The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy 1919 (New Series, No. 58)Pennsylvania Prison Society
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The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy 1919 (New Series, No. 58)
Pennsylvania Prison Society
Charities -- Periodicals; Prisons -- Periodicals
(_b_) To institute, maintain, and supervise a medical service to
accomplish the purposes enumerated in this Act;
(_c_) To make recommendations to institutions within its jurisdiction
for the improvement of the sanitary and hygienic conditions, the
medical and hospital equipment, and the medical service thereof;
(_d_) To transfer inmates of institutions within its jurisdiction to
other institutions owned, managed, or controlled by the Commonwealth or
any political sub-division thereof, or if suitable arrangements can be
made, to other institutions, where such inmates may receive treatment
more suitable to their mental and physical condition:....
(_e_) To institute, maintain, and supervise in institutions within its
jurisdiction a system of correctional and reformatory education to
accomplish the purposes enumerated in this Act;
(_f_) To institute, maintain, and supervise a system for the employment
of the inmates of institutions within its jurisdiction as provided in
this Act;
(_g_) To prepare and submit to the Board of Public Charities, not
later than the first day of December of each even-numbered year, a
biennial budget for the committee and such of the institutions within
its jurisdiction as are wholly or partly supported by the Commonwealth.
Such budget shall set forth the expenditures of the Committee and such
institutions during the preceding two years, their estimated financial
needs for the succeeding two years, and such other information as the
Committee shall deem appropriate.
To enable it to prepare such budget, the Committee shall have the
power to require of institutions within its jurisdiction, and such
institutions shall prepare and submit, such reports from time to time
as the Committee shall deem necessary, but to the extent that reports
shall be required by the Committee for the purpose of preparing such
budget; institutions within the jurisdiction of the Committee shall not
be required to report to the Board of Public Charities; and,
(_h_) To make rules and regulations establishing a uniform system of
accounting and bookkeeping in all institutions within its jurisdiction.
SECTION 7. The medical service which the Committee on Delinquency is by
this Act required to institute, maintain, and supervise shall include:--
(_a_) The prompt and thorough examination of all the inmates of
institutions within its jurisdiction with a view to the proper
diagnosis, classification, and treatment of all such persons;
(_b_) The prescription and maintenance of standards in diagnosis
and treatment in all institutions within its jurisdiction and the
determination of the qualifications of those selected as physicians,
psychiatrists, stewards, or nurses, in such institutions;
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