The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-12-16

Win loose boards. A platform
should be built over this cistern
and good pump put in it.
In the smoke house and wash
house We found everything in
order and as clean as such places
can he kept. The Jail depart
ment, in which are confined the
insane and idiotic inmates, is in
a building situated about fifty
yards from the Infirmary. We
found the interior clean, but in
sist that until some radical
changes are made it is not a fit.
ting place to conline human be-
ings. The building is without
ventilation and the stencil that
pervades it vile and poisonous
The house sets just on the edge
of a bluff and the opportunities
for the drainage and flushing of
the vaults under it excellent
Drains have been put in the last
year, but drains alone do not
have much effect. No care that
may be gwen this department
will improve the condition of it.
Dislnfectants may be used to pu-
rlfy the place, but The building
must be more thoroughly venti-
lated, and the vaults underneath
purged of the poison that gives
birth to the stencil, before it will
be fit 10 use. Three OF the in
mates now occupy the place-one
an idiotic boy and two others as
his keepers. These inmates
should be given quarters in the
empty wards OF the main build
ing until the sanitary conditions
of the Jail are improved.
The Infirmary is in charge of
A. &. Murphy, Sup't., who is just
entering upon his first year of
service in that capacity. He in
formed us that there were now |
43 inmates, consisting of II adult |
males. 2S adult females and 8 |
children. OF this number four
are sick, thres women and one
man.
Eleven barrels of kraut have
been put up for he winter, about |
fifty gallons of appls butter, one
thousands heads of cabbage, besides
potatoes, turnips and other veget-
ables. They will butcher forty one
head of hogs. They milk seven
head of COWS and make on an av-
erage about twenty four pounds of
butter per week. One more sugges
ton. The grounds surrounding the
lnfirmary are handsome, but with
out shade tree. A hundred trees
could be set out by the inmates in
season without cost TO the ins;itu-
ticn. The approach 10 the Inirm
ary is dreary vista that could be
made beautiful by trees. The Ch.l-
drens' Home is two-story franc
building, situated about one eighth
of mile west Of the infirmary, and
on tho Infrmary farm.
The location is very plea.a mt !
one, but like the Infrmary, there is
a dearth of trees on the grounds sur
rounding it. {
If the charitable institutions of j
.he county we're to stand but seas
IN, or even two Seasons, there !
might be some excuse in neglect $
ng the environments and the severe a
practice of economy that might tend t
o a decrease IN the valuation of the 4.
But they are not. They .
we're called into existence by neces-
'iIiss that had the recognition of the t
people WHO contribute to their sup t
'ort, and those persons who hold !,
hese institutions In trust rs stew y
lrds of the people. should have wis
iom to consider the probable ext t
,encies of the future, and courage V
o carry out their convictions. 1t i
vas not the design that our charit- E
BILE institutions should become sec- h
ndary in interest to the outlying a
ands around them. They were to Il
'e safe and comfortable asylums Il
Or unfortunat es who had been left =
S wards of the public, and a closer
ssoclation with this thought viii il
ondone in part the inmates feeling b.
f regret at being compelled TO ac- g
ept charity, and lessen the burdens ~
the benefactors. The cold, cheer it
ess rooms, without a touch of color p,
nd with few comforts, are not CAL al
llated to inspire one. with hope Is
hey are the retreats that afford y
lelter in the closing scene of the Il
st act of life, and until there is ht
ider and more rlagnanimous con- &C
epticn of what public charity re pi
lily is, they may never tfeel the or or
anerous warmth of humanitarian tb
m, or be frightened by the g!ori- al
is sunlight Of christianity. Asso dr
ations may make the going down re
the latest sun a peaceful event.
he7 msy shape the course of the
,ung to honorable careers in life.
id 1t ia to this end our charitable
stitutiona are designed. The u
hildrens' Homv should be some. L
ling more than stopping place for
e unfortunates gathered .here. 1t
lould be the educator that will fix
their young minds the reward of &c
pure life. The early impressions GO 60
the young are usually lasting, and "
their associations and surround Ii
gs were always congenial, there OIL
ould be less CT ime in the world In
e believe the people would take Ell
eat pleasure IN seeing their insti- IN, IN
tons brought up to the IL
CHEST standard of excel OF
Ico, and would recommend that ni.
e management be such, that IN!
9 advancement to this plane I'M
II be certain. There are eight So
oms in the Childrsns' Home four io'
each floor, On the first floor is fol