Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-28
GALL|NGER WARD
ADDITION PLANNED
BY WELFARE BOARD
$500,000 Appropriation for
ESQ Bed Expansion Is IncIud-
ed'in Estimates for 1882.
REPAIR WORK AT JAIL.
ALSO is CONSIDERED
Increase of 100000 Is Represent
ed in Total of $5,s17,s45 In
cluded in Bill.

An appropriation of $500, 900 for
new ward building at Gallinger Munich
pal Hospital of not less than 25O-bed
capacity is sought by the Board of Pub
lie Welfare in the 1882 estimates for the
various institutions under its jurisdic-
ton
Recent investigation of conditions at
Gallinger disclosed that old wooden
structures still used for patients are not
only obsolete in type, but also are I'M
safe. With the new appropriation
asked, it Is hoped to be able to start
construction on modernly equipped
building to replace the fiimsy frame
structure.
Repairs to the 20-year-old leaky roof
at the District Jail, as well as a new
roof over its rotunda, and various other
improvements at the workhouse In Oc-
coquan and the reformatory at Lorton
also are asked in the new estimates.
rurtnermore, the Board Of Public We'll
tare Is faced with what 1t terms an
inevitable" increase in the population
at the workhouSe and seeks the employ-
ment OF 38 additional guards to make
escape less easy.
Estimates Total $5,SI7,s45.
The estimates for 1882, totaling
So,SlfS45, represent an increase of APP
proximately 100000 for the Board of
priation bill. The total is made IN as
follows: Board of Public Welfare
$559, 700; Jail. $180,930; workhouse and
reformatory, $1,138,150; National Train
ing School for Boys, 5000; National
framing School for Girls, $83,00O; med
lcai charities at private hospitals.
$8S'OOO; tuberculosis Hospital, $237,-
$40; Gallinger Municipal Hospital,
)! ,O6O 800; District Training School.
$4o9 $50; Industrial Home School (for
colored children, $122,140; Industrial
Home School (for white children),
500 800; Home for the Aged and Infirm,
$l,600,000; support of insane, 81 SOC, 600
| $88,195.
For the Board Of Public Welfare it.
sell { three additional social service
workers are asked. Two of these would
De case workers among children and the
third for similar work among adults.
| Two additional clerical stenographers
| also are provided for in the estimates.
| declaring that the roof of the District
Jail is 20 years old and leaks BADLY
$500 is asked to place it in repair, as
well as to provide new covering for
the rotunda, which Is the worst sufferer
in heavy rains.
An increase of $84, 72O is asked FOR
salaries at the work house and reforma :
tory, the total amount being 1856, 900.
The increase is to provide FOR new posi-
lions which would include, in addition
to the 80 guards, two assistant medi-
cal officers, one chief engineer. one adj
ministrative assistant, one property Gus
todian, two principal mechanics, four
senior mechanics. OF the new guards
sought for the work house "a would be
assigned to the new wall group.
! Construction plans for 1882 at the
reformatory include completion and
partial equipment of the administration
building and beginning of foundations
Tor the industrial or shop building. At
the work house it is sought to begin the
| foundations for two industrial buildings,
the location of which has not yet been
determined.
Estimates for Hospital.
Estimates for the tuberculosis Hos
pital include $4,000 for the purchase of
supplies, an increase of $4,000 over the
1881 budget. An appropriation of SIS
900 also is sought for new boiler house
and boiler For the hospital, salaries
are sought for the employment of two
new occupational therapists. three adj
dltlonal nurses, one hospital attendant
% GnDlOymeQG OF
one physician, dentist and two, addi-
tional guards is pointed out as a need
Tor the National Training School for
Girls.
In addition to the new ward building
at Gallinger, the Board of Public Welfare
requests the employment of two more
| chaufteurs so that the ambulance serv-
ice for charity and call work might
more easily be extended into the north
east section.
At the District Training School an
increase OF $l5,120 Is asked to take care
OF new positions based upon increased
population. A total of S93,540 is pro-
vided for salaries and 100000 foy a new
boiler, heat and water mains, the old
| being in general disrepair.
Under the miscellaneous needs of the
Board OF Public Welfare, $4,000 is asked
IN 1882 for relief of the poor, including
the purchase of artificial limbs and the
pay OF physicians to the, poor. This
also includes dental work. The estimate
represents an increase of $500 over the
amount carried in the 1891 appropria-
tlon bill. An increase of 81 500 is asked
for the deportation of INDECENT persons
to jurisdictions outside the District of
Columbia. The total amount needed
Tor such transportation facilities wsx
said to be $4,000.