TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

STATE BOARD OF CHARITY

OF

MASSACHUSETTS.

JANUARY, 1901.

BOSTON:

WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS,

18 POST OFFICE SQUARE.

1901.

CCT 18 1944

GRADUATE SCHOOL

OF PUBLIC

ADMINIST

ATION

BISCARDED

Dependent Minor Children Provided for in Families and Asylums,

Dependent Minor Children in Almshouses,

82-83

The City and Town Almshouses,

83-135

The Relief of Small Towns in the Support of their Insane,

135-136

The Penalty incurred by Certain Towns, etc.,

136-137

TABLE I.-Number and Cost of City and Town Poor,

Part I. Cost of Support and Relief,

Part II.-Number Supported and Relieved,

Part III. Whole Number and Treatment of the

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Several Classes of Paupers,

II. Classification and Location of the Towns' Poor

Fully Supported March 31, 1900, .

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III. - Population of the Town Almshouses March 31, 1898,

1899 and 1900,

xliv

XI.

VI. City and Town Pauperism, 1881-1900,

VII.-Number in Pauper Institutions, Sept. 30, 1863-1900,

VIII.

IX.

Average Number in Institutions since 1863,

Total Net Annual Cost of All Paupers in Massa-

chusetts, State and Town, 1878-1900,

FINANCES AND POPULATION OF FOUR STATE INSTITUTIONS,

TABLE X.-Valuation of Four Institutions,

Receipts of Four Institutions,

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xlix

1

li-lii

liii-lviii

liii

liv

XV.-Population, Expense and Financial Condition,

lviii

SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR LEGISLATIVE ACTION.

1. That certain agents of the Board be appointed district police officers, for the purpose of returning to the State Farm prisoners who have violated the conditions of their release. (See pages 15, 16.)

2. That reports of charitable corporations be made for the financial years of the several corporations. (See page 138.)

3. That the Legislature be asked to consider the advisability of providing for the visitation and inspection of all incorporated charitable institutions or homes by the State Board of Charity, and further to consider whether charitable homes for children should be approved by the Board as a condition of their incorporation. (See page 138.)

4. That the Legislature be asked to consider the advisability of providing for the submission of plans for the construction of city and town almshouses to some central authority for its approval, and also to consider whether legislation is needed to secure the keeping of a uniform system of almshouse records, and other pauper records already required by law. (See page 84.)