The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-07
DIRT AND DIsORDER.
Results Of Visits of State Board of chari-
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 Several important matters came up at the meeting of the state board Of charities in Hartford Tuesday. The board resumed sittings after vaca- ton of one month. as is the custom. Although no meetings were held the past month the members visited a number of institutions.
 Miss Mary Mall reported that she visited the county home at Warehouse Point on July 17. She found Mrs. Pit kin absent and her mother was in charge. The floors were dirty and the women had apparently begun to scrub up the kitchen floor after announce ment was made of the arrival of q visitor. It was Monday. and no doubt that was the reason the laundry was In disorder. but that was no excuse for the clothes being dirty. The plumbing In the new part is modern, but 1t does not work satisfactorily. and the floors are wet and nasty. The children looked neglected. The wash-rooms and bathrooms showed they had not received sufficient attention. The out houses and grounds In the rear of the house were in the same state of gene ral neglect and disorder. No attention is made at the neat and orderly dispo- sition of things in their proper places. The general condition of the premises, indoors and out, was not up to the standard that a well arranged home should invariably present. The institu- tion had the appearance of being un- der careless, easy going management. The evening paper of that day stated that the matron was guest at the Middle Beach house, Westbrook, with County Commissioner Beers and fami- ly.
 In August pr. Tracy and Miss Ba- con visited the state prison. They made report deprecating the course pursued there of publicly exhibiting the instrument of execution with model of the same size and weight of the condemned prisoner In the inter- est of public decency and with a view to check such catering to a morbid sentiment, 1t was recommended that henceforth such exhibitions be discon- tinued. The board adopted the re- port as a resolution and will send a copy to Warden Woodbridge.
 The report upon the Litchfield coun- ty jail states that the institution is over crowded. Rooms are used to ac- commodate prisoners that were never intended for that purpose There are not enough cells for the men, so rough hunks are arranged in the third story of the building over the jail, where men sleep two in a bed. In one room there are twelve, and there are eight in another. There are no provisions for the care of the sick, and those who are well have to occupy the same room with the sick. The jail is clean and in good order The womens quarters are too small and are unfit for the pur- pose and not decently appointed.
 Besides the four institutions that the members are requested to inspect vis- It's have been made during July and August to the following places: Hart ford, New Haven, New London, Fair field and Litchfield county jails, the Spring Hill home for nervous invalids at Litchfield, Cromwell hall for ner- vous and mental diseases at Crom- well, the Darien home and sanitarium at Darien, the Church home, Lawson c. Ives Widows home, Widows home on Market street and Watkinson Farm school in Hartford, Industrial School for Girls and Hospital for the Insane in Middletown, School for Boys in Meriden, and also School for Imbe- ciles at Lakeville, Fitch's Home for the Soldiers at Noroton, almshouses in Litchfeld Cromwell, Simsbury, New London, North Canaan and the alms- houses for state paupers in Tariffville Plymouth, Thomaston, Suffleld, Bris- tol, Windsor Locks, Enfield, Wolcott, North Haven, Prospect, Orange, Sey- mour Southbury, Huntington, East Haddam, Middlebury, Naugatuck, Kill lingworth, Clinton, Westbrook and Old Saybrook. The visits were made to inspect the almshouses and inquire about what provisions were made for the poor.
 In the Bristol almshouse the insane old women and the idiotic younger wo- men occupy an old attic. Selectman Strong was notified that improvements should be made in the women's sleep- ing apartments.
 The Naugatuck almshouse is dirty and in disorder, and the selectmen were so notified. They said it would be put in fair condition in one month.