Summary of state laws relating to the dependent classes, 1913.

  • United States Census Bureau
Date:
1914
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Credit: Summary of state laws relating to the dependent classes, 1913. 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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    LOUISIANA. Attthoeities : Constitution and Revised Laws, 190ff, 1904-1908. Acts of Louisiana, 1908, 1910, and 1912. [The side-note references are to volumes and pages of Revised Laves and to pa^es of Session Laws. The years in which the session laws were passed are shown in boldface type.] I. Administrative and supervisory agencies. A. Public. ii^-'2on'> '•■ ^^^^^^'—(1) '^^^ state board of charities and corrections consists of six members, five being appointed by the governor and the sixth being the governor ex officio. They serve without com- pensation, and their duties are strictly visitorial, without admin- istrative or executive powers. The board is required to visit and inspect all state, parish, or municipal institutions of a charitable, eleemosynary, or reformatory character; also all private institu- tions which are of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional, or re- formatory character, utilized or aided by parochial or municipal authority, and all private insane asylums, whether so utilized or aided or not; and to report to the governor annually and to the legislature at each session, with such suggestions as may be neces- sary and pertinent, provided the suggestions are concurred in by the majority of the members of the boards in control of the in- stitutions. The officers in charge of^the institutions must furnish the board such information and statistics as it may require. 1912: 295 (2) A state tuberculosis commission consisting of the governor, the attorney general, the president and the secretary of the board of health, is authorized to establish, maintain, and govern such sanatoriums and hospitals for the care and treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis as in its judgment are required. 7qfi <fo^*^'1 noo' ^ Institutional.—The state institutions are eight in number: I5i', leb' ' The Louisiana State School for the Blind; the Louisiana State II • 12^0 School for the Deaf; the East Louisiana Hospital for the Insane; the Louisiana Hospital for the Insane; the Lepers' Home; two charity hospitals at New Orleans and Shreveport; and the Sol- diers' Home of the State of Louisiana. Of these all but the soldiers' home are managed by boards of trustees or adminis- trators, consisting of members appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, the governor being a member ex officio of each board. The board of directors of the soldiers' tome consists of 15 Confederate veterans, 5 selected by the gov- ernor and 5 each by the benevolent associations of the Army of the Tennessee and the Army of Northern Virginia. All boards report to the legislature.
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