Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-22

the face In their own streets ana that
affect their own society. are passed by
and ignored In frantic rush to correct
a fanciod wrong away out two or three
thousand miles IN the distant Westl
pasalng by accounts u shocking de-
pravlty ana Wholesale immortality that
appear IN the daily pnf-of Now
York. Chicago. Boston md other large
oltics Of the land. We viii cite an ln-
stance ar two reported In the World.
An oniclni report received BY the gny-
ornor OF Now Jersey from the State
Hoard Of chlirrn'a Guardlans. shows
that an investigation had been made To-
the alns.houaos ot burlington. salom
ana sussex counties that 90 use the
language NJ the world. have been dons
~ immortality for years The report
showai
"Flrst That the aimshouaoa " New
Jersey nrr HwnfmiuE With children
whose parents nre able 10 support
them.
second Tint conditions In some "
tho nimahouHos have actually resulted
ln hurdcninH the tar-payrrH with pe
ruppnrt OF uieritimate and feeble.
minded infants. Tor whose birth the
nlmahuuaHH uUs responsible
"rhird-rhnt Tho State hna almost to-
tally abandoned the children uf the
HlmshnurUa 90 Ignorance. fullF ~ ior
cent ~ the lltilc ones In those inHii-
buttons. who have attended the Hn-
called aimshouao schools. can neither
rad nor write.
Mra. Wmlnmnon tells Gov. voorhees,
that details ri the conditions IN some n
the ulmrhousca arc absolutely imprint
able.
I'm the pomhcrton nlmshourc the
men and women uro allowed 10 mlnEle
freely and their rooms are in the si,tne
building. those ~ the men being 80
ono side ~ tho hall and those N the
women on the other one ~ the child
inmates ~ feeble minded. There are
seven children there under one year "
age. three under two ycuta ana two
under three years. many NJ them born
IN the nlmHhuuao uH % result N the
criminal negligence 81 the manage
mont.
Mrs. Williamson found the condi.
tinua In tho pcmhoftnn almshuuHn 40
dreadful fhe says, that she DID not put
thOm in hvr rouurt to GOV. voorhees,,
hut has rracrycd them Tor "a rurcial rec
port 20 the Legislature. giving do
Jailed history of each case.
IN the Salon county nimHhuuHr nt
sairm. she found three children. two
~ ihOm hHhlof Two NJ iho children
were in the Institution with their
mother. who lH hired Boy thn county
committee. Roth children were born in
the ulmHhuuau. one being black. the
other white.
IN tho nranchvillc nlmahouac. In
Sussex county. Mira williamson found
ono unmarried mother seventeen YUHta
uid. she also found "a foehlc.-minlc.d
mother. twenty -aovcn years old. with
| three chlldrOn. all born thcrr. Ehr
found there. too. a mother. twenty
seven Years old, who had been nn M.
| mntn since she was fourteen years old,
ana with her were thrrc illcgitlmutc
/ children
''rhc State Board III Childrou'u Guar
| dlnns already has removed 10 children
| frum the almshoua.a and restored them
/ Co thcir relatives. The board hna taken
/ OUT tweniy-Hix other children ana given
them private homcg, mostly with work.
| lnr people
I'm The uridgotou Aimsh1uss. ln cum.
bofiaud county. Mrs. wilkinson found
| one Insane child and one doiurmci child
The iuraue child D. a. Co., placed in ihg
| Htntc hospital The defurmcd infant
| will BE- nut In "a private home
In the fnakc iilli almHhoute. Hudson
county, iurt outside Of Jersey city
MIR. williamson found nineteen feeble.
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b"T eenditien, I'm mia plsco No foun
men aud WOMEN nll housed In ON
huilding', Thorr wcrg. ihlriy-siN In
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wns oniy ibroush onr iny,stiratian thl
tho ,xlsung condition OF affairs wa
cNposel, h.e1u,"' 90 mo casual ol
49, 1870 nn ky s,,;,r '''" 9r5 Az. me-, n
iions or the County Hoard of Fte,
holders have b"'n dssultorv ni bcai.
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