The State and public welfare in nineteenth-century America
Subtitle: five investigations, 1833-1877.
Series: Social problems and social policy
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 630
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States -- States.; Poor -- United States -- States.; Almshouses -- United States -- States.
Notes: Reprint of Report of the commissioners appointed by an order of the House of Representatives, Feb. 29, 1832, on the subject of the pauper system of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston, 1833; of Report of the Committee appointed by the last General Assembly, upon the subject of town and state paupers. New Haven, Conn., 1852; of Report of Select Committee appointed to visit charitable institutions supported by the state, and all city and county poor and work houses and jails, Albany, 1857; of Report of the special joint committee appointed to investigate the whole system of the public charitable institutions of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts during the recess of the Legislature in 1858. Boston, 1859; and of Report on the public charities, reformatories, prisons and almshouses, of the State of Maryland, by C. W. Chancellor, M.D., Secretary of the State Board of Health, made to his Excellency, John Lee Carroll, Governor, July, 1877. Frederick, Md., 1877.