This series contains mostly correspondence, but also reports, charts and similar records, of the Director of the Division of Administration. Prior to about 1966 this office was known as the Division of Administration and Finance and prior to the government reorganization of 1972 this office was the Office of Administration within the Department of Public Health. The records relate to the providing of administrative support services to the various subdivisions of the Department of Human Resources. Particularly, the papers concern such functions as (1) fiscal and budgetary control and budgetary control and coordination, (2) coordination of efforts toward procuring Federal grant funds, (3) such departmental coordination as (a) the acquisition and assignment of land, facilities, space and equipment, (b) implementation of the self-insurance program for buildings and (c) insuring that fire protection is adequate at State hospitals, (4) feasibility studies toward upgrading agency-wide operations, such as the application of computer techniques and (5) liaison with other agencies and organizations. For records dating from 1972 and before, see Record Group 26, Subgroup 19, Series 38.