Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-12
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.


gency Hospital and st. Joseph's.
Col. John Tracey, superintendent Of chari-
ties. has been kept busy for the past few
days in handling the annual reports and es-
Inmates for the next fiscal year of the nu>
merous charitable institutions OF the Dis
trict, He has submitted to the Commits
sioners the amt al report and estimates for
the Industrial Home School. During the
year ending June 30 1894. 1t Is stated, the
school has averaged seventy-six children
per month. which Is less than the average
number cared for during the preceding
years Seventy children in all have been
discharged during the year.
Twenty of these belonged to the guard
ians, and fifty to the home. When their
appropriation was cut down, the governing
board Of the Industrial Home ordered the
superintendent t. reduce the rumber Of
children to fifty, which was done as soon as
practicable.
The superintendent, Mrs. Barlow, refers
In her report to the necessity of refusing
applications for admission, and also to the
difficulty experienced in getting money for
pressing necessities. Mrs. Barlow recon-
mends that law be pssred providing that
TO child shall be sent from the institution
until after he or she has passed the fifth
grade of the public school work. The need
Of an appropriation to repair the old build
ing is pointed out. and the superintendent
expresses the opinion that the present plant
should be nucleus for great government
school. and size adds that she hopes to see
1t turned over to the District and more in
dustries added.
The superintendent thinks that box
factory would be a good feature. 5000 is
recommended for repairing the cid building
and II no more children are taken the SUI
perintendent says the school can be run on
$4,000, otherwise $4,000 will be needed.
The Emergency Hospital.
The annual report and estimates of the
Emergency Hospital or Central Dispensary.
prepared by H. Randall Webb, secretary of
that institution, has been completed The
constantly increasing work of the institu-
ton. especially In the dispensary depart
ment. is noted, and it is stated that the
present building is greatly inadequate to the
needs of the institution. The emergency
department, it is stated, is also inadequate
to the demands made upon it, There has
been an average Of more than ten emer-
gency cases a day for some time The re-
port states that ground on the east of the
building should be purchased as site for
the erection of a stable for the horse and
ambulance and for quarters for the servants
and the laundry. An appropriat ton of $15-
Uo Tor the next fiscal year is recommended.
me need of a fire escape is mentioned and
the laundry equipment is described as being
very poor. The services of a night engineer
are considered important.
s.. JOseph's Asylum.
Sister Euphrasia, the superior of st. Jo-
sephs Asylum, states that: During the
past year 137 boys were cared for There
are 1O1 orphans at present in the asylum.
aged from six to fourteen years. This in
stitution Is supported chiefly by charity,
and since its opening in 1856, 1858 or
phans have been cared for The total re-
ceipts for the year amounted to $7ss9.61.
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government, 3,GU.U7 from subscriptions.
SS4I from half orphans and $461 from the
day school of small boys. Donations of
provisions and clothing solicited amounted
TO sl,3o1O4. The total expenditures of the
INSTITUTION amounted to S,S2665. OF this
amount S6,435.61 was expended for food,
clothing, bedding, fuel, hire, repairs and
many minor expenses. $1,331.04 was ex-
pended for provisions and clothing solicited.
S62.96. - was
An increase OF 5000 for the coming year
is ask ed for, to make their appropriation in
all 5000. "