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20 JUVENILE DELINQUENCY a survey, and as a result of that survey we set u]) a clinic which is known as the Adult Guidance Center in San Francisco. We are get- ting on an average of about 100 cases a day. It has been in existence now since 1948 and it is known as the 150 Otis Street Clinic. We have trained psychiatrists and medical personnel there who take the alco- holic and attempt to do something with him. We are actually turning them back into profitable work again, back to their families within 10 days; whereas the usual format in the old days was to arrest them and to use the parlance of the police, kick them out the next morning, or give them 6 months in the county jail. So we do feel that the work done up there has been very helpful. It lias shown that something can be done in the field of alcoholism if you treat the person who is an alcoholic and treat him medically and give them an opportunity to become rehabilitated. The reason I want to mention it in relation to delinquency is this: We have a followup program on most of the persons who go through the clinic, and if I recall correctly, the figure is around about 05 per- cent of the men and women who have gone through the clinic, who tell us that looking back over their case histories, their problems came from an alcoholic parent. In other words, either the mother or the father was an alcoholic to a point where the family was broken up, and the child then seems to automatically follow in that footstep. So if we can do something intelligently from a medical viewpoint in the treatment of the alcoholic, we believe that we might in days to come or years to come, do something profitable in preventing a great many from becoming alcoholics. Chairman KEFAU^^«:R. Mr. Daly, those treatments were followed up by the case workers to see what happened ? Mr. Daly. Yes. We had quite a bit of that work done. Chairman Kefau^t:r. What pei'centage of restorations have you found ? Mr. Daly. On the first group of persons that went through the clinic we had a 6-month followup when we could see what could be done, and 52 percent of the men and women—and incidentally these persons had been taken right out of skid row—the ones I am referring to now, as they say, were the bottom-of-the-barrel type of alcoholic— every one of them had come from skid row—and so it is generally said that you can't do anything with that type of person—nevertheless, a 6-month followup of them showed that 52 percent were working and sober 6 months after they got out of the clinic. Chairman Kefauver. That's a remarkable percentage. Mr. Daly. That was a very fine record. Chairman Kefau^-er. This is being done in San Francisco ? Mr. Daly. This is being done in San Francisco. Senator Kefaumsr. Is that the only county where it is being done? Mr. Daly. Along that line, yes; but may I also say this, Senator, that you may be interested in knowing that the State legislature has set up now a State alcoholic rehabilitation commission, and at the last legislature they have agreed upon a budget of $204,000 for the com- ing year. They are going to set up, I understand, a comparable clinic in Los Angeles; and $50,000 has been allocated for that, and the com- mission, as I understand, will sort of model itself after the work that is being done in San Francisco. So we are making some progress.