The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-12-21

The clothing Of the inmates 4
substantial.
Plenty of we'll cooked, whole
some food is supplied. The in.
mates have access to daily and
weekly newspapers.
The capacity of the Infirmary is
two hundred. When last visited ii
contained eighty inmates classified
as follows:
Men Women
Sick or crippled % 2
senile 10 IL
there are thirty-eight pupils in at
| tendance.
The children have access to a
library and are supplied suitable
papers and magazines.
A physician is employed at a sal
ary of $3.50 per year.
The health of the children has
been unusually good this year.
The Fairgrounds, with play
ground equipfent, furnish a means
of recreation.
The well-kept lawn is attractive
with its shrubs and flowers.
While the buildings need many
each apartment is in charge of a
governess who looks after he
naeds Of tho chiIdran
The buildings at the Home con-
sist of the main building, in which |
the Superintendent and family, the |
helpers, and children are housed |
a school house, laundry and four
farm buildings. The main build
ing is lighted with electricity and
both the main building and the
school room are heated with low
pressure steam.
The water supply is obtained
from drilled wells.
The dormitories are clean and
well ventilated. Iron bedsteads,
equipped with good springs, mat
tresses, pillows, blankets and spreads
are used.
The children are we'll clothed
and are furnished plenty of good
nutritious food. When out of
school the children assist with the
work of the institution.
Two teachers are. employed at
the Home school, where at present.
two and three-fourths miles north
east of Greenville, on a farm of
ffty-two and one-half acres, valu-
ed at $125 per acre. Thirty acres
OF this farm is tillable, eight acres
timber five acres garden, four acres
and the remainder, lawn
and barn yard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Compton, the
and matron, re-
,eive a salary of $1,000 per year.
At the present time the stock
at the Home consists of six cows
four horses, two hundred chickens. :
The estimated net annual ex
penses, besides produets, were
$4,000. The estimated value OF
farm products for the year was
1000.
The Home could comfortably
care for about seventy-flve chill
dren, but it's present population is
forty-five. The boys and girls are
kept in separate apartments, and
mer, with its we'll cultivated vege-
tables.
Thrift and good management are
everywhere manifest.
We find that there are one or
more tubercular inmates in the In
firmary at all times, and that the
other inmates come in contact with
such tubercular inmates and are
constantly subjected to the dangers
of tuberculosis, because the plan Of
the buildings is such that this can
not be avoided; therefore we rec
ommend that the commissioners
make some permanent arrange
ments for the care of tubercular
inmates of the Infirmary out side
of that institution.
Children's Home
The Children's Home is, situated |
as follows: Two hundred and fifty |
bushels of Irish potatoes, seventy
five bushels of sweet potatoes, fifty |
bushels of turnips, eighty bushels
of onions, fifty bushels Of beets,
four hundred and fifty-four bush
els of wheat, one hundred bushels
of rye, four hundred and forty
bushels of oats, seventy tons Of hay,
one thousand five hundred bushels
of corn, seventy-five tons of ensil-
age, twenty-five tons. Of straw.
The cellar contains the following
provisions: One hundred and
twenty-five qarts of apples, one
hundred and thirty-three quarts
of cherries, one hundred and
twenty-five quarts of grapes, four
hundred and twenty-five quarts
of tomatoes, twenty-five quarts Of
pears, thirty quarts of peaches, fif-
ty quarts of pickles, forty quarts of
piccalilli, thirty-fve quarts of jelly,
fifty quarts of preserves.
There are six farm buildings in
good condition and new tool shed
in construction.
The grounds, around the insti-