The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-10

home. Mrs. Mary c. Smith, the credit for its
superb condition is ps' doubt mainly due.
Connected with thepolice department. Seattle
very much need, pace IN or near the police
for cases OF emergency and casualty, to be IN
charge of the city physician.
1t shouid be remeisoered that this consider
able metropolis has n public hospital whatever.
In the PosT-lNTELLi5sScER OF september . 10
the corouer's report for August, embracing
thirteen deaths from accident. The next para
graph in the same issse tells of woman caught
In mill machinery and narrowly escaping
death. A few days ago man became uncon-
scious IN our outer office. There was no place
to send him Last week poor woman in q mt
of insanity jumped EFT of q second-story win
dow and broke her as,n. and no one knew that
she might not have sied on the spot There
was no place for ksr, until after the loss Of
precious time and 8 cong pariey by telephone
with private hospitals one was induced TO take
her, upon the persoosl guaranty OF citizen.
who had to get out of bed to attend TO the mat
ter. thai her hospital sili would be paid. There
Is no criticism of ex sgng hospitals intended.
According to the recent county census, Seat
tie, with populatissn OF 5I,oi2, has not less
than II, 3S5 children Css per cent OF the popnla-
toni between 5 and le:years OF age. At the close
OF the last school yeasr the enrolment OF all
ages was about CAV. or about Al per cent
(not the "schooi p0pusation''), but OF the chill
dren between and 96, and the average daily
attendance In both public and private schools.
of children of all ages allowing $50 to the
.private), was 4,9l7, CT 81 per cent OF the chill
dren OF the city between and 1o, and only 7s.a
per cent OF even the AZ per cent enrolment
That is. We have 7,96Szor 5511 per cent OF the
whole not even enr,s leo. and 9,46S or Is per
cent of the children OF Seattle between and 16
years of age not attcudsng school.
The question arises, ~ here and how are these
9,46s Seattle children acquiring their prepare
ton for American cstiz.nshipf Against the
number that parents consider too young at
years to send to school, may be set the en-
rolled pupils that are ever l6 years OF age. Per
haps 500 are at work, necessary to the support of
the family, or assisting. in home duties. Where
were the remainder a moro than twice the
number OF the eurollecsS Not in the hop field;
may find them wherever you go. We have good
schools, large accommodations, understand.
Ii there is no other way. and the city will
furnish Us an officer, think the bureau would
agree, as q matter of Che most important aud
legitimate work 1t can 90, to find and see to the
school attendance OF seseral hundreds OF them,
perhaps All additional esiousand, under the COM
pulsorv education law Of the state.
hope before long W. may be able to take up
the matter of organizing Washington Child
ren's Aid Society for CHILDREN that are absolute
ly bereft of friends, ana for the more numerous
and less fortunate class-sometimes called 'luve-
nile ofenders'-the Orphans with living pa
rents-such as the rhildren's aid societies
through out the country are aiming aggressively
to rescue-homeless, neglected or abused child
rem of the whole etata. A Washington Child
ren's Aid Society, with headquarters In Seattle,
receive juvenile first Offenders, by legal commit
ment or otherwise, wao are in danger OF i'm
prisonmeht; providing therein for such until
suitable homes or oversight and employment
are found for them, asad constituting q sys-
tematic attention to- their condition and
treatment by correspondence, local com
mittees and the sersices OF an employed
visiting agent AS soon rs amenable to ordinary
home control, would .set the solitary in fam
ilies," adapted to the peculiar needs of each
there Is a good family home for every unfor-
tunate-not "defective''z--child in the stated by
adoption, indenture, or for service at wages.
would 20 place . child ia every instance where
the legal right so to place could be obtained
excepting that children should always be re-
turned to relatives Of placed with family
friends, where the care and responsibility
naturally belongs, wheissver with justice to the
child il can be done.
The aged and infirm Justly appeal to our SYM
pathies, but in their aeglect we can ordin-
arily tnjure them in physical way only-the
permanent damage OF such neglect coming only
upon Us who neglect them in the destruction OF
those sentiments and sensibilities without
which We are mere asimals. We must look
after criminal adults in self-protection, no con-
siderable results ever having been achieved III
their restoration: the feeble of mind and the
insane all strongly appeal to US, still In the
main on humanitarian aEsd sentimental grounds,
but the children emboay everything that can
concern Us socially or Individually. In saving
them we save evsrythiag; In losing them We
lose everything.