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The Care, Cure, And Education Of The Crippled Child

Creator: Henry Edward Abt (author)
Date: 1924
Publisher: International Society for Crippled Children
Source: Available at selected libraries
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-3- Act No. 274, P. A. 1913, (Michigan).

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-4- Session Laws 1917, Oh. 145, Code (1921) as 8525-8537. (Oregon.)

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-5- General Statutes, 1920. Ch. 121, ss.. 28-37. (Kansas.)

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Section 5-a, Chapter 22, Acts of the Legislature of 1917, in West Virginia, provides that it shall be the duty of the State Board of Control to admit indigent crippled children to the various State Minors' Hospitals for treatment free of charge. Minnesota legislation appropriates funds for the construction of the state hospital, and provides that the State Board of Control shall decide on admittances. The hospital, however, is free of charge, and restricted to indigent patients.-1- Wisconsin provides for the treatment of crippled children at the State Public School and Massachusetts provides for the admission of crippled children to the Massachusetts Hospital School for care and cure. Both of these institutions have separate hospital buildings. Indiana authorizes the Board of Trustees of the University of Indiana to establish and maintain a hospital for the treatment of children, after a commitment by judges of circuit, criminal, or juvenile courts upon the application of a citizen of the county in which the child is a resident.-2-

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-1- Minnesota Laws 1907, Ch. 81; 1909, Ch. 130; 1897, Ch. 289; and General Statute 1913, 4135-4138.

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-2- Indiana, Acts, 1921, Ch. 226, p. 833.

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The New York legislature has provided for the treatment of indigent crippled children at the state orthopedic hospital upon application of a county superintendent of the poor or a commissioner of charities.-3- The famous Iowa Perkins Law of 1915 provides that on complaint filed by any probation officer, school teacher, superintendent of the poor, or authorized physician, the judges of the juvenile courts shall conduct investigations of crippled or deformed children called to their attention. If the judge finds that the child can be remedied and that the parents are unable to pay expenses for such remedies, he shall enter an order sending this child to the hospital of the medical college of the University of Iowa for free medical and surgical treatment and care. This institution is now provided with distinct and extensive orthopedic facilities. Nebraska and North Carolina have state orthopedic hospitals conducted along the lines of the Minnesota institution.

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-3- New York Charities Law 1909: Ch. 55; 1916, Ch. 118.

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A fourth type of legislation for the care and cure of crippled children is the annual appropriation for this purpose turned over to specified agencies for disposal in this work. Appropriations of this type have generally been a compromise between the legislators and agencies urging the adoption of more extensive programs. In Florida, $10,000 a year was appropriated to State Board of Health orthopedic work after a failure to provide sufficient funds to erect a state orthopedic hospital authorized in an act of May 30, 1911.-4- In New Hampshire, after the State Board of Charities had asked every legislature since 1906 for the small amount of $1000 annually for this type of work, $2500 was finally granted in 1919-1- and increased to $3000 in 1923. The legislature of Virginia annually appropriates to the State Board of Health; $25,000 for the treatment of crippled children at the Medical College of the University of Virginia. Separate legislation for the custodial care of incurable crippled children exists in three states; Minnesota, which provides for such care at the State School for Feeble Minded; Connecticut, which appropriates funds to the Connecticut Children's Aid Society for custody of these children at the Crippled Children's Home at Newington;-2- and Kansas, which provides for such care at the State Orphan's Home at Atchison.-3- Legislation providing state aid for sanatoria in a number of states indirectly supports the treatment of children crippled by "surgical" tuberculosis. In Connecticut, funds are annually provided for the maintenance of a special sanatorium at Niantic, for non-pulmonary tuberculous children.

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-4- Florida, Laws of 1911, Ch. 6133.

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-1- New Hampshire, Laws of 1919, Ch. 202.

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-2- Parents pay as able, not to exceed $2.00 a week.

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-3- General Statutes, Kansas, 1915, ss. 9703-9706.

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There are three types of legislative acts providing for the education of crippled children. The modern type is that of Ohio, described on page 30. There is also provision for bedside education, as in the Ohio bill. A third method is the establishment of a state school for crippled children, either in connection with convalescent or hospital facilities, or independently. Following the Ohio model to a greater or lesser degree are Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Wisconsin. Illinois House Bill No. 325 (1923) is almost a replica of the Ohio legislation, except that it does not include the blind or deaf and makes no provision for bedside instruction. Boards of education and school directors of any district may apply to the Department of Welfare for not more than $300.00 a pupil per annum as excess cost for crippled children in special classes. In addition it is stipulated that truant officers or officers in each school district within the state shall report and enroll every crippled child within the meaning of the act. The district board of education is required to make special educational provision if one or more such children are found.

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