NEW JERSEY PUBLIC welfare service in America had its origins in reliefgiving in the homes of the indigent through the overseer of the poor, later through the workhouse, almshouse, county home, or hospital. These services were not co-ordinated. "Chips off the old block" of relief are to be found in the unco-ordinated development of mothers' pensions, pensions for the blind and for the aged. The workhouse, the almshouse, the lockup, the jail, the penitentiary, all represent unco-ordinated development of institutional service, from which other "chips" have been thrown off, represented by the mental hospital, school for the feeble-minded, juvenile reformatory, etc. In addition, juvenile, and adult probation and parole, and preventive programs in the medical and mental field have grown up uncorrelated.