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ton, at least temporarily. Of the
National Training School problem were
submitted.
While partial provision was made in
the 1889 District Appropriation Act
for an alternative procedure for the
reception and detention Of delinquent
and destitute children. there appeared
to be no alternative provision for the
custody of inmates and the supervision
Of PAROLES. who under the present law
are committed by the courts to the
National Training School for Girls.
Asks Additional Worker.
The appropriations recommended for
the Receiving Home are 81 800 for
salary OF an additional social worker
under the Board of Public Welfare;
under the Division Of Child Welfare.
36 600 for board and care of children,
and $500 for repairs and alterations
to the Receiving Home Building.
The Budget Bureau letter empha.
sizes that II the action taken by Con-
gress in passing the 1889 District ap-
preparation bill. without any provision
for continuance OF the National Train
ing School for Girls after June 80. is
not changed. the inmates and PAROLES
of this institution will be released July
l without further supervision by either
the Board of Public Welfare or the
courts. In order to continue control
over these girls whom the courts have
committed to the training school. the
Budget Bureau reports that it would
seem desirable to follow one OF the
three suggested solutions OF the prob
lem:
% To parole the inmates Of the
National Training School for Girls
prior to July l and to appropriate
funds to maintain two parole officers
under the Board of Public Welfare to
care for some 50 girls each. To carry
out this proposal an appropriation OF
$500 is recommended.
Would Reduce Inmates.
z. To give legislative authorization to
the courts to recommit both inmates
and PAROLES to the Board of Public
Welfare for such disposition as the
board deems best: to reduce the num-
Der of colored girls now at the school
to about 40: to provide additional funds
for the guardianship Of children to be
recommitted to the Board Of Public
Welfare; to reduce the popula ton at
the Industrial Home School for Colored
Children at Blue Plains by some 40
boys, placing all dependent and ne
elected children and young delinquent
children In foster homes: to vacate In
this manner the 40-inmate cottage at
Blue Plains in order to make way for
the transfer Of some 40 colored girls re-
manning at the National Training
School for Girls: to construct a girls
vocational building at Blue Plains. to
cost $4,000; to reduce the population
at the Industrial Home School (white)
by some 30 children by placing all de-
pendent and neglected children and
young delinquent children in foster
homes; to transfer the Industrial
Home School (white) from the Wis
consin avenue building to the National
Training School for Girls institution,
thus carrying out the intent Of Con-
gress as indicated in the act Of March
:, 1927, which authorizes the Commis-
sioners to sell the property at Wiscon-
sin avenue or to use it for school, play
ground, highway or park purposes.
To finance this second alternative
proposal an appropriation of $41 400
Is recommended. OF this $5,400 Is for
salaries under the Board of Public
Welfare, 81, 900 for board and care
Of children under the Division Of
Child Welfare, and $4,000 for new
construction at the Industrial Home
School for colored children.
Asks New Construction.
~ To begin permanent construc-
ton at Blue Plains to accommodate
so colored girls and inmates and until
such initial construction Is completed
to appropriate funds with which to
continue the National Training School
for Girls at its present site. To finance
this third proposal an appropriation OF
3l65. 900 for new construction at the
Industrial Home School for colored
children is recommended.
Regarding the Receiving Home Tor
Children, the Budget Bureau COM
munication points out that In passing
upon the $3s, 900 appropriation for
1899, Congress contemplated that the
District Commissioners would reno
vate the building recently vacated by
the Police Court and provide their
space for the Woman's Bureau. in
cluding quarters for the temporary
detention Of children. This plan has
now miscarried because the District
flre regulations do not permit use OF
this building for living and sleeping
quarters thout Hsplaaing The a1Ss