Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-26

ing the past two years, very greatly i'm
An appropriation Of $1,000 for the Chill
dren's Hospital is recommended. being the
same as in former years. The report
states that an application has been made
for an increase on the ground of increased
capacity, and adds that this time-honored
and excellent establishment is eminently
worthy Of favorable regard.
An appropriation of 5000 is recon-
mended for the National Homeopathic
Hospital an Increase Of $1,000 over that
of last year. The superintendent states
that it is his duty to urge this increase,
founded as 1T Is on extensive improvements
that have been made at private cost and
which render the hospital of greater public
utility.
An allowance of s5s,525 is asked for the
freedman's Hospital and Asylum, in
crease of $500, which is asked for chiefly
for the establishment of a nurses training
school. The superintendent regards ii es-
sential for the welfare of the hospital itself
that It's system of nursing be improved
he states that the application of the sys-
tenn OF the hospital drawing its supplies
directly from the supply department Of the
District, and District financial control, has
proved complete success. He suggests
whether 1t would not be wise that the
same methods of supply and payment
should be made applicable to all charitable
and reform institutions within the District,
maintained exclusively by public funds.
The management Of the reform school for
girls has been placed upon the same foot
ing, with like good results. The municipal
lodging house is on the same basis, and the
temporary home for Union soldiers and
sailors the report states, certainly ought to
be. The superintendent thinks an excep-
ton may be recognized in the case Of the
reform school for boys on account of the
great extent and long-established methods
Of that institution and the intricacies of
accounting arising from repayments to the
Department of Justice. This rule, the re-
port states, has been recognized in the esti-
mates in the proViso drawn for the trans
formation of the Industrial Home School
from private to public corporation.
The estimate for the reform school for girls
is $i3, 145, an increase Of 50, 425. An item of
$4,000 for addition to buildings and one Of
$2,2o0 for steam heating and water closets
in place of the Smead heating system ard
dry earth closets is included. The same
appropriation of $4,000 is recommended for
the Washington Hospital for Foun1lings.
The report notes that this institution has
recently much improved in nursing methods
and in the results of charitable work.
Homes and AsyIums.
The report states that the church orphan
age of st. Johns parish is admirably and
economically managed by a sisterhood of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the
same appropriation of $1,S00 as that Of
last year is recommended. The report
states that the case of the German Orphan
Asylum as to appropriations is similar to
that of St. Johns Orphanage.
priation of $1,000 is recommended for the
National Association for the Relief of Des-
titute ColOred Women and Children, and
the report states that this institution is
deserving of the help it gets.
continuance of the allowance of $500
to st. AIMS Infant Asylum is recommend
ed. Receipts through the board of chill
dren's guardians, the report states, have
been very small, tho board not having at
any time more than two wards at the in
stitution.
For ST. Joseph's Asylum an appropria-
ton OF ISOO is recommended. The report
states that the asylum has received no in
come through the board of chldrens
guardians. continuance of the present
appropriation of 81, 500 is recommended for
the Association for Works of Mercy man
aged by an EpScopalan SiSterhood, and
also the continuance of the appropriation
of 81, 700 for the House of the Good Shepherd
under the management Of Roman Cath
Ollie sisterhood. A renewal of the appro-
priation of $500 for st. Rose Industrial
School is recommended.
The estimate for the Industrial Home
School is $4,000. The appropriation for the
current fiscal yeaI is $500, and during the
last fiscal year. 81 l27.50 was received from
the board of children's guardians. At the
request of the management of the school
ii is proposed to transform 1t from a pri-
waite into a public corporation, and it is
provided that wards of the board of chill
dren's guardians sent to the school shall, to
the extent of its capacity to receive them.
in addition to other inmates, be supported
without charge.
Fer the board of chldrens guardians the
total appropriation for the current fiscal
year is $1,000. The estimates recommend
an increase to $4,000, and to this, the re-
port states, is TO be added the saving of
the board of payments to the Industrial
Home School. 1t is fair to assume, the re-
port adds, on the basis of past payments,
that the receipts from the home school
will amount to not less than $500 The
report of the board, the superintendent
states, asks for an allowance of SIG, 300 for
support of children and $3.50 for other
expenses.
The Contagious Hospital Site.
The report reviews the efforts made to
secure a site for hospital for infectious
diseases, which from the outset 1t was de-
termined to limit strictly to minor infec-
tious diseases and to exclude from it ex-
clusively all cases of nature contagious
The report gives review of the similar
institutions in other cities. Owing to OPP
position, the superintendent states, the
Commissioners abandoned the idea of erect
ing isolation wards in connection with en-
established hospital and finally selected a
site for a separate public establishment
which, he states, is upon high ground and
readily accessible from all partS of the C;ty.