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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![of; and they shall be reimbursed all expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties. Sect. 4. They shall establish by-laws and regulations, with suitable penalties, for the internal government and economy of the institution ; shall appoint a superintend- ent who shall be a physician and constantly reside at the hospital; and a treasurer who shall give bonds for the faithful discharge of his duties ; and shall appoint, or make provision in the by-laws for appointing, such officers as in their opinion may be necessary for conducting effi- ciently and economically the business of the institution; and shall determine, subject to the approval of the govern- or and council, the salaries of all the officers. All their appointments shall be made in such manner, with such restrictions, and for such terms of time, as the by-laws inay prescribe. Sect. 5. The sahrries of the superintendents, assistant- ptrysicians, stewards and matrons of the state lunatic hospitals, shall be paid quarterly from the current receipts of the several hospitals. Sect. 6. There shall be thorough monthly visitations of each hospital by two of the trustees thereof, and quar- terly by a majority of them, and semi-annually by the whole board, at each of which a written account of the state of the institution shall be drawn up, which shall be presented at the annual meeting to be held between the first and fifteenth days of October. At the annual meet- ing a full and detailed report shall be made, exhibiting a particular statement of the condition of the hospital and all its concerns, with a list of the salaried officers and their salaries, and in a tabular form, under the heads specified in section eleven of chapter five, the value of the stock and supplies, to be laid before the governor and council on or before the fifteenth day of October, for the use of the government; and at the same meeting the treasurer shall present to the trustees his annual report on the finances of the institution ; both of which reports shall be made up to the thirtieth da}' of September inclu- sive. The trustees shall audit the report of the treasurer, and transmit it with their _annual report to the governor and council. Sect. 7. The accounts and books of the treasurer shall at all times be open to the inspection of the trustees. [General Statutes, chap. 5.] Sect. 11. The trustees of each state lunatic hospital, shall annually on the thirtieth day of September, cause to be made an accurate inventory of the stock and supplies on hand, and the value and amount thereof, at such insti- tution, under the following heads : Live stock on the farm; produce of the farm on hand ; carriages and agricultural implements; machinery and 'mechanical fixtures ; beds and bedding in the inmates' See 1862, 223, § 12. To make by-laws, ap- point offi- cers, fix salaries, &c. R. S. 4S, § 3. 1853,318, §1. 1S56,247,§3. Salaries, how paid. 1859,107, §1. Visitations of hospi- tals, annual meeting, reports. R. S.48, § 5. 1852,269, §1. 1S56,247,§2. 1857,40. 1858, 12. 1859,177, §2. Treasurer's books. 1852,269, §2: Trustees to make in- ventories, &c. Gr. S. 71, §54. G. S. 73, § 6 O. S. 75, §25.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
