New-York tribune., 1877-08-20
MARTLAND CHARITY.
CARE OF PAuPERs AND INSANE.

CARE OF PAUPERS AND INSANE.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE COUNTY
ArNsuOVsF-A HORRIBLE STORY OF NEGLECT
FILTH AND VICE.
BALTIMORE. Aug. 19.-Dr. Charles W. Chan
cellor member OF the CRY Council, Secretary of the
State Board Health, and physician OF extensive
practice in this city, who was requested py GOV
Carroll 10 visit and inspect all alns institutions IN the
STATE" has submitted his report to the Governor In
introducing his report DR.. Chancellor says:
alt is painful to report the shocking condition m which
rauv OF the public ins 4utIous found, and II Is
difficult TO conceive tht an ny m es "vrSs @ i1bi1 he aims
houses and ias of State 500 insane and idote
people, for whom there exists no proper pr0tisivl anu
VINO utterly cast down and neglected. hait lea ana
chastly IN their wretchedness.'
In tie almshouses in some OF the counties entirely
different state Of affairs exists and Dr. Chaneelors re-
por; represents them be disgusting dens of filth and
prostituton too shocking, sokening and disgusting TO
contemplate
I'm Allegheny County Almshouse the and insane
were indscrminaely mixed, without proper means OF
separating the One colored girl an epiepte OF
feeble mind had three children with her. two Of whom
had been born in almshouse. The youngest an in
FAINT six months Of age undoubtedly the child OF
white
In Anne Arundel County the amshouse is an abode OF
misery The keeper and his family are comfortably
ouartered on the first floor OF the building, while
the white inmates dwell together In unrestricted con-
r. has borne three children the house, all begotten by
the inmates These nn0cents had fortunately been sent
10 an orphan asylum There not in any room OF
this amshouse bed pillow fit for and such as were
found were dsgustngy filthy The negro quarters II pos
se were even worse than those occupied by the whites
Every room was in a dirty condition. the beds filthy,
without sheets or pillows and in several rooms no beds.
The common a OF this county Is filthy and objection
able AZ the aushouse, promscuous association OF all
classes existing.
In the Baltimore County Almshouse the male depart
nent was so overcrOwded that the dining room, bath
rooms aud even the waterclosets used for lodging
rooms -,
Tbe Caroline County Almshouse is mockery OF char
iiv and nursery Of pollution not the slightest attention
ing paid the moral physical condition OF the pau
per aud insane inmates one woman was the mother OF
two chr.n and another ~ six, all said to have been be
gotten aad born within the AmshOuse. ~ the c0Ored
departueut shoUd be compared % nithY pSs1 e, IL
would be an uiusrIce 20 the pigstye.
In the Cecil County AlnshOuse IN both buldng-, tne
departmeuts for males AID females separated only by
ngrrow passage aud the evil result OF the
free communication between the soxes Is man
Tested in the number OF iuegtlmate children
born in the house. There are two instan-
COS in this almshouse, in which the mother and chill
dren were born in basturdy nnder It's roof
I'm Washington County the Almshouse situated III the
su,rrb- of HagersOwn shO1ld he presented.as a. com
mon nuisance. The details of rs condition are o-s-
Die more revolving than OF Cecil anu Baltimore Couh
ties. 80 ,...,-t-- 49,, a..
But there are counties I'm which this shocking ana ds
mating state OF rs does exist IN when oGer ana
decencv and civilization prevail Among these are
Carroll and Charles Counties