Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-31
Annual Report Made to the District
Commissioners.
FOR APPROPRIATIONS
Summary of the Work Accom-
piished the Past Year.
THE CARE OF CHILDREN

The report of the board Of children's
guardians was handed to the District Com
mfssioners today, through Mr.. Herbert w.
Lewis, the superintendent of charities.
With the report was submitted that of
Messrs S. S. Parkman and John w. Doug
| lass, the agents of the board.
| The board held eleven regular and four spe-
| cia meetings, and the executive committee
| of the board held thirteen meetings during
! the year. The appropriat ton for administra-
| tive uses of the board for the year ended
| June 80, 1899, was 5000, of which amount
S5,659.51 was expended.
The primary appropriation for care of
children was $4,000. A deficiency appro-
priation of s1O,75O subsequently
granted. making a total of s3S.75o. from
which expenditures We're made as follows:
For feeble minded children: In Pennsyl-
vania Training School, S. 1884; in vir-
g1nia Home and Training School, 81, JO7. "A;
total, $9,303.6S.
For children not Predetermined: Main
tenance-1n District Institutions ST. 27714;
! in other institutions, s7"25,1s; in private
homes, s1o,337.6 g.; total, 6944 %; clothing
$lS9.55; medical care, 1871 81 grand total,
SSS,2l531; balance unexpended, $534.69
The board began the year with 40 wards,
not including the feeble minded class. 1t
closed the year having $50 such wards.
There was in charge of the board an aver
year. The board, moreover, has given 5,971
days temporary care to children not its
wards, under authority conferred upon ii
for that purpose by the law and the courts.
The aggregate cost of board and care,
clothing and medical attendance of these
children. administration and supervision
was S13 S7432.
Predetermined children were maintained
at cost of s., 1903 6S, or a per capita of 81 Is
cents per day, equal to s2OS.6O per year.
Paid to Institutions
The following payments Were made to in
situations for the care of wards of the
board
Newsboys' and Children's Aid Society.
Sl,3ol II; Industrial Home School, 81 1881;
National Association for the Relief of Des-
titute Colored Women and Children. 1924
House Of Good Shepherd for CoIored Girls,
baltimore, S951.OS; Hart Farm School,
$6,o6S.1o; Chldren's Temporary Home,
81, 30s39.
The increase in expenditures for the
maintenance of children was S. 362 81. of
which 81, 6SS.39 for the care of feeble
minded children, s., 467. &c for board of chill
dren in institutions, 81 120.40 for board of
children in private homes, and ss6.1S for
clothing and medical care.
The care of predetermined children 1t is
stated, is likely to continue increasing
expense Indefinitely. Such persons re-
main children TO great extent throughout
life and when once taken in charge are
likely TO. remain on the expense list. The
board has secured some reductions in the
expense of caring for individuals since the
responsibility for payments was placed
upon it, and has kept in view opportunities
for such reductions. BY a revision of its
list 1t has secured additional aid from par
e1ts in paying for the care of such chill
dren, where parents were not able to bear
the whole expense. 1t has satisfied itself
that child stood in need OF public support
before applying for authority to receive it
to the president of the Columbia Institu-
ton for the Deaf and Dumb, without whose
sanction it can receive no child as feeble
minded.
One hundred and thirty-five permanent
from the courts. and nine Predetermined
children were taken in charge.
The increase in number of wards not of
the feeble-minded class, in charge of the
board was 101, and the increase in aver
age number was ninety-fouT. The increase
in aggregate number Of DAYS that these
children were in charge "a, 457. The
board gave 400 more days care to children
in temporary charge. The cost of admins
tration was S1.09 less per capita per an
mum.
The number of children placed in free
homes during the year was $50. From this
number fifty should be deducted, as rep
resenting returns and transfers, in order to
find that the net gain to the free list was
100 Eight wards of the board already on
the free list either came of age, We're mar
ried or adopted were declared self-sup-
porting, and therefore were dropped from
the rolls.
Wards I'm Free Homes
The number of wards in free homes both