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The rate for Pay out-patients which includes all the services above, but with the exception of room and board, is $22 per week.

Trained Private Attendants: Trained private attendants may be engaged by patients needing or desiring them. Room and board for such attendants can be obtained from the Foundation for $20 per week. Salaries in addition to maintenance for female attendants range from $40 to $50 per month, and for male attendants from $50 to $75 per month.

Housekeeping Cottages: For families wishing to establish a temporary home on the Foundation grounds, a number of cottages are available fully equipped for either light or full housekeeping. Rental rates range from a minimum of $50 per month, upward.

Educational Facilities

MRS. S. PINKNEY TUCK very generously donated the funds for the construction of a school and occupational therapy building including equipment, furnishings and library, and for the maintenance of the school, including teachers' salaries, for a trial period of ten years, with the understanding that if during that time the school demonstrated its usefulness and future need, adequate provision would be made for its continued maintenance by way of endowment.

The school opened in May, 1939, and is under the supervision of a Director who has done graduate work in Education and holds a Master of Arts degree. He is assisted by two full-time teachers, each of whom is well trained and experienced in her field, one having specialized in elementary school work from kindergarten through the eighth grade, and the other in high school subjects. There is also a teacher of commercial subjects who acts as librarian. Additional teachers are brought in for part-time work as their services are required.

The purpose of the school is to help patients maintain the scholastic level of their group in their home schools whenever their physical condition permits. After a consultation with the Medical Department to determine how much work the patient is able to do, a curriculum and schedule which will give the greatest coverage and thoroughness are worked out for each individual. Wherever possible, the principal of the patient's home school is consulted, and in many cases the same textbooks and syllabi which are used at the home schools are followed.

Most of the pupils in the elementary grades are taught in classes, as it is thought that the competition offered in group activities has a salutary effect. In the high school, the work consists almost wholly of private or semi-private instruction. Examinations are given every four or six weeks varying with the individual case, and progress reports are sent to parents.

Pupils who are able to walk or operate wheel chairs go to the school building for their work, but those who are confined to their beds are visited by the teachers in the Infirmary or the Medical Building.

Although the patients are handicapped physically, they are not handicapped mentally, and every endeavor is made to keep standards at least as high as those of the pupils' home schools, always being guided, however, by the reports of the Medical Department on the amount of work that each individual pupil is physically able to do, and being careful not to interfere with the regimen set for the patients by the Medical Department.

The Occupational Therapy Department is under the supervision of a Director and trained occupational therapy assistant. While, of course, most of the training is done in the school building, work is also taken to those patients who are unable to move about. The primary purpose of this Department is to provide beneficial exercises for certain muscular weaknesses under the direction of the Medical Department, but it also provides entertainment and amusement for the entire Foundation family. The occupational equipment includes a metal working room, many types of weaving looms, sewing machines, pottery kiln, and provides facility for almost any handicraft hobby except heavy carpenter work.

General Statistics
1934-1940

IN GENERAL, the statistics given are for a period beginning in 1934, when funds were received from the first Celebration of the President's Birthday. All statistics are based on a calendar year period prior to October 1, 1939, when a fiscal year ending September 3oth was adopted.

I. CAPACITY

The number of patients that can be cared for at any one time by the Foundation is about 105.

The accommodations are approximately as follows:

II. NUMBER OF PATIENTS IN RESIDENCE

III. OUT-PATIENT CLINIC VISITS

IV. FINANCIAL CLASSIFICATION OF PATIENTS