71 Pa. Stat. § 1474
All reports or notices whatsoever, heretofore required to be given or made to the Board of Public Charities, or to the officers thereof, or to the Committee on Lunacy, abolished by this act, shall hereafter be given or made to the department, including all statements to be made by the inspectors, sheriffs, or other persons having charge of any penitentiary or jail.
The officer or officers, person or persons, having the management or custody of any institution, house, place, prison, almshouse, poorhouse, hospital, association, or society, under the supervision of the department as provided in section nine of this act, shall keep such records and make such reports relating or pertaining to such institution, house, place, prison, almshouse, poorhouse, association, or society, and to the care and treatment of the inmates thereof or the persons committed thereto or being imprisoned, detained, treated, or cared for therein, as may be prescribed and required by the rules and regulations of the department.
The commissioner shall furnish to the several courts of common pleas of the Commonwealth a list of institutions, associations, and societies, in whose care the custody of delinquent, neglected, or dependent children may be committed, which filed the required reports.
71 P.S. § 1474