Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-14

| Prescriptions .......... ......... l Medicine .......... ........... 2 Physicians .......... ..........., l6 1 New Investigations .............. 27
 Re-inveStigaflonS ........ 5&
 Brookside Home, May, 1904.
 Admitted ............ ..........18
 Discharged .......... ..........,.3l Died ................ Number now at the Institution.
 Males ................ ......-... .50
 Females ............ .s.............0 .08 l Children ............. ............ 4
 Prisoners ........s,,... ..........
 Total ........... .........9 .92 I The petition of Rocco Dunais asking 1 to be sent to his former home in Italy,
 where he hoped to get rid of an attack of rheumatism, came before the board unfavorably reported on by the super
 intendent. and after little discussion the report of the superintendent was approved and the petitioner given leave to withdraw.
 It was voted that the superintend.
 ent be instructed to purchase 65- 1 gallon cauldron for cooking food for swine.
 l It was voted that so much of the new rules as relate to the appointment of standing committees be adopted and that the balance of the report go I over until the committees have time to look over It. The mayor announced
 the committees as follows: Outside poor, Commissioners Filling and Com- bellack; hospitals, Commissioners l Combellack and Panneton; Brookside | son. The committees were requested to make their reports regarding the rest of the rules at the mid-month meeting in July
 It was voted that the committee in charge of repairs at the Brookside home be authorized to make water connections at an expense not to ex-
 ceed $100. In this connection it was said that there is great need for a few good men at the Brookside home while l the work Of building the barn is go- 1 ing on, and judging by what some of l the mernDers said nothing would l please them better than to have a doz- en first class joiners go on a spree, | be hauled into court and sent to the town farm.
 l Mayor Elton remarked that the
 court had sent some good people to the l Brookside home. but that he was not l at all pleased at the idea of sending l those strumpets to the institution, add l ing that he considered it an insult to l the poor people in the home. "One of 1 them,' he continued. sis suffering with ! a loathsome disease and never should
 have been allowed. to enter the same quarters with the old people and the l few children at the Brookside home"
 The mayors remarks created quite
 a sensation and 1t was some time be- ! fore any of the members plucked up sufficient courage to venture word 1 in reply. Finally Mir Bronson said in q rather modest way that he didn't think the presence of these women at l the Brookside home any insult to the other inmates. It was not necessary l for them to associate with them and
 besides he had been assured that they did lot of work and did it well. l Commissioner Chase looked at it from MT Bronson's standpoint He knew, he said, that if there were danger on account of having these women in the home. Mrs Moran would be the first 1 to see it, but the matron didn't fear I any bad results from having them l there and so long as they attended to l the duties assigned to them he thought l there was nothing wrong about it. Superintendent Doran said that it was n kind of handicap on the office when they want people to go there | instead of looking for outdoor relief. sThe average woman, no matter how poor she may be-" continued Mir Do ran. draws the line at associating with such characters. and while they wouldn't have anything to do with them if they were up there, they offer this as an excuse to get out of enter l ing the institution"
 ''They performed a lot of work there." remarked MT Bronson, rather sharply, "and I don't see but the city I is ahead of the aame.'
 Mayor Elton, (with an ugly scowDs ''Financially the city may be in some | thing, but I don't think 1t gained any thing from moral point of view. have great respect for the matron's opinion on everything pertaining to l the Brookside home, and should be l less opposed to it on hearing that she | thought there was nothing wrong about it. However, it didn't appear 1 to me quite the right thing to do and l it would take a good deal to drive me away from the position I have taken l on the question. l shouldn't mind it 1 if 1t were a simple drunk, for nearly everybody gets full some time, but l the charges preferred against these women are different and because peo= pie are poor and obliged to take up a residence at the Brookside home is no reason why any sort of companion should be considered good enough for 1 them. If ever get into the Brook
 side home I don't want to run into l that sort of a crowd. and I don't know anybody who would Here the matter dropped, the mayor to all appearances having said all he cared to and Commissioners Chase and Bronson being of their own opinion still.
 1 The physicians report for the month l Of May showed 56 visitations. l The board adjourned until Tuesday,
 July 5.
 
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