The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-01-11

commend new and enlarged structures If the
revenue from the levies Of last year would
warrant me in so doing. Should you see fit
TO take measures for sscertsining the best
location aud plan of such structures, and
provide for the cost BY the necessary levy,
de not doubt that your action would be ap
proved los our common constituents.
The number OF inmates Of the Institution
for the Blind increased from los in 1888, to
l20 in 1889. Tie highest number which
had previously enjoyed the benefits Of the
Institution was 3, in 1S4S. The constant
increase in the number Of pupils, and their
improvement, is the highest eulogy upon Its
management. The expenses IN 1859, were
SlS,937; in 1853, SlG, 2Q2. The appropria-
lion asked for 1850, in view Of proposed
enlargement, is S26,5Oo
In the Asylum for IDIOTS, thirty children
have teen received, supported and instructed
during the past year, at an aggregate ex-
pense Of $1,000, exclusive Of sums received
on account Of paying inmates. The eXpen-
diture is certainly large but it includes some
payments Of debts incurred during the pre-
ceding year, and some Tor rent and irSur-
snce, for which no disbursements are made
by the other Institutions. 1t should be re-
membered, also, that the expenses OF an asy-
lum receiving few inmates, must necessarily
be larger in proportion than those Of one re-
ceiviDg many. The number in the Asylum
for Idiots would he doubled if its capacty
admitted OF 1t, and the outlay would not I've
materially increased. True ecOsomy re-
quires, in my Judgment the purchase Of the
"a opl l,,,Ti anil tlu
largement OF the latter
The structure authorized in Hamilton
county, for the ldiotic and Insane, has been
recently co npeted. 1t is said TO be very
commodous and sufficiently large to accom-
modate with facility five hundred, and, upon
necessity, six hundred inmates. A Board o
Trustees has been organized for its govern.
ment, consisting Of one member appointed
by me, and two appointed by the Commis-
Sioners Of Hamilton county. That county
therefore, now constitutes the South western
Lunatic Asylum District and the Insttu-
ton Just organized is to receive all the idiotic
and insane within its limits, to be supported
by county tax, and appropriations from the
State Treasury, equal in amount to the taxes
collected in the county for the maintenance
Of State Lunatic Asymlns. I am informed
that no such county tax as is described in the
act is authorized or levied in Hamilton coun.
| ". Some legislation, therefore, will doubt.
| less be necessary to provide for its support
Thus four Lunatic ASylums are now opeT
in the State, capable of receiving a few more
| than twelve hundred inmates. Large as thi
/ prov sion is, it is yet sadly certain that it i
! not large enough. Not less than a thousanC
he han tn { ,,Cl, e.,
tions must still remain either wholly reg
! lected or inadequatelv provided for.
cannot recommend, however, additiona
public provision. Judcious legislation rcgn
! lating counties infrmaries, and authorizing
private asylums, would, in my Judgment, af
ford all needed reliei, and perhaps diminisl
the large expenditures now bourne by thu
State.
The number of inmates in each of the thre
Lunatic Asyluns heretofore organized, wa
| less at the close of the last than at the clos
CT the preceding year. Sufficient reasons 10
the diminution are assigned in the severa
reports. The fact, however, is much to b
regretted, though compensated III part by IN
creased success in treatment. 1t NAV b
safely said, I think, that these Asylums wel
never in better condition than now.
The total expenses Of the three Asylum'
during the past year. were S03, 427 and h
appropriations asked for 1860 are II | 60 -
The general aggregate Of disbursements mus
be increased during the present year, by tn
necessary provision Tor the Southwestern
Asylum. The sttictest economy will be ne
ccssary to bring the annual cost of the tor
Asylums within limits satisfactory to Il
people.
The number Of boys remaining on the Sta
Reform Farm at the close Of 1850 was 10
AT the close of 1858, it was 33. The e7
penditures during the last year were 2l
Of which large proportion was for building
and other permanent improvements whiC
have added largely TO the value Of the far
as property. This institution has thus f
fulfilled the wise and humane design Of Il
gicisIature. Its direct agency in reformatic
has beep quite as efficient as was anticipate
while it would be difficult to measure its uti
ity in the prevention OF crime
Under the Influence of its example Tndu
tral Schools have been organized in ClevelaI
and Cincinnati for that class of Migrants al
destitute children, - social orphans, wi
cannot be brought into the Common Schoo
and from whose numbers the ranks Of erin
are continually recruited. The Institute
at Cleveland offering not only some meaSu
of instruction, but employment and food
inducements to attendance, has been, th
far, extremely useful, and gives promise
yet greater utility. Vagrancy, plllerng al
more serious crime, have sensibly diminish
under its influence. That at Cincinna
more recently begun, is yet to make proof
its efficiency for good.
Upon examining tn Reports OF the yario
Institutions, you will doubtless observe co
siderable differences in amount and value
information, and in modes Of treatment.
have heretofore suggested and now rent
the suggestion, that the several Superinte
} dents or Presidents Of Boards of Trustees
required to meet at least once year for &C
, sultation upon plans of management, and
modes Of making up Reports. | do I
doubt that such consultations will PRONE
economy in administration, and secure mu
clearer and better statements Of its theo
history and results.
The administration Of the Penitentia
during the last year, was eminently succe
full While the number Of convicts increas
r from 693 to 853 exceeding the number
available cells by l53, and compelling
/ use OF the chapel and hospital as conS
$ quarters, the judicious discipline ofthe pri,
! was such that industry, order and health p
=, vailed in unusual degrees within its wa
t 1t was impossible, at once to find profta
8 employment for so numerous body Of pl
: oners, and yet though expenditures nee
: sarily increased with numbers they were
$ ceeded by the earnings Of the year.
] two additional buildings directed by the
General Assembly, are nearly compIet
t at a cost considerably reduced by the G
$ ployment Of convict labor in portions of
if work. Vixen finished they will supply
G additional cells. But the number will S
o be far too small, and, if prisoners continue
:, multiply at the present rate, the dspror
J, ton, already inconvenient, must soon becc