Board of State Charities minutes and correspondence relating to Rainsford Island Hospital, 1863-1865.

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Board of State Charities minutes and correspondence relating to Rainsford Island Hospital, 1863-1865.

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Series consists of a volume compiled in the secretary's office of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities (F.B. Sanborn, secretary) relating to the board's oversight of Rainsford Island Hospital, Oct. 7, 1863-July 18, 1865. Includes excerpts from minutes of board meetings, accounts of visits to the hospital, reports, and copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence. References are made to other records, giving volume/page for letterbooks or the secretary's private records (for later such letterbook see: Massachusetts. Board of State Charities. Private letterbook of the secretary, 1868-1880 ((M-Ar)2482X))

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Sanborn, F. B. 1831-1917.

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Massachusetts. Board of State Charities

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The Board of State Charities and its successors from 1863 onward oversaw the Massachusetts state immigration and pauper relief functions, as well as the state's charitable and correctional institutions. The Massachusetts Infant Asylum, founded by F.B. Sanborn among others, was a private institution incorporated in 1867 to house abandoned and destitute infants. Infants were admitted aged nine months and under, and were discharged at two years, unless health conditions warranted a longer stay. Per...

Rainsford Island Hospital (Mass.)

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Rainsford Island in Boston Harbor was the site since 1736 of various hospital and other charitable institutions administered and funded alternately or jointly by Massachusetts and Boston. In 1854 a hospital for sick state paupers opened there, first under the auspices of the Board of Alien Commissioners and then from 1863 under that of the Board of State Charities; it was also used as a military hospital from 1864 and closed in 1866. From the description of Board of State Charities m...