on the list of such institutions. The ofiicers of all institutions subject to such supervision are required to furnish all information de- sired by the board, which may prescribe forms for statement, and upon the basis of such investigation the board may present recom- mendations to the governor and legislature as to the management of the institution, notice thereof being given to the institutions affected. The board is required to give its opinion as to the organization ot charitable, eleemosynary, correctional, or reformatory institu- tions which are or may be under its supervision, and passes upon all plans for new institutions under its supervision. It receives full reports from overseers of the poor in regard to paupers sup- ported or relieved, and has special instruction in regard to minor children who come under its care, that they should be placed in families of the religious faith held by their parents. It makes annual report to the legislature. (2) A board of hospital trustees numbering seven, one of I9ii: 216 whom must be a woman, is appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the council, to manage and control the Augusta and Bangor State Hospitals and the Maine School for Feeble-minded. They are paid a per diem rate and actual
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