Board of Public Charities State Documents
The Board of Commissioners of Public Charities was charged with inspection of all charitable, penal, and correctional institutions in the Commonwealth. Within this Board was a Committee on Lunacy, which examined places specifically for the confinement of the insane.
The publications of the Board of Public Charities contain annual reports, from the Board itself and the Committee on Lunacy. Selected topics from these publications include yearly happenings and statistics of the Board and the Committee, and reports from the Officers of the Board and the Chairman of the Committee. The bulk of the current material is dated from 1885 to 1912.
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