Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-03-07
INCREASE IS SHOWN
Admissions to Benevolent Institu-
tons Make Gains.
Figures In Report of the Census Bu-
reau Show That Millions Were
Cared For-Placing-Out of
Children in Families Noted.

SNtiOFen IN ! antilles noted.
Washington.-A special report on be-
nevolent institutions in continental
United States is in course of prepare
ton by the bureau of the census, in
connection with the thirteenth census,
and preliminary figures, together with
certain data relating to inmates OF
these institutions, have just been is
sued by order of Director e. Dana Du-
rand. These figures are subject to re-
vision, but are substantially correct.
The total number of institutions re-
ported is 5,397, classified as follows:
Institutions for the care of children,
LISP; societies for the protection and
care of children, 212; institutions for
the care of adults and children, 1,442;
institutions for the education and care
of. the blind and deaf, 119; hospitals,
classed as benevolent, 1896, and dis
pensaries, classed as benevolent, $40.
In these institutions, or under their
care, there were at the close OF the
year, 3S0.337 persons, apportioned as
follows: Institutions for children,
LOT ,401; societies for the protection
and care of children, 1929; institu-
tions for adults or adults and children,
1856; institutions for the blind and
deaf, 651; hospitals, 2S,S69. The move
ment of inmates during the year is In
Dictated by the fact that 82,O11 chill
dren were received into institutions,
while 37,S25 were placed in families or
institutions, mostly in families, and
chiefly by societies for their care
788, 691 persons were received into In
situations for adults or adults and
children, and 1854 into institutions for
the blind and deaf; 1,975,S38 patients
were treated in hospitals, and 2,439,-
059 in dispensaries.
AS compared with the previous re-
port, that for 1904, the number of in
situations reported shows an increase
of 1,346 (day nurseries, Of which lob
were reported in 1904, were not includ-
ed in 1910 inmates of institutions at
close of year, an increase of $500;
children received into institutions du-
ring the year, an increase of l1.186;
patients treated in hospitals, an in
crease of 1926, and in dispensaries,
of S27,40S There was a decrease OF
109,319 in the number of persons re-
ceived into institutions for adults or
adults and children, and of All 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 more careful study OF
the question, as also the question as to
the decrease. Two items are of spe-
cial interest, the collection for the
first time of data in regard to the
placing out of children in families, and
the notably increased interest mani
tested in the treatment of tuberculo-
sis, which accounts to very consld-
cradle degree for the increase in the
number of dispensaries and to some
degree of hospitals and sanitariums.
Thus the net number of dispensaries
added to the list is 400, and of these
tablished in the state of Pennsylvania
by the department of health for the
treatment of tuberculosis. The de-
crease of 109,319 in the number of per
sons 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
destitute.
Noting the distribution of institu-
tons 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 SOL;
Massachusetts, 359, an increase of
104; Illinois, 1924, an increase of 80;
Ohio, 81, an increase of 81, and New
Jersey, 207, an increase of So.