Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1913 — For Abandoned Children. [ARTICLE]

For Abandoned Children.

Hungary maintains *l7 institution's of indigent, abandoned, delinquent and abujsed children. It Is the custom to receive every - child applicant, to give him a bath and clean clothes and then to Investigate his condition.—ls the investigation warrants the state’s interference the child is admitted.. Seventeen thousand children were thus received in 1908. Most of these are placed out in the country or smaller cities with’ farmers or artisans of good character and In moderate circumstances. Five reformatories hav>3 beep established for delinquent or absolutely unruly children. They have room for a thousand inmates, who live together In family groups of 25, learning a trade under the supervision of the head of the household. Cqrporal punishment Is still administered. Up to 1908 2,331 inmates had been released on parole, 86.6 per cent, had worked steadily and had kept straight, 5.4 per cent, had committed crimes, and 8 per cent, had disappeared.—The Survey.