The care of destitute, neglected and delinquent children / by Homer Folks ..

  • Homer Folks
Date:
1902
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Credit: The care of destitute, neglected and delinquent children / by Homer Folks .. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Brandeis University Libraries, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.

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    sixteen boys that year. The census increased rapidly, and in 1857 was 182. A girls' de- partment was added in 1852, but was subse- quently discontinued. The boys' department remains a municipal institution, but has passed through many vicissitudes, and has of little become rather more a lodging and boarding real value j^Q^^isg fQj. homeless bovs and va2^rant boys m re for ma- •' <j j torywork. Committed for short terms than a reforma- tory. So far is it from meeting the needs of Louisiana in this direction that a strong effort was made in 1901 to estabHsh a state reformatory for boys. Although the bill was not passed, the board of control of the prisons was authorized to estabhsh such an institution whenever the funds of the state will permit. In 1847 the Lyman school for boys was established by the state of Massachusetts, upon the suggestion of Hon. Theodore The Ly- Lyman, ex-mayor of Boston, who gave to manschool ^]^g state a considerable sum for this pur- 1847,man- pose. The institution was, however, from aged by the first. Strictly a state institution in its the state manasfement, and was the first of this char- ofMassa- ° chusetts. acter in the United States, if not m the world. We are told that several cities, Lowell, Worcester, Cambridge, and others, had established reform schools in connec-