Annual report of the State Board of Charity of Massachusetts. v.10, 1872-73, Volume 10

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Page 198 - Rhode Island. A systematic visitation of all children thus placed out in families in order to know their condition, secure their rights, their discipline without abuse, and to promote their progress towards self-support and self-control, is one of the duties of the Visiting Agency. REPORT OF THE STATE VISITING AGENT. Applications for the release of children from the control of the schools are frequently made by parents and friends. Under the requirements of the statute such applications are referred...
Page 243 - About 6 per cent, of the boys, and 4 per cent, of the girls have done badly, while 4 per cent, of the boys, and 2 per cent, of the girls have absconded and not been found.
Page lvi - Board shall make effectual provision in the manner which it judges best for the safety of the inhabitants, by removing such person to a separate house or otherwise, and by providing nurses, and other assistance and necessaries, which shall be at the charge of the person himself, his parents, or master, if able; otherwise at the charge of the town to which he belongs; and if he is not an inhabitant of any town, at the charge of the Commonwealth.
Page 18 - Boston is hereby authorized to erect, establish and maintain a hospital for the reception of persons who by misfortune or poverty may require relief during temporary sickness.
Page lxxvi - Whenever relief is continued in any case beyond the 31st of December of any year, they must send a new notice for that case on January 1 of the next year. When such notice is not renewed, the town has no claim against the State (see Gen. Stat. chap.
Page 168 - Suring the year from cities and towns for support of lunatics and paupers, at lunatic hospitals, four thousand six hundred and three dollars, and from individuals for support of themselves or friends, two thousand six hundred and two dollars, all of which has been paid into the treasury of the Commonwealth. The expenses are now less than in any previous year, since the twenty per cent, increase of salaries by the legislature of 1865, and this, notwithstanding a similar increase in the compensation...
Page 180 - GENERAL, AGENT'S REPORT. SUPPLEMENT. Tables showing the number of immigrants arriving at the port of Boston from April 20, 1837, to October 1, 1872, and the amount of head-money received during that period : — TABLE No. 1. From April 20, 1837, to May 10, 1848 (at which date the above table closes), the labor of supervising and collecting was performed by an appointee of the mayor and aldermen of Boston. The dates mentioned represent the calendar year.
Page 185 - TABLE No. 7. Showing the Number of Vessels bringing Passengers from Foreign Ports to the Port of Boston, the Number of such Passengers, and the Expense attending their reception, from May 10, 1848, to October 1, 1875.
Page 117 - ... benefit of the poor remained ; and wherever the care of the poor was still in ecclesiastical hands, the only alteration in the way in which it was conducted arose from the fact that the church had less abundant means at its disposal. But," he adds, " this fact alone may be considered a great gain, for abundance of means is the greatest danger of all in the relief of the poor.

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