Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-01-06
APPROPRIATION FOR STATE HOSPITAL
of State Board of Charities in Annual
Report To Governor-Money to Be Used For Con-
strcton of Psychopathie Hospital For Treatment of
Incipient Gases.

An appropriation for the construc-
ton of a psychopathic hospital for the
treatment of incipient cases at the
Norwich State Hospital for the Insane
is urged in the biennial report of the
state board of charities of which Mrs.
Frank A. Mitchell of this city is a
member The report has been pre-
sented to Governor Marcus H. Hol-
comb in typewriter FORM
1t contains a general review of many
Institutions in the state for the care
Of criminals, directive ana the poor
with which, the board has to deal,
together with suggestions for improve
rpents and recommendations for 1egis-
latiye action, and will be issued very
soon in printed form for presentation
Il, the general assembly. The complete
report. a book of more than 200 pages,
containing fuller details of the various
institutions, tables of statistics ETC.,
will be published for general distribu-
ton as soon as possible thereafter.
The report shows that there are
maintained in this state 1S6 institu-
tons for the restraint and care OF de-
-iinouent defective and dependent per-
sons as follows: IL for criminals and
Connecticut refornatory and 10 county
jails: for Juvenile offenders, the
school for boys at Meriden and the
Industrial school for girls at Middle
the House of the Good Shepherd,
Hartford, and the Florence Crittenton
home New Haven; ID for the insane,
state hospitals, the Hartford retreat
and 10 private sanataria; 1 for epilep-
tics the colony at Mansfield Depot;
I for the feeble minded. the school at
I4akevilIe; for the deaf the Ameri-
can school at Hartford and the Oral
school at Mystic; 1 for the blind, the
Connecticut institute at Hartford; 29
hospitals for the sick; 6 sanatoria for
tuberculosis; county homes for de-
pendent children; SO alHnshouses for
the poor; 90 homes for old people, and
IS orphan asylums and children's
homes.
State Prison Commended.
The board commends the state prison
Tor efficient management, but suggests
that arrangements ought to be made
to give the prisoners some physical
exercise out of doors. Recommendation
Is also made that better quarters be
provided for the care of tubercu1ar
prisoners and that a tract of farm land
be secured in another place and build
ing materials be obtained for the grad
ual construction of new prison by
inmate labor.
In regard to the Connecticut re-
formatory at Cheshire it is urged that |
the work of trades instruction be more |
actively developed. The hope is ex- |
dressed also that the new adminiStra- |
ton may inspire the courts of the |
state with such confidence In the In 1
vital reformatory force |
that they will commit to its care |
larger number of offenders than has |
been their custom SO far.
For the Connecticut school for boys |
ct Meriden the board recommends that /
q physical director be employed 70
give full time to the boys welfare /
and suggests that it would be highly /
desirable If the state could treat the /
school with sufficient liberality so that |
there might be no necessity Of work
ing the boys for financial gain The
report notes the development of new
at the Connecticut industrial