Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-07
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
BOARD Of: CONTROL MAKES ITS
THIRD REPORT.
Work Accom- plished and RccomIn end
atoms Mnde-Figurcs Upon the Fro
ductiou of Feet Sugar in This State
Injustice to Many Soldiers.
The states Wards.

The States Wards.
The State Board of Control has pre-
nared its third biennial report for the
two years ending Sept. 30, 1876. Inc
Board of Supervision OF the penai ana
charitable institutions of the State, anu
referring to the time spent in examining
these asylums and prisons, the report
claims it could have been more prohtably
spent investigating the methods IN vogue
in other States and learning something
therefrom fhan in travelling thousands OF
miles from one Wisconsin institution TO
another.
In connection with the State Hospital
for the Insane at Mendoza, the boara
recommends an asylum be built tor the
care of the disturbed chronic cases, so
they can all be gathered under one roof.
The criminal insane could also be cared
for in such an asylum.
For the Northern Hospital for the In
sane at Winncbago the board recon-
mends an appropriation of $4,000 for new
buildings and the installation Of an cleo
trio light plant. The prevalent typhoid
fever has been abated by changing the
sewer pipe so it would not enter the lake
so near the water supply intake.
At the School for the Deaf at Delavan
the manual training department is ABOUT
finished, and can soon be put to Goou use.
1t has cost $4,000. A change had to De
made in the electric lighting system as
it was found the storage battery would
not work Speaking of the many day
schools for the deaf scattered through
the State, and which have had the effect
of diminishing the attendance at the De
lavan institution, the board fears they
will not prove as valuable to their unfor-
tunate pupils rs the State school could,
and the result will be number OF edu-
Gated deaf mutcs who will find themselves
unable to make satisfactory living.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars has been
spent on a new building for the School
for the Blind at GAINESVILLE since 1854, so
it now has accommodations for 100 pu-
pills. At this institution also the storage
battery system proved failure. New
heating apparatus has also been put i'll
at a cost of 5000 and the school is in
excellent condition.
At the Industrial School for Boys at
Waukesha part of the last appropriation
of $1,000 for a manual training school
plant has been expended for good work
ing machinery, and an iron working de-
partment will be added soon. The board
is of the opinion greater care should be
exercised by magistrates i'll sending boys
to this reform school, and those who are
Migrants simply on account of the neglect
of parents or guardians should not be SO
committed '"The law" saws the report.
Seems to offer temptation to economic
al communities to make charge of crime
against a boy when he is really only re-
fractory," and it instances n case where
boys have been sent to the school for no
worse oifense than Sharing pigeons on
the street In the State outside of Mil
waukcc only go per cent. of the commit
ments were for crime, the remainder be-
ing on account of ''incorrigibility.
The sanitary condition of the State
prison at Waupun is reported as inn
proved, but still far from satisfactory.
The board recommends more improve
mcnts in this line, as well as the erection
of cottages to be rented to prison Of
ticals. The daily cost of intenancc
per capita in 1895 was 40 cents, but it
was reduced in 1896 to Al cents. The
earnings per capita in 1893 were 23.3
cents, and in 1896 25.2 cents. Thus, the
net cost per capita in 1895 was 21.1 cents,
and in 1896 1876 cents.
At the State Public School at Sparta
$4,000 has been spent for muchnced-
cd hospital. A central heating plant,
says the report, is also Il necessity.
The board says it has located the new
Home for the Feeble Minded a. Chippc
wa Falls on account of the healthful sur
roundings, the abundant water supply.
the availability Of the 600 acres of land
offered by the city for the purposes need
ed, and the railway facilities. The sum
of 100000 has been appropriated for the
institution, and contracts amounting to
nearly $97 900 let.