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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt:...state, of its responsibility for the care of those who are sometimes called "wards of the state." In the past benevolent institutions have been generally regarded as representing the element of personal or private sympathy for individual distress. There appears to be arising, however, a realization that even where distress does not necessarily go so far as pauperism, it involves detriment, if not danger, to the welfare of the community, and that dependents of all classes may properly come within the scope of public supervision and control. This has already been indicated in connection with the statis tics for the different classes« of benevolent institutions, but it comes out still more clearly in these tables, which show that 35 per cent of the total number of institutions are recipients of public aid, as distinguished from private donations; that 31.8 per cent of the total income of all institutions is from public appropriations, and that the highest average receipts per institution from any source are from such appropriations. Attention has already been called to the large number of institutions for the blind and deaf which are practically supported by public appropriations, but it is noticeable that 46.3 per cent of the societies for the protection and care of children, 45.6 per cent of the hospitals and sanitariums, and 39.8 per cent of the institutions for the care of children receive public aid. On the other hand, the donations, which ordinarily are regarded as the expression of the benevolence of the community, represented only 16.6 per cent of the total income of the institutions, figuring largely only in the returns for societies for the protection and care of children, and for dispensaries. The lack of material for...