New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-28
CHARITIES REPORT
BOND ISSUE URGED.
State Board Would Ertend
and Com plete Institutions.

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Albany, Feb. 2i-The State Board of
Charities in its forty-third annual report TO
the Legislature has presented many I'M
portant topics consideration. Besides
the detailed statements concerning each OF
the state charitable institutions, attention
Is specially Jailed to pressing needs. II
says of the inspection of educational work
in charitable Institutions:
In former reports the State Board OF
Charities has urged the need of inquiry
into the methods and results OF educational
Work IN the institutions under It's super.
VISION, which are charged with the care OF
or dehnquent children, many OF wnon are
mentally below the normal and need Spe-
G1al training to fit them, for self-supp0It
The state has assumed their guardianship
and owes them a practical education.
An inspector. having, with other guam,
ncationS, experience as an educator, ana
constructive Is necessary 10 assure " slese
wards of the state the educational advan-
tases to which they are entitled, For these ts
reasons the board respectfully asks the
Legislature to appropriate $500 to pay the
salary and expenses of such an inspector
The following appears relative to bona
issues ior the extension and completion or
state charitable and reformatory institu-
tons:
The public Institutions are established to
safeguard the commonwealth IN the years
TO come and will house many yet UNBORN
4 bond issue with the provision of sink
ing fund.- would distribute the cost OF CON
Struction so that the taxpayers couId pe
called upon to pay in any one year, IN az,
dtion to the money required for annuai
maintenance, only small proportion OF the
total cost of construction. In TINS way eacii
year could meet it's own financial respon-
sibilities better than under the present plan y
could also provide more literally for recoS.
nized needs and thus the development WOULD
ia SDepdV
cost of construction were thus dlstrlouteu
there is no doubt the new institutions W,iCl
should be established would be more likely
to receive attention. and collpremensddE I've
programme be outlined for the future De
velopment of the state charitable and cor
As the reputation of the state increases
more institutions will be needed, and tne
present is an suspicious time TO lnausu .f ate
the plan of providing for the CONSTRUCTION
of all state charitable and correctional III IL
stitutions by long term bond issues inns
noses falls within The limitations Of Section
of Article VII of the state constitution
The report has this to say on the cam
paign against tuberculosis:
The city of New York has made large
appropriations for new buildings which are
TO be used for tubercular patients; ana IL,
of the Sea View Sanatorium, on Staten
Island. This institution will ACCOMMODATE
one thousand patients. and the estlinased
cost OF the equipment anu "
100000. In addition to this great new Dos
pital the city of New York has enlarged
the tuberculosis Inf1rmary OF the Me. e,,s
nOftan Hospital, on Blackwelis lslano ano
has provided for other paviiions VIII nicn II
when completed will have cost M,oooVW
and have wards for approximateay se ,,,,,
hundred patients. Add to these the num-
Der of beds now maintained by the CITY
in other hospitals, and twenty-five hundreo
he cared for when these buildings are
onened.
The results of the general interest taken
in the efforts to prevent the further ex-
tension of tuberculosis will be an immedi-
ate decrease of the death rate from 'hlS
disease. by improved sanitary STANDARDS or
living in the home and In the condition OF
the shops with the consequent increased
efficiency and longer period OF wage earn
ing ability.
This board recommends that the buildings
of the state charitable and reformatory IN
situations used for dormitory purposes be
made freproof for the better protection OF
the inmates.
RECOMMENDATIONS
The report includes the following SUM
mary of recommendations for legislation:
Firs,-That appropriations to state insti-
tutor be subdivided in the appropriation
bill. 50 that specific sums shall be appro.
priated for salaries, wages ana ia9 a aI,
ply and clothing and other changes. ms ms
should insure for the most important neeos
of the inmates sufficient approprlatloiis.
which will not be subject TO encroacnmehl
for salary payments:
Second-That the State Custodian Asylum
for Feeble Minded Women at Newark ana
the Rome State Custodial Asylum at Rome
be enlarged at this time so as to ena p
them to receive the adult diouc and feeble
minded now improperly retained In aims
houses contrary to the provisions or the
Poor law and the Penal Code, or PROVIDED
for in private institutions at heavy expense
to the counties. cities and towns of the
state In the opinion of the board the ldeal
system for the classification of the feeble
minded now in three institutions at syria.
cuse Newark and Rome is to care Tor al!
teachable feeble-ninded girls In the syria,
cuse State Institution for Feeble Mlnded
Children: to maintain the idiotic and feeble
minded women and girls who nave passed
the teachable age, except such as are e s1
llm for Feeble Minded Women, and 10 pro,
vide for all the non-epieptic feeble minded
men and BOYS at the Rome State Custodlaai
he m main at Craig Colony The educa-
ton of predetermined boys. discontinued I'M
tuition for Feeble Minded Children, should
be provided for in school department at
the Rome State Custodial , asylum 10 made
whereby Letchworth Village may be opened
for the reception of feeble-mindeG patients
from the First Second and Ninth Judicial
districts at an early date. This will relieve
the custodal asylums at Rome and Newark
of the care of additional inmates beiohs
them to receive more patients from the
western. northern and central sections than
is possible at present.
Fourth-That appropriations be made TOT
buildings and other necessary equipments
for the New York State Training School
for Boys. in order that the institution may
be opened for the reception of inmates and
the House of Refuge on RandallS Island
be closed soon as possible.
Fifth-That the provisions of Section 40
CT the state charities law, which require
the state charitable institutions to make
monthly estimates for supplies. be amend
ed and the institutions be authorized 10
estimate for supplies for periods OF three
months.
managers of Craig Colony of Epileptics and
of the State CuStodal Asylum at Newark
for the feeble-minded to make rules gov
erning the retention and discharge or IN
mates be made clear and explicit, and that
to give such boards of managers the right
to restrain the inmates from abscondlns.
and also subject to confirmation by the
nearest court of competent jurisdiction. the
right to refuse requests for the discharge
of inmates TO the custody of relatives.
friends or other persans should such re-
fusaI be in the interest of the public or for
the protection of the inmates.
Seventh-That state labor colony be
esta blished to which tramps and Migrants
may be committed for the purpose OF re
straint enforced labor and reformation.
Fishth-That A state correctional school
he Established in a suitable location for
the reception instruction and training OF
male mfsdemeanapts over sixteen years old
and under twenty-o
Ninth-That county boards of supervisors
be required to provide ample protection
against the danger of fire in the aims
houses under their control whenever the
need of such protection is officially re-