Wisconsin. State Department of Public Welfare
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Wisconsin. Department of Public Welfare, State
Wisconsin. Public Welfare, State Department of
Wisconsin. State Dept. of Public Welfare
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found: Its Wisconsin survey of juvenile delinquency ... 1941?
found: State level corrections structure in Wisconsin, Google search, Nov. 29, 2018:p. 5 (Laws of 1939, created the Department of Public Welfare; all of the duties of the Board of Control, the Pension Department and the Public Welfare Department were transferred to the new Department of Public Welfare)
found: Social Networks and Archival Content WWW site, Nov. 29, 2018:Wisconsin. State Board of Health (the state board was created by Wisconsin Legislature in 1876; with the reorganization of state agencies in 1967, the functions of the board were incorporated into the new Department of Health and Social Services in the Division of Health)
found: The State Board of Charities and Reform was created in 1871. The State Board of Supervision of Wisconsin Charitable, Reformatory, and Penal Institutions was founded in 1881. In 1891 the Legislature established the State Board of Control of Wisconsin Reformatory, Charitable, and Penal Institutions, which combined the functions of the two previous state boards which were abolished by the act. The new State Dept. of Public Welfare absorbed the State Board of Control in Nov. 1939. A Board of Public Welfare was constitute to exercise regulatory, advisory and policy-forming duties.
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1981-04-27: new
2018-12-08: revised
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