Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-11-21
MUCH LEGISLATION RECOMMENDED.
a Long List Of Wants Applied for at this
Hands of the Legislature : An
Epileptic Farm, a New Re-
formatory, ETC., Etc.

Hospital, Independ ence .......J e3,sOO
Hospital, Cherokee. =. .............. 100000
PeniSentiary, FIT. Madison ... 4O,4OO
Penitentiary Anamosa. ............ 55,O4O
Total. s7bs,67a
Land purchases
Hospital, IndepeD dence ........S 49, 900
Hospital, Clarinda. ....s......... 10000
Feeble minded institute. ........... $4,000
Soldiers orphans home. $4,000
Total for lands ...................s $4,000
Des Moines, Nov. .16.-The state
board of control filed its. report with
the governor yesterday afternoon. The
report consists of three parts. Part l,
is the report proper Of. the board.
Part consists of statistical tables and
tabulated showings of the amount and
manner of disbursements of moneys in
the institutions, Part is made up of
the reports of the superintendent Of
the several Institutions. $
The most important part of the re-
port, from the standpoint of the tax
payer, is the recommendations in re-
gard to appropriations. The total
amount asked for by. the board of con-
troll for all purposes exception the pur-
chase of land is $759,572.6s. For the
purchase of lands $4,000 is asked,
making a grand total of $s4s, 572.6s.
The following legislation is recon-
mended:
49, soldiers Home
AS to the Soldiers' Orphans Home a
change in the. law, providing, children
of parents of dissolute or immoral ha-
bits, may be adopted subject to the APP
proval of the superintendent and the
board; also as TO disposition of surplus
pension fund. A5s5sl 81 1
Institution for feeble minded child
ren-amendment removing the present
limitation of 81 years for admission to
the institution.
NIitchellville School. H.
Girls industrial school-amendment
to prohibit the commitment to the
school of married women, or any girl
who is with child, or who is prosti-
tute, and authorizing the board to re-
move any girl from the school, who
may be constant source of annoy
ance to other inmates; to restore the
law limiting the age at which girls
may be kept in the school to Is years;
asking for authority to transfer in
partment of the penitentiary, or to a
female reformatory, if one be establish
eds, to allow SLIPPER capita per month
forisupport at this institution.
Issg5t College for the Blind.
College for blind-The law be amen
ded so as to provide per capita sum
per month for the support of pupils.
Industrial home for the blind-Some
provision be made to supply the needy
inmates with. clothing when they are
unable to purchase it themselves.
School for the deaf-A certain fixed
per capita monthly allowance, doing
in said institution. III
State Hospital.
State hospitals-The word insane
in the name of the hospital be omitted,
and read estate Hospital at Mt. Pleas
ant" or at Independence, or Clarinda
as the case may be. The per capita
allowance at Clarinda be reduced from
$13 to $12 per month per patient;
amend the law placing all private. and
county institutions for care of insane
under the supervision of the board land
charging it with the duty of examin-
ling them and fixing the power, scope
and extent of such examinations; such
institutions requiring the board to pre-,
scribe to rules and regulations govern
ing such institution that may keep in
sane patients; to make it unlawful for
established, erected and operated an
institution for the care of insane per.
sons, to regularly keep and maintain
insane persons in said county, and in
such cases said insane to be committed
to the state hospital; providing coun.
ties which have asylums in operation
for the care of the insane, shall be
permitted to keep such patients, and
then only when they shall, within the
time fixed by the board, comply witt
the rules and regulations which may
be prescribed. In case they fail or re
fuse SO to comply, the board to have
authority to remove such patients tt
the state hospital at the expense o.
said county; making it crime to in
carcerase any person in private insti
tuition for the care of the insane, which
institution has not complied with til,
requirements made by this board; alst
a law for the parole of patients il
state hospitals who are not in condi
ton TO be discharged as, cured, bu
may be benefited by such Parole.
To provide that-no patient in stat
hospital who has not recovered, shall
be dischargedn by anyone without tn
approval of the board of control. Al
amendment to the law making a pc
capita allowance for patients at tn
Cherokee hospital. s-s
General Amendments. gae