Weekly reports of admissions and discharges at the State Primary School, 1866-1892.

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Massachusetts. State Board of Lunacy and Charity. Weekly reports of admissions and discharges at the State Primary School, 1866-1892.

Weekly reports of admissions and discharges at the State Primary School, 1866-1892.

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In Massachusetts, the State Board of Lunacy and Charity and its predecessors, the Board of Charities (to 1879) and the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity (1879-1886), received weekly reports from institutions under their jurisdiction. Among these was the State Primary School, opened at the State Almshouse at Monson in 1866 and continuing after the almshouse's closing in 1872 until 1895, provided lodging, instruction, and employment for dependent and neglected children under age sixteen without settlement in the Commonwealth and some juvenile offenders. Reports list weekly admissions and discharges from the institution. Format for v. 1-3 (to 1872, closing of the almshouse) for admissions is same as: Massachusetts. State Almshouse (Monson, Mass.). Admission registers ((M-Ar)929X). Printed categories for entries are school no., name, age, birthplace, from, date admitted, condition, remarks. For discharges categories are school no., name, age, birthplace, date, and where sent. Weekly summary lists no. last report, admitted, born, discharged, died, deserted, remaining, and whole no. to date, divided by boys, girls, total, and boys, girls, total in school (i.e., receiving instruction) Format for remaining vols. divides admissions into full admission as pupils (school no., name, age, birthplace, admission date, from, former or support or temporary custody no., remarks) and admission of persons for support or temporary custody (no., name, age, birthplace, admission date, from, sent by, condition). Discharges are similarly divided (no., name, age, date, how discharged--to State Primary School (i.e., as full pupil), on trial (with a family), from 1880 on board (with a family), or permanent discharge by state board--but latter not listed if already out of school with a family), wither sent, to whose care). Those discharged from support or temporary custody will typically be listed the same week under admission as pupils. Weekly summary lists no. last report, admitted, discharged, died, deserted, remaining: divided through 1882 among pupils (boys, girls, total), juveniles in custody (i.e., offenders: boys, girls, total) and state paupers (men, women, boys, girls, total), with grand total. Through 1882 juvenile offenders were classed as support or temporary custody; after 1882 they were given immediate full admission, with totals (now in red) for informational not incremental purposes; some dependent and neglected children were also given immediate full admission, including those per St 1882, c 181, ss 2-3, and all after 1890. Source file is: Massachusetts. State Primary School (Monson, Mass.). Register of weekly admissions and discharges, 1876-1895 ((M-Ar)925X), and see also: Admission registers, 1866-1895 ((M-Ar)917X)

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