Evening star., 1940-03-03
D'AIesandro Expected
To Report This Week
On institutions
Subcommittee Head to
Visit Girls Troinine
School Tomorrow .

Winding up the investigation OF
District welfare institutions begun
a month ago after Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt's surprise visit to Blue
Plains, Representative D'Alesandro
is expected to complete his tours OF
inspection and report his subcom-
mittee's findings this week.
He will 60 through the National
Training School for Girls tomorrow
and also may visit the District
Training School at Laurel, Nd,
during the afternoon.
Public Welfare Director Robert
Bondy. who will accompany the
chairman of the Public Health SUBJ
committee of the House District
Committee on the tour, said Mr..
D'Alesandro also had expressed q
desire to visit the two Industrial
Home Schools before he makes his
report.
A visit to the Industrial Home
School for colored children would
carry the Representative back to
Blue Plains where he started his in
vestigation at the Home for the
Aged and Inf1rm.
Mr.. Bondy said he understood
there would be no more hearings
on the institutions and that Mr..
D'Alesandro would be ready to pre-
sent his subcommittee's report by
the middle of the week.
May Ask More Funds.
The possibility that Mr.. D'Ales-
andre might include recommends
tions for increased appropriations in
his report was strengthened by the
fact that the subcommittee chair
man, after visiting the District Jail
Friday, said he would recommend
restoration Of the $4,000 deficiency
appropriation asked by the. penel
institution. r
Previously, Mr.. D'Alesandro in
sisted he had nothing to do with ap-
preparations and had expressed his
conviction that much could be done,
specifically at the Home for the
Aged and Infirm and the Children's
Receiving Home, without additional
funds. .
Before his subcommittee's report
is presented, however, much will al
ready have been done. An egg-a-
day menu will be inaugurated at
Blue Plains tomorrow and changes
in the service of food will be at
tempted next week.
Different arrangements for serv-
ing food, with the aim of getting
it to the inmates while it is still
hot, we're suggested by William De-
vers, Lorton Reformatory steward,
whose methods of serving food were
praised by Mr.. D'Alesandro when
he visited the penal institution.
Haskell Not Optimistic.
Frank Haskell. superintendent OF
the Home for the Aged and 1nfirm
however, is not optimistic about the
new plan, which proposes that the
inmates be seated at tables before
the food is served.
II know these old people" he said.
IF the food isn't on the table when
they get there, they get up and walk
out. Why, they won't even wait for
ice cream. We've got to serve that
during the meal, too"
A medical report on the inmates
of the institution, following physical
examinations Of all the residents by
a medical board headed by DR..
Edgar Bocock, Gallinger Hospital
superintendent, will be submitted to
Health Officer George c. Rutland
tomorrow. The report will include
individual medical findings and re-
concentrations for the transfer OF
inmates who would need care In
Gallinger Hospital. the District
Training School or tuberculosis
sanatorium. A discussion on medical
facilities at the home was incorpo-
rated in a preliminary report to the
Health Department.