The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-19

care OF TINS class of people, from Ine Pa
per. that legally commits them to the
asylum to the arrangements maze Ior
caring for them once they are within us
walls. The codes of laws relating TO IN,
sanity, the care. temporary CUSTODY anu
transportation of the patient before
commitment and after commitment
while awaiting permanent disposition by
sheriffs or other officers will be shown.
We will endeavor to illustrate the pro-
vision, or lack of provision, as the case
may be, in county jails and aimshouses
where insane persons are temporarily
detained. We will also show what the
hospitals and asylums do for both acute
and chronic cases of insanity, what is
done in the way of family care OF the In
sane. and what training schools tor
nurses do to qualify nurses to care Tor
these unfortunates. Then we will en-
deavor to show all the humane appliances
used to restrain insane persons of violent
disposition. Where the patients are en-
ployed we expect to have illustrations OF
their work.
''We will show the work that is done
in ali kinds of dispensaries, the operation
of sick-diet kitchens, the work OF
Flower and Fruit Missions,
The gratuitous home service rendered to
the poor by physicians, the organization
and work of general and special hospitals,
and the general system of ambulance
work. The division of outwork devoted
to juveniles will also be very interesting.
We expect to show the work OF chill
drens aid societies, the societies for the
prevention of cruelty to children, the
management of orphanages, and the
method of conducting day nurseries,
fresh-air missions and summer homes,
also newsboys' and bootblacks' homes.
This work, as you know, is conducted on
an enormous scale in all large cities in
the country, and we hope that from the
exhibit we will produce those who are
interested in it may be able to derive
many valuable suggestions that can be
put into practical operation in their own
institutions. The entire almshouse sys-
tenn of the country, including the homes
for aged couples and for the adult blind,
and the work done by societies for en-
couraging habits of providence will also
be shown.
Gin the section devoted to criminals
we will endeavor to show, first. the plan
of organization. training and equipment
of a model police force, including the
weapons, signals, patrol wagon system
and police station arrangements. We
will give by means of charts a general
view of the charitable and penal work
now being carried on in the world. An
interesting feature of this section will be
a full-sized prison corridor, the cells OF
which will be an exact reproduction OF
the cells in which criminals are confined
in all the different countries and states
of the world We are also collecting a
library, composed of books relating ex-
clusively to penal and charitable work.
By maps we will show the exact location
in each State of all prisons, warehouses;,
reformatory institutions, hospitals, poor
houses. home for the aged and orphan
ages. The architectural drawings OF
some of
The Famous Institutions
in this line will also be displayed. One
set of charts will show the total number
of prisoners confined in each State at a
given time, the cost of their mainte-
nance, and the percentage that the Grim
inal class bears to the general population.
Another set will show the same status
tics in reference to paupers.
1.-THE section devoted to criminals, or
adult delinquents, as we call them, and
the police exhibit already mentioned in
cludes four other divisions. In the one
devoted to the reformation and punish
ment of offenders we will pay special at
tention to reformatories, houses of cor
rection, houses for fallen women, pris-
ons, ETC., and in each case our object is
to illustrate the work of each of these
institutions. In another section we will
treat of the registration and identified
ton of criminals, showing the systems
employed in all countries for keeping
track of this class. Ancient and modern
methods of capital punishment will also
be illustrated-not, however, with live
subjects as victims"