The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-10
Urges City to Take Steps for
Immediate Erection of
Permanent Structure Suit
able to Needs of City
Four Indictments Re-
turned in Criminal Cases.

| reviewing the shortcomings of the
present detention hospital, the grand
jury recommended the erection of a
new pest house on piece of land own
ed by the city on the east side of the
river, across from South Park, in the
vicinity of the old detention hospital.
The city owns q ten-acre strip Of land
there and the grand jury suggests the
erection of a detention hospital to cost
| about $4,000, the money to be paid by
| the citizens, who are to be reimbursed
| by the city at a later date, when the
| common council can provide for the
payment Of the amount by placing it
in the annual budget. In its final re-
port, the grand jury, referring to the
detention hospital, says:
''As the matter of the detention hos
pital, commonly known as the pest
| house, has been called to our attention,
| we deemed it an imperative duty to in
Quire into the management and conduct
thereof, and having made the inquiry
from the most reliable sources, We find
the same inadequate for the care of
! those, who, from necessity must go
| there. The management and conduct
thereof is, as good as could be expect
| ed with the means at hand.
1.-THE building is not capable of ac-
commodating more than fifteen to
/ eighteen patients and the necessary
help is altogether too small for the
| work required and the attention that
the patients need. The old building
formerly used was about 30X30, having
but four rooms that could be used for
patients. To that was added another
building, 20x30. Both cannot accommo-
1ot0 Oirr
whereas at the present time there are
thirty-seven patients in the hospital,
three, four and sometimes five in the
| same room.
Unfit in Every Way.
| Poorly ventilated, poorly equipped
and wholly inadequate for the wants OF
the patients, the building is lighted by
| oil lamps, which is wholly unsafe and
dangerous; heated by stoves, which in
winter makes it impossible to keep the
hospital as it should be; and there are
only about one-half the number Of
nurses there should be.
1 C"There is but one bath with hot wa
ter heater, which will furnish but
| twenty-five gallons of hot water max
| ing it impossible to give all of the pa
tients bath in twenty-four hours.
''The~ necessity for new building is
! so imperative that we believe the citi-
zens Of st. Paul would advance a suff1-
cient amount of money, say $30,000 to
! equip and maintain a hospital capable
| of accommodating fifty patients, until
such time as the common council would
be able to include the expense in the
budget.
I'm other cities this has been done
when an emergency like the present
arose. The city of Minneapolis has at
the present time a detention hospital
| capable of caring for fifty patents, and
so arranged that any part of it not L.
use can be shut off, thereby saving
heat, light and help. In the Mime
apoIis hospital there is also what IS
known as the detention wing, where
those whom the doctors are in doubt
of having the disease, are kept for such
a length of time as to demonstrate
whether or not they have the disease.
The people detained for that purpose
are kept apart from the others. There
| is also a wing used for patients who
| are able to provide their own nurses
and pay their own expenses, and in
| this manner the hospital is made large
ly self-supporting.
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! 900, at a, time when material and labor
were much cheaper than at the pres
/ ent time Such building would now
cost in the neighborhood of 100000.
Can Give Citizens a Guaranty.
'There is no question but that if this
| question is at once laid before the
| council they will give to the citizens
| a guaranty that the moneys SO adj
vanced will be returned with 4 per cent
| interest. And we most urgently rec
| ommend- that your honor will make
| known the proper channels for this
muchneeded improvement.
There is no Disgusting the fact that
smallpox is prevalent, and that the
careful inquiry through the medical
profession leads US to believe that we
| have not yet seen the worst.
eve further recommend that the
| vestibule adjoining the office of the
health department, the room now occu-
| pied by Probation Officer Graves,
| which has an entrance from Cedar
| street, be Immediately given over to
the use of the health department for
the use of OBTAINING smallpox patients
so as to prevent the possible spread Of
| that dreaded disease to other persons
in or about the court house.
eve also recommend that the Dale
street road, leading to the detention
| hospital, be put in better condition, so
| that the patients will not be subjected
to the jolting and rough riding to
| which they are at present"
The grand jury, in a supplementary
| report, suggests that new hospital
| be erected on the east side of the river,
| opposite South Park, where the city
owns a ten-acre strip of ground
Four Indictments Returned.
The grand jury in making it's report.
! returned four indictments and two no
| bills, the no-bills being in the cases Of
! Steve O'Connel and L. H Stahlman,
| charged with forgery. Indictments
were returned against John Penzen-
stadler, for assault in the second de-
| gree, who is charged with assaulting
| Michael Weinberger with q knife on
| June z. Two indictments were found
! against Henry Slipka, one charging
him with attempt to commit rape upon
| the person of Lottie Lempke, and the
other charging larceny in the second
degree, it being charged that he re-
| leved the Lempke woman Of IS in
cash.. Bert Markham is charged with
grand larceny in the second degree,
| and William Halpin, who is said to
| nave stolen two chests of tea from
the Mercantile Seed and Storage COM
pany on May rs, was also indicted for
grand larceny in the second degree.
Ali Of the prisoners were arraigned
In court and entered pleas Of not
| guilty.