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Newspaper published in: Washington, D. C.
The Evening Times January 7, 1901 Children's Guardians Page-2
THE CHILDREN'S GUARDIANS.
Reports to the Board of Work Done During the Past Month.
The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Children's Guardians was held Saturday afternoon, January 5, at the room of the board. Mrs. J. W. BABSON, Mrs. M. L. D. MACFARLAND and Messrs. John F. COOK, B. Pickman MANN, William J. MILLER, and James B. T. TUPPER, of the board, and Agent John W. DOUGLASS were in attendance.
A letter from Dr. M. D. PECK explained Dr. PECK's absence as due to illness. President TUPPER was in the chair. Upon recommendation of various committees regulations were adopted for the execution of contracts for placing wards of the board in service at wages. Additional rules were adopted for the government of the employes of the board and the committee on legislation was instructed to confer with the proper authorities for the promotion of legislation solicited by the board, the interpretation of the powers of the courts in regard to commitments, and the grant of the necessary appropriations for the current fiscal year.
The committee on homes and institutions reported favorably upon the conduct of affairs at the Children's Temporary Home, in charge of Miss Susan B. COOK.
Orders were passed in regard to the payment of bills, the renting of an additional office room, and the collection of moneys due the wards of the board.
The monthly reports of the agents showed investigations made involving seventy-five children, of whom nine were committed permanently to the guardianship of the board, one because abandoned, two because in corrigible, four because destitute of a suitable home, and two because of the unfitness of parents to care for them.
The whole number of wards of the board is 694, of whom 256 are maintained at the expense of the board, and 395 are in free homes under supervision of the agents. The remainder are in free institutions or caring for themselves. Nineteen children were placed in free homes during the month, twelve of these children having been maintained previously on expense.
Eighty-three children were visited.
The monthly report of Dr. Julia A. HALL, the physician of the board, was filed, showing 105 professional visits made to thirty-one children.