Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-03-07
INCREASE IS SHOWN
Admissions to Benevolent lnstitu.
tons Make Gains.
Figures In Report Of the Census By
rsau Show That Millions Were
Cared For-Plaeins-out Of
Children In Families Noted.

washfngton.-As 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 WIN
certain data relating to inmates OF
these institutions, have just been -
sued by order OF Director 4. Dana Du-
rand. These figures are subject to -
vision. but are substantially correct
The total number Of institutions 70
ported is 5,397. classified as follows:
Institutions for the care OF children.
1,152; societies for the protection ana
care OF children, 212: institutions Tor
the care Of adults and children 1,AAz;
institutions for the education and care
OF the blind and deaf, 119; hospitals
classed as benevolent, 1886. and dis
pensaries. classed a. benevolent e'e.
In these institutions. or under their
care. there were at the close OF the
year, 3s0,337 persons. apportioned a.
follows: Institutions for children.
107, 401; societies for the protection
and care of children. 35.279; institu-
tions for adults or adults and children,
1856: institutions for the blind ana
deaf, 651; hospitals. 2s.S6s. The move
ment of inmates during the year Is In
dicated by the fact that S2,o11 chill
dren were received into institutions
while 37,S25 were placed in families or
institutions, mostly in families. ana
chiefly by societies for their care
7SS, 6S1 persons were received into IN
stitutions for adults or adults ana
children. and 1854 into institutions for
the blind and deaf; 1,975,S3S patients
were treated in hospitals. and 1853
059 In dispensaries.
As compared with the previous re-
port, that for 1904, the number OF IN
stitutions reported shows an increase
Of 1896 (day nurseries, Of which LOO
were reported in 1904. were not includ'
cd in 1910 inmates of institutions at
close Of year. an increase OF 9b.s7e;
children received into institutions du'
ring the year, an increase OF 11,1s6;
patients treated in hospitals. an IN
crease of e11.326, and in dispensaries.
of s27,40s. There was . decrease OF
100, 319 in the number Of persons re-
ceived into institutions for adults or
adults and children. 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 q 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
frst time OF data In regard to the
placing out Of children in families, and
the notably increased interest mani
tested in the treatment OF tubercuio
sis, which accounts to q very consio
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 420, and OF these
nearly 200 are county dispensaries es
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
IL chiefly confined to institutions fol
the Temporary care of men who are
destitute.
Noting the distribution OF 1nstitu
tons in the states, 1t appears tna'
New York leads with 797, an increase
of 200 over the figures in 1904; Penn
sylvania has 692, an increase OF 30l;
Massachusetts, 359, an increase Of
1914: Illinois, 1924, an increase OF 80;
Ohio, 311, an increase of 81. and Ne"
Jersey, 207, an increase OF 81.
Tho eternal feminine still rules tn
hearts of enlisted men In the navy ant
81 marine corps II
Sailors Are their choice Of
Most Tattooed. tattooins desis'
adornment. Surgeon Ammen Faren
holt OF the navy, who has made SOM
interesting researches in the subject
finds that one man in three. both II
the navy and the marine corps, select'
4 decoration. part Of which represent
4 female figure. ,& 0-r .~
SURGEON Farenholt finds that afte
enlistment the sailorman acquires tat
tooing more frequently than the maj