The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-05-04
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Given Good Advice BY the Ohie State
Board Of Charities.


In the quarterly report Of the Ohio
Board Of State Charities, Highland coun.
ty's InHrmary and the lookup at Green
field, Lexington and Hillsboro are not
rated very highly. The following is all
that concerned this county:
The iail in Hillsboro was visited DC.
tober 2S. The prisoners were clean and
we'll content with the treatment from
the officials. The jail is we'll ventilated
|and seems to be % commodious a. jail
could be. The board recommend that
all scribbling and drawing on the walls
and other sui faces be forbidden.
The ipfirmary was inspected October
81. The management appeared to rs to
be satisfactory. The inmates are we'll
fed, well clothed, and kept clean in per.
son, clothes and bedding. The house is
alAo clean and orderly. The inmates
seem to be cheerful and comfortable.
We found there seven children ranging
in sge from 10 years to 10 months. We
strongly recommend they be removed
from the taint Of pauperism at the ear.
liest possible date it is not for the future
well-being of the children or the State
that they grow up in such circumstan.
1stances. If there are no other availa.
BILE means we suggest they be sent to q
children's home in some neighboring
county. The sanitary state of the house,
in our judgement, calls for improve.
ment, We found patient in the last
stage Of consumption inthe women's
ward. As q considerable number of
them in this ward are feeble minded
and unable to get outside the building
at all, they are compelled to breathe this
poisonous atmosphere filled with deadly
germs of that fell disease, which is pois-
oning the whole institution, and is q
dreadful menace to the health OF the
inmates. We also found an aged man
approaching death, whose condition was
such as to be exceedingly disagreeable
to others, and dangerous to health, and
no amount of disipfectants in either case
could destroy the nauseating stencil
arising from the condition peculiar to
reither case. Thefore, We recommend
that q hospital be built so that all such
cases can be removed and completely
isolated and properly cared for. The
indoor closetr should have water sup.
ply to flush them or be abolished; the
outdoor closets should be provided with
galvanized iron receptacles, which
should be emptied every day.
We found that In wet weather the
laundried clothes are hung up in the
mems ward to dry. This cannot >be
healthy. We suggest that drying
house be attached to the laundry.
The drainage from the spring milk
house should be carried off through Q
drain pipe and catch basin put in.
The present arrangement seems admir-
ably adapted to breed typhoid fever
germs and infect the milk.
All of which we recommend to the
proper authorities.
Lynch burg lookup inspected October
81. The Marshall informed the board
that tramps are placed in cage No. 2, and
have to sleep on the floor. We recsm-
mend that two or more wire mattress
cots be provided.
Greenfield lookup inspected and found
ITO be in . filthy condition. Blankets
look ~ though soap and water would be
beneficial to them. The partition wall
against which the iron cage sits separ.
ates the room from . stable where
thorses are kept. The smell from that,
together with the unwholesome atmos-
phere of an lily ventilated room. makes
the place to any rishtminded person .
miserable place to incarcerate human
being in. The Marshal was courteous
and polite.
Leesburg lookup is in good sanitary
condition, being clean and neatly kept
and clean room and wholesome atmos-
phere.
Y Lexington lookup 10 . filthy, dirty
place small room, low ceiling and only
one small window in the room, and the
cage looks - though water was scarce
lin the community. It is not fit to in
carcerate Spaniard in.
Hillsboro lookup ID vile-one member
Of the board remarked it was not fit to
put respectable hog in. We would
recommend these places be cleaned up
and made wholesome by whitewash and
such other antidotes - are good to re-
move dirt and filth.