New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-18
VISITING THE COUNTY INSTITUTIONS.

VISITING THE COUNTY INSTITUTIONS.
THE SUPERVISORS WILL. PLEASED WITH THE
NEW Observation-Disclosures PROPOSED.
The Supervisors OF Kings County, with number
OF visitors making forty-fve persons In ALL took
carriages ct the county courthouse yesterday and
went 10 Flatbush to make their annual inspection
of the county institutions. They had luncheon at
the almshouse and spent the day at their nvestga-
lions The visit was made under the auspices OF
the County Farm Committee. John H. Burtfs. the
Charities Commissioner, with the Supervisors
part OF the time
The Supervisors found that the present manage
ment OF tho institutions had made marked i'm
provement in their condition. and were we'll salts
fled with the way the affairs OF the institutions
have been administered during the last year.
II has been said that the vote to reconsider the
veto by the Supervisor at-Large. Mr. Fftchie. Of
the plan for building new hospital to cost about
500 CO., had purposely been laid over until o-days
visit Be that 1t may, there seems to be
ground for the belief that nursery building, which
would be available In eighteen months, can and
will be had substitute, especially as new
hospital building would not be ready for use for
several years
The question of a new administration building for
the almshouse engaged the Supervisors attention.
The question Of making available quarters for $50
more inmates Is involved and the Supervisors
impressed with the ACCESSIBILITY OF making
the change. . a., c.,
vsors discussed the necessity Of building a
separate drug and storehouse for the hospital. At
present the liquors. medicines, bandages, drugs and
other stores-infammable and eXplosive-are crowd
ed into three small rooms In the basement OF the
hospital. The existence Of these stores Is source
OF danger TO the inmates in the adjoining rooms.
II they were taken out and removed TO a separate
building there not only would be three more rooms
for the accommodation of these inmates, but the
menace to safety would also be removed This Is
one of the things Commissioner Burts says ought
to be acted on at once, and the Supervisors evil
IDENTIFY thought So too. -
Another thing to which the attention of the Su-
pervisors was directed, the necessity Of build
Ing adequate iron nreescapes at the hospital. Now
there are no outside Horoscopes there, although
there have been some make-believe fre-escapes in
side he buildings contract for iron hre-eScapeS
will probably be acted on to-day.
The Supervisors also that II IS necessary to
provide accommodations for the nurses at the
hospitals 1t is proposed to cree. two buildings for
nurses; one for the male and one for the female
nurses Heretofore the nurses have been sleeping
in the wards and other rooms In the main buildings.
The buildings would probably cost about 5000
apiece and could be built within two months. They
would accommodate about one hundred and fifty
peope-about one hundred convalescents and nifty
nurses.
houses being built on the German plan, with i'm
proved fittings and providing accommodations for
forty prisoners at one time, was inspected by the
Supervisors.
Another interesting plan that attracted the atten-