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Identifier: biennialreport1942nort (find matches)
Title: Biennial report of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare to the General Assembly of North Carolina
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare
Subjects: Public welfare
Publisher: Raleigh : The Board
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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MANDATE Beneficent provision for the poor, the unfortunate, and orphan,being one of the first duties of a civilized and Christian State, theGeneral Assembly shall, at its first session, appoint and define theduties of a Board of Public Charities, to whom shall be entrusted thesupervision of all charitable and penal state institutions, and who shallannually report to the Governor upon their condition with suggestionsfor their improvement. DEDICATION In grateful recognition of a combined record of seventy-three yearsof public service on behalf of the poor and unfortunate in NorthCarolina, the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare dedicatesthis volume jointly to WILLIAM ALLEN BLAIR who for forty-nine years has been a member of the board and who forthirty-six years has served as its chairman, and to ALEXANDER WTORTH McALISTER who for twenty-four years has aided Colonel Blair as a member andvice chairman in developing the modern, forward-looking social wel-fare program of the state.
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William Allen Blair has spoken, written, argued and thoughtpublic welfare for the forty-nine years he has spent as a member of theState Board of Charities and Public Welfare, thirty-six of them as itschairman. Such service as a state welfare board member is withoutparallel in the country so far as it can be ascertained. In the years subsequent to his appointment as a member in Decem-ber, 1891, Mr. Blair has seen many changes come into being in theNorth Carolina welfare program. Sterilization of mental defectives,an expanded mental hygiene program, improvement in county jailfacilities, a boarding home fund to assist juvenile courts in caring forcertain dependents, abolition of apprenticeship of children by inden-ture, replacement of county chain gangs by a state prison system, dis-carding of the practices of farming out prison labor and of workingwomen on the public roads, parole and probation facilities, social secur-ity legislation—all have come into being during the years of his c

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