REPORT. THE DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTION. The Department of Inspection is charged with the visitation and inspection of the private charities of the State which are in receipt of public moneys. These philanthropies comprise dispensaries, eleemosynary educational institutions, fresh-air charities, homes for the aged, homes for children including infant asylums, hospitals, placing out agencies, reformatories and temporary homes. In addition to 573 special inspections and 915 visits to societies, institutions and individuals, made in the course of the performance of their official duties of inspection, 448 general inspections were conducted during the year ending September 30, 1901, by the agents of the Department. The conditions found to exist at the time of such general inspections have been noted and summarized under the headings "Supervision", "Administration ", " Plant", "Sanitary Conditions", "Training-Industrial, Educational and Moral", "Records" and finally "General Impression". The following table is intended to indicate in a brief form the conditions reported as a result of these inspections. The entries under class A indicate that conditions on the subject under consideration were found excellent, while conditions under B are regarded as good; under C as fair; under D as unsatisfactory; under E as poor or positively bad. |