The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-24
ARENOT FOUND ROSY HUED
The President of the State Board of
Health
HAS BEEN AROUND ON A TOUE


There Are Matters That Need Reme-
dying at Every One-EEevenGh An
muaI Report.
The eleventh annual report of the
State Board of Health has just been
printed. It contains almost two hundred
pages.
In Kansas there are 2.437 registered
physicians of the following schools:
Regular 1885, eclectic. 272; homeo-
pathic, IT'S; midwives, 121; physio- medi-
cal, 8; scientific. 2; vitopath, /; physlo-
pathic, /; new school. 1; botanic, l; indie
pendent, 2; not stated, as.
In Shawnee county there are las ply
Grant and Morton counties there are no
physicians. Cove, Graham, Meade,
Greeley, Haskell and Trego counties
have but one physician each.
The oldest physician both in point of
years and practice is DR.. P. M. Sturgess
of Topeka. He is 10 years of age and
has been practicing medicine since 1889
The report of the secretary and pre-
siding officer of the board, Thomas Kirk
patrick, occupies ten pages.
DR.. Kirkpatrick says.
1--WE are pleased 10 report that the
he alth of the people of the state has
been remarkably good during the past
year and county health officers report
less sickness than usual"
He says some very pointed things about
some of the state institutions. particular
ly the Industrial School for Girls at Be
lott, as follows:
There is a moral wrong with this in
stitution as we'll as with the reform school
at Topeka. There are inmates in both
of these institutions that are guilty of no
crime, yet they are sent there by par
ents. guardians and officials simply be-
cause they are in the way and they want
to get rid of them. 1t is criminally
wrong to place an innocent child In these
places, where they are compelled to daily
associate with some deprsved girl or
boy sent there for crime. Help these
poor unfortunates to homes that are such
as you would like for your child. and not
have them in an institution where a
large per cent of the inmates on entering
especial reference is made here to the
Industrial School for Girls at BeloiO are
affected with loathsome diseases"
He further says: "The school for the
fee ble- minded at Winfield needs more
room and more money. The institution
is overcrowded and there are several
inmates who should be removed to 9TH
er Institutions Among these are the
idiots and insane patients. No one can
realize the condition of these unfortu-
mates unless he visits them Tnat the
charitab BILE Institutions of Kansas are her
pride, no one will deny; but here is Que
that is nobody's pride. The main sewer
leading from the building empties about
/ 100 yards from the building, which is
bad, to say the least, The sleeping
apartments are too small and are over
crowded.
"The sewerage of the school for the
deaf and dumb, at Oiathe, I found very
| dsfective-sewer gas in quantities in all
| parts of the building; wafer supply only
fair. This institution also needs a sep
arate school building, being obliged now
| to use rooms far too small for good
work. There should alao be a gymnas-
ium, as the physical part of the deaf
needs careful development"
OF the penitentiary he says:
THE penitentiary at Lansing has been
greatly improved by Warden Lynch and
everything presents an appearance vast
| ly different from that which prevailed
during the administration of the pre-
vious warden"
OF all the other state institut ions DR..
| Kirkpatrick's report says nice things.
The report takes occasion to roast the
practice of sending orphans into Kansas
from eastern states and handing them
out for adoption.
The usual appeal for larger appro.
priation is also there.