Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-01-07

s22 inmates. The superintendent reports that
there should be two detached buildings to servo
rs receiving wards for curative treatment and
better classification.
The general assembly, at Its first session,
provided for the selection OF o site for new
asylum in eastern Ohio, through commission
TO be appointed by the governor The commits
sion reported In favor of q site near Mnssillon,
Stark county, consisting of two hundred and
thirty acres, valued at S43,500, This tract of
land has been donated to the state and a war
ranty deed therefor filed with the auditor of
state. In obedience to the act have appointed
Ave trustees, two CT whom are experts in the
care of the insane, to prepare plans and specih-
cations and to estimate the cost OF the proposed
buildings. Their report will be transmitted to
the general assembly for its information.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS ORPHANS HOME
There are nine hundred and nine children in
this nst!tution-forty-e eight more than year
go, and ninety eight more than two years ago.
Among the improvements noted this year are
the growth OF the manual training, the introduc-
tion OF steam power and appliances In the engi-
neering, clothing, printing, knitting and shoe
departments. These prepare the pupils to take
positions in important industrial pursuits when
they leave tho Institution. The farm, garden
and horticultural departments have beeen con-
solidated under an expert with view OF giving
the boys a practical knowledge of farming,
while the girls have been given increased facili-
ing, etc. The cottage hospital system has been
completed Under the present law the boys,
upon being discharged from the institution, re-
ceive S15, and the girls receive but IL. know
OF no just reason for this discrimination, and
therefore recommend that the sum OF ais be
given to the girls upon their discharge from the
home.
At the soldiers and sailors home there is an
enrolment of 977 old soldiers.
HOSPITAL FOR EPILEPTIcs.
Three of the cottages are now completed, and
two others are under roof and are being pushed
to early completion. The kitchen, bakery and
the boiler and engine houses are also well under
way. This contract is to be completed on or be-
fore February /, 1898. When the work now in
progress is finished, two hundred and fifty pa
tients can be admitted for treatment With an
appropriation of $4,000 the board of trustees
report that the institution can be opened in the
spring of 1893 The cottages now built and in
progress of construction are intended for the
accommodation of males. 1t is recommended
by the trustees that equal accommodations be
provided a the earliest possible day for fe-
males and they ask an appropriation Of s243, ,0lT.
/ concur with the board OF trustees that the
cottages now under way should be completed
with the smallest possible delay, and be made
ready to ccive patients
In work so important as this, and which, at
best, Is somewhat experimental in its charac-
ter, the largest discretion has been given to the
board OF trustees, and should be continued. Tho
most skillful physicians and experts in the
treatment Of epilepsy should be employed by
| the board, and the board should have authority
| to pay salaries which will secure them. / es-
| pecially invite the attention OF the general as
sembly to the report of the board of trustees.
l. will found to be full and self-explanatory;
and recommend TO this institution, on your
part the most liberal appropriations consistent
with the condition of the public funds.
THE DEAF AND DUAB
The number OF the pupils in the institution
| for the ed location OF the deaf and dumb is 357.
| During tn first three months Of the present
| management there was u saving of over s., ,0OC
as compared with the same three months OF
| 1890 and saving of s2,6j2 as compared with
| the same three months of 1891.
THE BLIND.
The number OF pupils in the institution fol-
| the education OF the blind during 1892 was 2O2
The present administration only took contro
one month before the end of the fiscal year Of
| 1892.
| At Iberia, Morrow county, there is nodes
| but useful insttuton-The Ohio working home
for the blind. 1t now has thirty inmates. 1t is
| capable OF accommodating fifty. 1t is urgently
| represented by the board that II the general as
| sembly woGld give them u larger annual appro
| priation, which would Constitute q working cap
| ital much money might be saved, and the cos
| of maintaining the institute greatly reduced
| that because Of the inadequate appropriation Il
| purchase material for manufacturing, goot
| part OF the time the inmates are idle, and thei
| entire support falls on the state
FEEBLE-MlNDED YOUTH.
| At the institution for Feeble Minded You'll
| there are SI inmates enrolled The sugges tiol
| is made that as q preventive means against TIL,
| hereditary class a separate department for th
adult feeble-minded be established. Hundred
OF these are now in the county intirmaries, in
sane asylums and prisons, and many are in fam
! lies where they cannot receive proper attention
and large number are altogether neglected.
BOYS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
There are 726 inmates OF this school Durin
| the past year Us3a) the institution has ha,
| three stewards. Under the first the per capit
cost of maintenance per month was slSss
under the second .Ii5l+., and under the thir
and present steward, j6,0ila. The large unwar
ranted deficiency occurring under the previou
| management-ard which was ascerta ned by
non partisan commission, appointed by the gov
ernor under Il resolution of the general assem-
| bly, ut its first session, the report of which
trnnsmit-only gives emphasis 10 the necessit
for the most rigid scrutiny Of purchases an
| accounts by boards of trustees
| The number of inmates in the Girls Indus
trirl home is 321.
| REFoRMAroRY AT MANSFIELD.
This institution is not yet in q condition 70
use. 1t should be completed. If the conditio
of the treasury will not permit Of an appropria
tion large enough for such q purpose ut lhi
time, earnestly urge that some part OF tn
buildings be completed for immediate occupa
tion for there are many inmates in the PEN
tertiary who are young men, paying the penalt
for first o1enses, who are not hardened erin
inals and for whose benefit the Mansfield In
stitution was intended. The boys industria
school at Lancaster is crowded beyond II
capacity. and the superintendent and board {
trustees recommend an appropriation for add
tional buildings, which are very much needed
II the Mansfield reformatory were opened VI
the necessity for the buildings at Lancasts
would not be so pressing Every considerable
would seem TO require that some portion of TIL
reformatory Mt Mansfield should be complete
for immediate use. There have been appr
priated since 1885 the sum OF 1905 ,97S 81
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
invite the attention OF the general assembl
to the report OF the state board of health. L
duties during the past year have been unrsuall
important and arduous. II had to deal with u
epidemic OF small pox along the Ohio river
Pomeroy aud other points, and more recent
| with the threatened cholera. In both of the.