Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-11-21

loss . 3 Il
remaining sept soth 1895 Il IS S
The total number of weeks board
furnished to inmates. 1859.
Average cost per week for each.
Sill $1,000. Amount at this rate
charged to the several towns to whom
inmates belong, $IS79. 81
Amount charged to Grant county
for the II inmates who were county
| charges S923.76, there is also due for
this item from last year which was
improperly thrown out by the county
board, with clothing bill for insane
patients $7S105.
The birth notice above was one of
the unfortunate cases town boards
sometimes meet with and send to as
to care for until the mother is at least
able TO care for herself.
The deaths during the year were as
follows:
Joseph Boyt, Cassville. May 10th.
age 50 years, cause, old age.
John Youst. Hazel Green, May 20,
age 81 years, cause paralysis.
Parreiss Patterson, Hazel Green,
July 9th, age ~ years, cause, SUM
mer complaint
Fritz Bergemeyer, county, Sept. 10,
aged 81 years, cause cancer.
No contagious disease has appeared
and the general health of the inmates
has been fully as good as might be
expected among so many old people
We wish to reiterate all we have here
tofore said, and emphasize all that
anyone else has said, as 10 the unfit
ness Of the poor house for the use it
is intended for.
POPULATION or rHE ASYLUM.
No. inmates oct. list, 1900 III. 81 ii JOS
Rec G during tie year,......,. II
No. discharged not improved ] 0 j
ufeu+.,,s s...5.s#..t .s.sss5s.ss
No remaining sept IN 1895. 6o 50 10
Being an increase OF two over one year
ago 81 these q belong oGrant county, y to
Crawford county. 10 to Richland county sto
Lafayette county, / to Barron county ? to
state at large
For keeping these patients the state
pays for keeping our own Grant coun-
ny patients per week for each $l50.
for keeping other county patients per
week Sl.50, for keeping state at large
] patients per week $500 and their
actual clothing bill. Each county
named excepting Grant pays the
actual clothing bill for its own pa
TENTS and for Keeping each per
week $l50.
| From these sources we expect to
receive the sum of $11 966, IL This
will not be available until Feb. 1896.
The total current expenses Of the
asylum for the past year were $10,-
| 947.05. the total receipts to apply
thereon Sl,310.77, leaving 80, $50, %
net expenses. Number OF week board
furnished inmates 1915 81, average
cost per week for each Sl.72 4-5 ex-
peeted receipts as above Sil.966. IL;
deduct net expenses as above SO, $50 %
prottto Grant county asylum found
81, 329.s3.
Ii Grant county had no asylum it
would have had to pay some other
county for keeping and boarding its
insane during the past year 1898 81
/ weeks At 81 80 per week add % cents
per week for clothing bill for each
and the sum total to have been paid
would be So, 1927. Add TO this the
profits shown above &2329.83 and we
| find Grant county is better off the
past year by having an asylum
+ $8522 80 or in other words has saved
in one year that sum III caring for its
own insane.
The deaths during the year have
/ been Martha Thompson, RichIand Go,
/ inflammation Of the bowels; Chris.
johnson, Barron Co. scrofula and
4 general debility Sarah Smith. Preston,
Grant county. dropsy Mary Wilhelm,
/ Lancaster, Grant county, heart dis
eases VIM. Dunn, Wingville Grant
county, heart disease; Adam j. Me
lick, state at large, heart disease and
dropsy; Margaret Thornley,, George
town, Grant county, old age Joseph
Gross, Potosi, Grant county, paraly-
sis.
We continue to employ all who are
physically able at some most suitable
employment about the farm or in the
institution and find many Of these
take an active interest in their labor.
while others only passive.g work when
requested. With the help Of female
patients, we have been able to make
all the wearing apparel for the fe-
males, and shirts and hosiery for the
males. besides making and quilting
number Of quilts.
The number Of visitors registered
| during the year Is S4S
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