The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-10
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INSTITUTIONS OF
STATE REPORTED
locontinued erom rlr.t pnge.,

jurisdiction. The warden vouchsafed
no Explanation.
THE departments CT sanitary inspec-
ton and food and drug inspection of
the State Board of Health are not free
from eVerc censure.
The dietary of the institution pro
duced before the committee is open to
serious criticism. Up until the time
of the committee hearing it had not
been changed IN five years
Brutality Due to '~supine Managers"
The report continues:
: In the final analysis 1t is found by
the committee Thai many OF the abuses
at this asylum are attributable to the
s~upineness of the board of managers.
That the insane are sometimes rough
ly handled and brutally beaten and the
perpetrators permitted 10 sc un-
punished is the opinion of the commit
tee. In its judgment the fault in the
past has been largely due to the mac
ton of the medical director.
THE committee recommends appro-
priations ample to employ skilled and
desirable help TO carry on this work of
charity in this and all similar institu-
tons of the State, and legislation that
attendants, before entering upon their
duties. give bond TO the State for the
faithful performance of the same; and
further, that the body of any patient,
dying in any of the eleemosynary Or
penal institutions of this State, shall
not be removed thorefrom unless upon
the certificate OF the county physician
after a personal investigation by him
into the cause of death.
The committee is of the opinion that
a hospital intended for the segregation
and cure of those mentally defective
should be in charge of a medical
director who shall assume, and be held
responsible for. its proper conduct and
management. 1t recommends legisla-
ton which will accomplish this pur-
pose.
ReformatOry Demands Attention.
THE Railway Reformatory, created
and maintained for the reclamation to
good citizenship of boys and first Of
tenders, demands reformation, and that
speedily. In the judgment of the COM
mittee, the LIE gislature and the appro-
priation committee thereof are in a
measure responsible. Because of the
e-xtravagant and reckless waste of pub
lie moneys in the construction of the
administration building by the first
commission having it in charge, and
which was legislated out of office, the
institution has been in i'll repute. and
the commission has been the object OF
much u~ndeserved criticism and censure.
with substantial aid from the Stat
and a correction of the internol abuses
to which attention is herein called, the
committee is of the opinion that the
refornatory can be brought within the
sphere of usefulness for which il was
first intended. The committee recon-
mends more liberal consideration in the
allowance
The hooks IN the commission were
lily kept and unintelliglble, the report
states
Name RcforInntory a Misnomer.
AN amazing and ,ntolerable speeta.
Gle met the gaze of the committee upor
its tour OF inspection. OF the ASH pris.
oners cell rooms We're provided for only
about one-half. The rest found lodging
upon cots closely stored together in the
corridors and the dome. This over
crowded condition must necessarily
have had it's evil effect upon The morals
of the inmates, and interfered seriously
with good discipline.
'To cali h place a 'refornaatory. /,
a missioner. Among those confined tbs
committee FOUND some over age (ons
IS years old and mann WHO had re-