Record of Sheppard-Towner funds
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Overview of the Records
Repository
- New York State Archives
222 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY 12230
Summary
- The Sheppard-Towner Act funded a variety of activities to upgrade maternal and childcare in local communities. This series includes an accounting of State and Federal funds expended under the act as well as budget estimate, fund balances, and cash balances.
Title
- Record of Sheppard-Towner funds
Quantity
- 0.3 cubic feet; (1 volume)
Inclusive Dates
Series Number
- A0774
Creator
Arrangement
Arranged by fund and therein chronologically.
Administrative History
The Sheppard-Towner Act (1921) funded a variety of activities to upgrade maternal and child care in local communities, including prenatal consultants; lecturers; exhibits; demonstration nurses; surveys of communities with incidences of high rates of maternal and infant mortality; Mothers' Health Clubs; instruction and inspection of midwives; and material and infant health consultations provided by local private physicians in high mortality communities.
Scope and Content Note
This is a handwritten record of state and federal funds expended under the provisions of the federal Sheppard-Towner Act (1921) Chapter 843, pursuant to Laws of 1923. Under the federal-state program the state received approximately $80,000 of federal funds, and appropriated $76,000 in matching revenues for infant, child, and maternal health services. Chapter 843 made the state treasurer the custodian of federal funds, responsible for making payments on receipt of certificates from the state commissioner of health. In similar fashion, state matching funds were paid out of the treasury on warrants issued by the state comptroller on certificates of the commissioner.
In addition, the series contains the following inserts: "Budget of Estimated Expenditures from 1924 Funds" (1923-1924) submitted to Maternal and Infant Hygiene, Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor; "Statement of Federal Sheppard Towner Fund Balances as of June 1, 1924;" and "Statement of Sheppard-Towner Funds: Cash Balances May 1st and estimated expenditures to June 30."
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Geographic Name(s)
Subject(s)
- Public health
- Maternal health services--Finance
- Child health services--Finance
- Infant health services--Finance