Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-18
GOVERNOR PARDEE
ARRIVES TO-DAY
CHARITIES BOARD TO TACKLE
PROBLEM
Eastern Cities Forward Sick and In
sane to California to Become Pub-
lie harges-Would Put Or
phans With Families

Governor George G. Pardee and Mrs.
Pardee will arrive in Los Angeles to-
day. The governor comes to take part
in the state conference of charities
and corrections, which meets this af-
ternoon for the first days session at
Simpson auditorium.
The most prominent charity workers
of this state will be in attendance at
the conference.
Ways and means will be discussed for
Kidding California. of its burden of
INDECENT consumptives and insane per-
sons, who are dumped upon the cities
of the state from the eastern cities.
A program containing a number of
features which promise to be of the
utmost Importance in showing the real
conditions which obtain at the different
state institutions has been prepared
and the results of the recent inspection
of the insane aSylums, penitentiaries
and reform schools which was made by
the state board of charities and correC-
tions will be discussed.
Swells Insane Population
DR.. A. p. Williamson, superintendent
of the state hospital for the insane at
Highland, will read paper at the
Saturday session on the care of the in
sane in California. He will point out
the reasons why there are more in
sane persons per capita in California
than any other state in the Union.
DR.. II. G. Brainerd of Los Angeles,
who is admitted to be one of the best
Informed physicians in the west on dis
eases of the mind, will open the dis
cussion which is to follow the paper of
DR.. Williamson.
DR.. Woods Hutchinson of Los An
geles will speak on the subject What
California Should DO for the Tubercu
lous." 1t Is expected that this paper
will bring out many facts in regard to
the manner in which tuberculous
patients, INDECENT for the most part, are
shipped to California by eastern cities.
Dumping Freely Practiced
California has become the dumping
ground for all sorts of undesirable in
valids and they are given one-way
transportation from the eastern cities to
the cities of California which are best
known as health resorts. The care of
them Immediately reverts to the city
in which they alight from the train, as
a very small percent of them have any
means whatever.
DR.. Il. M. Pottehger will lead in the
discussion of the subject of the tuber-
culous ndigents.
board of charities and corrections which
will be in attendance at the session: w.
G. Patterson of Los Angeles, Father
Charles Ram of San Francisco, J. A.
Gushing of San Francisco, Rev. j. K.
McLain of Oakland, Prof Moore of the
state university, w. A. Gates, secre-
tary.
There is no immediate connection be-
tween the state conference of charities
and corrections and the state board.
The state board has the oversight of
all state institutions, while the con-
ference is composed of the charity
boards in different parts of the state.
Orphans to Families
The chief aim of the conference is to
have a law passed that will place
orphans who are now IN state institu-
tions to which the state gives $3.50, 200
each year in private homes instead of
herding them in huge homes" and
orphan asylumS.
They have demonstrated that the cost
OF caring for the children would not be
as much If they were put into private
homes as it is now, and they claim
that the results obtained would be
much more satisfactory.
Their contention is that it is better
for a child to be under the influence of
people who care for 1t and who can
rear it as their own child than it is for
the little ones to be placed in great in
stitutions where nothing Of home life
can be had.
The opening session will be held to-
morrow at 2:30 p. m. at Simpson aud
itorium. Dr. Walter Lindley, chairman
of the local committee on arrange
nents will DreSide