Evening journal., 1915-05-19
WEDNESDAY MAY I9, 1915
AN npERATIyE PUBLIC NEED.

n FEW CASTLE COUNTY needs institution that will
IN be a combination home. hospital and school for
children who crippled otherwise physically de-
fective. Through public and private benefactions
vision has been made for housing feeding clothing and
caring for almost all other classes of dependents and
unfortunates except the one which, apart from the
insane, is most wholly dependent.
We have a fine and well-managed Workhouse for the
care OF criminal classes. The State Hospital for
the Insane admirably equipped and conducted in
stituon for those whose minds have been destroyed
impaired The County Hospital at Farnhurst sup
plies good refuge to those who have been impover-
ished a point that them upon the charity Of
their neighbors. Wayward girls enjoy the protective
and reformatory influence of the Delaware Industrial
School for Girls Boys who lawless, disposed
TO be lawless. find the corrective remedy they need at
the Ferris Industrial School, Men, and children
who suffer from predisposed to tuberculosis OBJ
tain relief or Hope Farm. The Delaware Hos
pital the Homeopathic Hospital and the Physicians
and Surgeons Hospital those who III or in
iured. We have homes for old men, old women and
incurables. But, apart from the provisions made by
the Catholic Church. what have offer to the ply
scay defective and orphaned boy girl whose future
in life will be made marred by the care the lack
of it. that is supplied when he she is in the inn
questionable formative stages? Practically moth
ing although there certain provisions for orphans
OF other classes up certain ages of those
provisions are free Others only may be obtained by
money.
Let cite in point The father and the
mother little girl died. She suffered from certain
physical disabilities. There relatives who cared
take For year she under treatment in the
Homeopathic Hospital Then question arose what
should be done with her The field was surveyed AS
she was Protestant child and physical defective,
orphanage existed in county for her reception
AS a last resort she was to the amshouse at Farm
hurst There she has spent much OF her time in the
company OF feeble minded old women, young epepc
and other unfortunates who supplied her inspiration
OF hope for the future. She is still there.
four years this little girl has lived in the de-
pressing and harmful surroundings of institutions not
suited for caring for child in her condition Her
was called recently to the attention of certain
persons. They decided she must be removed from the
amshouse. question then arose as TO where she
should be sent Finally Il discovered that the
only institution open to her the Delaware Indus
trial school. for Girls It was decided to send her
there and unless a change in the plans be made she
will be inmate Of that institution. We think
the mproprety of such refuge for innocent orphan
girl is too manifest to call for extended discussion
nocally when il is borne in mind that that school was
established reformatory for fallen girls and those
manifesting inclination TO walk the primrose path
and the further fact that the inmates are girl:
OF that class who are being subjected corrective in
fuence There have it This innocent little gir
has spent three years in an almshouso in tn,
companionship OF wrecks of humanity and surrounded
by influences that wero calculated to stunt her ambi
ton and impair destroy her chance in life From
there she will be taken to institution peopled largel,
by girls and young women whose moral conduct in tn,
past had been such that IL is deemed necessary for th
safety Of themselves and society TO seQuester then
under good influences in the hope they will reform
become good women. We contend that it is manifest,
wrong to submit innocent and physically defective girl
boys to amshouse Girls Industrial School OF Ferri
Industrial School Influences if it possibly can b
avoided.
The real remedy lies in the establishment OF a com
binaton home hospital and school for all such chdre
who are Of ages that bar them from existing nstitu
tons That need already has been delayed too lonl
1t is time for public officials and generously dis
posed citizens to cooperate to do now what shoul
have been done ago for the benefit of such ph,
scay defective Juvenile dependents