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Because welfare activities are not administered wholly by the 

 state and because there was a complete reorganization of the state 

 department of public welfare in 1938, there is no singly published re- 

 port available which shows the actual total welfare expenditures of 

 the state. The expenditures of the state department for the vear 

 ended June 30. 1940 totaled $2,025,331 (Table 29). This includes the 

 federal funds available and expended for old age assistance, aid to de- 

 pendent children, and aid to the needy blind. The commissioner esti- 

 mates that in the spring of 1941 all government agencies were ex- 

 pending approximately $1,500,000 per month in New Hampshire for 

 welfare purposes and work relief programs. This estimate includes 

 sums expended by the federal agencies, particularly the Works Prog- 

 ress Administration, the National Youth Administration, and the 

 Civilian Conservation Corps. 



The six institutions maintained by the state and the amounts ap- 

 propriated for each by the state legislature are shown in Table 30. 

 Each institution has its own board of trustees. These institutions 

 are not under the supervision of the department of public welfare 

 but provide services, in part at least, related to public welfare. 



Table 30. Institutions Maintained by the State of New Hampshire, with the 

 Amount of Legislative Appropriation for Each, Year Ended June 

 30, 1940 



Institution 



Amount of 

 appropriation* 



State Hospital (insane) $ 844,821 



Laconia State School (feeble-minded) 205,899 



State Prison 127,180 



State Sanitorium (tuberculous persons) 91,870 



Industrial School (delinquent children) 90,805 



Soldiers' Home 32,000 



Total $1,392,575 



* Session Laws, 1939, Chapter 222. These are net appropriations. 



The State further appropriated $16,500 for education of the deaf, 

 a function of the state department of education, and $32,500 to the 

 cancer commission, wdiich is independent of the welfare and public 

 health departments. The commission consists of the governor, ex 

 officio, and four members appointed by the governor and council, 

 one of whom must be a member of the state board of health and 

 another must be a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society. 

 The commission is required to establish cancer clinics and is author- 

 ized to extend state aid to needy patients suffering from cancer, pro- 

 vided that such state aid in any individual case does not exceed the 

 sum expended by the town or county. The activities of the cancer 

 coiTimission are partly a matter of welfare and partly a matter of 

 public health. 



