The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
PUBLIC CHARITIES.
Recommendation Of the State Boar

Recommendations OF the State Board.
The report of the Board of Public
Charities, upon the applications for
State aid, has been made to the 1egiss
lature and printed in pamphlet form.
The following are the principal fetbm-
mendations, For the Western Peni-
tentiary $4,000 was asked and ap-
proved. OF this 81, ,5OOfs for repairing
sewer. Average number of prisoners,
4653. For the Eastern Pehitentiary
$685. 900 was asked, and S31 ,675 APP
proved; this includes 81 500 for repairs.
The amount allowed for salaries of of
ficers, $20,6 is an increase of $2,675
over last year. There were 739 prison
ers October 1; average, 634. For the
House of Refuge, Philadelphia, 49,
500 was asked, and 10000 approved.
Number of inmates September 80,
1876, ,4SS.
For the Western Pennsylvania Re-
form School, Washington county,
S16S,5O is approved, $3.50, 200 of it to be
used in REMOVAL purposes and erecting
buildings at Morgansa.
For the State Lunatic Hospital, Har-
risburg, $57, ,2SS, including $4,000, for
existing Indebtedness, $4,000 "fof i'm
provements and REPAIRS" and 81, 2SS
''for purchase of land" The board
reflect somewhat upon the manage
ment of this institution, and refuse to
approve the amount asked for pur-
chase of land adjoining, as well as the
S15, 900 for paying debt. AS to the lat
ter, the Board dematided detailed
statement. The condition of the
wards and patients is said to bs livery
much below that presented at either
the DiXmont or Danville hospital, !"
while the average cost for the imainte-
ance of patients is considerable greater.
For the Danville Hospital for the In
sane, $4,000 was approved, including
$4,000 for completing wing now
partly built.
For the Hospital for the Insane, now
building at Warren, $125, 900 is recon-
mended. For the Dixmont Hospital
S44 600 is asked and approved. The
other appropriations recommended
are for the Womens Hospital at
Philadelphia, $25 900; for Society for
Aleviating the Miseries of Public
Prisons, Philadelphia, $4,000; Lacka-
wanna Hospital, Scranton, $1,000;
Wilkesbarre Hospital, S12,500, condi-
toned That the managers raise similar
amount; Institutions for the Deaf and
Dumb, Philadelphia, S252,OOO, includ-
ing 100000 toward the erection of
new buildings; Training School for
FeebleMinded Children, Media, $685.
600, including $4,000 for building;
Philadelphia institution for the Blind,
$45 900; Philadelphia Industrial Home
for Blind Women, $1,000; Pennsylva-
mia Working Home for Blind Men,
Philadelphia $1,000; Philadelphia Or
thop9dic Hospital, S2O,OUO; Western
Pennsylvania Institution for the Edu-
cation of the Deaf and Dumb, $4,000.
w lSlll TcSlDGt't w t1lt tfhlten-
tiary, Dixmont Hospital for the In
sane, and Philadelphia Deaf and
Dumb Institution, the board urge the
promp appropriation of the amounts
approved last year, but which failed in
the Legislature through accident.
The board recommend that in order
to prevent overcrowding in the East
ern Penitentiary Il law be passed re-
quiring counties in the Eastern dis
trict to confine in the county jails pris-
oners whose sentences are for less than
two years. Among various wise sug-
gestions the board call particular at
tention to the wholly inadequate ac-
commodations for the INDECENT insane
of Philadelphia, and it is urgently re-
commended that adequate measures
be taken for their relief. Legislation
looking to the suppression of vagrancy
is also recommended