The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-06

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 The American school at Hartford for the deaf is praised for it's successful work in all departments, but it is urged tha tthe ancient main building of the school should be replaced by a group of modern structures. At the oral school for the deaf at Mystic it is said that painstaking work is done in the in struction of the children by the oral methods of articulation and lip-reading, b utthat the same advantages cannot be obtained in industrial training and other lines that are offered by the larg- CT endowed schools.
 A review is given of the successful effort in the last legislature of the Con- necticut institute for the blind to rid itself from visits by the state board of charities, which was accomplished by the passage. of an act providing that the right to visit, inspect and report upon the institute shall be vested ex- clusively in the state board of educa- tion of the blind. It is further pro- vided that no member of the board of education of the blind shall be officially connected with the institute, @ point that had long been urged by the board of charities.
 Two more hospitals have been added to the list of these institutions given in the boards reports, St. Vincent's hos pital in Bridgeport and the Emergency hospital in Greenwich. making total of twenty -three hospitals, public and private, In the state. Important addf- tions to $he buildings are noted in the case of St. Francis hospital, Hartford, the Meriden hospital and the Middle sex hospital in Middletown, and a spec ial ward for children has been fitted up at the Waterbury hospital This last named hospital, as well as the one in Danbury, Is still sorely in need of an extensive enlargement of buildings and equipmen. The Gaylord farm sanato- rum for tuberculosis at Wallingford is warmly commended for an encourage ing first year of effort in behalf of suf- ferers from this dread disease, and mention is made of the re-opening of the department for tuberculosis of the Hartford hospital situated on Cedar mountain. The Soldiers hospital at No- rotor has been well filled as usual and the care of the states needy veterans is said to be In good hands.
 During the year under review S24 de- pendent and neglected children were committed to the county temporary homes, number that exceeds all rec 'ords of recent years. It is hoped, how ever, that the act of 1905, which pro- vides for investigation by the county commissioners of all applications for commitments will result in the finding of relatives or friends in many cases who will assume the support of the children. The total number of chil- dren cared for the county homes dur ing the year was 1,235, among whom only two deaths were reported. Two hundred and eighty-five family homes were secured for children placed out from the county institutions, and there is a total of about 1,400 children living out in family homes, or with relatives NlAO tilG otllA biiNANI LlIG JuIlSulClIDl ul the county homes. The number of children on support of the county homes at the close of the fiscal year was 7S5, of whom 54 were in the coun- ty homes proper, 151 were boarded in families, 1l6 were boarded in a Catholic asylum, and Ii were in a Protestant institution. Of the children boarded in families, by far the largest propor- ton, 125 were in New Haven county, where the boarding out system is pur- posely followed in order to prevent the developments of a large institution in the county home. All of the county homes are said to give evidence of good management and kindly treatment to the children.
 A majority of the alnlsho'uses in the state are said to satisfy all reasonable requirements in regard to comfortable surroundings and care of the inmates, but the same old defects are noted in many cases of insufficient facilities for bathing and heat and lack of desira- ble cleanliness. Insane persons and sufferers from tuberculosis are found in the almshouses in considerable numbers, and it is felt that many of them should be removed to institutions especially adapted for their care.
 All of the thirty-six private homes for old people and children are said to be well managed. Mention is made of the large new building to accommodate U,otr, CT erected at the House of the Good Shepherd in Hartford which will put this institution in a position to receive young women offenders between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years as provided in legislative act of 1905,
 A brief report is given of the thirty second annual meeting of the national conference of charoties and correction which was held in Portland, Oregon, in July, and was attended by three dele gates from Connecticut. The confer- ence of 1906 will be held at Philadel- phia in May next and it is hoped that a large number of representatives from the states chaItable and correctional institutions and societies will attend 1t.
 During the year regular meetings of the state board have been held month ly at the office of the capitol In addi- ton to the required quarterly visits to state institutions, other visits have been made from time to time and the board endeavors to keep in touch with the work of the institutions that 1t su- pervises. The report is signed by the members and secretary of the board as follows: President, H. H. Bridgman Norfolk; Rebekah G. Bacon, New Ha-