Evening star., 1951-09-26
Welfare Board Asks
.S2O,679,OO6 Budget
In Setting 50 Needs

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In Setting 50 Needs
The Board of Public Welfar,
has asked the Commissioners fo,
an appropriation of $20,679,O0t
for the fiscal year beginning mex
July Ia slight increase over tht
S20,526,500 appropriated for thi
year.
However, Congress already ha!
appropriated $1,344 900 for thu
beginning of work on the Chill.
dren'S Center at Laurel, Md.
which will not become available
until July /. This would make thu
total appropriation for next year
$22,023, ,006.
One of the biggest items in the
budget request is an estimate O.
S8,322,000 for the support of Dis.
trict INDECENT insane at st. Eliza.
beths Hospital, About 5000 per
sons credited to the District are
in the hospital, for whom the Dis.
trict is charged SAB a day each
The cost was increased last July
from $4.26 day.
Would Separate Institutions.
The board also asked for 8
separation of the National Train
ing School for Girls and the In
dustrial Home School annex
which are located on Loughborc
road NV. The National Train
ing School would be moved to the
new center at Laurel, and the six
buildings they now share with
the annex would be used by the
children under the name OF
Junior Village-D. C. Home for
Children"
The board also requests the
appointment of a superintendent
for the village The annex is now
supervised by the superintendent
of the Industrial Home School
Money for the school at Laurel has
been appropriated. but S1,894, 900
is needed to complete it. 1t is
expected that the Laurel school
will be finished next year.
The National Training School
for Girls now has a capacity of 80,
but the new building will permit
it to expand to a capacity of 80.
For agency services. the board
is asking an appropriation of S.
958.965. This years appropria-
ton is $4.554.O0O. These services
take care of persons eligible for
any public benefits. for aid to de-
pendent children, for children in
their own homes, and for elderly
and blind persons.
The board now has about $4,000
persons receiving public assist
ance. Those on relief are being
paid on the basis of the April
1850, cost Of food. Because of
depleted funds these have been
cut to 80 per cent of the food
costs. The board hopes to pay
them 100 per cent Of the food
costs On the 1851 cost of living.
The board is also asking the
Commissioners that the rate being
paid persons for keeping a child
IN a foster home be increased from
s45 a month to $50.
The cost Of operating the pro-
tective institutions under the
board this year amounted to ST.
$4,000. For the next fiscal year,
the board is asking for $3.322,677.
Of this amount, it says it needs
S593.437 for the upkeep and care
Of persons in the Home for the
Aged and Infirm at Blue Plains.
The board is also asking for an
increase Of from S1,036,388 to ST.
l28,962 for the District Training
School. The change-over from the
Industrial Home School annex to
,he Junior Village-D. c. Home for
Children will cost S292,872.
Other Construction Items.
The board is also asking $2,973,-
700 for capital expenditures to
complete work that has already
oeen authorized by Congress on
buildings under the supervision of
The board. This year, Congress
appropriated S4,594,00O to start
,he work. Included is continued
construction of an inf1rmary build
ing and laundry at the Home for
jhe Aged, utilities at the District
Training School, construction of
new buildings for the Industrial
Home School and an additional
amount for new central kitchen
At the Industrial Home for Colored
Children.
For the care of unwed mothers
and their children, the board is
asking that $13,630 be appropriated
,or the next fiscal year. The ap-
for the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1851, was $8,0O0,I
out money paid out to the Florence
Crittenton Home, st. AIMS Ma
Hospital and Infant Asy-
um, House of Mercy, Lend-a-
Hand Club and other institutions
caring for unwed mothers ex-
,eeded this amount by $5,535.
There were IL more unwed
cared for last year than
n the year before, and the board
expects to care for Is this fiscal
year.