38 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, SAN JOSE. 



Conference of Charities and Corrections, 1914 : 183-89— Reynolds. W. S. "Stand- 

 ards of Placing Out in Free Family Homes."' 



Conference of Charities and Corrections, 1914: 189-94 — Baldwin. R. X. "Ilow 

 Shall We Frame a Consistent Public Policy for Children?" 



Section 2. The Dependent, the Poor and the Almshouse. 



1. Administration. 



a. Board of supervisors — their unfitness. 



b. Desirability of having all almshouses under State control. 



c. Qualifications of Superintendent. 



?. Standard of what constitutes good management. 



a. Personnel of Superintendent, 



b. Kind of persons admitted. 



c. Care in dismissal. 



d. Sanitary condition of buildings. 



e. Degree to which the institution is self supporting. 



f. Businesslike methods of buying. 



g. Comfort of inmates. 



h. Freedom from political control. 



3. Argument for and against institutional care. 



a. Substitution of other form of relief. 



b. Old age pensions. 



4. Objections to private institutions receiving State subsidies. 



a. State can not control it. 



b. Builds up a political machine. 



c. Persons retained when no longer in need. 



d. Funds used for purposes not so intended. 



5. Need of further segregation in case of poor. 



a. Placing feeble-minded in special institution. 



b. Making almshouse a home for aged poor. 



6. Mode of procedure in giving relief. I 



a. Investigate. 



b. Reconstruct the family when possible. 



c. Get all agencies to co-operate. ■! 



d. Distinguish between the pauper and the aged poor. 



Field Work. 



(Adapted from Johnson, Almshouse Construction and Management.) 

 For Student Teachers. 



AXMSHOUSE Survey. 

 (Answer by yes or no.) 



Administration. 



By Board of Supervisors 



By State Board of Charities 



Superintendents. 



Chosen regardless of politics 



Business ability and integrity 



Practical farmer 



Good habits — even temper 



Keeps daily record of inmates 



Tries to improve morals of inmates 



Listens to inmates' complaints 



Appoints subordinates 



Matron — good housekeeper 



Sympathetic 



Good character 



