Board of Prison Control (d) Department of Charities and Corrections (Commissioner elective) (a) Board of Pardons (d) Children's Code Commission Boards of Managers of state institutions (generally including education or health officers ex officio) (c-d) OREGON State Board of Control (d) Child Welfare Commission (c) Board of Parole (c-d) Board of Child Labor ( ) PENNSYLVANIA Department of Welfare (a) including Boards of Trustees of state institutions (c) Department of State Finances (a) Department of Public Instruction (for deaf, dumb, and blind) (a) Board of Pardons (d) Department of Property and Supplies (a) RHODE ISLAND Penal and Charitable Commission (c) Two Boards of Female Visitors (c) Boards of Trustees for state institutions SOUTH CAROLINA State Board of Public Welfare (c) Board of Pardons (c) Committee on Deaf and Blind Children Boards of Trustees for some of the state institutions TENNESSEE Department of Institutions (a) Department of Finance (a) Advisory Committee for the Soldiers' Home (c) TEXAS Board of Control (b) Board of Prison Commissioners (b) Anti-tuberculosis Commission (c-d) Boards of Trustees for some of the state institutions UTAH State Welfare Commission (c-d) Boards of Trustees and Commissions for state institutions VERMONT Department of Public Welfare (a) Department of Finance (a) Trustees of Soldiers' Home (c) VIRGINIA State Department of Public Welfare (c) Commissioner of State Hospitals (a) Department of Education (for deaf and blind) Boards of trustees for state institutions Commission on Mental Defectives (d) (temporary) WASHINGTON Department of Business Control (a) Administrative Board (d) Two Parole Boards (c) WEST VIRGINIA1 State Board of Control (b) State Board of Children's Guardians (c) Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics (a) WISCONSIN State Board of Control (b) Memorial Hospital Commission (temporary) WYOMING State Board of Charities and Reform (ex officio state board of pardons) (d) The W. Va. Legislature in 1925 enacted a law providing for a Crippled Children's Council. Composed of representatives of State Boards of Education, Health, Control and Children's Guardians, one each, and the three citizens appointed by Governor upon recommendation of Rotary or other social agencies. No money appropriated this year for organization. C. L. STONAKER, Executive Secretary. Child Labor Commission (d) Commissioner of Child and Animal Protection (semi-official) VARIATIONS Departments of education frequently control, supervise, or provide educational facilities for the deaf, dumb, blind, and physically handicapped. Departments of health frequently supervise hospitals, and always have powers of inspection over sanitary features of state institutions, and even over the physical condition of inmates. War veterans who are dependent are often independently provided for in soldiers' homes managed separately, and by veterans bureaus independent of other branches. Child welfare is often a function of the health department, and especially so where the state has accepted the provisions of the Smith-Lever Act, and has placed its administration in the health department. Other branches, such as the department of agriculture, will often be found related in some manner to public welfare activities. CHAPTER V TYPES OF STATE SYSTEMS IN a general view of state in particular systems 'N a general view of state systems many signifi are hidden. The states selected for this chapter are those which have, for the most part, well developed systems representative of the larger differences to be found in organization throughout the country. They are not selected primarily because of remarkable achievements in the field of public welfare, but many of them have made pioneer advances in organization, administration, and extension of public welfare work. The most significant development in the field at the present time is in the close relationship evolving between state agencies and local instrumentalities of government. Even private agencies are coming into the scheme in definite relationships. The matter of local organization was not dealt with extensively in the preceding chapters. In this chapter it is given such attention as a study of the rather formal aspects of the work affords. Two state departments omitted in this chapter, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, are reserved for separate chapters, carrying the detailed description a step further for illustrative purposes. The following systems will serve to illustrate all types now current. |