St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-09
THE POOR OF THE CITY
Cared For During December at an
Expense of S2.9OI

The board of supervisors of the poor met
yesterday afternoon. The superintendent
submitted his report for the month of De-
cember as follows, which was placed
on file:
SUPERINTENDENT REPORT.
Number or applications made at Office,
5i1; number OF visits made b. superintend-
ent, i43; number OF patients in hospitals Dec.
/, 50; number sent 10 hospitals during De-
cember, 20; number now in hospitals under
charge Of city, IS.
Hospital expenses-Ft. Barnabas. sass. 29 F;
Homeopathic. 2s.2S; Northwestern. S2is. IL ;
for conveyance. Sil.25: total. S975.96.
Number Of inmates Of poor house Dec. l.
60; number sent 10 poor house during De
cember, 3; number now in poor house under
charge OF city, g.; poor house expenses,
Sj4f.f4.
Expended. s2eI5.I5; refunded. sI4IO;
total expenses, S2,sJl.0j.
The number of families over and above
the number cared for during November have
been forty-eight. OccasiOni NJ an increase in
the expense for groceries and supplies. The
superintendent stated that the demand for
aid the past few weeks has been simply
tremendous, owing principally 10 the scar
city of work. Even young and unmarried
men md II almost impossible 10 secure a
competency to keep the wolf from the door.
He said thar the weather had been mOder-
ate. but tAere has been such an unprece-
dented scarcity of labor that men with fam
lilies have found it impossible to keep from
suffering the pangs Of hunger without city
aid. The total expense for December, 1884,
was S2,315, showing that the INDECENT poor
the present winter is greatly in excess Of
last winter.
AN AMBULANCE WAGON.
The contract between the board and
Roberts & LenbOrt for building an ambu-
lance wagon was read By the mayor and or
dered executed, the wagon % cost S475.
The bill of +. b. Marshall (Sl3l for clock
was ordered paid. A bill from VI. III.
Winchell for repairing the house OF Peter
Callaghan. amounting 10 S25.9S, was given
considerable discussion. The work had not
been authorized by the board and conse-
quently was not allowed by the board.
Bills for caring for three men at hospitals
were taken up. One was the case Of John
Wing. vino was cared for at St. Barnabas
hospital. He had paid SD, all the money
he had. George Smith had been cared for
in the Homeopathic hospital. He was
sent from the Dim0n hotel Nov. 20. He
had Sl4. DIR. Steele took the money and
thought the Sl4 would pay all expenses.
Frank Peterson was sent Ia the Minneap-
oils hospital during the fall by the Carpen-
ters union, they agreeing 10 pay S. per
week. Afterwards member Of the union
stated to the superintendent that they could
not pay anything. The patient has so far
recovered that he is able 10 walk about, and
was thought TO be subject for the poor
farm.
The board was Of the opinion that pay
ING such unauthorized bills would be estab-
fishing dangerous precedent. The super
intendent felt certain that the hospitals
would constantly send bills before the board
for such cases, should they be given the
permission or should they be paid, the
whole amounting TO an important sum in
the aggregate. The board voted TO make
no disposition of the cases. on the ground
that they do not come within their baili-
wick. The superintendent reported that
he had purchased a large amount of bread
for distribution among the needy.
Adjourned