Bisbee daily review., 1922-03-30
GIVES FIGURES
 IN CHILDREN IN
 JUVENILE COURT.
Complies Report in Answer to Query by Women's
 Club Federation

or interest to the people of Cochise county will be the report recently compiled by Judge A. C. Lockwood of the Cochise county superior court, who also is juvenile judge, in answer to a query received from the State Women's Club Federation. The re- port, which shows some interesting figures as to the scope of their work follows i1 full:
 Tombstone, March g. 1922. Mrs. T. H. Cureton,
 Williams, Arizona.
 Dear Madam:
 In. response to your letter request ing information as to the number of boys and girls appearing before the Juvenile Court of Cochise county in the past year, l beg to state az fol dows:
 Petitions were filed ia court cov- ering 147 children. Of these it was alleged that S3 were delinquent, 59 neglected and dependent and five in corrigible.
 Of the delinquents, "A were boys and girls; of the neglected and de- pendent, there were 27 boys and S2 girls and Of the incorrigibles, boy and 4 girls
 These cases were disposed of as 'ollows: Delinuuents committed to industrial school, boys 8; girls 0. De- linquents placed on probation in charee of probation officers, boys 30; girls 2. Cases dismissed either as innocent or after summary treat ment (reprimand, corporal punish ment by parent, etc), boys 27; girls
 Reelected and dependent children. Adopted, boys 3, girls o. Placed in probation officers custody: Boys, IS; girls 27. Dismissed, boys 6, girls B.,
 In explanation Of these figures ] should say that delin1uents placed in the probation officers hands are un- der the supervision of the latter both at home and abroad and are gener- ally required to report regularly. and are also visited at home by the off ,ers when necessary.
 Neglected and dependent children so placed are handled in many differ ent manners. If the trouble can be remedied by supervision at home, the children are permitted to remain there, under strict supervision. If not they are placed in either private families or in institutions, as the cases seem to require. If the chiI- dren are taken from home, we endea- vor to place them as far as possible Tn homes where they will eventually be adopted, as I consider the best in stitutional care only a poor Substi- ute for a real home: Of course the religious affiliations Of the parents and children are carefully respected when children are placed
 The county pays the expenses of children placed out, when the parents are unable to dc so, but not otherwise When children are taken with a view of adoption the county is to be at no expense. and an adoption is never all lowed till after six months trial.
 l trust this will give you some idea of the work
 Of course this involves only those cases ia which a hearing is actually held before me. The matters investi- gated by the probation officers which do not reQuir.a formal court order are handled either directly by them, or if the matter is doubtful it is re- ferred to me for advice. Cases of this nature will cover between six and seven hundred children per annum in addition to the ones classified above.
 Cochise county spends about $S500 per year through the Juvenile Court, of which about two-thirds goes for the support of dependent and neglect ed children and the balance for salar- ies of probation officers, traveling expenses in Investigating cases, sta tionery, telephone, etc. Owing 10 the large area and widely distributed population of this county. travelling expenses Of the probation officers are quite high. Included in this amount is 5000 estimated for the assistance of children under the provisions of the new, compulsory school law.