Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-13
Board of Charities Also to Ask
Home for Feeble Minded
Children.
REPORT WILL OUTLINE
PLANS FOR REFORMATORY
Appropriations Totaling 81 300. 900
Are Expected to Be Asked
of Congress.

Need of a municipal hospital and an
institution Tor the care of feeble minded
colored children again will be emphasize
ed by the board of charities i'm its an
nual report to be submitted to the Dis
t;1ct Commissioners
Preparatory to beginning work on its
estimates for the next fiscal year In.
board will meet within a few days 10
consider the general aspects of the task
Practically all of the recommendation
contained i'm last years report will be
renewed, but special stress will be laid
on the municipal hospital and feeble
MINDED institute items, il is stated
The charities body, il is understood,
again VIII ask an appropriation with
when TO erect a cottage with a CAPACITY
Ior twenty girls on the grounds OF the
existing training school for girls and will
recommend a new site for an Industrial
home school for white children.
To Ask About 81 800, 900.
The total appropriation to be recon-
mended by this branch OF the local gov
eminent probably will be in the neigh
porhood of $1,3oo,OO0. which was the
amount included in the last estimates.
Congress last year failed to provide an
appropriation for commencing work ON
the proposed municipal hospital on the
brlghtwood tract so the board I'm all
probability. will repeat it's recommended
tion Tor an initial appropriation of St0e.,
with authority to make contracts up 10
$3n.OOO
The Commissioners heretofore have
strongly urged an appropriation of Sloo
UO Tor the erection of an institut on for
the care OF Predetermined colored children
on ground already owned by the District
at Blue Plains. The Senate passed "A biz
lafEt
up in the House
Regarding the need OF a new site for an
industrial home school for white chill
dren the charities board believes that the
present site, located on Wisconsin ave-
nue., should be sold and the institution
moved to a larger tract i'm the open
country.
The Commissioners last year sent 10
the senate special report pointing out
the need for a training school for white
girls, and recommended that this fnsti-
tuition be provided through the erection
OF cottage on the grounds of the exist
ing girls training school, which now CON.
sists entirely Of colored inmates.
Plans for Reformacory.
Following the completion of survey
or a 1,Wo-acre tract OF land near Deco
guam. Va. selected as the site for the
proposed District reformatory the board
OF charities in its forthcoming report is
expected to outline the character of re-
iormatory 1t believes should be estab-
nsned and recommend an appropriation
with which to begin construction OF the
institution 80
Also the report will refer to the prog
ress that has been made I'm building up
the District workhouse located at Deco
guam, and may recommend an indetermi-
nate sentence and parole law for this
INSTITUTION. Under such law prisoners
would be sentenced for indefinite periods
and kept at the workhouse until ii was
decided that they had been conditioned
for returning to society
A prominent feature of the forth
coming report Is expected to deal with
the changes that have been made dur.
ing the year In the methods Of coll
lectfng the accounts of pay patients
committed to the Government Hospital
for the Insane. The local authorities
now collect the accounts. whereas.
formerly, this task was left to the hos
pital officials.
The board. il is considered likely. will
reiterate It's policy respecting public
aid for private hospitals. In its former
report 1t stated that it does not be-
lieve public appropriations should be
made for the purchase of real estate
or erection or improvement of build
ings the title to which is In private
persons or corporations.