State Almshouse/State Workhouse birth register, 1854-1883.

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State Almshouse/State Workhouse birth register, 1854-1883.

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St 1855, c 366, May 17, 1855, required that almshouse superintendents (in lieu of the town clerk) provide an annual report of births to the state secretary.

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Massachusetts. State Almshouse (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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Massachusetts. State Workhouse (Bridgewater, Mass.)

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Bridgewater, Mass., was the site successively of a State Almshouse (1854-1872) for so-called willing and needlessly dependent paupers, and the State Workhouse (1866-1887), for paupers convicted of misdemeanors as well as paupers generally (from 1872), and incorrigible juveniles (1869-1948). The State Workhouse was renamed the State Farm (1887-1955), which also included a State Farm Hospital for the medical needs of all inmates, as well as locals and poor admitted solely for medical treatment. Th...