Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-02-10
REPORT THIS WEEK.
State Institution Committee Returns
Sunday, Having Finished Part
of Their Work.
State Institutions in Generally Good
Condition, With the Exception
of the Deaf School.
Committee on Institutions.

YES
The joint committee on public institu-
lions appointed to inspect and report
upon the condition of the various state
institutions returned Sunday from their
trip to the agricultural college, the
state deaf school, the state university
and the Mayville normal school. The
committee left last night for the inspec-
ton of the state insane asylum and the
normal school at Valley City and will
then return to the city and make their
report, after looking over the state peni-
Tertiary. The report of the committee
will be made to the assembly this week.
The members of the committee agree
that the several institutions visited are
efficiently managed and operated as we'll
as possible considering the amount of
the appropriations. Not many improve
ments or additions will be recommended
by the committee except in the case of
the state deaf school. Here the condi-
ton of things is such that the commit
tee believes the institution should
either receive such an appropriation
from the legislature as will enable the
building to be properly heated and oper;:
ated and the pupils properly cared for,
or be closed altogether. The present
condition is dangerous and should not
be permitted to continue. The building
is heated by stoves, twenty-seven Of
them in all scattered through the build
ing, rendering the danger from fire great.
IN n room, t%wenty-nine girls are
forced to sleep, and while on one side
OF the room the temperature is uncom-
fortably cold, in other parts of the room
where the beds are within twenty inches
of the stove it is unbearably warm. The
sanitary condition of the place is bad,
and the children in the sleeping rooms
are crowded to such an extent that the
healthfulness of all the pupils is en-
dangered. There are fifty pupils at the
place, and a number of applications on
file from deaf and dumb children who
seek admission but it is impossible to
grant it under the present conditions.
The condition of the state finances was
laid before the management of the sew
eral institutions and it was shown that
the requests of the institutions aggre-
gated more than twice the amount that
would be available to appropriate. The
institutions will revise their estimates
for various needs and forward them to
the committee and their report will
probably make recommendations of
maximum amounts that are needed by
each institution, considering the condi-
ton of the finances of the state.
There is a needed improvement in
sewerage at the Mayville Normal school.
The state agricultural college and uni
versity are doing good work and there
are some additions that would be of ben
eft to each of the institutions but the
present conditions of finances will hardly
warrant them.
Representative Boyd will probably be
chairman of the committee. Some of the
members will look over the soldiers
home. The inspection will probably he
completed Wednesday, and the commit
tee return Thursday morning.