The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-14
STATE CHARITIES BOARD PRESENTS
 BIENNIAL REPORT
R Recommends State Hospital for Incurables in Connec- tion With Inebriates'
 Farm.

The preliminary report in part is as follows:
 To His Exce1lency, the Governor of
 the State of Connecticut:
 Sir: We have the honor to submit herewith the report of the board for two years ending September 30. 1914
 The work Of tho Board.
 Tn this state. with an estimated population in 1914 Of 1,238, 1000, the following institutions are maintained for the restraint and care of the de- nnquent, defective and dependent classes: for Criminals and naisdemeants, 12 6State Prison. State Reformary and 10 country jails1.
 Boys and Industrial School for Girls) Young women offenders, 2 (EIouse of Good Shepherd and Florence Crit tenton Mission)
 The insane. 15 fTwo state hospi- tals. Hartford Rereat. 12 private asy1uns1
 EpiIeptics. I tcolony for epi1epticso
 The Predetermined, 1 School for Imbeciles)
 The deaf. 2 eAmerican school and Mystic Oral SchooIl
 The blind, II (connectteut Institute for the Blind9.
 The sick and injured, z7 thospitals. public and private1.
 The tupercular. tsanatoria, pub lie and priyate1.
 Old soldiers, (F1tch's Home for Soldiers and Relief Corps Home).
 Dependent children, 6county temporary homes1-
 Dependent poor, 70 Ca1houses).
 Old people, private provision. 20 Gold peoples homeso.
 Children, private provision. IS Is(orphan asy1ums and homes1.
 Total. 188.
 In accordance with the provisions of Section 2,862 Of the General Stat utes, regular vistta of inspection have been made by two representatives of the board as often as once in three months to the State Prison, the Con necticut Refornakory, the Connecti- cut School for Boys, the Industrial ! School for Girls the hospitals for the Insane at Midd1etown and Norwich, and the colony for epiIeptics and in tervfews have been had with a mum ber of the inmates in response to their equests. Visits to other insti- tations included in the preceding list I of S8 have been made at intervals. an important part Of the boards work.
 A general survey of the charitable and scorrectiona1 institutions Of the state reveals a condition of reason able excellence in equipment and i may be Recommended as standing high among their kind. while others lack many of the features desired to accomplish the best results and need 1 the application Of d continued and vigorous stimulus to bring them up Ito an acceptabls standard. I The visitation and supervision of nearly 1,400 children from the eight l county temporary homes who have been placed out in family homes or portant of the boards activities. Am other feature of the boards work that should be noted is the investiga- ton of applications for licenses to l board dependent children, as requir- ed by chapter 62 of the Public Acts of 1911. Already IT licenses have been granted for this purpose and a number of other applications have been kept under advisement until the applicant should give proof that all 1 desired eonditi tions are complied with. I IRgislation and New DeVeIoEEneDtS. I The only new institution which was kauthorized by an act of the General 1 Assembly of 1913, viz, a state farm i for inebriates, failed of establish hment l When such an institution is estab- lished, it would be well if it were not limited to the care of inebriates but I could include a department for the | use of the state poor. A hospital section, also, is greatly needed for l the care of infectious, incurable dis 5l cases-sueh as cancer and the like I which the general hospitals will not now receive and which are frequent l ly found in a1mshouses under condi- l lions distressing alike to the suffer
 CTS and to the other inmates. The efforts made to secure a re- 1 formatory for women offenders
 which has been advocated for a mum, I Der of years. resulted in the passage
 Of an act, No. 1s0 Of the special laws I of 1913, under which a commission
 of i've persons was appointed by the
 governor to investigate the matter and to report it's findings and recon
 mendations to the next season of the | General Assembly. Another commits sion appointed under an act of the
 Legislature Of 1913 was one Of three persons authorized by special law T No. 363 to investigate the subject oi
 convict labor in the penal institu- tions of the state and to make it's re.
 port in January 1915.
 Two notable additions to the list oi
 Connecticut institutions were mad
 during the biennial period under e. view by the opening of the Connecti l cut Reformatory at Cheshire in June 1913, and the Colony for Epileptic. 1 at Mansfield Depot in May. 1914 both of which were mentioned in tho : boards last report as then under 5l constructiop- The reformatory pro
 yides an excellent institution for the
 treatment of offenders between II and 25 years of age for whom there , 1 is some hope of regeneration. The ! Colony for Epi1eptics, with it's limit Al ed initial capacity of 80 patients, il already proving it's usefulness, bu
 should receive substantial appropria. \ tons from the General Assembly il order to provide sufficient accom-
 modations for the many cases Of thi
 disease which are in great need O
 suitable institutional care and treat
 Inent.
 Tn the case of the Connection
 School for Imbeciles, it Is urgentl.
 hoped that the coming General AS
 sembIy will accomplish the remova
 of the institution to a. more accessi
 bIe location and will provide it witt