The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-01-10
STATE
CHARITIES AID
Annual Meeting and Election Of
Managers Reports.

Visits to Institutions. Mrs. Wilt
amson Told Of Rescue Work in Be-
half of Aims House Waits.
The annual meeting of the State
Charities Aid Association was held III
the lecture room of the South Street
Presbyterian Church yesterday after
noon, the president Charlton T.
Lewis, LII. D., presiding. The OPEN
ing prayer was made by Rev. Mr..
Batten. Upon invitation of the pre-
siding officer, ]. Edward Taylor, OF
the Morris. County Branch of the So
ciety gave an interesting resume Of
its work, which beginning in an hum
BILE way in 1881 eventually led to the
formation Of the State Society. OF
which it then became branch. He
spoke of the work of the Morris
County Branch in conection with the
Jail and aims house, closing with i
presentment in October by the Grand
Jury against the present Board OF
Freeholders because of the condition
of the Morris County jail. The treas
urer's report presented by Mr. Gopsill
showed receipts of $770. SO, expendi-
lures 1891.
Board of Managers-Dr. Charlton
T. Lewis, Morristown; Mrs Dexter
Tiffany, Plainfeld; Mrs @. b. Ale
axander, Hoboken; Professor Charles
Finley, Princeton j. 9. Pnmpelly,
New York City; Rev Albert Erd-
man, Morristown; Mrs. William
Hughes, Morristown; Hon. William
Burgess. Trenton; Major Q. K. Pang-
borns Jersey City Robert Stevens, Ho-
boken; Thomas Gopsill, Jersey City ;
Rev. George Maddox, Trenton
David r Hall, Plainfeld; J. Rich
mond, MD, Newark President Ans
tin Scott. New Brunswick; Hon. J.J.
Bergen, Somerville; Rev. e. g. Reed,
Somerville; Mrs. E. e. Williamson.
Elizabeth; H.P Reynolds, Plainfield;
Patrick Farrelly, Morristown; Fran
els Lee, Trenton; Hon. Charles NJ
Fowler, Orange; Jadge Howard Car
row, Camden; Mrs Charles Finley,
Princeton; Hugh b. Fox, Bayonne;
Rev. J. .R. Atkinson, Elizabeth /;
Wilson Farrand, East Orange; Miss
anna Van.Meter. Salem; Bleeker Van
Wagenenn, New York City; Decater
M. Sawyer, Montolair; ]. Douhl Mil
Ter, Plainfeld; Mrs. Laban Dennis,
Newark; Miss Cornelia Bradford,
Jersey City "A. W. McDougll, Orange.
The report presented by DR.. William
Allan, the efficient secretary Of the
State Board was most exhaustive, and
was the result of personal investiga
tion and observation on his part.
We are sorry that space only per-
mits us to quote from it as follows;
The Committee on Nominations re-
ported as follows:
From the report of General Secre-
tary William Allen. it appears that
since the first of June he has visited
over so institutions of var ious sorts
in New Jersey and neighboring states.
Relative to the duties of wardens and
sheriffs he said, There is scarcely
an institution in New Jersey whose
officials are not giving TO their charges
more of their own personal time than
the contract with the taxpayers calls
for. Where the charges are given too
little OF unfit food or both, where the
needs of life are denied them, where
they in their piteous helplessness are
entrusted to incompetent attendants,
it is found almost without exception
that theofficials directly in charge APP
preoiate the deplorable situation.
In connection with the duties of
matrons in public institutions the
report continues 1T is worthy of note
that with one or two exceptions there
are no almshouses or Jail with ma
irons or female attendants for fe-
male prisoners. " Concerning county
physicians it is stated that :" it will be
apparent from the salaries ped, that
for the most part physicians are re-
graded as emergency officers rather
than society's representatives. F"
AS to attendants it was stated that
in the institutions considered there
were about 700 paid helpers and atten-
dants Each and all are subject le-
gally to the whim of the party in
control. In practice, however, many
of the counties give the warden or
superintendent free hand in the Sc
| lection of helpers. ''But this failure
to consider primarily the needs OF IN
stitutions is most noticeable in the
case of nurses. There is not an aims
house in the state which has trained
nurse. Yet there are aims houses near
Jersey City, Trenton, Newark, Eliza
beth, Mt. Holly and Morristown-all
wealthy cities. more than this, there
| is not a person in the aims house
whose business it was to nurse at the
time Of receiving the position. There
is not one single aims house patient
in the state, when sick, who is being
nursed in the modern sense Of the
word, except in the Plainfield City
aims house. which has a weekly visit
from a nurse sent out by the Kings