In the same room is an old lady of about seventy years who within the past six months is showing signs of losing her mind. We do not wonder at this. This room has no stove and yet the idiot and this old lady have had to occupy it during these cold nights. Just across the hall in a room by herself, is a woman about twenty-five years old suffering from a most loathsome disease and the babe on her knee bore in a frightful manner the marks of the same curse. The atmosphere in this room was simply awful, some of the ladies having to go out immediately, and the poverty of the room was enough to bring tears to the hardest heart.
Dirt abounds in every building.
But we are not through yet. More awful revelations of shameless cruelty and unpardonable neglect were yet to be visited in other apartments where these poor demented men, black and white, do not receive as much care or consideration as the cattle of the fields. If the accommodations and order in the rooms were a disgrace to humanity, the condition of affairs here I prefer to leave to your imagination. We are not blaming any one in particular. We are simply giving information from personal knowledge.