Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-08-09
PAUPEERS IRE FEWER
! .11---sHoUsE POPULATION Low
Err, SAYS CENSUS BUREAU.
Majority Of Them Are Men-Foreign-
ers outnumber American-Born
Among Public Dependents
Many Are Diseased.

Among Sunnc UepenoentS-
Many Are Diseased.
WssEington.-The bureau Of the
cen census has just published spe
cial report on paupers in the aims
houses of the Cnited States. The bu-
reauss inquiry develops several inter-
esting facts, among which are that
pauperism is decreasing and that hos
pital facilities for unfortunates for
merly sent to almshouses have be-
come better and more scientifically adj
ministered.
The number Of paupers in aims
houses on December 81, 1903, was ST.
764, and the number admitted during
1904 SLAP. making total of 163,-
176 persons who were in almshouses
during the whole or part of the year
1904. OF this total 111,S17 were men
and 51,35s, women. The humber in
cluded 52.444 men and 29,320 wom-
en-, and the number admitted, 59, 1873
men and 22,O39 women.
The number Of paupers in aims
houses in 1880 was 66,203 and In 1890
73,045. But although the number of
almshouse paupers is increasing the
increase has not kept pace with the
growth of population and consequently
the ratio of almshouse paupers to pop
ulation is decreasing. In 1880 it was
1872 per 100000 Of population; it de-
creased to 1866 in 1890 and to 1914
in 1903. In part, at least, this decline
in institutional pauperism is due to
changes in the treatment Of the mem
tally and physically defective poor,
who in former times were sent to
almshouses but are now cared for in
hospitals or asylums. and also to the
development Ct nationally organized
charity which strives to make the poor
self-supporting and to place destitute
children in families rather than in
almshouses.
/ Although pauperism is less preva-
lent among women than among men,
the chief distinction between the two
sexes seems to be that women. hav-
| ing once entered an almshouse are
there permane atty. while men are to
a large extent only winter boarders.
Although decreasing, the ratios are
still high in >ome of the older com
monwealths located in sections with
large urban opnters and a conspara-
lively severe climate.
Climate affeats pauperism in state:
where severe winters prevail and those
permitting easy entrance and dis
charge from almshouses.- ~
For example, states with large ur'
ban populations and states with meth
DDS of alnlshouse administration al
lowing great freedom of ingress ant
egress Show large percentages of ad
missions and discharges, while agri
cultural states and states with mile
winters show corcespondingly small
percentages.
The percentages of discharges do not
however, signify that the discharges
never return, fer of the thousands VIII
are discharged with the opening o
summer the majority can be depende
upon to return with the cold weather
In fact, the Number admitted durin
1904 were, for the most part, seasone
: inmates.
The .foreign-5oyn whites whose ect
. monte. position is not high show
greater tendency toward pauperisr
than the native whites of native pa
|rentage and nstive whites of foreig
parentage. There is, however, no rea
son to believe that many immigrant
drift into almshouses soon after thel
arrival in the United States. for onl
sE2.3 per cent o: all the foreign Dor
in almshouses aad been in this eour
try for less than five years. Anon
: the different n,tionalities of foreig,
born whites the degree of thrift, CON
!. bined with racial characteristics, seem
Ito determine tie tendency toward pa
perisrn.
\ That pauperl5m is in large mea
. lure concomitant Of age and its a
II companying evils is shown by the lars
percentage at least so years OF az
}. and the rapid increase in the numb'
. of almshouse laupers in each OF u
succeeding quihquennial age perlot
: between 35 ant IS years, after whie
= the high death rate prevents any fu
8 Their increase.
r TIL relation between age and pa
r. prism is also shown when it is o
Il served that the proportion of paupe
!, appears to be rauch smaller among Il
d native whites If foreign parentage,
d which class there are comparative
t. few elderly persons, than it is amor
the foreign-bosn whites which ella
is composed fsr the most part
adults.
Among the relatively large humble
'. Of negroes In the earlier age grou
are found many who are suferi1
from pulmonary complaints and MAJ
( predetermined who are sent to t
- aImshouse as soon as their fnabili
T. A. 10 q $13va1iho0d lie established