Interior, P: Government Orphanage (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Government Orphanage

The first inmates of the Government Orphanage Were the 60 girls transferred from the Hospicio de San Jose on February 12, 1917. Seventy-five orphans were subsequently admitted from the same institution. Other admissions directly from at large followed. Between the periods from November 5, 1919, to March 19, 1920, inclusive, some 41 inmates of the Philippine Orphanage Association, a private organization commonly known as American Mestizo Orphanage were actually added to the number of government wards in the Orphanage when the rights and properties of the said private organization were trans ferred to the Government. There are at present 226 inmates in the Orphanage besides those in the Boys' Home at Calle Agno, Malate, Manila.

The Orphanage started to. Operate in an old resident building leased and remodeled for the purpose. The top ¿oor was used as dormitories while the ground ¿oor was utilized for kitchen, dining room, class rooms, and office. The institution has gra dually expanded. The Government has constructed up to this time three buildings and a school house in the same site leased for the orphanage, in addition to the old building already men tioned. Much permanent improvements were not made in view of the fact that the Government does not own the site of about 2 hectares that the Orphanage is now using.

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