Public assistance policy statements, 1953-1962.

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Public assistance policy statements, 1953-1962.

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The Dept. of Public Welfare has the responsibility to provide and administer a comprehensive public welfare financial assistance program (MGLA c 18, s 2). Decisions concerning policy and procedures of the department, largely by staff of the Division of Public Assistance, were excerpted from meeting minutes or correspondence.

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Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Welfare (1915-1995)

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St 1919, c 350, s 87 abolished the Massachusetts State Board of Charity and the Homestead Commission, establishing the Dept. of Public Welfare as their successor. Initially the department was organized into the Division of Aid and Relief (succeeding the Division of State Adult Poor) which oversaw the unsettled poor, and relief provided by municipal public welfare authorities; the Division of Child Guardianship (succeeding the Division of State Minor Wards) responsible for the care,...

Massachusetts. Division of Public Assistance

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The Division of State Adult Poor was established within the State Board of Lunacy and Charity in 1898 and continued in that year under the State Board of Charity. (It was recognized by statute per St 1908, c 598.) The division's superintendent administered the law relating to sane inmates of the State Hospital (later State Infirmary) at Tewksbury and the State Farm at Bridgewater, the sick state poor, those ill of dangerous diseases, and those receiving temporary relief. ...