State Charities Aid Association Annual Report

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State Charities Aid Association, 1905 - Charities
Reports for 1909/10-1920/21 include the association's 18th-29th Annual report to the State Hospital Commission ( varies slightly)
 

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Page 190 - Each order shall specify the alms-house to be visited, inspected and examined, and the name of each person by whom such visitation, inspection and examination shall be made, and 'shall be in force for one year from the date on which it shall have 'been granted, unless sooner revoked.
Page 190 - ... visits, inspection and examination, which are hereby declared to be for a public purpose, and to be made with a view to public benefit.
Page 189 - Any justice of the supreme court, on written application of the state charities aid association, through its president or other officer designated by its board of managers, may grant to such persons as may be named in such application, orders to enable such persons or any of them, as visitors of such association to visit, inspect and examine, in behalf of such association any...
Page 199 - To inaugurate and maintain, for convalescents leaving hospital, who may be friendless, a system of " after-care," whereby they may be strengthened in health, protected and cared for, until able to support themselves. 5. The committee shall advocate, for the benefit of all classes of patients, the system of State care in State hospitals for the dependent insane, as opposed to the system of county care in county poorhouses and county asylums.
Page 189 - ARTICLE II. State Charities Aid Association. Section 30. Visits by the state charities aid association. 31. Duties of officers in charge of institutions; enforcement of orders. 32. Annual reports. SECTION 30. Visits by the state charities aid association.— Any justice of the supreme court, on written application of the state charities aid association, through its president or other officer designated by its board of managers, may grant to such person as may be named in such application, orders...
Page 5 - The commissioners contribute $400 a year towards the expenses of the .work. e. The Columbia County Agency for Dependent Children assists the superintendent of the poor of Columbia county in the investigation of the circumstances of children who are, or are sought to be made, a charge on the county. As a result of the work of this agency the number of children maintained by the county in private institutions has been reduced from 98 at the beginning of the year 1901 to 55 at the end of the year 1902.
Page 16 - Any parent or guardian or other person having custody of a child under sixteen years of age, except in the city of New York who omits to exercise due diligence in the control of such child, to prevent such child from violating any of the provisions of this chapter and any such person or any other person responsible for or who by any act or omission causes, encourages or contributes to the violation by any such child of said provisions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable accordingly.
Page 192 - To induce the adoption, by the community at large, of such measures in the organization and administration of both public and private charity as may develop the self-respect, and increase the power of self-support of the poorer classes of society.
Page 4 - ... the incidental economy of the plan. The work for children has been carried on by the following committees and branches: The State Charltiet Aid Association.
Page 201 - ... 32. Annual reports. Such association shall make an annual report to the state board of charities upon matters relating to the institutions subject to the visitation of such board ; and to the state commission in lunacy upon matters relating to the institutions subject to the inspection and control of such commission. Such reports shall be made on or before the first day of November for each preceding fiscal year.

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