The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-01-02
STATE CHARITIES BOARD
ANNUAL REPORT PRESENTED
TO GOVERNOR.

Recommends State RefOrmatOry-
Placing of County JaiIs Under State
Board of Prisons-More Liberal APP |
pIication of Indeterminate Sentence
Law--Good Order in JaiIs--HOspitals
and Private sanitaria-Some Aims
houses Reported Bad.
An advance copy of the annual re-
port of the state board of charities for
the fiscal year 1906 was presented to
the governor last week. The complete
| report will be volume of about one
hundred and seventy-fve pages, con-
| tanning reports of visits to institutions,
tables of statistics, etc. and will be
ready for distribution in about a
month.
The report reviews the conditions
existing in one hundred institutions
with which the board has to deal in
addition to the almshouses of other
provision for the care of town poor in
the one hundred and sixty-eight towns
of the state. A large majority of the
institutions visited is said to give ev-
idence of efficient management and
suitable treatment of the inmates, but
recommendations for improvements
are made in several instances. The
following recommendations are made
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legislative action
l. That the indeterminate sentence
law of 1901 be amended 50 as to effect
It's more liberal application by the
courts.
2. That a state reformatory be es-
tablished.
8. That all of the county jails be
placed under control of state board
of prisons.
A, That special provision be made
for the care of sane epileptics OF any
age
For the support III whole or in part
of such Of the institutions mentioned
as receive state aid there was expend-
ed by the state during the year to-
tai Of $1216 357, Of which $S65,561 was
devoted to maintenance, supervision,
etc, and $3.50, 1855 was appropriated for
buildings. Both of these sums are the
largest recorded in recent years, and
it is believed that it is the first time
in the history of the state that the to-
tai annual expenditure in the depart
ment Of charities and correction has
passed the million mark
EXPERIENCE OF NORWICH HOS
\ PITAL
Examination shows that all hui
$4,000 of the sum appropriated fol
buildings was devoted to development
Of the new hospital for the insane al
, Norwich. AS compared with thc
amount expended for maintenance
$779.0S in 1905, the total of $S65,561 a.
. expended in 1906 shows marked in
crease in several directions. This Il
4 especially noticeable in the case Of thu
insane, the first full year Of work a
: the Norwich hospital showing an ex
penditure Of $2S,40O as compared will
$4,442 in 1905, while the hospital a
Middletown also shows an increas,
from S176,525 to $1S5 1O7. The addition
Of three new hospitals to the list o
: state-aided institutions, viz, st. Vim
cents at Bridgeport; the Hartford
. hospital branch for tuberculosis at Ce
dar Mountain. and the New Havel
! county sanatorlum for tuberculosis a
Wallingford increases materially tn
{ states expenditures for this class o
!. benefcent organizations.
1 A considerable advance is noted
Il also. in the net sum devoted to tn
Il care of sick and disabled soldiers from
: $67.74l in 1905 to $9S244 in 1906 afte
deducting the amounts received from
the national government for this pur
Il pose. The steadily growing number o
? children in the care of the county tenn
: porary homes has increased the state
expenses in this department fror
= $73,2O2 in 1905 to sS5,9S2 in 1906 Othe
- institutions show increased expendi
y lures of greater or less extent due t
the increased number of inmates an
the advancing cost of supplies. o.
:. the whole it is believed that the ap
= preparations are administered wit
= reasonable economy and with due re
~
= ries.
DISCIPLINE AT STATE PRISON
At the state prison it is said that tn
high standards of MANAGEMENT an
discipline which have been establshe
By the present warden have been we
maintained and the institution ma
fairly be considered one of the hes
= conducted of it's kind in the countr!
= The prison is one OF the few institu
:, tons in the state to show a decrease
- demand upon the state treasury.
- few prisoners have been paroled ur
der the indeterminate sentence law
+, 1901 that this reformatory measure, a
: applied by the courts at present,
u. practically of no value. Reference
. made to the need of state reformatC
= ry for young men too old for the boy
" eschool at Meriden, and for young W,
men too old for the Industrial school
:, MiddletDWn, for both of which class
:" the influence of the county jails is We
undesirable. The operation of the pr,
81 baton law, as amended in 1905, is higl
10 ly commended and it is stated that ii
LlS law now needs simply and iudiciol
application rather than any speci
CT amendments.
ae GOOD ORDER IN THE JAILS.
In regard to the county jails, IL
= larger jails where regular employmel
-, is provided for the inmates are said
~ meet all reasonable requirements in Il
~ way of cleanliness, good order and d
;, cent comfort, but some of the small
:, iails are deficient in these rssnacts