Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-01
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SEedt bouy OF our people are convent WIN H.
MORE FORCE AND MORE ROOM WANTED.
Secretary Noble strongly recommends that
the salaries of the first assistant secretary and
the assistant secretary be increased to 5000
year, on account of the large amount Of labor
and responsibility devolving upon them. He
also says that greater force and more room
are needed for the work OF the land Office, as,
In spite of all the work that has been done. the
work OF the Office is in arrears. Nine additional
clerks and one medical expert for the Indian
buresu are recommended. Additional force
and room in the patent Office and an increase
OF the salary of copyists, to goo, as in other
bureaus, Is urged.
A portion of the report is devoted to q re-
view of the condition of the various institutes
the department.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
The catalogue of Howard University shows
S65 students
In the industrial department instruction is
given in printing, carpentry, tailoring, shoe
making, mechanical drawing and other useful
handicrafts.
A suitable structure for instruction in the
different mechanical arts is greatly needed. A
building, equipped as required for school of
technology and gymnastics, can be erected for
S1OO, 0O0 and for this purpore the trustees ask
an appropriation of SIS, 900 to be expended in
the present fiscal year. They also desire to en-
addition to those TO whom salaries have hereto
fore been paid These requests are recon-
mended to favorable consideration.
COLUMBIA INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.
OF the Columbia Institute for the Deaf and
Dumb the Secretary says: The management of
this humane institution has continued to be
most praiseworthy, and it is commended to the
favor and hberaiity of the government. The
report from this institution states that there
have been l29 students and pupils instructed
since July l, 1889. Seventy-one of them have
been in the collegiate department. representing
twenty states, the District of Columbia and
Canada. Fifty-eight have been in the Kendall
School.
The receipts of the Institution from all
sources amount to S64, 830.14 and the expendi-
lures were S63, 970.47; balance on hand SS59.67
Estimates aggregating $50, 900 are submitted
for the coming year, and the directors propose,
if the small increase asked for is granted, to
extend the facilities already existing for normal
teaching. The Secretary concurs with the
statement that this is a great and growing
necessity, as there is no school in the country
devoted to training teachers for deaf mutes.
FOUNDING HOSPITAL.
Sixty children were admitted during the year
in the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, II
of whom were adopted. 1t is intended to start
a training school for nursing maids in connec-
ton with the hospital.
Over 2,357 persons we're in the Freedmen's
Hospital during the year.
Three hundred and ffty-four surgical opera
tons were performed. There were 81 cases of
alcoholism treated, IL of which were colored.
There were 1873 cases of women treated during
confinement. white and 1873 colored, only As
of whom claimed to be married. In the hos
pital 22S cases of venereal diseases were treated
and in the dispensary 541. On the recommen-
dation of the commissioner OF pensions 1913 ex-
soldiers were admitted and treated. and, on the
recommendation of the board of managers of
the National Soldiers Home. IS were cared for
while waiting for transportation.
Congress having made an appropriation of
g. 800 for that purpose, the intention is to
build a two-story four-room house for the treat
ment of contagious diseases.
GOVERNMENT INSANE HOSPITAL.
The total number treated in the Government
Hospital for the Insane was 1,742. There are
still five inmates living who were admitted
prior to June 30. 1855 During the year the
Toner building has been opened as a distinct
hospital for the sick, with trained nurses and
all modern appliances.
The intirmary annex, for which appropria-
ton has been made, is now under contract and
Is expected to be completed during the fiscal
year.