Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Charities And Corrections In this chapter1 will be treated three branches of administration, all of them closely similar, yet all of them distinct: charities, including hospitals; care of the insane; and corrections, including the Penitentiary, the House of Correction, and various reformatories. Charities There is no uniform or centralized system of charities in the State. Assistance is given to benevolent institutions in a haphazard, irregular way, although a Board of State Aid and Charities with incomplete powers has a limited supervision of these institutions. Almshouses and Trustees of the Poor.—There are alms- houses and trustees of the poor2 in every county and in Baltimore City which come under state law. In 1906 the name of these " institutions for the care and custody of the indigent poor" was changed to " county homes." The trustees of the poor are county (or city) officers. It is unlawful for them to retain in a county home for a period longer than ninety days any child between three and sixteen years of age, unless such child is an unteachable idiot or is otherwise incapacitated for labor or service. Suchchildren are to be placed in respectable families or in educational institutions or homes for children. It is the duty of the trustees of the poor, personally or through some appointed person, to visit children so placed at least every six months, and to make inquiry into their treatment and welfare. 1 It should be noted that to some extent in this chapter references, especially those concerning correctional institutions, are made to the Code of Public General Laws of 1904 (Ppe's Code) on account of the fact that the Code of 1912 is divided into " Civil" and " Criminal " and the Criminal Code is not yet published. The author was informed by ...