Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10

| the past year is given as follows: Ameri-
can, l15; Irish, l: Italian, 2; Porto Rican, 1;
undetermined, %
The total number not on expenses for
| maintenance is stated at 100. while the
| remaining 293 are on expense for mainten-
| ance.
Feeble-Minded Children.
Continuing. the report states that forty
| six feeble-minded children remained under
charge Of the board at the beginning of the
| year; sixteen were received and four passed
| out. leaving fifty-eight at the close of the
year. thirty eight male and twenty female.
| Toward the cost of maintaining these CHI
| dren, contributions amounting to $44S. 60
! were made during the year by relatives and
| friends.
THE appropriation for administrative
uses of the board for the year ending June
| 80 1903, amounted to $500. of which
amount a total of IS. 594.s7 was expended.
| The appropriation for care of children
| not feeble minded was $500 of which a
| total OF $36,OS5.79 was expended.
| Payments were made follows to in
| situations in which permanent and Temporal
ry wards were placed at board: Bruen
Home, $2,2s6.77: Chfldren's Temporary
| Home. IS 1913 rs; Hart Farm School, So, T41-
Al; House of Good Shepherd, Baltimore,
$666.sO; House of Good Shepherd. Wash
| ington, $135. 81; House of Mercy. 5000 In
dustrial Home school, $2.63s.7O National
| Junior Republic 50 COL 10; St Agnes Indus
| phan Asylum. $319.2 %: st. Roses Industrial
| School. $24O27; st. Vincents Female Or
phan Asylum. SOLOS.
Other Expenditures.
| An appropriation Of 500 was made for
| the burial of children who die while wards
| of the board. OF this there was an ex-
| penditure of 1925.
The appropriation for care of feeble
minded children,. was $1,000, of which
amount SO, 124.04 was expended as follows:
At the Pennsylvania Training School;
Training school, s4.s0O97. Balance re-
turned to treasury. 1856.
The aggregate cost Of administration and
| maintenance for the year was s55 $50. 70.
| The aggregate OF appropriations for the
| year $66.6O0. No deficiencies were Gre
1 ated in any funds and the sum of s11 .069. 80
| was returned to the treasury.
| The increase in adrniniStra tive expendi
| lures beyond those for the year preceding
was 81. 1917; the increase for salaries be-
ing s1,O621O for travel and transportation
| 500. 60, for. sundry office expenses S3O.3S. and
| that the expenditure for stationery and
printing was 50 81 less
| THE aggregate cost of board and care,
| clothing and medical attendance of wards
| and temporary charges not Predetermined,
| including cost of administration and super
| vision, was s446S0.66. On the basis of
| 351 ,113 days care given to these children,
excluding care of children held on proba-
| ton, the administrative expenditures were
| at the rate of $2.45 per diem, and 1894 per
annum per capita, and the administrative
| and maintenance expenditures together
| were at the rate of $12.72 cents per diem, or
"A per annum per capita.
The cost of administration was II cents
| greater, and the combined cost of admin
| istration and maintenance was s1O.94 less
per capita per annum than in the preceding
| year. on the basis above stated. If. how
| ever, the administrative expenditures be
reckoned to cover the 1926 days care
/
| rate of these expenditures per capita per
| diem is 2 10 cents, and per annum is $685.
THE cost of maintaining feeble minded
children was s2l37S per capita per annum,
| a decrease in rate Of $6.3S as compared
| with the preceding year"
The work of the probation officer is high
| ly commended in the report OF the board.
! Estimates for 19O4-5.
The following estimates are made for the
| fiscal year ending June 30, 1905:
For administrative purposes-Salaries Of
| one two agents, and of clerks and other
employees including employee designated as
probation officer under act of March g.
1901, $1,000; salary of secretary $500; rent,
| travel and transportation, stationery, print
| ing, furniture. telephone and sundry Office
! expenses, including purchase of books need
| ed for Office use. $1,000. For maintenance
| of children-Board. care and clothing of
| and medical attendance on wards and tenn
porary charges of the board with author
| ity to pay not more than s.. 200 to institu-
| lions adjudged to be under ectarian con-
| troll. and not more than $500 for burial Of
| children dying while under charge of the
| board $4S, 500; maintenance of feeble-mind-
| ed children. $4,000. Total. $74,50O
The board states that renewed petit
ton must be made that the Limitation
| imposed upon the joint salaries of not
more than two agents by the act Of
July 26. 1892 creating the board, be
| moved. either by a direct amendment of
onf fcA1 nv
ton for agents. AT present the combined
salaries Of two agents are limited to a
| total Of $2.4OO. The second agent or as
sistant agent should receive not less than
ST. 200. and a salary of 1.2OO is insufficient
to secure and retain the services of a
principal agent of character and ability
such as are demanded In the execution of
the administrative work OF the board.
Lack Of; Clerical Force.
LAS has been mentioned repeatedly in
the reports of the board the clerical force
of the board has never been sufficient since
creasing work, In certain features of
the work immed1ate action is imperative.
1.-The calculations made show a diminish
ing per capfta rate Of cost for administra-
ton and Supervision. This result Is one
that has been expected from the inception
of the work OF the board.
1.-The Diminishing per capita rate indi-
in Of the
but 1t indicates also the strain which is
exerted upon the supervisory forces of the
board. a strain tending to break down
these forces. ,ttc--s
Considering the quality as well as the
amount of supervisory work that should
be done. 1t is proper, within limits to as
sumo a normal per capita rate for super
vision. and holding to that rate to increase
the appropriations for administration and
supervision in proportion to the increase
of the number of children subject to super
vision"
The Agents Report.
The reports of the agent of the board, Mr.
John Wesley Douglass; the probation ON
GER Mr.. Zed Hetzel Copp, and the physi-
cfan Mrs. Julia r. Hall. M. D.. are APP
pended to the report OF the board