Weekly returns of admissions and discharges at the State Farm, 1931-1939.

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Massachusetts. Division of Aid and Relief. Weekly returns of admissions and discharges at the State Farm, 1931-1939.

Weekly returns of admissions and discharges at the State Farm, 1931-1939.

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Series consists of weekly returns showing population of male paupers at the State Farm under the responsibility of the Division of Aid and Relief, as reported to that agency. Returns are printed forms from predecessor State Board of Charity filled out weekly, with information on admissions, including registration no., name, age, sex, birthplace, nationality, marital status, education, occupation, date admitted, from where, and why. Later entries are generally for discharged State Fam prisoners, with prison no. indicated, who were admitted as paupers because they needed health care at the infirmary, or because they had no home to return to. Discharges are also noted, generally paupers transferred to the State Infirmary at Tewksbury. Verso of return summarizes weekly changes in the State Farm male pauper population. .

1.25 cubic ft. (8 v. in 1 record center carton)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives