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CENTRAL CARE OF
STATE DEPENDENTS
Main Points Of Reorganization Bill
Pending in the Delaware
Legislature.
Special Dispatch Fro Z, stan Cores pondens
STATE HOUSE,, Dover, May 81.

STATE HOUSE, DOVER, May 81.
Senators are preparing substitute Tor
Senate bill No. 35, known rs the Re-
organization Bill which provides for the
centralzation of the care of the various
dependents of the State. The main points
of the substitute are as follows.
The general plan procvides that the
three county almshouses are to be sold
the Sussex county Almshouse IN the open
market: the New Castle County Aims
house to be purchased by the State Tor
the Hospital for the Insane; the Kent
County Almshouse and 3 acres to be
purchased by the State, where there will
be established State Relief Home.
All those persons in the present aims
houses who are Predetermined will go
to the new Home for the Predetermined at
Stockley, Sussex county. All the persons
in the present almshouses who can be
cared for in homes in the community with
Outdoor relief" will be cared for In that
way Those who remain IN the aims
houses will be cared for in the state
Relief Home, under State care. The
Trustees of the Poor of. each county would
send persons to the Relief Home from their
respective counties and the State Will
paw half the cost of maintaining such
persons.
FINANCIAL PROVISIONS.
In consideration of the fact that the
StateNvill bear the full cost of maintaining
the feeble-minded in the Home for the
Feeble-Minded, and half the cost of the
INDECENT poor in the State Relief Home,
the proceeds of the sale of each aims
house is to be distributed as follows
contribution to State 50 percent; loan to
State, 40 per cent; retained by county; III
per cent. The State to pay interest on
the loans at the rate OF Az per cent per
annum.
Dividing the insane, the feeble-minded
and the INDECENT will be possible 1 he best
of care will be provided for each OF these
classes of unfortunate and their condition
much improved IL the bill passes, as there
will be a separate institution for each and
a man specially fitted in charge of each OF
the three institutions Ii is difficult to
have both Predetermined and sane IN the
one institution.
ADVANTAGES OF PLAN.
At present there are maintained by
public funds three institutions Tor the
poor, with three superintendents. and
| many other costs multiplied by three:
| One institution would reduce the total
! cost. or more could be done for the poor
| with the total amount spent IN the three
| institutions.
| The State Hospital for the Insane and
| the New Castle County Almshouse are
| twin buildings about forty yards apart.
/ The State Hospital is very much over
| crowded and the Almshouse building
| would satisfy the needs IN a very forti-
nate way. Under the proposed plan
there would be very large saving TO each
| county as the State would bear half the
| total cost.
The feebIe-minded Sussex %, Kent 30,
| New Castle 20l. would be removed TO an
| institution where they would receive the
| care best suited 10 their needs. In this
/ way the poor of sound mind would be
| given a more peaceful existence IN then
/ old age. Under the provisions OF the bill
| there would be sufficient money 10 con-
| struct and equip the necessary buildings
/ for the predetermined.
The cost 70 New Castle County under
| the present system, for the last fisca
| wear, was So, ,379 90. Under the proposed
plan it would be sI6,500. representing g
saving of S35,S7o.09. The value of the
| New Castle County Almshouse property
/ including equipment, Is s250,O0O. ne
county would get an annual income II
| interest on s125, 600 amounting 10 s5,oZs
! which aQUeQ 10 bfie cAfIA1E PSA AAAAAAA
would amount TO SAL ,504 90.
The cost to Kent County under tbs
present system is sS,716.77 and under tbs
proposed plan would be s3.7I6.77. The
value of the Kent county property Il
s80.O0O Kent county would receive IN
terest amounting TO 81 800, making tht
total saving and income amount Il
/ S3,516.S7.
The cost 10 Sussex county under th'
present system is s3,9l039, and undel
the new system 81 100. This would be |
saving of s2,810.39. which added TO s9Ol
the county would receive in lnteres
would make the saving and income
/ s3,7I039. The value of the Sussex county
property. including equipment Is $40 900
The State would receive IN cash s54 ,OOl
from Kent and Sussex, which added II
| 500, 900 appropriated would make sl54,
600, and would pay out TO New Castle
| county and Kent county and for building
and repairs for Home for Feeble Minded
and State Relief Home sl49, 900, ieayini
$1,000 as q contingent fund. The annua
expenditures by the State under the pro