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Book Title: A Memorial And Biographical History Of The Counties Of Santa Barbara, Ventura, And San Luis Obispo

THE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY HOSPITAL, POOR FARM, AND ALMS-HOUSE,

(for these establishments are combined in one), is situated just outside the
city limits on the east. The grounds cover an area of about ten acres, sufficing
for the raising of fruits and vegetables in a garden and orchard attached to the
premises. The board of supervisors each year appoints a county physician and a
hospital superintendent, and nurses are employed as needed. There are at present
one female and about twenty male inmates. The percentage of females seeking
assistance here is small, owing to the same reason which accounts for the fact
that the character of the inmates is rapidly changing; formerly they were mostly
acute cases, but now they are mainly chronic. This is because very many of those
received here are either tramps, or sick persons who reach Santa Barbara with
means of support for a few days only, after which they become objects of
charity. Dr. S. B. P. Knox, who is the present incumbent, has been county
physician for some eight years in all, at one time filling the office for six
years in succession.

  Besides the inmates of the poor farm, the county has some forty pensioners,
mostly of Spanish-American blood, who live at their own dwellings, or with
relatives, and receive a monthly allowance of $4, $6, or $8.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY 
OF THE COUNTIES OF
Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California

Illustrated

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Prospective Future; with Profuse illustrations of its Beautiful Scenery,
Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and
Biographical Mention of  many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of
to-day,

BY MRS. YDA ADDIS STORKE.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors -will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
descendants."—Macaulay.

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1891.

Barlow-Sinclair Printing Co., Chicago.


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