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City of Cleveland, O.
Year Ending December 31, 1906
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HARRIS R. COOLEY, Director of Public Service,
The Division of Charities and Correction includes the fol-lowing: The Farm Colony, the old Infirmary, the Hospitals, the Farm of Correction, the House of Correction, the Training Home for Boys, and the Cemeteries.
MUNICIPAL FARMS.
The first is the great farm at Warrensville, which has over nine-teen hundred (1,900) acres, or three square miles of land. This is located on the Chagrin Falls Suburban line, and is nine and ten miles from the Public Square. This great tract has absorbed more than twenty farms, and was purchased at an average of $168 per acre. On this tract are to be built in colonies or vil-lages, the Infirmary, the Convalescent Hospital, the Detention Hospital, the Tuberculosis Sanatorium, the House of Correction, and the other institutions of this department.
The second of the City's Farms is for the truant and way-ward boys. It is twenty-three miles from the City, and contains two hundred and eighty-five (285) acres. It was purchased at a cost of less than $44 per acre. On this farm are the cottages of the Boys' Home.
The Infirmary Department of the farm at Warrensville is known as
As the fundamental principle of our movement is to return to the natural life of the country, it is essential that as large an area as possible be provided for the thousands who will in the future become residents of the Colony. During the year, four hundred and forty (440) acres have been added to the Farm. In order to provide" for future needs, it is desirable to still fur-4 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE
ther increase its area. About forty of our old men from the Infirmary are living at the Colony, and our experience with them has given us great confidence in the proposed plan of removing all of our Infirmary people to the great Farm.
The plan is to have the new Infirmary Village of the Farm Colony grouped about a central quadrangle, which encloses a Service Court. Facing upon this open court are to be an engine room, bath rooms, laundry, bakery, pantry and kitchen. These buildings will be of marble dust plaster finish with red tile roofs. The cottages are to radiate from each corner of this Quadrangle, giving the effect of a country village. This is to be situated on a high ridge six hundred feet above the City, and looking out upon the lake, ten miles distant. The City has entered into con-tract for the construction of this Service Quadrangle for $124,-000.
With the completion of these buildings, all of the inmates of the Infirmary can become residents of the Farm Colony. This will provide for the unfortunate ones happier surroundings in which to spend the declining years of their lives. It will also prove of great benefit to all the people of Cleveland, by giving to them the consciousness of dealing more fairly and generously with the aged poor and the crippled who are' in our midst.
The temporary Tuberculosis Sanatorium at the farm at Warrensville has been completed, with accommodations for over one hundred patients. The Sanatorium was constructed with reference to the out-door treatment which has proved so suc-cessful. Three lean-tos have been provided for the accommo-dation of sixty of the patients who spend their days and nights practically out of doors. A new building is nearly completed, which will provide a sun-room, to be used also as a recreation room and an auditorium for the residents of this group.
During the coming year it is expected to start the building of a permanent Tuberculosis Sanatorium on the summit of the high ridge which overlooks miles of the surrounding country. It will be about a half mile from the Infirmary Village. In this DIVISION
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Sanatorium ample provisions must be made for the care of a large number of patients. The conflict with tuberculosis, or the white plague, is assuming such proportions that the municipality must meet it with adequate provisions for the care and cure of. the unfortunate victims of this disease.
THE FARM OF CORRECTION.
At the House of Correction 'division of the Farm Colony at Warrensville, fifty to seventy Workhouse prisoners have been kept. Two new buildings have been erected, which are known as the "Trustees' Lodges." They will accommodate in all one hundred and fifty men. This is the first of the House of Cor-rection buildings at the Farm. This group will be located on an ideal site, more than a mile from the other villages. We are able to relieve the winter congestion at the City House of Cor-rection by thus removing a part of the population to the Trustees' Lodges on the Farm. Our experience with prisoners at the Farm gives us greater confidence in the successful working out of the plan to use many of the prisoners in quarrying and crush-ing stone, in road making, in farming and other out-door occu-pations. The latest government statistics show that prison labor is most effective in such employment. It is far better for the prisoners and better for the public.
Our plan for the future is to build a permanent, modern House of Correction on the Farm, so that the old Workhouse in the City can be abandoned. We hope to see prisoners sen-tenced directly to the Farm of Correction.
During the year another cottage and a school have been added to the Boys' Farm at Hudson, Ohio. The cottage will accommodate the usual family of master and matron and fifteen boys. The school house has been built large enough to provide four school rooms and a good auditorium. We now have a vil-lage of eight cottages, with accommodations for one hundred and twenty boys. The gymnasium is being furnished. When all 6
the building construction is completed, a manual training de-partment will be started.
The method of dealing with these unfortunate boys, most of whom are the victims of adverse conditions, is to give them a fair chance for healthful living. The simple principle under-lying our homes is that normal conditions develop normal boys. It is realizing for them their common birthright in the earth and sky. It is surprising how soon they respond to the new surroundings and opportunities which the return to nature gives. The fields, pastures, trees, brooks and gardens under the open sky form a good tonic for a wayward lad. They are possessed of great fondness for the animals. The horses, cattle, sheep, donkeys, dogs—all are their friends. We are simply trying to develop wholesome, fun-loving, hearty boys, who, we trust, will grow up to do a manly work for the world instead of being criminals and a burden to society.
We hope in the future to have a Home for Girls similar to the Boys' Home. With moderate outlay, a home could be estab-lished in connection with the Farm at Warrensville, thus restor-ing the unfortunate girls to the normal life of the country home. It is wiser for a municipality to spend money in preventing vice and crime than to spend it in the trial and punishment of criminals.
The daily average number of inmates for 1906 at the In-firmary, our Home in the city for the Aged and Dependent Poor, was 556. We have tried to add to the healthfulness and comfort of our old institution, but are looking forward to the time when we can make the environment of these dependent ones better and happier at the Farm Colony.
These include the main Hospital, the Children's Hospital, the Tubercular Hospital in the city, and the Tuberculosis San-atorium at the Farm at Warrensville. These hospitals had an average of 320 patients during the year. FIRE DRUX, BOYS' HOME DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 7
The increased number of tuberculosis patients has rendered it impossible to discontinue the use of the Tuberculosis Hospital in the city. This hospital will be used until the completion of the large permanent Sanatorium at the Farm.
We have long felt the need of larger and better equipped wards for contagious diseases, and it has been decided to build, as soon as possible, a separate contagious disease hospital on the grounds of the City Hospital. The growth of the City and the lack of such accommodations in other hospitals render it important that some adequate provision be made for the patients suffering from diphtheria, scarlet fever, and other contagious diseases.
Our general plan includes the establishment of a Conva-lescent Hospital on the Farm at Warrensville. A special hos-pital street car, with beds and nurses, can furnish the transpor-tation from our hospital in the City to the Convalescent Hos-pital in the country. It is hoped in time to establish two addi-tional separate hospitals on the Farm for cancer cases and for venereal diseases.
The total number of persons assisted during the year was 7,033, at a cost for fuel, shoes, groceries and supplies of $29,-8 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE
690.97, as against 7,834 persons in 1905, at an expense of $32,-968.52 for the same items. There are multitudes who do not come to us, and who are engaged in a desperate struggle for the bare necessities of life and who continually live on the verge of want and misery.-
The rule is to investigate all cases before giving relief. Whenever it is practicable, those receiving aid are required to do work. There are many applications from the crippled with injured limbs, or arms, or hands, and from those grown too old to do a full day's work. The destitute mothers, left alone with a number of small children, must be helped. The fact of the congestion of the poor in districts by themselves makes it di-f-ficult for private charity to reach many who are in distress and want. The purpose is to give help with the least possible harm to the recipient. While in some instances this form of out-door relief is unwise and harmful in its results, yet, under pres-ent industrial and social conditions, no other method seems pos-sible. By the kindly aid of our city Dental Society, we are now able to help the children of our families in the care of their teeth.
The receipts, together with the balance on hand for the entire Infirmary Department, have been $295,000.18, and the expenditures $286,599.24.. Detailed reports are further submit-ted by the Superintendent and other officials.
The daily average number of prisoners during 1906 was 428, as compared with 404 in 1905, an increase of 24 prisoners. Most of them have served short terms, consequently their work has not been very productive financially. Primarily, we are not trying to conduct a factory, but a House of Correction.
The radical change in the principle of dealing mercifully with these so-called criminals has been continued with grati-fying results. The reason for this changed attitude is that mercy and kindness are the strongest elements in the reformation of men and women. Bitter severity of punishment neither pro-tects society nor decreases crime. There are many who are im-DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION
prisoned because they cannot pay a fine. While not so techni-cally, yet, in reality, they are prisoners for debt.
Some mistakes have been made, but the method of parol-ing is increasingly efficient, and in many cases brings a new hope and better life. There has been improvement and development in the use of our system of paroling prisoners.
On account of the increasing work, the office of Assistant Parole Officer has been created. A Parole Matron has also been appointed, to give to the women the opportunities which have worked so successfully with the men.
In the cases of neglect of families, our parole system has been especially effective, the paroles having been made on the condition that the wages should be turned over to the family. This certainly is wiser and better than to keep the breadwinner locked in prison.
has continued with increasing success. There are over a hun-dred scholars. The school is self-governing. All branches, from the primer to the higher mathematics and art are taught. Most of the teachers are from among the inmates of the institution. The school has demonstrated that it is possible to do a valuable educational work, even for the short-term prisoners of the House of Correction.
Under the leadership of the Parole Officers, our paroled prisoners have organized a Brotherhood, the purpose of which is to find opportunities for employment and furnish to released prisoners a comfortable home until they are able to pay their own way. It is not a charity. It has been supported by the men themselves. 10
During the year, the Brotherhood moved into a temporary home and purchased, on credit, equipment for a kitchen, dining room and dormitories. These have been paid for and are now the property of the Brotherhood. Aside from the use of the buildings, the Home is self-sustaining. Over two hundred men have been helped, and these men have paid into the Home for board and other expenses nearly $6,000, which they have earned by honest labor in the shops and factories of our city. It is hoped to establish this Home in some permanent quarters.
Only those who have had to do with released prisoners can understand the practical help of the Brotherhood. Its doors aré open when men most need a kindly shelter and an opportunity to work. Its comfortably dressed men going and coming from their daily toil inspire a new hope in the paroled prisoners— that they too can "make good." That the men are helping oth-ers who have been in the same trouble is an additional stimulus to right living. The Brotherhood furnishes this immediate op-portunity to work, to live, and to help some other fellows who are down.
The City maintains eight cemeteries. The larger ones are laid out on broad lines, and will be developed into magnificent burial parks. The sale of lots in West Park and Highland Park is rapidly increasing. The income from these will maintain for many years the smaller and older of the City's burial places.
At the Highland Park Cemetery, which adjoins and is a part of the City's Farm at Warrensville, the trusties from our House of Correction have worked at crushing stone and road making. We feel confident that numbers of our prison popu-lation can be used to great advantage in the construction of the roads and drives in this new cemetery and on the Farm Colony.
To this department come the unemployed, the aged, the poor, the sick, the suffering, the demented, the erring, and the criminal. Most of them are the unfortunate victims of our un-DIVISION
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just social conditions. They belong to the unprivileged or the submerged classes. The slums of our cities form the breeding ground for disease, vice and crime. These congested quarters of poverty, misery and wretchedness threaten the life of the body social.
We realize that in most of our work we are not curing the social disease, but we are trying to relieve present suffering and distress. Back of the superficial and temporary help, there has been an effort to find the underlying cause of human misery and shame and sin. The lack of opportunity to earn a comfortable living crowds many into the defective, delinquent or criminal classes. To realize our common inheritance in the earth's re-sources is fundamental to a general betterment. The wisest philanthropy is that which seeks the cause of poverty and wretch-edness and strives to realize just social and industrial relations. Simple justice which opens opportunities for men and women to help themselves—this is the only rational basis for charity. Our deepest need is social righteousness and justice. p
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% PRINCIPAL, HEAD NURSES AND PUPILS: CITY HOSPITAL .TRAINING SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES OFFICERS.
. Emde. Superintendent
Mary A. Quinn Principal of Training School
. Drushai Steward, Infirmary
l Matron, Infirmary
Jessie M. Emde Matron, Hospital
Ella Mulcahy Matron, Sanatorium
CLEVELAND FARM COLONY.
Dr. J. C. Placak Physician in Charge
Blanche Watt Matron, Sanatorium
Arthur Abell Steward, Sanatorium
Nettie Reynolds Matron, Infirmary Division CITY TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM / 5
Cleveland, December 31, 1906. Hon. Harris R. Cooley, Director of Public Service.
My Dear Mr. Cooley :—It gives me great pleasure to sub-mit to you herewith my sixth annual report of the Department of Public Charities of this City, operating the City Infirmary, the various Hospitals, the Cleveland Farm Colony, and the Out-door Relief Department.
The tabulated statements attached hereto show in detail the amount of money received and the purpose for which expended, the number of patients, aged and infirm, insane, and the indi-gent out-door poor, the births, deaths, and the results of the vari-ous industries maintained by this department.
A glance at Table No. 1 will show that the total expendi-tures for the year, exclusive of land purchased, were $197,539.93, compared with $192,480.60 for the year previous, showing an in-crease of about $5,000 for the year. This increase is more than offset by the amount paid as salaries to employes during 1906, as compared with the year previous, and, although the daily average population in all of the institutions was thirty-seven more than during 1905, and the average daily increase in hos-pital patients nearly seventy-five during each day of the year, the cost of maintenance was over $2,000 less, which is accounted for by the fact that the Cleveland Farm Colony produced nearly $7,000 worth of products which were consumed by the various institutions.
The cause for the increase, in our pay-roll is due mainly to the fact that we opened a Sanatorium for the treatment of con-sumptives on our Farm Colony at Warrensville, necessitating the employment of attendants and others to care for these pa-tients. 16
The expenditure in the Out-door Relief Department shows a decrease of over $3,000, compared with 1905, and of over $9,000, compared with 1904, accounted for, no doubt, by reason of able-bodied men seeking employment being able to get it, the greatest falling off during both years being in the number of heads of families applying to the City for relief. Widows and deserted wives, with their dependent children, are on the in-crease, and even they have fared much better during the past year than ever before.
While it is true that the demands on the Out-door Relief Department have decreased, the number of persons applying for admission to the Infirmary, the City Hospital, and especially the Tuberculosis Hospitals, have greatly increased, one hundred and thirty-one more persons being in our institutions on December 31 this year than a year ago on the same date.
Of the total number of patients, 3,214 cared for in our hos-pitals during the year, over half were native born; the remainder were from thirty-seven different countries, nearly every nation being represented.
The number of deaths during the year aggregated 513, and the births 71, both the largest in the history of the institution.
A total of over one and one-quarter million meals were furnished to inmates, patients, and attendants, being nearly equiv-alent to furnishing every man, woman and child in this. great city with one day's board.
The event of the year was on July 30, when one hundred and five tubercular patients, with attendants, physicians and nurses, were transferred, on special cars, from the old Tubercu-losis Sanatorium to the new temporary building at Warrensville, and, while we had had a number of Infirmary inmates on the Farm for over a year previous, this day was really the red-letter day in the history of the Cleveland Farm Colony, as it is for this class of patients the greatest necessity existed for the establish-ment of our Farm Colony. We had hoped that when this re-moval of patients was made, we would be able to convert the old Sanatorium into a hospital for contagious diseases. The TUBERCULOSIS
: FARM COLONY Lean-tos under the trees DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION
building was thoroughly overhauled and put into first-class con-dition, and, long before its completion, we were confronted with the necessity of again opening it for tubercular patients, with the result that it is now again filled to its capacity. Had we had accommodations for 250 patients at the Farm Colony, we would just about have been able to care for those who made applica-tion. It is therefore urgent that the construction of a permanent Sanatorium be undertaken at as early a date as possible, as with our two hospitals we are now and have for some time past been unable to care for all tubercular patients who apply to us, and it is manifestly much better that this class of patients be in the country than in the city.
Again I express the hope that before the end of 1907 we will be able to move all of our Infirmary inmates to the new buildings being erected at Warrensville, for which contracts have been let and active work is to begin early next spring. The ex-tremely crowded condition of the Infirmary and the general con-dition of the buildings (only absolutely necessary repairs having been made on account of its early abandonment) make it not only desirable, but almost imperative that the removal take place next year.
I would recommend that steps be taken to dispose of the farm we have on Lorain Avenue, also the old Detention Hos-pital Farm in Newburg, as we are deriving no benefit from either, and the money received therefor could be invested to much bet-ter advantage in acquiring more land adjacent to the Farm Colony.
I would also recommend that immediate steps be taken to build a new hospital for contagious diseases in the rear of the City Hospital, the necessity for which has been apparent for many years. Also, that money be appropriated for remodeling the entire plumbing system in the« City Hospital.
Active work is now in progress whereby, in a very short time, we will be able to dispense with the use of gas for illumi-nating purposes entirely in the City Hosp'iicrir-and instead, use 18
electric lights with current furnished by the Municipal Lighting Plant.
Again extending to you especially, and the other members of the Board of Public Service my sincerest thanks for the kindly and considerate manner in which I have been treated; also my appreciation of the services rendered by all of those who have been associated with me during the year in administering the af-fairs of the Department of. Public Charities, I am Respectfully yours,
Superintendent. TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM Tent of one of the patients TUBERCULOSIS
M Lean-tos in the winter DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 19
TABLE No. 1. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR YEAR 1906.
Cash on hand January 1, 1906 $ 18,625 29
Received from Dow and Aiken Tax 240,786 47
Received from Cigarette Tax 1,583 64
Received from Cuyahoga County for Board of Poor 23,803 44
Received from non-resident poor 1,949 60
Received from sale of produce, etc 1,108 42
Received from transportation and burials 2,840 20
Received from miscellaneous 3,985 62
Received from sale of land 47-100-acre Pest House Farm 300 00
Received from refund payrolls 17 50
Total to be accounted for... $ 295,000 18
For supervision and attendance $ 46,526 19
For office furniture and fixtures 49 25
For hospital and infirmary furniture 2,896 46
For implements 422 15
For horses, wagons, harness, etc 2,787 00
For live stock 1,042 00
Farm Colony supplies 108,334 63
For office supplies and stationery 674 92
For farm supplies 806 05
For care of horses and repair of wagons, etc 1,248 87
For Out-Door Relief supplies 22,056 67
For Out-Door Relief transportation 265 80
For Out-Door Relief burials • 3,644 50
For repairs 5,062 31
For - incidentals 855 09
For land 89,059 31
For buildings 868 04
Total expenditures $ 286,599 24
Cash on hand January 1, 1907 8,400 94
$ 295,000 18 20
OUT-DOOR RELIEF, NUMBER OF PERSONS HELPED DURING 1906.
Widows 661
Widowers 24
Grass widows 360
Children included in families 5,087
Total 7,033 DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION TABLE No, 3. OUT-DOOR RELIEF EXPENDITURES 1906.
Salaries of investigators $ 1,800 00
Salaries of storekeepers 1,620 00
Salaries of coal inspector 304 00
$ 3,724 00
Paid for shoes, 5,287 pairs issued (average cost per pair,
$1.09%) $ 5,806 50
Paid for coal, 3,557 tons issued (average cost per ton,
$2.66) 9,456 20
Paid for transportation 265 80
Paid for burials and interments 3,644 50
Paid for groceries and other supplies 6,793 97
Total amount expended year 1906 $ 29,690 97
Total amount expended year 1905 32,968 53
Decrease for year 1906 $ 3,277 56 22
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE TABLE No. 4.
RELIEF—SUPPLIE
S ISSUED DURING THE ' YEAR 1906.
| Flour. | Corn I meal. Pounds. I Pounds.
15,220 15,360 14,904 9,254 5,140 4,814 4,472 5,168 4.709 6,826 8,973 11,340
240 292 342 194 100 114 106 74 58 82 168 232
Total weights, 216,430% pounds. Total number of packages, 96,552. Total issued, 1,045. DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 23
TABLE No. 4—Concluded.
OUTDOOR RELIEF—SUPPLIES ISSUED DURING THE
Beans. 1 Pounds.
Tea. 1 Pounds. |.
Coffe. 1 3ounds.|
Rice. | Oatmeal 1 Sugar | Pounds. | Pounds. | Pounds. |
Barley. Pounds.
Soap. Pounds.
Lentils. Pounds.
3,500 3,504 3,730 2,560 1,273 1,213 1,244 1,152 1,185 1,672 2,084 2,540
619J4
501% 25054 245 | 25054 254 274% 334% 413 573
483 485 482 323
196 213 200 265 294 384
2,011 1,977 2,053 1,522 743 786 826 862 894 1,186 1,378 1,828
846 764 836 510 290 282 278 258 294 308 548 600
2,770 2,679 2,973 2,143 1,342 1,340 1,220 1.345 1,287 1,545 1,847 2,332
570 510 512 322 154 180 214 266 226 290 382 453
1,884 1,698 1,830 1,563 926 894
984 1,024
985 1,266 1,444 1,862
144 137 167 165 127 158 116 90 85 84 94 114
12,82E
22 82;
J 740 1
Number of issues, 15,006. Daily average of rations issued, 49. Work orders. 24
OUTDOOR RELIEF—AMOUNT EXPENDED DURING THE YEAR 1906 FOR SUPPLIES.
January $ 2,998 23
February 3,269 23
March 2,845 74
APril 3,942 99
May 906 13
June 161 77
July 555 49
August 194 94
September 1,037 78
October 193 07
November 1,381 74
December 4,569 56
$ 22,056 67 DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 25 TABLE No. 6.
OUTDOOR RELIEF—NATIVITIES OF FAMILIES RE-LIEVED DURING THE YEAR 1906.
Bohemia 118
France ...... 4
Italy ..! 70
Poland .... 230
Switzerland ..'. 20
Slavonia 102
Scotland '... 21
COMPARATIVE TABLE OF COST AND MAINTENANCE 1905 AND 1906.
Average daily population in the institution 867
Total cost of maintenance supplies for year $ 110,188 39
Fixed charges "(salaries and attendance) for year 36,690 36
Total cost $ 146,878 75
Average per capita cost of maintenance at Infirmary, Hospital, Tuberculosis Sanatorium and Farm Col-ony, per annum 127 09
Average per capita cost of maintenance and attendance at Infirmary, Hospital, Tuberculosis Sanatorium and
Farm Colony per annum 169 41
Daily average population in institution 904
Total cost of maintenance supplies for year $ 108,334 63
Total cost $ 151,136 82
Average per capita cost of maintenance at Hospital, In-firmary, Tuberculosis Sanatorium and Farm Col-ony per annum ;.. $ 119 85
Average per capita cost of maintenance and attendance at Hospital, Infirmary, Tuberculosis Sanatorium and
Farm Colony per annum $ 167 18 DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION
CITY INFIRMARY BAKERY—REPORT OF BAKER FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1906.
' 390
Cakes, I Cookies, Dozen. I Dozen.
Cakes, 12 lbs.ea.
115 120 100 125 120
120 115 110 120 130 110 120 125 130 125 120
NUMBER OF PIECES MADE IN SEWING ROOM AT CITY HOSPITAL DURING THE YEAR 1906.
Special Hospital Clothing.
Children's Hospital Clothing.
Clothing for Surgical Cases.
"3! S o
Roller Towels.
Sash Screens . and Curtains.
Doctors' Hoods.-
Dress Scarfs.
2o'i 346
220 4 123 78 180 12
72 179 100 125 9 20 38 162 33 60 44 92
56 313 36 480 250 248 96
30 271 668
13 15 ....
32 18 29 12
200 464 52
47 TABLE No. 10.
NUMBER OF PIECES MADE IN SEWING ROOM AT MIDDLE HOUSE DURING THE YEAR 1906.
D resses.
1 Aprons.
Men's Underdrawers.
Ladies' Undershirts.
Ladies' Underdraw- I ers.
Underwaists.
Baker Aprons.
98 114 84 156 186 168
720 60 408
72 60 137
66 18 30 74 60 43
15 3 3 8 2
27 31 20 20 68
161 72 144
60 72 60 29
. 11. ANNUAL AND MONTHLY REPORT OF INMATES,
Tuberculo's Sanat'm Div
Tuberculo's Sanatorium F'rm Colony
Infirmary Division I "'rm Colony
85 124 5 121 9
85 13 82
2 73 52 1
592 264 5
205 18 638 190 1
145 26 658 215 5
249 102 4 80 6 269 75 1 67 11 267 112 2
841 366 9 285 24 907 265 2 212 37 925 327 7
396 59 •
5 8 79 19
3 3 22 8
11 11 76 24
4 1 25 12
. 11—Continued.
Discharged Deaths April 1, 1906... Received ..
Discharged Deaths ... May 1, 1906... Received .
Discharged Deaths ... June 1, 1906.. Received .
12 2 146 15
13 108 112 5 94 24 107 125 2 94 17 123 110 5 96
63 1 67 6 71 71 8 60 7 ' 83 69 4 69
1 uberculo's Sanatorium
Tuberculo's Sanat'm Div F'rm Colony
7 1 20 18
14 77 28
23 12 70 21
10 64 38
2 3 32 13
16 3 21 7
Infirmary Division F'rm Colony
164 31 683 197 5 245 38 602 218 2 191 31 600 196 5
Co <y ofa
76 13 292 90 1 104 10 269 117 8
240 44 975
349 48 871 335 10
882 294 9 277 TABLE
Discharged ... Deaths
19 123 92
3 99 17
6 "81 77 5 66 8 89 52 2 56 8 79
Tuberculo's Sanatorium
67 8 19 16
33 '591 234
217 29 582 193
37 585 179 1 133 32
275 140 5 112 13 295 105 2 96 11 295 85 1 93 18
42 866 374 8 329 42 877 298 6 253
264 2 226 50 TABLE No. 11—Continued.
October 1, 1906.. Received
Discharged ..
November 1, 1906. Received
December 1, 1906. Received
Discharged .., Deaths
On hand January 1, 1907..r.
30 2 336 83
45 2 372 79
11 2 159 12
101 97 2 81 12 107 117 1 97 16 112 113 1
3 5 31 18
Tuberculo's Sanat'mDiv F'rm Colony
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962 34 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE
NUMBER RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR 1906 BY MONTHS.
3,747 DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 35 TABLE No. 13.
NUMBER OF BIRTHS DURING THE YEAR 1906 BY MONTHS.
January -.....'
June .....;
TABLE No. 14T
NUMBER OF DEATHS DURING THE YEAR 1906 BY MONTHS.
July : —...
513 " DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 37
NUMBER OF DISCHARGES DURING THE YEAR 1906 BY'MONTHS.
June .... ..... • • | H • - • •
3,184 TABLE
. 16. NATIONALITIES.
Children's Hospital. .
Middle. -
Tuberculosis Sanatorium Farm Colony.
Infirmary Division Farm Colony.
71 109 46 32
13 39 5 3
. 16—Continued.
Children's -Hospital.
TubercujosiS Sanatorium Farm Colony.
4> rt ü
6 39 6 33 32 11 ,12 3 5 3 1 1 1 2
9 30 21 14 2 3 1 2 3 3
TABLE No. 16—Continued.
DAILY AVERAGE OF EACH MONTH IN THE YEAR 1906.
•¿i.. fü *
Ó "ñ I
Female. ;
12,020 11,479
1,255 1,155 1,301
4,315 4,410 4,382 4,455
1,256 1,208 1,249
9,473 9,546
• 2,561
Total ^ ......
Daily average for 1906.
Increase for 1906
AVERAGES—MONTHL
Y AND YEARLY TOTALS.
36,812 101
28,646 78
6,585 18
5,876 16
5,122 14
128,451 352
.53,710 147
15,084 42
9,756 27
9,934 27
329,893 904
o R . DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 43
TABLE No. 19. RECAPITULATION OF TABLES No. 12, 13, 14 AND 15.
On hand January 1, 1906
•Received during the year
'2,137
J 4,659
TABLE No. 20. AMBULANCE RUNS DURING THE YEAR 1906.
February ••••.•
April ,...' 55
May ; 72
June — *
"September • 50
October '••
755 TABLE No. 21. £
STATEMENT OF WORK DONE AT THE CITY HOSPITAL AND INFIRMARY LAUNDRY IN 1906.
Female 1st Floor.
Female 2nd Floor.
| Consumption. |
u bo s fi
Sanatorium.,
"(3 o H
4,£93
• 4,780
718,620 DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION
REPORT OF CROPS CLEVELAND FARM COLONY, INFIRMARY DIVISION, FROM MAY 1 TO DECEMBER 1, 1906.
Milk -. 9,000 Gallons
Potatoes . 3,500 Bushel
Hay ., 105 Tons
Oats 1,000 Bushel
Corn ........:.....-. 400 Bushel
Straw ... 20 Tons
Apples 740 Bushel
Crab Apples 30
Raspberries •— -.' 8
Butter Beans • 30
Carrots ...............i...' 108
Lettuce * -.... 10
Potatoes ... 90
Squashes, Summer 65
Parsnips 105
Corn 900 Dozen
Cabbage •. 12,000 Head
Cucumbers 5,450
Celery v 5,000
Squashes, Winter jg| ,-.. • ••• •»•'• 200
Cider 1,226 Gallons 46
F SHOES PURCHASED AND DIS-BURSED DURING YEAR 1906.
On hand January 1, 1906 114
Purchased January 977
Disbursed January 824
On hand February 1 267
Purchased February 714
Disbursed February 786
On hand March 1 195
Purchased March 1,081
Disbursed March 934
On hand April 1. 342
Purchased April 324
Disbursed April 497
On hand May 1 169
Disbursed May 8
On hand June 1 161
On hand July 1 15»
Disbursed July -
On hand August 1 157
Disbursed August ...'
On hand September 1 157
Purchased September 456-
Disbursed September 304
On hand October 1 309-
Purchased October • 517
Disbursed October 534
On hand November 1 292
Purchased November 540
Disbursed November 592
On hand December 1 240
Purchased December .. 805
Disbursed December 804
On hand January 1, 1907...... 241
F CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 4T
Number of sboes on hand January 1, 1906 114 Pairs-
Purchased during the year 5,414 "
Total to be accounted for... 5,528 Pairs
Disbursed during the year ... 5,287 "
On hand January 1, 1907 241 Pairs-
STATEMENT CLEVELAND FARM COLONY. HOSPITAL FUND 21.
Balance on hand, loan on bonds January 1, 1906 $ 61,642 34
$ 61,642 34-
Buildings $ 24,099 53
Equipments 12,580 67
Engineering 52 69
$ 36,732 89"
Cash on hand December 31, 1906
$ 24,909 45-
Title Annual Report - Division of Charities and Corrections 1906
Filename Annual Report - Division of Charities and Corrections 1906
Title Charities and Corrections 1906 Part 1
Transcript Annual Report of the Board of Public Service Division of Charities, Correction and Cemeteries of the City of Cleveland, O. for the Year Ending December 31, 1906 3 go,on I C6» 3 HARRIS R. COOLEY, Director of Public Service, DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION The Division of Charities and Correction includes the fol-lowing: The Farm Colony, the old Infirmary, the Hospitals, the Farm of Correction, the House of Correction, the Training Home for Boys, and the Cemeteries. There are two separate MUNICIPAL FARMS. The first is the great farm at Warrensville, which has over nine-teen hundred (1,900) acres, or three square miles of land. This is located on the Chagrin Falls Suburban line, and is nine and ten miles from the Public Square. This great tract has absorbed more than twenty farms, and was purchased at an average of $168 per acre. On this tract are to be built in colonies or vil-lages, the Infirmary, the Convalescent Hospital, the Detention Hospital, the Tuberculosis Sanatorium, the House of Correction, and the other institutions of this department. The second of the City's Farms is for the truant and way-ward boys. It is twenty-three miles from the City, and contains two hundred and eighty-five (285) acres. It was purchased at a cost of less than $44 per acre. On this farm are the cottages of the Boys' Home. The Infirmary Department of the farm at Warrensville is known as THE FARM COLONY. As the fundamental principle of our movement is to return to the natural life of the country, it is essential that as large an area as possible be provided for the thousands who will in the future become residents of the Colony. During the year, four hundred and forty (440) acres have been added to the Farm. In order to provide" for future needs, it is desirable to still fur-4 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE ther increase its area. About forty of our old men from the Infirmary are living at the Colony, and our experience with them has given us great confidence in the proposed plan of removing all of our Infirmary people to the great Farm. The plan is to have the new Infirmary Village of the Farm Colony grouped about a central quadrangle, which encloses a Service Court. Facing upon this open court are to be an engine room, bath rooms, laundry, bakery, pantry and kitchen. These buildings will be of marble dust plaster finish with red tile roofs. The cottages are to radiate from each corner of this Quadrangle, giving the effect of a country village. This is to be situated on a high ridge six hundred feet above the City, and looking out upon the lake, ten miles distant. The City has entered into con-tract for the construction of this Service Quadrangle for $124,-000. With the completion of these buildings, all of the inmates of the Infirmary can become residents of the Farm Colony. This will provide for the unfortunate ones happier surroundings in which to spend the declining years of their lives. It will also prove of great benefit to all the people of Cleveland, by giving to them the consciousness of dealing more fairly and generously with the aged poor and the crippled who are' in our midst. THE TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM. The temporary Tuberculosis Sanatorium at the farm at Warrensville has been completed, with accommodations for over one hundred patients. The Sanatorium was constructed with reference to the out-door treatment which has proved so suc-cessful. Three lean-tos have been provided for the accommo-dation of sixty of the patients who spend their days and nights practically out of doors. A new building is nearly completed, which will provide a sun-room, to be used also as a recreation room and an auditorium for the residents of this group. During the coming year it is expected to start the building of a permanent Tuberculosis Sanatorium on the summit of the high ridge which overlooks miles of the surrounding country. It will be about a half mile from the Infirmary Village. In this DIVISION O F CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 5 Sanatorium ample provisions must be made for the care of a large number of patients. The conflict with tuberculosis, or the white plague, is assuming such proportions that the municipality must meet it with adequate provisions for the care and cure of. the unfortunate victims of this disease. THE FARM OF CORRECTION. At the House of Correction 'division of the Farm Colony at Warrensville, fifty to seventy Workhouse prisoners have been kept. Two new buildings have been erected, which are known as the "Trustees' Lodges." They will accommodate in all one hundred and fifty men. This is the first of the House of Cor-rection buildings at the Farm. This group will be located on an ideal site, more than a mile from the other villages. We are able to relieve the winter congestion at the City House of Cor-rection by thus removing a part of the population to the Trustees' Lodges on the Farm. Our experience with prisoners at the Farm gives us greater confidence in the successful working out of the plan to use many of the prisoners in quarrying and crush-ing stone, in road making, in farming and other out-door occu-pations. The latest government statistics show that prison labor is most effective in such employment. It is far better for the prisoners and better for the public. Our plan for the future is to build a permanent, modern House of Correction on the Farm, so that the old Workhouse in the City can be abandoned. We hope to see prisoners sen-tenced directly to the Farm of Correction. THE BOYS' HOME. During the year another cottage and a school have been added to the Boys' Farm at Hudson, Ohio. The cottage will accommodate the usual family of master and matron and fifteen boys. The school house has been built large enough to provide four school rooms and a good auditorium. We now have a vil-lage of eight cottages, with accommodations for one hundred and twenty boys. The gymnasium is being furnished. When all 6 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE the building construction is completed, a manual training de-partment will be started. The method of dealing with these unfortunate boys, most of whom are the victims of adverse conditions, is to give them a fair chance for healthful living. The simple principle under-lying our homes is that normal conditions develop normal boys. It is realizing for them their common birthright in the earth and sky. It is surprising how soon they respond to the new surroundings and opportunities which the return to nature gives. The fields, pastures, trees, brooks and gardens under the open sky form a good tonic for a wayward lad. They are possessed of great fondness for the animals. The horses, cattle, sheep, donkeys, dogs—all are their friends. We are simply trying to develop wholesome, fun-loving, hearty boys, who, we trust, will grow up to do a manly work for the world instead of being criminals and a burden to society. We hope in the future to have a Home for Girls similar to the Boys' Home. With moderate outlay, a home could be estab-lished in connection with the Farm at Warrensville, thus restor-ing the unfortunate girls to the normal life of the country home. It is wiser for a municipality to spend money in preventing vice and crime than to spend it in the trial and punishment of criminals. THE OLD INFIRMARY. The daily average number of inmates for 1906 at the In-firmary, our Home in the city for the Aged and Dependent Poor, was 556. We have tried to add to the healthfulness and comfort of our old institution, but are looking forward to the time when we can make the environment of these dependent ones better and happier at the Farm Colony. THE CITY HOSPITALS. These include the main Hospital, the Children's Hospital, the Tubercular Hospital in the city, and the Tuberculosis San-atorium at the Farm at Warrensville. These hospitals had an average of 320 patients during the year. FIRE DRUX, BOYS' HOME DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 7 The increased number of tuberculosis patients has rendered it impossible to discontinue the use of the Tuberculosis Hospital in the city. This hospital will be used until the completion of the large permanent Sanatorium at the Farm. The members of the Visiting Staff, composed of about fifty of our most skilled physicians and surgeons, have given their services to the hospital without remuneration. To them, the City, as well as the sick, owes a debt of gratitude. The Homeopathic School of Medicine now has a recognized place in the Hospital, and is represented by a Visiting Staff and two house physicians. To their medical care are committed one-fourth of all the patients. There are now in all eight house physicians in attendance. Besides the graduate nurses, there are forty nurses in the Nurses' Training School. THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASE HOSPITAL. We have long felt the need of larger and better equipped wards for contagious diseases, and it has been decided to build, as soon as possible, a separate contagious disease hospital on the grounds of the City Hospital. The growth of the City and the lack of such accommodations in other hospitals render it important that some adequate provision be made for the patients suffering from diphtheria, scarlet fever, and other contagious diseases. THE CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL. Our general plan includes the establishment of a Conva-lescent Hospital on the Farm at Warrensville. A special hos-pital street car, with beds and nurses, can furnish the transpor-tation from our hospital in the City to the Convalescent Hos-pital in the country. It is hoped in time to establish two addi-tional separate hospitals on the Farm for cancer cases and for venereal diseases. THE OUT-DOOR RELIEF. The total number of persons assisted during the year was 7,033, at a cost for fuel, shoes, groceries and supplies of $29,-8 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE 690.97, as against 7,834 persons in 1905, at an expense of $32,-968.52 for the same items. There are multitudes who do not come to us, and who are engaged in a desperate struggle for the bare necessities of life and who continually live on the verge of want and misery.- The rule is to investigate all cases before giving relief. Whenever it is practicable, those receiving aid are required to do work. There are many applications from the crippled with injured limbs, or arms, or hands, and from those grown too old to do a full day's work. The destitute mothers, left alone with a number of small children, must be helped. The fact of the congestion of the poor in districts by themselves makes it di-f-ficult for private charity to reach many who are in distress and want. The purpose is to give help with the least possible harm to the recipient. While in some instances this form of out-door relief is unwise and harmful in its results, yet, under pres-ent industrial and social conditions, no other method seems pos-sible. By the kindly aid of our city Dental Society, we are now able to help the children of our families in the care of their teeth. The receipts, together with the balance on hand for the entire Infirmary Department, have been $295,000.18, and the expenditures $286,599.24.. Detailed reports are further submit-ted by the Superintendent and other officials. THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION. The daily average number of prisoners during 1906 was 428, as compared with 404 in 1905, an increase of 24 prisoners. Most of them have served short terms, consequently their work has not been very productive financially. Primarily, we are not trying to conduct a factory, but a House of Correction. The radical change in the principle of dealing mercifully with these so-called criminals has been continued with grati-fying results. The reason for this changed attitude is that mercy and kindness are the strongest elements in the reformation of men and women. Bitter severity of punishment neither pro-tects society nor decreases crime. There are many who are im-DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 9 prisoned because they cannot pay a fine. While not so techni-cally, yet, in reality, they are prisoners for debt. Some mistakes have been made, but the method of parol-ing is increasingly efficient, and in many cases brings a new hope and better life. There has been improvement and development in the use of our system of paroling prisoners. On account of the increasing work, the office of Assistant Parole Officer has been created. A Parole Matron has also been appointed, to give to the women the opportunities which have worked so successfully with the men. In the cases of neglect of families, our parole system has been especially effective, the paroles having been made on the condition that the wages should be turned over to the family. This certainly is wiser and better than to keep the breadwinner locked in prison. The percentage of those who are returned to the House of Correction has decreased, and more and better reports have been sent in from our paroled prisoners. An effort has been made to secure positions, as a good opportunity to earn a living is one of the greatest preventives of crime. THE NIGHT SCHOOL has continued with increasing success. There are over a hun-dred scholars. The school is self-governing. All branches, from the primer to the higher mathematics and art are taught. Most of the teachers are from among the inmates of the institution. The school has demonstrated that it is possible to do a valuable educational work, even for the short-term prisoners of the House of Correction. THE BROTHERHOOD. Under the leadership of the Parole Officers, our paroled prisoners have organized a Brotherhood, the purpose of which is to find opportunities for employment and furnish to released prisoners a comfortable home until they are able to pay their own way. It is not a charity. It has been supported by the men themselves. 10 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE During the year, the Brotherhood moved into a temporary home and purchased, on credit, equipment for a kitchen, dining room and dormitories. These have been paid for and are now the property of the Brotherhood. Aside from the use of the buildings, the Home is self-sustaining. Over two hundred men have been helped, and these men have paid into the Home for board and other expenses nearly $6,000, which they have earned by honest labor in the shops and factories of our city. It is hoped to establish this Home in some permanent quarters. Only those who have had to do with released prisoners can understand the practical help of the Brotherhood. Its doors aré open when men most need a kindly shelter and an opportunity to work. Its comfortably dressed men going and coming from their daily toil inspire a new hope in the paroled prisoners— that they too can "make good." That the men are helping oth-ers who have been in the same trouble is an additional stimulus to right living. The Brotherhood furnishes this immediate op-portunity to work, to live, and to help some other fellows who are down. THE CEMETERIES. The City maintains eight cemeteries. The larger ones are laid out on broad lines, and will be developed into magnificent burial parks. The sale of lots in West Park and Highland Park is rapidly increasing. The income from these will maintain for many years the smaller and older of the City's burial places. At the Highland Park Cemetery, which adjoins and is a part of the City's Farm at Warrensville, the trusties from our House of Correction have worked at crushing stone and road making. We feel confident that numbers of our prison popu-lation can be used to great advantage in the construction of the roads and drives in this new cemetery and on the Farm Colony. OUR MUNICIPAL CHARITIES. To this department come the unemployed, the aged, the poor, the sick, the suffering, the demented, the erring, and the criminal. Most of them are the unfortunate victims of our un-DIVISION O F CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 11 just social conditions. They belong to the unprivileged or the submerged classes. The slums of our cities form the breeding ground for disease, vice and crime. These congested quarters of poverty, misery and wretchedness threaten the life of the body social. We realize that in most of our work we are not curing the social disease, but we are trying to relieve present suffering and distress. Back of the superficial and temporary help, there has been an effort to find the underlying cause of human misery and shame and sin. The lack of opportunity to earn a comfortable living crowds many into the defective, delinquent or criminal classes. To realize our common inheritance in the earth's re-sources is fundamental to a general betterment. The wisest philanthropy is that which seeks the cause of poverty and wretch-edness and strives to realize just social and industrial relations. Simple justice which opens opportunities for men and women to help themselves—this is the only rational basis for charity. Our deepest need is social righteousness and justice. p ¿1 RiVÄ'-r.; m % PRINCIPAL, HEAD NURSES AND PUPILS: CITY HOSPITAL .TRAINING SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES OFFICERS. Fred C . Emde. Superintendent Emil F. Saeltzer Secretary Mary A. Quinn Principal of Training School J. R . Drushai Steward, Infirmary Margaret Carrol l Matron, Infirmary Jessie M. Emde Matron, Hospital Ella Mulcahy Matron, Sanatorium CLEVELAND FARM COLONY. Dr. J. C. Placak Physician in Charge Blanche Watt Matron, Sanatorium Arthur Abell Steward, Sanatorium Nettie Reynolds Matron, Infirmary Division CITY TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM / 5 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES Cleveland, December 31, 1906. Hon. Harris R. Cooley, Director of Public Service. My Dear Mr. Cooley :—It gives me great pleasure to sub-mit to you herewith my sixth annual report of the Department of Public Charities of this City, operating the City Infirmary, the various Hospitals, the Cleveland Farm Colony, and the Out-door Relief Department. The tabulated statements attached hereto show in detail the amount of money received and the purpose for which expended, the number of patients, aged and infirm, insane, and the indi-gent out-door poor, the births, deaths, and the results of the vari-ous industries maintained by this department. A glance at Table No. 1 will show that the total expendi-tures for the year, exclusive of land purchased, were $197,539.93, compared with $192,480.60 for the year previous, showing an in-crease of about $5,000 for the year. This increase is more than offset by the amount paid as salaries to employes during 1906, as compared with the year previous, and, although the daily average population in all of the institutions was thirty-seven more than during 1905, and the average daily increase in hos-pital patients nearly seventy-five during each day of the year, the cost of maintenance was over $2,000 less, which is accounted for by the fact that the Cleveland Farm Colony produced nearly $7,000 worth of products which were consumed by the various institutions. The cause for the increase, in our pay-roll is due mainly to the fact that we opened a Sanatorium for the treatment of con-sumptives on our Farm Colony at Warrensville, necessitating the employment of attendants and others to care for these pa-tients. 16 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE The expenditure in the Out-door Relief Department shows a decrease of over $3,000, compared with 1905, and of over $9,000, compared with 1904, accounted for, no doubt, by reason of able-bodied men seeking employment being able to get it, the greatest falling off during both years being in the number of heads of families applying to the City for relief. Widows and deserted wives, with their dependent children, are on the in-crease, and even they have fared much better during the past year than ever before. While it is true that the demands on the Out-door Relief Department have decreased, the number of persons applying for admission to the Infirmary, the City Hospital, and especially the Tuberculosis Hospitals, have greatly increased, one hundred and thirty-one more persons being in our institutions on December 31 this year than a year ago on the same date. Of the total number of patients, 3,214 cared for in our hos-pitals during the year, over half were native born; the remainder were from thirty-seven different countries, nearly every nation being represented. The number of deaths during the year aggregated 513, and the births 71, both the largest in the history of the institution. A total of over one and one-quarter million meals were furnished to inmates, patients, and attendants, being nearly equiv-alent to furnishing every man, woman and child in this. great city with one day's board. The event of the year was on July 30, when one hundred and five tubercular patients, with attendants, physicians and nurses, were transferred, on special cars, from the old Tubercu-losis Sanatorium to the new temporary building at Warrensville, and, while we had had a number of Infirmary inmates on the Farm for over a year previous, this day was really the red-letter day in the history of the Cleveland Farm Colony, as it is for this class of patients the greatest necessity existed for the establish-ment of our Farm Colony. We had hoped that when this re-moval of patients was made, we would be able to convert the old Sanatorium into a hospital for contagious diseases. The TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM : FARM COLONY Lean-tos under the trees DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 17 building was thoroughly overhauled and put into first-class con-dition, and, long before its completion, we were confronted with the necessity of again opening it for tubercular patients, with the result that it is now again filled to its capacity. Had we had accommodations for 250 patients at the Farm Colony, we would just about have been able to care for those who made applica-tion. It is therefore urgent that the construction of a permanent Sanatorium be undertaken at as early a date as possible, as with our two hospitals we are now and have for some time past been unable to care for all tubercular patients who apply to us, and it is manifestly much better that this class of patients be in the country than in the city. Again I express the hope that before the end of 1907 we will be able to move all of our Infirmary inmates to the new buildings being erected at Warrensville, for which contracts have been let and active work is to begin early next spring. The ex-tremely crowded condition of the Infirmary and the general con-dition of the buildings (only absolutely necessary repairs having been made on account of its early abandonment) make it not only desirable, but almost imperative that the removal take place next year. I would recommend that steps be taken to dispose of the farm we have on Lorain Avenue, also the old Detention Hos-pital Farm in Newburg, as we are deriving no benefit from either, and the money received therefor could be invested to much bet-ter advantage in acquiring more land adjacent to the Farm Colony. I would also recommend that immediate steps be taken to build a new hospital for contagious diseases in the rear of the City Hospital, the necessity for which has been apparent for many years. Also, that money be appropriated for remodeling the entire plumbing system in the« City Hospital. Active work is now in progress whereby, in a very short time, we will be able to dispense with the use of gas for illumi-nating purposes entirely in the City Hosp'iicrir-and instead, use 18 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE electric lights with current furnished by the Municipal Lighting Plant. Again extending to you especially, and the other members of the Board of Public Service my sincerest thanks for the kindly and considerate manner in which I have been treated; also my appreciation of the services rendered by all of those who have been associated with me during the year in administering the af-fairs of the Department of. Public Charities, I am Respectfully yours, FRED C. EMDE, Superintendent. TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM Tent of one of the patients TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIU M Lean-tos in the winter DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 19 TABLE No. 1. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR YEAR 1906. RECEIPTS. Cash on hand January 1, 1906 $ 18,625 29 Received from Dow and Aiken Tax 240,786 47 Received from Cigarette Tax 1,583 64 Received from Cuyahoga County for Board of Poor 23,803 44 Received from non-resident poor 1,949 60 Received from sale of produce, etc 1,108 42 Received from transportation and burials 2,840 20 Received from miscellaneous 3,985 62 Received from sale of land 47-100-acre Pest House Farm 300 00 Received from refund payrolls 17 50 Total to be accounted for... $ 295,000 18 EXPENDITURES. For supervision and attendance $ 46,526 19 For office furniture and fixtures 49 25 For hospital and infirmary furniture 2,896 46 For implements 422 15 For horses, wagons, harness, etc 2,787 00 For live stock 1,042 00 For Hospital, Infirmary, Tuberculosis Sanatorium and Farm Colony supplies 108,334 63 For office supplies and stationery 674 92 For farm supplies 806 05 For care of horses and repair of wagons, etc 1,248 87 For Out-Door Relief supplies 22,056 67 For Out-Door Relief transportation 265 80 For Out-Door Relief burials • 3,644 50 For repairs 5,062 31 For - incidentals 855 09 For land 89,059 31 For buildings 868 04 Total expenditures $ 286,599 24 Cash on hand January 1, 1907 8,400 94 $ 295,000 18 20 DEPARTMEN T OF PUBLIC SERVICE TABLE No. 2. OUT-DOOR RELIEF, NUMBER OF PERSONS HELPED DURING 1906. Married 885 Widows 661 Widowers 24 Single 16 Grass widows 360 Children included in families 5,087 Total 7,033 DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION TABLE No, 3. OUT-DOOR RELIEF EXPENDITURES 1906. 21 Salaries of investigators $ 1,800 00 Salaries of storekeepers 1,620 00 Salaries of coal inspector 304 00 $ 3,724 00 Paid for shoes, 5,287 pairs issued (average cost per pair, $1.09%) $ 5,806 50 Paid for coal, 3,557 tons issued (average cost per ton, $2.66) 9,456 20 Paid for transportation 265 80 Paid for burials and interments 3,644 50 Paid for groceries and other supplies 6,793 97 Total amount expended year 1906 $ 29,690 97 Total amount expended year 1905 32,968 53 Decrease for year 1906 $ 3,277 56 22 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE TABLE No. 4. OUTDOOR RELIEF—SUPPLIE S ISSUED DURING THE ' YEAR 1906. Months. | Flour. | Corn I meal. Pounds. I Pounds. January February March April May June July August September October November December Total for year Number of packages 15,220 15,360 14,904 9,254 5,140 4,814 4,472 5,168 4.709 6,826 8,973 11,340 240 292 342 194 100 114 106 74 58 82 168 232 106,180 2,002 1,001 Total weights, 216,430% pounds. Total number of packages, 96,552. Total issued, 1,045. DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 23 TABLE No. 4—Concluded. OUTDOOR RELIEF—SUPPLIES ISSUED DURING THE YEAR 1906. Beans. 1 Pounds. Tea. 1 Pounds. |. 1 Coffe. 1 3ounds.| Rice. | Oatmeal 1 Sugar | Pounds. | Pounds. | Pounds. | Barley. Pounds. Soap. Pounds. Lentils. Pounds. 3,500 3,504 3,730 2,560 1,273 1,213 1,244 1,152 1,185 1,672 2,084 2,540 619J4 593 644% 501% 25054 245 | 25054 254 274% 334% 413 573 483 485 482 323 195 186 196 213 200 265 294 384 2,011 1,977 2,053 1,522 743 786 826 862 894 1,186 1,378 1,828 846 764 836 510 290 282 278 258 294 308 548 600 2,770 2,679 2,973 2,143 1,342 1,340 1,220 1.345 1,287 1,545 1,847 2,332 570 510 512 322 154 180 214 266 226 290 382 453 1,884 1,698 1,830 1,563 926 894 984 1,024 985 1,266 1,444 1,862 144 137 167 165 127 158 116 90 85 84 94 114 25,657 4,953% 3,706 16,066 5,814 22.82; 4,079 16,360 1,481 12,82E 9,907 7,412 8,033 2,907 22 82; 2.03C 16,360 J 740 1 Number of issues, 15,006. Daily average of rations issued, 49. Work orders. 24 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE TABLE No. 5. OUTDOOR RELIEF—AMOUNT EXPENDED DURING THE YEAR 1906 FOR SUPPLIES. January $ 2,998 23 February 3,269 23 March 2,845 74 APril 3,942 99 May 906 13 June 161 77 July 555 49 August 194 94 September 1,037 78 October 193 07 November 1,381 74 December 4,569 56 Total $ 22,056 67 DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 25 TABLE No. 6. OUTDOOR RELIEF—NATIVITIES OF FAMILIES RE-LIEVED DURING THE YEAR 1906. Austria 28 Bohemia 118 Belgium 1 Canada 38 Denmark 6 England 71 France ...... 4 Germany 250 Holland 4 Hungary 62 Ireland 260 Italy ..! 70 Norway 2 Poland .... 230 Switzerland ..'. 20 Sweden 10 Slavonia 102 Scotland '... 21 Russia 31 United States 599 Wales 13 Finland 6 Total 1,946 26 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE TABLE No. 7. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF COST AND MAINTENANCE 1905 AND 1906. 1905. Average daily population in the institution 867 Total cost of maintenance supplies for year $ 110,188 39 Fixed charges "(salaries and attendance) for year 36,690 36 Total cost $ 146,878 75 Average per capita cost of maintenance at Infirmary, Hospital, Tuberculosis Sanatorium and Farm Col-ony, per annum 127 09 Average per capita cost of maintenance and attendance at Infirmary, Hospital, Tuberculosis Sanatorium and Farm Colony per annum 169 41 1906. Daily average population in institution 904 Total cost of maintenance supplies for year $ 108,334 63 Fixed charges (salaries and attendance) for year 42,802 19 Total cost $ 151,136 82 Average per capita cost of maintenance at Hospital, In-firmary, Tuberculosis Sanatorium and Farm Col-ony per annum ;.. $ 119 85 Average per capita cost of maintenance and attendance at Hospital, Infirmary, Tuberculosis Sanatorium and Farm Colony per annum $ 167 18 DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 27 TABLE No. 8. CITY INFIRMARY BAKERY—REPORT OF BAKER FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1906. Months. Bread. Cakes, Pounds. January 13,135 400 February 13,735 410 March 13,620 300 April 12,745 400 May 12,140 450 June 11,660 275 July 11,165 380 August 12,075 450 September 12,150 395 October 12,500 ' 390 November 12,815 400 December 13,000 2,650 Total 150,740 6,900 Pies. 300 400 700 Fried | Cakes, I Cookies, Dozen. I Dozen. Cinnamon Cakes, 12 lbs.ea. 120 120 120 110 115 120 100 125 120 116 120 115 1,401 120 115 110 120 130 110 120 125 130 125 120 1,325 28 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE TABLE No. 9. NUMBER OF PIECES MADE IN SEWING ROOM AT CITY HOSPITAL DURING THE YEAR 1906. Months Special Hospital Clothing. Children's Hospital Clothing. Clothing for Surgical Cases. Pillow Slips. "3! S o H Roller Towels. Sash Screens . and Curtains. Aprons. Gowns. Wrappers. Skirts. Doctors' Hoods.- Dress Scarfs. Shams. January 1 2o'i 346 220 4 123 78 180 12 17 72 179 100 125 9 20 38 162 33 60 44 92 February .... 56 313 36 480 250 248 96 30 271 668 2 March 66 31 April 13 15 .... May 5 9 32 18 29 12 2 65 June 94 4 July J August 89 363 36 September ... October 6 39 3 21 24 12 137 43 24 114 16 84 220 200 464 52 1 36 November .... December .... 2 18 36 24 4 Total 85 1,963 806 220 2,142 66 98 67 934 94 103 96 137 47 TABLE No. 10. NUMBER OF PIECES MADE IN SEWING ROOM AT MIDDLE HOUSE DURING THE YEAR 1906. ontbs. Sheets. Pillow Slips. Shirts. D resses. 1 Aprons. Men's Undershirts. Men's Underdrawers. Ladies' Undershirts. Ladies' Underdraw- I ers. Roller Towels. Hand Towels. Petticoats. Table Cloths. Overalls. Blouses. Underwaists. Chemises. Napkins. Bonnets. Nightgowns. Shawls. Baker Aprons. Suspenders. Curtains. Pillow Shams. January 98 114 84 156 186 168 720 60 408 72 60 137 66 18 30 74 60 43 39 36 206 514 198 3 32 February 55 100 120 90 March 26 40 36 72 April 140 46 386 2 May 83 2 84 60 June 7 60 110 24 180 15 18 24 25 July 365 144 81 61 11 37 12 7 6 3 17 15 3 3 8 2 August 27 31 20 20 68 4 14 September 158 161 72 144 60 72 60 29 60 96 56 12 24 October 40 155 12 12 9 November 78 94 December 48 24 24 13 1 964 1,745 618 457 596 321 332 219 100 287 1,007 364 40 100 147 35 107 72 37 30 90 14 36 2 144 TABLE No . 11. ANNUAL AND MONTHLY REPORT OF INMATES, Infirmary. Insane. Hospital. Children's Hospital. Tuberculo's Sanat'm Div Tuberculo's Sanatorium F'rm Colony Infirmary Division I "'rm Colony Total Male. Total Female. i Grand Total. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. "n S V ® H S Female. M "M Female. Male. Female. 390 73 133 21 41 4 13 3 85 124 5 121 9 84 95 1 85 13 82 123 5 74 59 4 62 2 73 52 1 52 5 69 72 2 15 8 9 10 61 31 20 8 592 264 5 205 18 638 190 1 145 26 658 215 5 249 102 4 80 6 269 75 1 67 11 267 112 2 841 366 9 285 24 907 265 2 212 37 925 327 7 24 1 66 1 396 59 • 10 6 1 6 4 1 14 8 5 8 79 19 3 3 22 8 1 144 7 39 4 15 17 13 23 1 39 6 2 1 8 2 20 12 4 5 13 10 11 11 76 24 4 1 25 12 416 45 145 16 41 4 14 2 23 7 1 TABLE No . 11—Continued. Infirmary. Discharged Deaths April 1, 1906... Received .. Births Discharged Deaths ... May 1, 1906... Received . Births Discharged Deaths ... June 1, 1906.. Received . Births Discharged Insane. 412 42 114 1 339 41 56 324 34 11 1 149 6 12 143 17 12 2 146 15 17 43 41 3 Hospital. 13 108 112 5 94 24 107 125 2 94 17 123 110 5 96 Children's Hospital. 55 63 1 67 6 71 71 8 60 7 ' 83 69 4 69 1 uberculo's Sanatorium Tuberculo's Sanat'm Div F'rm Colony 14 4 14 14 7 1 20 18 15 4 19 6 7 1 15 7 10 2 10 15 7 3 15 6 9 14 77 28 23 12 70 21 17 10 64 38 10 2 3 32 13 29 11 16 3 21 7 Infirmary Division F'rm Colony 29 1 «« 164 31 683 197 5 245 38 602 218 2 191 31 600 196 5 177 •sE Co <3 Female. V 3 Female. « « Female. ai "< 3 2 Female- 4) 1 Female. 0) 3 Female. 4> rt ü Female. 6 39 6 33 32 11 ,12 3 5 3 1 1 1 2 4 30 5 17 22 4 4 1 1 9 30 21 14 2 3 1 2 3 3 3 5 5 1 5 3 8 6 2 5 1 2 4 1 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 3 3 2 2 1 1 5 2 1 Finland 1 1 3 2 1 I TABLE No. 16—Continued. Name of Country. Hospital. Children's Hospital. Middle. Insane. Sanatorium. Tuberculosis Sanatorium Farm Colony. Infirmary Division Farm Colony. Male. Female, Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. 2 1 4 1 1 1 1 5 1 . 1 Syria ! 5 1 1 Brazil China 1 2 1 1 1 1,399 837 162 129 1,029 308 79 31 303 86 134 74 S3 5 TABLE No . 17. DAILY AVERAGE OF EACH MONTH IN THE YEAR 1906. Hospital. Children's Hospital. Middle. Insane. Sanatorium. Tuberculosis Sanatorium Farm Colony. Infirmary Division MONTH. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. « S Female. SK •¿i.. fü * Female. Male. Ó "ñ I Male. Female. ; Total. Daily Average. 2,560 2,349 447 353 2,229 639 12,020 11,479 4,286 1,255 1,155 1,301 448 701 31 27,318 881 2,326 1,912 584 395 2,179 666 4,090 437 644 28 25,861 923 2,950 2,449 538 483 2,457 12,701 4,494 829 31 29,518 952 2,933 2,233 567 380 2,219 956 11,134 4,315 4,410 4,382 4,455 1,237 805 30 908 May 3,318 2,373 636 454 2,105 805 10,028 1,256 1,208 1,249 474 26,753 863 31 863 3,525 2,529 495 446 2,259 634 9,473 9,546 803 30 26,226 874 July 3,447 2,702 604 632 2,360 489 451 129 51 795 31 26,942 870 August 3,027 • 2,561 496 496 648 9,673 4,376 1,240 463 2,012 979 938 38 26,947 870 September 2,992 2,172 531 490 680 9,346 4,342 1,189 461 1,989 904 877 40 26,013 867 3,082 2,301 709 667 792 10,147 4,732 1,314 486 1,994 593 882 56 27,755 895 3,286 2,429 584 630 1,069 52 10,740 4,788 1,319 471 1,814 573 859 31 28,645 • 955 3,366 2,636 394 450 1,373 33 12,164 5,040 1,361 467 1,818 585 938 31 30,656 989 Total ^ ...... 36,812 28,646 6,585 5,876 20,370 5,122 128,451 53,710 15,084 5,453 9,756 3,685 9,934 408 329,893 904 Daily average for 1906. 867 904 Increase for 1906 37 TABLE No . 18. DAILY AVERAGES—MONTHL Y AND YEARLY TOTALS. Hospital. Children's Hospital. Middle. Insane. Sanatorium. Tuberculosis Sanatorium Farm Colony. Infirmary Division Farm Colony. Total. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. 73 s Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Female. Totals for year Daily average 36,812 101 28,646 78 6,585 18 5,876 16 20,370 56 5,122 14 128,451 352 .53,710 147 15,084 42 5,453 15 9,756 27 3,685 10 9,934 27 408 1 329,893 904 ü M > H £ M H O ^ TI a to r o w W 1—1 o R . DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 43 TABLE No. 19. RECAPITULATION OF TABLES No. 12, 13, 14 AND 15. Male. Female. Total. On hand January 1, 1906 592 249 841 •Received during the year 2,562 1,185 3,747 35 36 71 Total to be accounted for 3,189 1,470 4,659 Discharged during the year '2,137 1,047 3,184 370 143 513 On hand January 1, 1907 682 280 962 3,189 1,470 J 4,659 TABLE No. 20. AMBULANCE RUNS DURING THE YEAR 1906. January ; 62 February ••••.• March 83 April ,...' 55 May ; 72 , 63 June — * July 66 47 August "September • 50 52 October '•• November December Total 755 TABLE No. 21. £ STATEMENT OF WORK DONE AT THE CITY HOSPITAL AND INFIRMARY LAUNDRY IN 1906. Hospitals • Infirmary. Insane. = 1906. u o o £ J2 w o o E aj "3 CM iS Female 1st Floor. Female 2nd Floor. Old Ladies. | Consumption. | Annex. 2 >» u bo s fi Sanatorium., "w s 73 E ' § Female. Employes. Farm Colony. "(3 o H January 3,415 2,818 3.834 6,648 1.672 2,860 913 2,066 3,076 2.391 6.250 1,045 7.956 2,512 9,141 231 56,828 February 2,984 2,860 3,711 4,£93 1.374 2,351 955 3,032 3,949 1,830 5,413 1,265 6,922 2,776 7,425 209 52,049 March 3.826 3,509 3.244 5.593 1,219 3,014 1,079 1,836 7,071 2,570 6,064 1,049 7,155 3,309 7,651 309 58,528 April 3,390 3,645 3,220 4.931 1.304 2,935 881 1,738 6,623 2,856 5,844 1,157 6,157 2,351 8,692 142 55,866 May 3,602 3,748 4,875 6,051 1,476 3,861 1,243 2,152 6,537 3,269 6,021 1.396 7,122 2,822 6,918 281 61,474 June 3,800 3,742 5,158 4,950 1,676 3,976 979 3,384 5,608 3,244 5,677 1,294 6,517 3,521 7,480 342 61,348 July 3,303 3,647 5,539 5,655 1,413 3,931 760 • 4,780 5,443 3,041 5,946 1,165 6,484 2,462 8,135 261 61,965 August 2,938 3,997 4,715 4,934 1.540 3,699 752 3,736 6,842 2,008 5,764 1,211 6,728 3,173 7.891 411 60,339 September 3,292 3,894 5,607 5,397 1,658 4,111 958 2,567 6,584 1,962 5,644 977 6,254 2,306 6,884 392 58,577 October 3,644 4.369 4,821 4,938 1,217 3,743 837 2,509 5,995 2,608 6,771 1,374 7,280 2.543 8,408 328 61,385 November 3,603 4.621 4,548 6,128 1,134 4,121 1,099 2,547 6,772 2,709 5,676 1,263 7,082 3,307 7,266 681 62,557 December 3,310 4,231 6.240 8,468 1,543 3,353 1,114 4,117 5,164 3,391 5,571 1,503 8,158 2,752 8,525 461 67,904 Totals 41.107 45 081 55.602 68.636 17,256 41,955 11.570 34,464 69,664 31,879 70,641 14,699 83,815 33,834 94.416 4,051 718,620 DIVISION OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 45 TABLE No. 22. REPORT OF CROPS CLEVELAND FARM COLONY, INFIRMARY DIVISION, FROM MAY 1 TO DECEMBER 1, 1906. Milk -. 9,000 Gallons Potatoes . 3,500 Bushel Hay ., 105 Tons Oats 1,000 Bushel Corn ........:.....-. 400 Bushel Shocks 500 Straw ... 20 Tons Apples 740 Bushel Crab Apples 30 Beets 16 Raspberries •— -.' 8 Strawberries 8 Butter Beans • 30 Carrots ...............i...' 108 Cherries 17 Lettuce * -.... 10 Onions 75 Peaches 10 Pears 30 Potatoes ... 90 Radishes 8 Squashes, Summer 65 Peas 20 Tomatoes 150 Parsnips 105 Corn 900 Dozen Cabbage •. 12,000 Head Cucumbers 5,450 Celery v 5,000 Squashes, Winter jg| ,-.. • ••• •»•'• 200 Cider 1,226 Gallons 46 DEPARTMEN T OF PUBLIC SERVICE STATEMENT O F SHOES PURCHASED AND DIS-BURSED DURING YEAR 1906. Pairs. On hand January 1, 1906 114 Purchased January 977 1,091 Disbursed January 824 On hand February 1 267 Purchased February 714 981 Disbursed February 786 On hand March 1 195 Purchased March 1,081 1,276 Disbursed March 934 On hand April 1. 342 Purchased April 324 666 Disbursed April 497 On hand May 1 169 Disbursed May 8 On hand June 1 161 Disbursed June 2 On hand July 1 15» Disbursed July - On hand August 1 157 Disbursed August ...' On hand September 1 157 Purchased September 456- 613 Disbursed September 304 On hand October 1 309- Purchased October • 517 82S Disbursed October 534 On hand November 1 292 Purchased November 540 832 Disbursed November 592 On hand December 1 240 Purchased December .. 805 1,045 Disbursed December 804 On hand January 1, 1907...... 241 On hand July 1 159 DIVISION O F CHARITIES AND CORRECTION 4T RECAPITULATION. Number of sboes on hand January 1, 1906 114 Pairs- Purchased during the year 5,414 " Total to be accounted for... 5,528 Pairs Disbursed during the year ... 5,287 " On hand January 1, 1907 241 Pairs- STATEMENT CLEVELAND FARM COLONY. HOSPITAL FUND 21. RECEIPTS. Balance on hand, loan on bonds January 1, 1906 $ 61,642 34 $ 61,642 34- DISBURSEMENTS. Buildings $ 24,099 53 Equipments 12,580 67 Engineering 52 69 $ 36,732 89" Cash on hand December 31, 1906 $ 24,909 45-
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