Evening star., 1901-10-12
DISTRICT CHARITIES
Estimates Made by Board for E1-
pense Of Maintenance
TOTAL OF APPROPRIATION, SITS, 5,l20
One Hundred Thousand Dollars
for Addition to Workhouse.
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The board Of charities today filed with
the District Commissioners the estimates
for the maintenance Of the District depart
ment of charities and corrections for the
fiscal year of 1902-19O3. The estimates in
clude the various appropriations which are
to be made for the care of District pa
tients at the various hospitals of the city,
the Washington asylum, the reform school
and the reform school for girls. The to-
tai amount estimated for all these pur-
poses is $745,O15 The amount appropriat-
ed for the current year was $715. 40. The
estimates will be transmitted by the Com
missioners to Congress at the coming ses-
sion.
One of the most important items in the
estimates submitted for insertion in the
District appropriation bill provides that
1.-The management of the Freedmen's Hos
pital and Asylum, heretofore vested in the
Secretary of the Interior, is hereby trans
ferred to the Commissioners of the District
of Columbia, who shall hereafter have en-
tire control and management of the said
Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum"
For the board Of charities proper, an ap-
preparation of $4,000 is asked. This in
cludes the salary of the secretary at s., ,OOO
clerk at $1,000, a stenographer at $72O
three inspectors at $720, stable expenses
and miscellany.
The RefOrmatOries.
Under the head of reformatories and cor
rectional institutions a salary list Of S26,-
35S Is asked for the Washington asylum
In addition to this there is submitted list
of contingent expenses amounting to $685.
600. The sum of 100000 is asked for con-
tinuing the erection of the workhouse for
males; $1,000 for repairs at the Washing
ton asylum, and 81, 600 for the erection of
additional bathrooms for the "Old Mems
Home"
School for Boys and Girls.
According to the estimates the salaries
at the reform school. District of Columbia,
will next year amount to a total Of S16,-
452. For this institution 81 800 is asked for
repairs and $4,000 for the support Of in
mates.
At the reform school for girls the salary
list is s6,3s5, with the sum Of $4,000 esti-
mated for groceries, provisions and other
necessary items.
For conveying prisoners to the workhouse
the board asks for an appropriation of
$1,000.
The total asked for Freedmen's Hospital
and asylum is $4,000, which is an increase
Of $3.50 over the present year, an item for
the latter amount being inserted for re-
pairs. The remaining amount for the hos
pital and asylum is divided as follows: Sub
the compensation of the surgeon in chief
at $1,000; rent Of hospital, building and
grounds, $4,000; fuel, light and contingent
expenses, s11,5OO.
Other Items Included.
Other items in the estimates are:
Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying
in Asylum-For the care and treatment of
INDECENT patients, under contract to be
made with the Columbia Hospital for Wo-
men and Lying-in Asylum by the board of
charities, not to exceed $4,000.
Garfield Memorial Hospital-For the care
and treatment of INDECENT patients, under a
contract to be made with the Garfield Me-
mortal Hospital by the board Of charities
not to exceed $4,000.
Providence HoSpital-For the care and
treatment of INDECENT patients under con-
tract to be made with the Providence Hos
pital by the board of charles not to ex-
ceed $4,000.
The items for Garfield and Providence hos
pitals, while new items in this bill, are not
new appropriations. These items were for
merly carried in the sundry civil bill, and
the appropriation was paid wholly from the
United States treasury. Now these appro-
priations are paid on the half -and-half
basis, and these institutions are, by law,
placed under the supervision of the District
authorities. Hence these items are inserted
in the estimates for the District bill instead
of in the sundry civil bill. as heretofore.
The items for isolating buildings at Gar
nelQ ana PrOV1dence hospitals, heretofore
carried in this schedule, will now be found
in the estimates Of the health department,
the supervision of the isolating buildings
having been transferred from the board of
charities to the health department.
The Children's Hospital-For the care and
treatment Of INDECENT patients, under
contract to be made with the Chldrens s
Hospital by the board Of charities, not to
exceed $40, 600.
National Homeopathic Hospital-For the
and treatment INDECENT nm
der a contract to be made with the Ma
tional Homeopathic Hospital Association of
Washington, D. c.. by the board of chad-
ties not to exceed $500.
Central DiSpensary and Emergency Hos
p1tal-Maintenance, SIS, 900.
Eastern Dispensary-Maintenan 50 CO.,
Woman's Clinic-Maintenance, $1,000
Washington Home for Incurables-Main-
tenance, $4,000.
Child-Carfng Institutions.
Board Of children's guar1ians-For ad-
ministrative expenses, as follows: Salary
Of superintendent and disbursing officer, ST.
500; salary OF probation officer, s., 600; sal
ary Of agent. $1,000; salary Of stenogra-
pher and typewriter, $500; clerk hire, ST.
200; rent. messenger services, travel and
transportation, stationery, printing and
sundry office expenses, including purchase
of books requisite for Office use, 50, 400; in
all, $1,000
For board, care and clothing OF and med
ical attendance on wards and temporary
charges Of the board. with authority to pay
not more than $1,000 to institutions ad-
judged to be under sectarian control and
not more than $500 for burial of children
dying while under charge of the board,
$4,000; maintenance of feeble-minded chill
dren. S11. 900.
Industrial Home School-For mainte-
nance. $4,000; for repairs and improve
ments to buildings. fences and grounds,
$1,000; for enlargement and Improvement
Of the plant for Industrial training, $1,000.
National Association for the Relief of
Destitute Colored Women and Children
For the care and maintenance of children,
under a contract to be made with the Ma
tional Association for the Relief of Desti-
tute Colored Women and Children by the
board of childrens guardians, not to ex-
ceed So, 800.
Washington Hospital for Foundlings-
Maintenance, $1,000.
st. AIMS Infant Asylum-Maintenance
$1,000
German Orphan Asylum-For the care
and maintenance of children, under a con-
tract to be made with the German Orphan
Asylum by the board of children's guar