The foregoing is a true and correct report of the affairs of this Institution for the half year ending August 31, 1920.

C. E. KING, Superintendent State Juvenile Training School, Gatesville, Texas.

State of Texas,

. County of Coryell.

October 28, 1920.

Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day appeared C. E. King, Superintendent of the State Juvenile Training School, who, after being duly sworn, says the within report is true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief.

(Seal)

J. E. McDONALD, Notary Public, Coryell County, Texas.

Girls' Training School.

CARRIE WEAVER SMITH, M. D., SUPERINTENDENT.

The Girls' Training School was created by the Thirty-third Legislature, in 1913. It is located three miles north of the city of Gainesville, Cooke County, on 160 acres of land well suited to its needs. Since its establishment, 232 girls have been received into the Institution.

Number of girls in School at end of fiscal year, August 31, 1920, 71.

Girls' Training School.

REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Hon. W. P. Hobby, Governor of Texas, and State Board of Control, Austin, Texas.

DEAR SIRS: I am herewith submitting to you the second report of the Texas Girls' Training School, for the biennium closing August 31, 1920.

HISTORY AND PROGRESS.

The beginning of the fiscal year, September, 1918, marked the height of the influenza epidemic, and, in spite of careful quarantine, the infection was brought to the school. Sixty girls and officers contracted the disease, and consequently the history of the fall of 1918 is more of a hospital record than a school record, as, of course, all wheels had to stop while we directed all of our energies to care of the sick. Thanks to the excellent nursing done by girls and officers, we had absolutely no complications, and, by the first of January, the epidemic was over and all of our sixty patients were back on the job.

We learned several lessons of institutional importance from this experience, first, from the health standpoint alone, the great value of the single-room system in institutions as opposed to the dormitory system. This was most strikingly demonstrated by the following facts. In the beginning of the epidemic we removed all girls to the hospital cottage in which there were already living about twenty girls. The infected girls were isolated in private rooms, although on the same floor, and not one of the original twenty girls contracted the disease.

Second, we feel that the great necessity of instructing every girl and woman on the elements of home nursing was strongly emphasized. To this end we have put in the regular Red Cross course of home nursing, and propose to teach all of our girls the simple principles of care of the sick and personal hygiene.

Thanks to the generosity of our Gainesville friends, we have also added a model nursery, where, with a life-sized infant doll, we will give the children the practical teaching in the care of babies. This course has a twofold purpose, first, to instruct the children concerning the physical care of a baby and, second, to impress upon them the sacredness of the responsibility for parenthood and wifehood. This work is supplemented by a yearly series of twelve lectures on sex hygiene, based primarily on nature study, for which the children enthusiastically gather material. Each lecture is correlated with appropriate music, poetry, and pictures. The third lesson of great importance was the necessity of proper institutional dietaries. Caloric feeding and balanced rations must not be considered the fads of the ultra-scientific. These principles are, instead, the very practical obligations of institutional superintendents, obligations which can only be minimized at the expense of the physical, moral and mental health of our children.

Miss Lucy H. Gillett, of the Dietetic Bureau of Boston, says: "It is a waste of time, money and effort to try to educate, to brace up morally, and to help to become self-supporting, those who haven't the physical strength to support their good intentions."