The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-04
WILL not RENEW
The LUND PERMIT
FAMOUS baby FARM" WILL
HAVE TO QUIT.
Health Commissioner Issues Licenses to
All Such Institutions and May Re-
woke Them for Abuses When Year
Is Up Mrs. Begins Permit Will Not
Be Extended

Hannah Lund, now Brs. Begin, will not
secure a renewal Of her permit to con-
duct "baby farm" when the present
license expires, which it will do in a few
days. DIR. P. NJ. Hall, commissioner of
health, says that in his opinion he is
justified in suppressing the place. He
SAID this morning that when she applied
for renewal of the permit it would be
| refused.
Regarding Mrs. Lindstadt's place
on Eleventh street, nothing more will be
dome than to watch it closely. The
woman has no permit and it is ques-
tlon whether she can be required to take
out one, as there is nothing to indicate
that any children have been borne
there.
Recent disclosures of the. methods and
practices at the so-called "baby FARMS
have convinced the authorities that
there is need Of more stringent laws
regulating these Institutions Had the
disclosures come a few weeks earlier.
there would now be on the statute books
an amendment to the present law, which
would improve it somewhat. The pres
emit law was passed in 1901 at the initia-
tive of the Children s Aid society, and
was intended primarily to protect the
newborn babes and to prevent the pri
vate hospital operators from Offering to
dispose of babies as an inducement tic
patronage. 49,
10 prevent crime was not ATTEMPTED
altho the surveillance over the homes is
neheved to have lessened somewhat the
number'o OF criminal operations. Under
tae law: persons engaged in the business
OF receiving children under two years
ola or women about to become mother.
are required to obtain permit from The
local health, official. These permit:
shall! be valid for one year. but NAV bt
revoked by the health officer at an,
time he finds that the home is NOT nron
erly conducted. The officer shall haV,
the authority to inspect the premises a,
aany t1me. Some have criticized the of
NJ 4lcdaf having this power for not learning
Inc iacts regarding the Lund home. AMI
$ reVoklng it's license long ago.
. The Keepers Of the homes are reouiret
TO report within three DAYS the birth O.
al cnlldren and within the same nerio,
tne reception of any child, with name
l Of parents and such other data as ma,
: be available. do ND
Law Gould Be Improved.
e S: L. Van Etten, agent of the Hin
4 ;;ane society, who has given much atten
! oton 20 the SUBJECT, thinks that the Law
projecting the children by prohihitin
ne persons keeping baby farms froI
= glsposlng OF them in any way. All chi
> oren should be disposed of thru tn
+ courts by formal adoption and prov
SONS should be made for visitin
J. ADOPTED children as is done with chi
4 uren sent out from the state publ
J school at Owatonna =. -. =
he does not see how the law could b
draWn to prevent criminal practices. a
| there -issno way to get evidence whe1
me oeqns4 .YA two having knoWledges therea
:, are Nitaiiy@ mterested& Ing Keeping tn
: secret: whenever physician or mid
+ wife. is caught it is quite by accident
but. IN the event of detection, the prose
$ cut1on should be pushed to the. limi
s anu the maximum penalty is quite SC
! we're. . ~
r Mr.. Van Etten commends DR.. Hal
}. the commissioner of health, for his Wor;
j IN behalf of the present laws, but re
grets that the council has not provide
more NOR help, not only for this, but flo
Stopped Advertisements.
= DR.: Hall had Hannah Lund prosecute
y for failing to report child which h
- :, home. He also assisted the Humane sc
! ! clety in forcing keepers of baby farm
~ =. to stop advertising that they assume a
= responsibility for disposing of the chi
= dren entrusted to them. One .advel
Y. tisement which contained only the wor
q adoption at the end was disco1
!, tlnued when the woman was threatene
y by DR.. Hall. Mr.. Van Etten think
- that more frequent inspection might b
= desirable, as it would prompt the kee1
~ ers to observe the law more religiousi
., as the surveillance was more freuuer
l and stringent. Still he is thankful fc
., what has already been done and in vie,
Il Of the small force the inspection an
j supervision of the baby farms has bee
q effective.
l. The recent airing which baby far
methods. have had in the courts an
., the newspapers will, in Mr. Van Etten
70 opinion, have salutary effect on thos
I of the keepers who might be tempted t
- evade the law, and will cause all
!" them to remember that they are bein
> watched. Control will be more stri,
T. in the future than ever before.