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ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL

LINCOLN

	Salary
Superintendent--B. A. Finkle, M. D.	$1,600
Chief Surgeon--H. W. Orr, M. D.	1,800
Stenographer and Bookkeeper--Ida Stokebrand	800
Matron--Carrie M. Benbrook	720

     The legislature of 1905 provided for a "hospital for crippled, ruptured and deformed children and those suffering from diseases from which they are likely to become deformed", to be located at Lincoln on the grounds (if the home for the friendless. This latter institution having had its functions transferred to the board of control for dependent children, its buildings and grounds are now used by the orthopedic hospital. Applicants for admission most be examined by the county physicians of their respective counties, upon whose report the entrance permit may be issued. The cost of such examination and the conveying of the patient to Lincoln, when not borne by relatives and friends must be borne by the county. The hospital is also a school, regular instruction for the children being provided.

APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES, ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL

		Appropriations
Years	Buildings, Etc.	Salaries and Maintenance	Deficiency	Total Maintenance Appropriations	Number of Officers and Employes	Average Number of Inmates	Per Capita Expenditure for Biennium
1905-07	$4,958.00	$5,887.00	$3,000.00	$8,887.00	5	23	$386.00
1907-09	1,500.00	24,500.00	......	24,500.00	6	32	766.00
1909-11	5,800.00	32,820.00	5,200.00	38,020.00	15	52	731.00
1911-13	7,834.80	80,620.00	75,00.00	81,620.00	34	86	949.00
1913-15	46,725.00	90,220.00	......	90,220.00	......	97	903.60
1915-17	6,000.00	......	6,392.00	106,012.00	45	119	857.74
1917-19	......	......	16,337.29	142,337.29	47	89	1624.92
1919-21	8,750.00	......	......	168,000.001	......	......	......
Totals	$101,507.80	$235,047.00	$38,429.29	$659,526.29	......		......
......	(sic)	(sic)	......	(sic)	......	......	......

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     ¹The legislature made it lump appropriation for maintenance of all state institutions. This amount is the tentative apportionment of the board of control.
HOME FOR DEPENDENT CHILDREN

LINCOLN

	Salary
Superintendent and State Agent--Amy V. Stevens	$1,500
Secretary--Dora Purcell	800
Matron---Marle Douglas	1,020
Physician--D. A. Finkle, M. D.	700

     In 1876 charitable women organized home for the friendless societies in various parts of the state, having for their object the maintenance of a home in Lincoln for friendless women and children. In 1881 the home for the friendless became a semi-public institution, an act of legislature providing for its government by the home for the friendless society under the supervision of the board of public lands and buildings. By an act approved April 13, 1897, the home for the friendless was placed tinder the immediate control of the state, and an advisory board of women provided for.

     It became apparent that the policy of collecting children and old ladies in

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a home, without adequate provision for placing the children in private homes by adoption or otherwise should be abandoned. In 1909 the legislature created the state public school for dependent children and located it at the home for the friendless, where, on July 2, 1909, 38 boys and18 girls were taken charge of by the new board. By opinion of the attorney general, given April 16, 1914, the board of control of state institutions assumed the direction of this institution. It has been renamed by the board "Nebraska home for dependent children."

     This institution is to receive those "children under sixteen years of age and of sound mind who have been committed to it by any juvenile court, district court, or county court, acting under the juvenile court law," as children who are dependent for support, neglected or ill-treated. The law requires the officers of this board to place in the children in homes. The buildings formerly occupied by the home for the friendless have been transferred to the orthopedic hospital. During the biennial period 1916-18 the home was the custodian of 618 children. Of these 100 were placed for adoption, 20 were returned to parents or friends, 20 transferred to other institutions, 21 died, 29 attained majority, 2 were married and 252 were placed in trial homes. A new building was completed and occupied in 1917 and the "boarding out" plan was then abandoned. This building adjoins that of the orthopedic hospital.

APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES, HOME FOP. DEPENDENT CHILDREN, 1881-1921.

		Appropriations
Years	Buildings, Etc.	Salaries and Maintenance	Deficiency	Total Maintenance Appropriations	Number of Officers and Employes	Average Number of Inmates	Per Capita Expenditure for Biennium
1881-83	$5,000.00	......	......	......	......	......	......
1883-85	2,000.00	......	......		......	......	......
1885-87	10,000.00	$5,000.00	$2,395.30	$7,395.30	......	57	$130.00
1887-89	6,000.00	26,500.00	......	26,500.00	21	94	282.00
1889-91	4,925.00	25,000.00	......	25,000.00	23	113	221.00
1891-93	16,500.00	26,000.00	......	26,000.00	21	135	193.00
1893-95	1,000.00	26,500.00	173.01	26,673.01	23	214	125.00
1895-97	......	30,500.00	......	30,500.00	23	173	176.00
1897-99	5,000.00	26,500.00	30.75	26,530.75	......	......	......
1899-01	......	32,000.00	......	32,000.00	......	63	507.00
1901-03	5,000.00	27,500.00	......	27,500.00	......	76	362.00
1903-05	3,000.00	27,560.00	405.24	27,965.24	23	77	363.00
1905-07	2,000.00,	27,560.00	5,000.00	32,560.00	24	69	472.00
1907-09	5,500.00	36,700.00	4,864.95	41,564.95	27	77	540.00
1909-11	......	40,000.00	......	40,000.001	25 9	134	318.00
1911-12	......	30,780.00	......	30,780.00	9	141	209.00
1913-15	......	33,080.00	......	33,080.00	6	512	734.162
1915-17	30,000.00	......	2,730.00	37,750.00	5	75	565.86
1917-19	......	......	5,975.40	52,475.40	11	52	925.72
1919-21	11,000.00	......	......	52,000.003	......	......	......
Totals	$106,925.00	$421,180.00	$21,574.65	$526,274.65	......	......	......

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     ¹$5,016.89 of the total maintenance returned to the state treasurer, thus reducing the per capita cost.
     ²These figures are based on the averages for six months ending Nov. 30, 1914.
     ³The legislature of 1919 made a lump appropriation for maintenance of all state institutions. This amount is the tentative apportionment of the board of control.

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HOSPITAL FOR TUBERCULOUS

KEARNEY

	Salary
Superintendent--L. T. Sidwell, M. D.	$2,300
Assistant to Superintendent .	840
Steward--H. M. Rose	900
Bookkeeper and Stenographer--Edna Johnson	600

     The legislature of 1911 established this hospital, which was opened for patients January 22, 1912. Applicants for admission must be examined by qualified physicians, and all expense of such examination and transportation, to the hospital, if not borne by the patient or the relatives or friends, must be borne by the county.

     The original organization of the state's business, in the constitution of 1875, provided for three main divisions of the state government, legislative, executive and judicial, with seven executive departments. In the forty-five years since the adoption of this constitution additions have been made to this list until there are now sixty-eight distinct objects of appropriation and expenditure which may be roughly classified as follows:

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Constitutional departments, 12:
     Legislature,
      Governor.
      Auditor. Treasurer.
      Secretary of State.
      Attorney General.
      Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings.
      Superintendent of Public Instruction.
      Supreme Court. District Courts.
      State Railway Commission.
      Board of Control.

Statutory departments and bureaus, 9:
      Department of Finance.
      Department of Agriculture.
      Department of Labor.
      Department of Trade and Commerce.
      Department of Public Welfare.
      Department of Public Works.
      Adjutant General.
      State Library (under Supreme Court).
      Legislative Reference Bureau (under University Regents).

Institutions, 28:
   The following are under State Board of Control, 16:
      Asylum for Insane, Hastings.
      Hospital for Insane, Lincoln.
      Hospital for Insane, Norfolk.
      School for Blind, Nebraska City.
      School for Deaf, Omaha.
      Institute for Feeble Minded, Beatrice.
      Industrial School for Girls, Geneva.
      Industrial School for Boys, Kearney.
      Women's Industrial Home, Milford.
      Orthopedic Hospital, Lincoln.
      Soldiers' and Sailors' Rome, Grand Island.
      Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Milford.
      State Penitentiary, Lincoln.
      Tuberculosis Hospital, Kearney.
      Home for Dependent Children, Lincoln.
      Women's Reformatory, York.

The following are under State Board of Education, 4:
     State Normal School, Peru. State Normal School,
      Kearney. State Normal School, Wayne. State Normal School, Chadron.

The following are under University Board of Regents, 5:
     University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Medical College, Omaha.
      Agricultural School, Curtis. Experiment Station, North Platte.
      Experiment Station, Valentine. Experiment Station, Scottsbluff.

The following are under Division of Game and Fish, 2:
      Hatchery Station, South Bead.
      Hatchery Station, Schlagle Creek, Cherry County.

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