Staff minutes of Worcester District, 1939-1953.

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Staff minutes of Worcester District, 1939-1953.

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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). Until 1967 the department organized the state into districts to carry out this program, originally staffed by the Division of Aid and Relief (Division of Public Assistance from 1953), under a district supervisor, and from the early 1950s (cf. St 1952, c 602) also by the Division of Child Guardianship, with respective district supervisors under a district director. Monthly staff meetings were held in each district. These minutes were created to document planning and decisions of meetings in the Worcester district.

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