The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-18
THE SANITARIUM.
The CItizens' Association of Pennsylva-
mia, and the Work They are Doing
A Visit TO Their "Sanitarium," or
InebriateR' Home, at Media.


Visit TO Their "SanitarIum," or
Inebrintea' Home, at Media.
The Citizens Association of Pennsylvania
was chartered on the llth of April, 1866 the
act OF incorporation prescribing the following
as the objects Of the lstiLution;-
"To erect buildings for the cure of the intem.
perate; TO open employment offices; to establish
branch associations In the various cities and
counties of the Commonwealth, and in the
different wards of the city of Philadelphia; to
examine into the causes and statistics of pad
peTism, vagrancy, and crtme and do whatso-
ever they may for the prevention of the same,
and for the restoration and elevation OF the de-
PRAYED and ignorant classes of society,""
by an act of the Legislature approved March
4, 1867, it was further made the duty of the Asso
citation to "make an annual report to the Legis.
lature, on the dependent, depraved, and crimi-
nal population of the Commonwealth; and on
for pauperism, vagrancy and crime; and for this
purpose said Association Is hereby empowered
To visit and examine into all organizations and
institutions which have charge, either In whole
or in part, of said population; Provided, said
organizations ana INSTITUTIONS are maintained
or assisted by the Commonwealth, or by the
counties townships, or municipalities thereof"
The official organization OF the Association is
Vice Presidenis-John NJ. Marls, Jay Cooke.
cretRry-J oshua Woolston.
DiTectoIs- Archibald Campbell, Caspar Morris,
Wri, it, Samuel Parrish, Wistar Morris, George Nil.
az 'HTSrpeiasurer-ProvIdent Lie and Trust Company
Staiistician-John A. Anderson.
During the first year of its existence the
nation OF the dependent and criminal classes"
of the State; but as the records of Penusylva-
MIA were very meagre and uncertain, it was
found necessary 10 base the calculation in great
measure upon the official returAs OF such
classes in Massachusetts. The following was
The proportion of the insane is one to every
four hundred and twenty-one inhabitants,
which would give to Pennsylvania an aggre-
gate of SIG OF these unfortunates. OF these,
about two thousand are inmates OF the differ
ent public and private hospitals; one thousand
or more cared for in the county poor
houses; and few hundred, perhaps in fnsti-
tutions outside of the State; and the Remainder,
many of whom are unknown to the census
takers or other officials, In their own homes or
those OF their friends.
one in one thousand and fifteen, which esti-
mate includes only those who are born idiotic
give total of 86l5 for the State, of whom but a
few hundred, at the most, are cared for in pub
lie institutions, the great bulk Of them remain
The blind and deaf mutes exist in about the
same proportion as idiots. The institutions
provided for their care contain of the former
class one hundred and elghty-one, and of the
latter one hundred and twenty six.
The ratio of pRuperiSm in observation-disclosures
to three hundred and sixty.f1ve-would give to
pennsylvania an aggregate OF ~ ,O53 Phlladel-
5000 of these in her Almshouses.
During the past fourteen years the number OF
persons committed to Jail In Massachusetts, was
one in two hundred and twenty-ntne. In 1865
there was one in 1924 committed to the State
Prison, while In Pennsylvania, during the same
year, the proportion was one in S293. Accept
ing the Massachusetts basis, which is seen TO be
below the real state of the case In our own State
Pennsylvania would have had a criminal popu-
lation, during the past year, Of l6.023 exclusive
OF the large number who are never brought to
justice.
With regard to the number OF vagrants theI e
can be no accurate estimate; but there were at
least thirty thousand of them proWling over
the State during the past year.
Ihe proportion of drunkards Is set down at
one in seventy four, which would give to Penn
sylvania 49, ,5S of tins class.
The general summary of the above is pre-
gented by the following figures:-