The present superintendent, Walter J. Firestone, took office May 1, 1934. Sales of parcels of the ground over the years leave about 120 acres at the present time. Those eligible to live at the county home are homeless persons who are unable to care for themselves. They may be recipients of social security and old age pensions, if the amounts so received are not sufficient for them to take care of themselves. Likewise if relatives are unable or unwilling to care for a needy person, the latter is eligible.
Many patients have no friends.
City residents who are unemployed single men are likewise eligible. Present population is made up of 66 women and 236 men. Relatives will take care of women before they will men. There are many foreign born residents who have never married, or who left their families behind in the old country. Those which inventoried infirmary records have been transcribed and links are here posted on a table .