The Evening critic., 1882-05-25
DISTRICT CHARITIES.
Interesting Statistics Concerning
Our Charitable Iusfitutious

The statistics concerning the charitable in.
| stltutions OF tho District, submitted by the
| Commissioners to the Congressional District
| Committees, show tho following facts and
figures not previously compiled; The char
| liable institutions which furnish Information
to tho Commissioners, and arc embraced In
the report, arc divided into four classes, viz
those under Federal control, those undor Dis
trict control, those under private control and
receiving pecuniary assistance from the Gov.
ernment or District and those under private
control, supported entirely by private contrl.
buttons and donations. The institutions under
| Federal control are three in number, being
| the Government Hospital for the Insane, with
| n capacity for 800 patients, but now accom-
modating Oil as we'll as tho crowded condi.
ton Will admit; the Columbia Hospital for
Women and Lying.In Asylum, which has
| accommodations for 20 and is at present pro.
| viding for i3 patients: the Freedmens Hos.
pltel, which has room for 400 patients and is
acoomin odating 26f.
Tho charities under District control are four
| In number, being the Washington Asylum,
which has capacity for ds6, and Is providing
| FOR 361 Inmates; the Industrial Home School,
| with room for 1O0, and accommodating 102
| pupils; the Georgetown Almshouse and tho
| Washington Market Fund.
The private charities receiving aid are seven
| in number and are the Providence Hospital,
| which has beds for 200 people, and at present
125 occupants; st. AIMS Infant Asylum,
| which is designed to care for 125 foundlings,
| and is now providing for los; the Children's
Hospital, which has room for 75 and is pro.
| vlding Tor 81 little suffercrs; the National
| Association FOR the Relief OF Colored Women
and Children, which has n capacity for
1lo, and now has LOG benenciarles;
the Women's Christian Association, with ac.
commodations for 50, and now providing for
as needy persons; the German orphan Asy-
lum, which has 80 beds and IA patients: the
Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital,
which is unquosionably one of the most efll-
Client and valuable charities ever established.
The institutions solely supported by con-
gregations and individuals are the Home for
he Aged, kept by the Little Sisters OF the
Poor, and which, with a capacity for 200, is
providing for $50 persons; the Washington
Eye and Ear Inflrmary, whore $50 persons are
receiving medical and surgical attention: ST
Joseph's Male orphan Asylum, with room for
100, and accommodating 100 orphans: Sc
Vincenfs Female orphan Asylum, with a
capacityfor 40, and providing for 1877 or
phans Louise Home, which is designed to &C.
commodate 60, and has now 81 occupants; the
Epiphany Church Home, which, with room for
30, provides for 20 persons; the Georgetown
Aged women's Home, providing fcr Ia. ST.
Roses Industrial Home School, with 33 occu-
pants; the Washington Butchers Association,
With q bene ficiaries; the Associated Charities
and the following institutions which have NOT
furnished data concerning their inmates: The
Washington City Orphan Asylum, st. Johns
church Orphanage, Colored Woman's Home,
Ffanklln Mutual Relief Association, German
Evangelical Beneficial Association and South
Washington Endowment Relief Association
These tables,w which arc necessarily Incomplete,
show that there are 81 charitable Institutions
nation, and that the total number of bene1-
Charles Of those which reported their inmates is
2,S63. Complete tables will increase this num-
Der 10 between 5000 and $500,