Evening star., 1900-09-29
Report Of Board Of Guardians Sub
mitted to Commissioners.
STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES
Work of Past Year as Detailed by
Agents:
THE ANNUAL SUMMARY

report Oh Ills operations during tHc uSCdi
year ended June 80, 1900 With this report
was also submitted that of the boards
agents. Messrs s. s. Parkman and John
w. Douglass.
The members and officers of the board are
as follows: President, Mrs. Lucy 8. Doo-
little; vice president, William j. Miller: sec
retary. B. Pickman Mann; executive COM
mittee, Mrs. Lucy S. Doolittle. William ].
Miller B. Pickman Mann, John F. Cook,
Mrs. Mary L. D. Macfarland, Mrs. John
w. Babson, James B. T. Tupper; staff
agents. Samuel s. Parkman, John w.
Douglass; clerks, Miss Jennie NJ. Tustin,
Mrs. Sarah s. Fuller: temporary clerk, Miss
Mary F. Van de Sande; physician, Julia r.
Hall, MD.
The board held fifteen regular and three
special meetings, and the executive COM
mittee of the board held eight meetings
during the year
The following additional bylaw was
adopted October 2S 1899:
I'm the event that the term of member
ship of any person who is member of the
board expires while such member is an Off
Ger of the board and such person be reap
pointed to membership before another per-
son shall have been elected to the office
which he held, said reappointed person
shall resume his former office, as though
his membership had been continuous"
Substitute for Article 2.
January 90, 1900 the following substi-
tute for former article ii of the bylaws
was adopted
'The regular meetings of the board shall
be held on the first Saturday in each
month, except when said Saturday shall
fall on a legal special holiday, in which
case said meeting shall be held on the Fri
day preceding said Saturday.
To correspond with this amendment, arti-
Gle l of the bylaws was amended by sub
stituting the words, first Saturday in No
vember," for the words, last Saturday in
October to indicate the date at which
officers shall be elected.
May 5, 1900, the president was authorized
to designate one member and one agent to
attend as delegates of the board the meet
ing Of the national conference of charities
and corrections to be held at Topeka,
Kan, beginning May 1S, 1900. Mr.. James
B. T. Tupper and Mr.. Samuel S. Parkman
were so designated. They were instructed
to promote an invitation to the conference
to meet in the city of Washington in 1901.
This invitation was accepted by the con-
ference.
The appropriation for administrative uses
of the board for the year ending June 30.
1900, was $4,000, of which amounr the sum
of $5,9G6 was expended, leaving ! balance
of $34
Expended for Care Of Children.
The primary appropriation for care of
children was S31 900. A deficiency appro-
priation of 5000 was granted subsequent
ly, making total of $4,000, all of which
was expended, and the sum of $50. &c re-
manned due to the Industrial Home School.
for the payment of which no appropriation
was available.
The expenditures were as follows:
For feeble minded chidren-In Pennsyl-
vania Training School. S5,532.45; in Vir-
giEian Home and Training School, So, ,492 O3;
in Chevy Chase Home School, $213SS To-
tai, 50, 23s.36.
For children not feeble-minded, mainte-
nance-1n District institutions $3.50. %; in
other institutions, $9,4517S; in private
boarding homes, S12,GO9.27. Total $40 991 %.
Clothing, S173.J1; medical care, $796 So.
Total, $3O,961.64. Grand total, $40, 200
The board began the year with 552 wards
not including feeble-minded children, under
its care. 1t closed the year having 634 such
wards. The aggregate number of days that
children of this class were in charge of
the board was 214960, or an average of 5SS
children to every day in the year. The
board, moreover, has given & 729S DAYS tenn
porary care to children not Its wards, un-
der authority conferred upon it for that
purpose by the law directly and the courts
The aggregate cost of board and care
clothing and medical attendance of these
vision, was $36,921.64 By clerical error
the corresponding total for the previous
year was stated to be s43s74.s2. whereas it
was $34 81. Il.
Deducting 5.4S expended for Office fur
niture and not apportioning any admins
trative expenditures among the feeble
minded children, the administrative expen-
ditures, on a basis of 2222 25S days care of
children not feeble minded were at the
rate Of 267 cents per day or $9.74 per an
mum, per capita. This rate is based upon
the number of children in institutions as
well as in private homes, and thus differs
from the rate given in the table referring to
the cost of administration per capita based
on the number subject to supervision
Predetermined children We're maintained
16.031 days, at a cost of 50, 23s.36 or per
capita OF o1.62 cents per day, equal to
$21O.3 per year.
Payments to Institutions.
The following payments were made to irr-
stitutions for the care Of wards of the
board:
Number Rate Rate
Institution Amount. boari. aaas dssyy. ysar. psn
Childrens Tenn
porary Home. .ss,si125 ll.so4 soa4so s12e 20
Industrial Home
School. ........ a.43949 1o49s a276 11a57
Nat. Assn for Re-
lief of Destitute
and ohildren:..: $500 1,4so sos1 112
House Of Good
Shepherd for Col
ored Girls BAL
nsr Farm ss.sf sss ssas $3.50 ssss 1888
ST. Roses Indus
trial School. =. 1880 449 .275O 100.
Nat. Junior Re
public Annapolis
Junction, Nd. 9915 200 1916 121 O3
1t will be seen from an examination Of
the tables given above that the increase
in administrative expenditures beyond those
for the preceding year was 1905 40, the in
crease for salaries being $2O665, and that
for travel and transportation sos 15, while
the sundry office expenses were 1862 10 less.
and the stationery and printing cost $4612
less. 81.
Expense of Maintenance.
The increase in expenditures for mainte-
nance of children was $1.9S4.69, of which
$5O79.09 was for board of children In in
stitutions, and 1851 for medical care. while
the expense Of maintenance Of feeble-mind
ed children was $85.32 less; that Of board
of children in private homes was s. 35
less, and that of clothing was $316.O4 less
than in the preceding year.
Contrary to the expectation expressed in
the report for last year, the expense of
maintaining feeble-minded children remains
ed nearly unchanged. Fewer applications
than usual to have such children taken in
charge were made, and some of the chill
dren in charge became self-supportinR and
were taken of the list.
AS In the preceding year, the payments to
the Hart Farm School showed an increa az
of $2.876.1. This was occasioned partly by
the placing of an additional number of chill
dren In this school and partly by an in
crease In the rate of payment for all the
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