The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-11
CHARITIES DEPT. PLANS GENERAL REORGANIZATION Three Positions Given to Out side Poor" Doctors to Be
 Embodied in One TWO WOMEN WILL BE
 HIRED TO INVESTIGATE Department Faces Deficit Esti- mated at About $1O,O0O at
 End of Fiscal Year

Although the Charities Commission CTS plan many changes the coming
 year in conducting the affairs or the
 department, it has been decided that
 the requisition for 1915 will be prac-
 ticaIly the same as that asked year
 ago. At yesterdays meeting of the
 commissioners in executive session the
 items were carefully gone over, the
 decision being that the requisition will
 net amount to over $14O,Oo0 ana prop
 ably will not exceed last years. which
 was S137 5S6. Of this amount the Board
 Of Apportionnent allowed a little over
 e121, 900.
 One of the changes planned is the abo1ishment of the present system
 whereby three physicians are des1gna8-
 ed as city physicians at $30 a month
 each Tn it's place it is planned to
 hire a young physician to give his en- kt1ne time to visiting city cases in hos
 pitals and home and have his office and sleeping quarters in the police
 and charities building. It is proposed to use his services also in visiting the babies cared for by the department in private homes He will be allowed to handle no private practice and the pay will be fixed accordingly.
 The other important change will be in the department of investigation and relief where 1t is desired to add two
 women investigators to work under Ef1e supervision of Investigator MoT- sI1SSey. The reQu1S1I1On or tne d9pdfI- tnent will be divided into three major divisions, investigation and relief, med tea1 and surgcal, and Lakeview.
 The first division will be sub-di- Wided into the departments of depen- dent and delinquent adults and family rehabilitation. Under the first will come the employment question and the handling Of non support, desertfon and Bhift1ess-husband cases. In this de- parhment win also come the probate proceedings in eases of embecfIes, in- sane, feeble minded, eTilept1cs, tuber- ci1Iar and tfe1r transfer to asy1u1ns, sanatoria and homes, removals to E,akeview, paupers in other towns for Fwhi9n the city is Har39s 7sporta tioa4s and transfers of undesirable aliens and hospital investigations.
 s8 Under the second subdivision will come the placing of children in private momes, doing away with mercenary baby farms employment of widows and visiting Housekeeping procedure An which a trained visitor instructs ducted- It will also include the pro bate proceedings in eases of dependent children, collecting from relatives. swherever possible, for care of adults Considering applications for relief, ap- Dorttoning family relief so as to meet conditions and the consideration of general applications
 It Is estimated that, with the fiscal year yet having three months to run, the departments deficit will total from s8 900 to $1o. .ooo.
 The requisit1on for Lakeview will differ slightly from the past year as Che building of the new institution and other work there will necessitate some additional expense A trained en- gineer will be provided on account of the innovations in mechanical equip 9nent.
 It Is planned to have one or more looms there given over for industrial work, sewing, knitting and weaving. Widows and those deserted by their Husbands are to be given work in that department and it is thought that they can supply practically all of the Linen. much of the clothing. etc. needed by the inmates at a saving to the city. | Through the procedure it is also plan 1 ned to make the women partly inde- pendent.
 At the present time the outside poor | of the department are Drs. David B. .Wason, Charles J. Leverty | and Arthur Scrimgeour It is not | planned to change the present staff arrangements of the emergency hos 1 pftaI and ambu1ance