Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-24

could be better managed SO. In the oil
country they had quit building palace
and only put up cheap, simple struc
lures, which in many places they burned
down every few years in order to destroy
the filth and vermin that would accum
ulate. We must certainly take care of oul
insane. If sent to other parts of th,
state we will be charged three dollar,
per week. We can render them all tn.
care necessary in cheap economical
buildings here. We can build near the
poor farm, one building for males anc
one for females. Buildings win stanC
for a hundred years if properly built
Our poor farm is one of the best in the
state. Houses will crack sometimes
when proper care has not been taken
with the foundation. Houses that had
cracked forty years ago are good now.
In regard to the proposed building il
could be put up sixty feet from the poor
house and another sixty feet, separated
by high board fences. There are now al
the poor house two, three, four in room
and we have got to take them out.
They are as well cared for as they can be
under the circumstances but they must
be moved before dog days come, breed
ing pestilence aud disease among them.
For S12,0 buildings can be put up,
they must be heated by furnances and
then the present building can be given
up TO the poor The committee could
build across the street from the poor
house for the sum now asked for. The
county does not want to put up large
buildings; build small aud airy, yentilate
thoroughly. The committee had figured
the matter over and asked mechanics
about the cost of construction and lad
been told they could complete the pro-
per building for twelve or fourteen
thousand dollars; but put up no house
for the superintendent. There were
many poor in different parts of the
county that ought TO 90 to the poor house
but there was no room for them, we
were consequently keeping them at diff
ferent places at 4 great expense, as when
not sent to the poor farm we have to
pay double for them. We must look the
matter square in the face; this class of
patients have been kept in counties tor
one half the sum charged and if they are
thrown upon the state we have to pay
indirectly. Many other counties are
adopting this method. The insane can
be better taken care of ut home than else
where by all means We then received
$50 per capita from the state but if
sent away we have to pay $500, We
have now forty patients that will go in
To the new institution. 1t is simply a
question of paving out Sl20, or reciey-
ing 500. We can besides keep them for
less tLan we would have to pay else
where. If we build under the state law
the state has entire control, now all the
trustees come from the county. Then
the governor would appoint them from
other parts Of the state and we would
have to foot the bills. Are the people
of Grant county ready to do it or are
they ready to run their own institution
rather then let others do it for them.
Mr.. Watson said there seemed to be
wrong impression as to the raising of
the state tax, He was under the inn
preston that $500. 900 of the whole
amount was raised from railroads tele-
graph companies etc.
Dr. Vivian said he was not a little
grieved at the beginning OF his friend
Robbins address The State Board of
Charities was composed of five members
who gave their time to the state without
pay exception travelling expenses. There
was great misapprehension as to the
powers of the Board. Until within a
year they had possessed only scOldng
power. The law of last winter created
another board called the State Board of
Control which had full charge of all the
state Institutions That board has re-
duced the capacity of the state hospital
one hundred and ordered Grant county
to take back its surplus of patients and
She had TO take them back Mr.. Bur
chard had made a mistake in his letter
as read by Mr.. Robbins. The excuse of
the board won't hold water The bill of
last winter gave to the state Board of
Charities the right to say to YOU of
Grant county if you do not care for your
insane properly we can send them 10
another county We have charge of all
the insane outside of the state hospital.
Each county will receive pay from the
state as soon as they can care for them.
If Grant county viii build a building too
large for its own need the State Board
will guarantee to fill it for them. Don t
be parsimouious. the burden will be
heavy but you don't need palaces The
main question will be how are the in
building YOU have. As regards the state
institutions the larger they get the more
expensive they become.
Mr.. Robbins said he wished to correct
the statement of the gentleman in one
particular regarding expenses and read
from a report he held in his hand a list
of sums paid TO the two gentlemen
present
DR. Vivian reiterated the amounts
charged were for travelling expenses
He was not thief nor did he tell I'M
truths. The report the gentleman had,
covered the investigation into the cor
ruptions in the Milwaukee House of
Correction and that investigation cost
me 1000 ont of my own pocket
Mr.. Clark said everybody knew the
Milwaukee House of Correction had
been badly managed and the Board had
been sent down to court-martial, as it
were, the officers of that institution.
They had spent many weeks in the in
vestigation and having been sent special
~ by the governor had been paid per
diem and mileage, but such was not or
dinarily the case
Mr.. Vivian. Mr. Giles was allowed
Sl.500 per year as secretary of the board
and the remainder was for other expenses
entailed in their work
The Chairman stated the question was
upon the adoption OF the resolution ap-
-
county asylum
The ayes and noes having been called
for the vote stood as follows:
AYES Grimm. Watson. Mccormick
Shuttleworth, Kidd, j. S. Mcmahon,
Jones, kruel, HER. Ryland, BUrner,
Knapp, Cairns. Munns. Kidd. +. L..
McKichan, Arnold Rodolf, Casper.
Carey Macarthur, Hurd, Wilson, Brown
Scott, Van Buren,, Ferris. Glenn, Clark,
Hubbell Robbins, Shillian 81.
NOES Wagner, Fennell, Barnett
Bowden, Barley )
Resolution adopted
Mr. Carey offered a resolution in re-
lation to payment for general election
returns a> follows:
Hsso}ged That hereafter here be DO allowance
made TO the chairman or messenger for making
the returns Of the general election
Mr.. Robbins asked leave to withdraw
the resolution introduced by him in re-
lation to the insane Leave was
granted
Mr.. Watson moved the resolution OF
Mr. Carey be laid on the table
Mr. L. /. Kidd thought it was not
right to choke down the resolution in
that style and call for the ayes and noes.
AYES Wagner, Watson, Mccormick.