Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised.
- Massachusetts
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![town of this Commonwealth shall make semi-annual re- turns to the visiting agent of the board of state charities, concerning all minor children above the age of four years who are supported at the expense of such city or town, in an almshouse or elsewhere, on the first da} of January and July. Said returns shall be made in such form, and shall contain such information respecting said minor chil- dren as may be prescribed by the board of state charities, and shall be forwarded to said agent on or before the tenth day of each month before mentioned. Sect. 2. The provisions of sections two and three of chapter three hundred and fifty-nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy, or other acts in addi- tion thereto, in respect to children maintained wholly or in part by the state, and to the indenture of children from the state institutions, shall hereafter apply also to all minor children supported at the expense of any city or town; provided, that no such child shall be removed from any city or town without the consent of the overseers of the poor thereof. Returns to be made by overseers to visiting agent con- cerning minor chil- dren sup- ported by towns. G-. S. 70. 1870, c. 359. 1879, c. 291. Visiting agent to visit, &c, all minors supported at expense of towns. 1870, c. 359. 1872, c. 161. Not to be removed, &c, with- out, &c. General /Statistics. [Statutes 1863, chap. 240.] The secretary of the board of state charities shall, under the direction and control of the board, examine the returns of the several cities and towns in relation to the support of paupers therein, and in relation to births, deaths and marriages, and he shall prepare a series of interrogatories to the several institutions of charity, reform and correction, supported wholly or in part by the Commonwealth, or the several counties thereof, with a view to illustrate in his annual report the causes and best treatment of pauperism, crime, disease and insanity. He shall also arrange and publish, in his said report, all desirable information concerning the industrial and mate- rial interests of the Commonwealth, bearing upon these subjects, and shall have free access to all reports and returns now required by law to be made ; and he ma}* also propose such general investigations as may be approved by the board. [Statutes 1867, chap. 243.] Section 1. Every private society or institution for charitable purposes, when aided by a grant of money from the state treasury, shall cause to be annually prepared and forwarded to the board of state charities, a report of all its proceedings, income and expenditures, properly classified for the j'ear ending on the thirtieth day of September ; which report shall state the sum appropriated by the state, the sum expended under said appropriation, the whole number and the average number of beneficiaries, the number and salaiy of officers and employes, and such G. S. 21, 22, 57, 71. 1862, c. 112. 1864, c. 307. 1S67, c. 209, 243. 1870, c. 370. 1872, c. 24, 68, 349. 1874, c. 264, 385. 1879, c. 291. Shall have access to all returns. Societies and institu- tions aided by the state to make report to board of state chari- ties. 1863, c. 240.- 1879, c. 291.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0121.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
