6 Anderson William Clark 



sessed by the Board of Health and Vital Statistics, which was 

 organized in 1869. In 1896, however, the State Board of Health 

 was reestablished, and it was provided that "the board heretofore 

 known as the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, shall 

 be hereafter called the State Board of Lunacy and Charity." 



The legislature of 1898 passed an act (chapter 433, acts of 

 1898), establishing a State Board of Insanity, and providing that 

 "all the powers possessed by and all the duties incumbent upon 

 the State Board of Lunacy and Charity relative to the state hos- 

 pitals and asylums for the insane and to other institutions, asy- 

 lums, and receptacles for the insane or feeble-minded, public or 

 private, relative to insane persons generally, and as commissioners 

 in lunacy, relative to the Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics, 

 the Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates, the 

 Massachusetts School for the Feeble-minded, and the hospital 

 cottages for children, are hereby taken from the said State Board 

 of Lunacy and Charity and vested in the State Board of Insanity, 

 and said State Board of Insanity is hereby authorized and em- 

 pov.'Cred to assume and exercise the same. The said State Board 

 of Insanity shall also succeed to all the rights, poAvers, and duties 

 of the said State Board of Lunacy and Charity in respect to all 

 the insane poor placed in families by the latter board, and said 

 insane poor so boarded out are hereby transferred to the care, 

 custody, and control of the said Board of Insanity without fur- 

 ther process of law. The State Board of Lunacy and Charity 

 shall hereafter be called the State Board of Charity, and shall 

 have and exercise all the powers now possessed by it, and all the 

 duties now incumbent upon it, except when otherwise by law pro- 

 vided, including all questions relating to the settlement or non- 

 settlement of the state poor coming under the control of the state 

 institutions under its supervision, and under the supervision of 

 the State Board of Insanity, and shall administer the laws of set- 

 tlement relating to the support of the state's sane poor by cities 

 and towns, and shall prosecute "all cases of bastardy of non- 

 settled persons." 



The institutions under the supervision of the State Board of 

 Charity are the Lyman School for Boys and the State Industrial 



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