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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![GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS. I. —THE ORGANIC ACT. An Act to create a state board op health, lunacy and charity. [Statutes of 1879, chap. 291.] Be it enacted, fyc, as follows: Section 1. The State Board of Health, the Board of State Charities, the Boards of Trustees of the State Reform School and the State Industrial School, the Boards of Inspectors of the State Primary School, the State Almshouse, and the State Workhouse, the Advisory Boards of Women to the Inspectors of the State Almshouse and of the State Primary School, and to the Trustees of the State Reform School, and the Visiting Agency created by chapter three hundred and fifty-nine of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and seventy, are hereby abolished. Sect. 2. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, shall appoint nine persons, who shall con- stitute a state board of health, lunacy and charity. They shall hold their offices for five years : provided, that the terms of office of the nine first appointed shall be so ar- ranged that the term of one shall expire in five years, and the terms of two in four, three, two j'ears, and one year respectively; and the vacancies so created, as well as all vacancies occurring otherwise, shall be filled by appoint- ment or re-appointment by the governor and council. Sect. 3. The board shall have all the powers and duties and may exercise all the functions of the boards abolished by section one hereof, and of all their bureaus and agents, including the agency thereby abolished, except as hereinafter provided ; and said board may assign an}' of its powers and duties to agents appointed for the purpose, and may execute any of its functions by such agents, or by committees appointed from and by said board. Sect. 4. Said board shall have general supervision over all the state charitable and reformatoiy institutions mentioned herein, including the State Lunatic Hospitals, the State Almshouse, the State Workhouse, the State Primary School, the State Reform School, and the State Industrial School for Girls. And said board may, when directed bj- the governor, assume and exercise the powers Certain state boards abolished. State board of health, lunacy and charity es- tablished. Terms of office. Powers and duties. Board to have super- vision of charitable and reform- atory insti- tutions.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
