St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-23
STATE INSTITUTIONS
That the Board OF Corrections aud
Charities Talked over.

Charities Talked over.
The state board of corrections and chart
lies held its quarterly session at the capitol
yesterday, with the full board present and
Gov. Hubbard in the chair. Secretary Il.
FL. Hart submitted the quarterly report,
which reviewed the work of the past three
months. The most important work had
been that looking to the establishment of a
system of uniform financial statistics for
the institutions of the state. Since the last
session of the board he had visited all the
Institutions of the state subject to such Wis
ltation. except the hospital at Rochester.
At the st. Peter insane hospital the facil-
!. lies had been improved. The chapel had
ibeen renovated and stage built
flor entertainments. The ward for
women is being rapidly completed,
and will present fine appearance. The
Genter building for idiots and imbeciles at
Faribault is progressing favorably. The
institution for the blind has completed
most satisfactory year, and some important
changes will be made during the coming
year. Two school sessions will be held per
day instead of one, and the shops will be
open all day, the pupils being divided into
two sections. Several changes will be made
in the teaching force. The buildings of
the reform school ale undergoing q general
renovation, and rooms have been fitted up
for third family of boys At the state
prison the wOmen's yard has been separated
from the main prison yard, and a bath
house has been built. The old dungeons
have been disused, and punishment is now
effected by confinement in lighted and ven
tilated cells on a bread and water diet.
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS.
Dr. Dana read report of his recent visit
to many of the penal and reformatory in
situations of the East, to which he found
ready entrance. On Blackwell's Island,
n. Y, he found the charity hospital. peni-
Tertiary, aims house, hospital for imbeciles,
blind asylum, wOrkhOuse aid the epileptic
and paralytic asylum. The idiot asylum on
Wards island was visited in company with
DR.. Knight, formerly of Faribault.
DR.. Vivian made a report upon visits to
insane hospitals in Michigan, Ohio. Indi-
was passed complimenting Mr.. Cowie, as
sstant to Secretary Hart. upon his eff
cheney and diligence, and raising his
salary for the balance of the year.
A committee of five was ap-
pointed by the president to confer
with the boards of managers of the ST.
Paul and Minneapolis warehouses, looking
to the use of those institutions as district
warehouses, enabling other counties in the
state to send petty offenders to them in
stead of combining them in the county Jail.
UNIFORM STATISTICS.
In the afternoon meeting of the trustees
of the state institutions. called by the gov
ernor, convened in the governors room to
consider the adoption of system of uni
form financial statistics. There were pres
ent Gov. Hubbard, the full board of correc-
tons and charities; MessrS. Morris and De
Laitre of the state prison board. Sackett,
Schummel and Daniels of the insane
hospitals boards, Ingersoll and Petit of the
reform school board, Clement, Mott, Will
son, Barron, Skinner of the Fari-
bault institutions, and State Auditor
Braden and State Examiner Knox.
Under the system proposed an annual state
ment will be made by each institution in
detail of all expenses. a monthly state
ment will be made by the steward of each
institution, of the population, expenses,
ETC., under twenty heads By this system
the financial accounts of all state institu-
tons will be kept in similar forms, enabling
a ready comparison with each other and
with institutions in other states. The trus-
tees present voted to adopt the uniform
classification proposed and to render
monthly abbreviated reports to he board
of corrections and charities