The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-01-30
BENEVOLENT HOMES
OVER THE COUNTRY
Run into the Hundreds as
Shown by Dorector
Durand.

United States is in course
Of preparation by the Bureau of the
Census, in connection with the Thir-
tenth Census, and preliminary fig
ures showing the number of institu-
lions reported, together with certain
data relating to inmates of these in
stiutions have just been issued by or
der of Director 3. Dana Durand. These
figures are subject to revision, but
are substantially correct.
The total number of institutions
reported is 1897, classified as follows:
Institutions for the care of children,
LISP; societies for the protection and
care of children, 2l2; institutions for
the care of adults or. adults and
children, LAP; institutions for the
education and care of the blind and
deaf. 119; hospitals, classed as bene-
VIOLENT, 1896; and dispensaries,
classed as benevolent, SIG.
In these institutions, or under their
care, there were at the close of the
year 3sO3S7 persons, apportioned as
follows: Institutions for children,
1O7,4O1; societies for the protection
and care of children, 1929; institu-
tions for adults or adults and chill
dren, 121,s76; institutions for the
blind and deaf, 651; hospitals, 2S,S69.
The movement Of inmates during the
year is Indicated by the fact that
1901 children were received into in
stitutions, while 37,S25 were placed in
families or. institutions, mostly in
families, and chiefly by societies for
their care; 7ss,691 persons we're re-
ceived into institutions for adults or
adults and children, and 1854 into
institutions for the blind and deaf;
1916. 1888 patients were treated in hos
pitfalls, and 2.4S9,O59 in dispensaries.
Admissions Show Increase.
AS compared with the previous re-
port, that for 1904, the number of in
Istitutions reported shows an increase
of 1886 (Day, Nurseries, OF which 1876
were reported in 1904, We're not in
cluded in 1870; inmates Of institu-
tons at close4qf year, an Increase OF
l95,975, children received into institu-
| ttionss during the year, an increase of
11,1S6; patients treated in hospitals,
an increase of 9ll,S26; and in dis
pensarles, OF s27,4OSs, There was a
! decrease of IO9,319 in the number of
persons received into institutions for
adults. and ehildreHs and of 4.471 in
the number received into institutions
for the blind and deaf.
Whether the increase indicates
greater need, or greater care and more
complete provision is question
which must await a more careful
study of the situation; as also the
question as to the decrease. Two
items are Of special interest; the col
lection for the first time of data in
regard to the. placing out of children
in families, and the notably increased
interest manifested in the treatment
of tuberculosis, which accounts to a
very considerable degree for the in
crease in the number of dispensaries
and to some degree of hospitals and
sanitariums. Thus the net number
of dispensaries added to the list is
~ dispensaries established in the
state Of Pennsylvania by the depart
ment' of health for the treatment Of
The decrease OF 109319
in the number of persons received
into institutions for the care of
adults or adults and children is
chiefly confined to institutions for the
temporary care of men who are desti-
tute.
Most Institutions in New York.
Noting the distribution of institu-
lions in the states, it appears that
New York leads with 1877, an increase
of 200 over the figures in 1904; Penn
sylvania has 692, an increase of 3O1;
Massachusetts, 35a. an increase of
1O4; Illinois, 1924, an increase of 80;
Ohio, 81, an increase of So; and New
Jersey, 2O7, an increase of IS. Almost
all the states show an increase (gen-
orally in about the same proportion),
which would indicate that the interest
in the problem of caring for those
who may be called wards of the
state,' is by no means limited to the
centers of population. but extends
throughout the entire country.
Miss Martha Mccune, a student
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