Table I.

II.

-

- Number and Cost of Town and City Poor

Children and Insane Persons among Town and

City Poor

1-56

59-162

2-38

2-15

6-29

2-29

30-37

38

39-47

39

40

41

43

44

46

X.-Comparative Weekly Cost, by items.

47

INSANITY IN HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS

Table XI. - Admissions, Discharges, &c., 1878-79

Number remaining in Hospitals and Asylums since

1864

XIII. — State Poor remaining Sept. 30, since 1854
XIV. - Average Number of State Poor since 1854

Table XV. - Persons Supported and Relieved, 1877-78-79

General Statistics of Town Paupers since 1864

Population of Reformatory and Charitable Schools,

1878-79.

XVIII. - Expenses of Reformatory and Charitable Schools

since 1854

59

56

An Act to create a State Board of Health, Lunacy, and

Charity.

II. THE HEALTH LAWS.

An Act to establish a State Board of Health

An Act concerning slaughter-houses and noxious and

offensive trades

An Act to provide for the investigation of the question

of the use of running streams as common sewers in its

relation to the public health

Resolve authorizing the State Board of Health to exam-

ine into the pollution of sources of water-supply, etc.

An Act relative to the pollution of rivers, streams, and

ponds, used as sources of water-supply

An Act concerning the sewage of the State Prison

An Act in relation to the discharge of sewage into the

Roxbury Canal

An Act for the disposal of the sewage of the Reformatory

Prison for Women

An Act to provide for certain returns to be made by

water boards, water commissioners, and water com-

panies

An Act relating to small-pox, and other diseases danger-

ous to the public health, and providing for the reim-

bursement, &c.

An Act relating to the restraining and muzzling of dogs.

An Act authorizing the appointment of trustees for the

State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers .

83

An Act establishing an Asylum for the Chronic Insane .

The State Lunatic Hospitals in general

An Act to confer certain rights upon guardians of insane

persons and minors

156

157

157

159

159

159-162

159

161

162

163

Laws and Decisions concerning Young Offenders

C. Laws Concerning the Out-door Poor

1. The Care of the Sick Poor, and of Contagious Diseases

3. Support of State paupers, whose pauper wives have settle-
ments in towns

4. Foundlings and Deserted Children

5. The Burial of State Paupers and persons found dead
6. Temporary aid of State paupers by cities and towns.
7. Audit of claims against the Commonwealth for the sup-

Removal of Children from City Almshouses INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE BOARD

ERRATUM.

On page xxxix, the passage concerning transfers from the State Prison is not clearly expressed. The special commission has never had power to commit except through a court; but it is doubtful if the court would now accept its certificate on account of the restriction in the Statutes of 1879, Chap. 195, Sec. 3.

† Former member of the State Board of Health.

* Former member of the Board of State Charities.

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, LUNACY, AND CHARITY.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD, STATE HOUSE,
BOSTON, DEC. 30, 1879.

To His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable Council:

The undersigned, members of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, herewith present, for the consideration of the General Court, their First Annual Report, to which are appended the Statutes under which the Board performs its duties.

MOSES KIMBALL.

HENRY I. BOWDITCH.
CHARLES F. DONNELLY.
EZRA PARMENTER.

ROBERT T. DAVIS.

EDWARD HITCHCOCK.

JOHN C. HOADLEY.

NATHAN ALLEN.

ALBERT WOOD.