Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-01-06

school for girls, Middletown, and sug-
gests that both here and at the school
for boys IL might be better il the
state would pay the necessary cost OF
maintaining the Institution, rather
than continue the present custom of
granting fixed sum per week for
each inmate,
State Reformatory For Women.
The establishment of a state re-
formatory for women is urgently rec
commended to care for female offenders
cow sent to the county jails who are
anenable to Improvement 1t is said
that present conditions in the iails are
especially harmful for the women in
mates who spend much of their time
in demoralizing idleness and promiscu-
Gus association. In the absence of nay
state institution for this purpose the
House of the Good Shepherd, Hartford,
and the Florence Crfttenton home.
New Haven, are said to perform use-
ful service in the restraint and treat
uIent of delinquent young women.
In regard to the county jails the re-
port states that their general condi-
ton leaves much to be desired. Some
of them are freQunetly so crowded that
two or more inmates occupy SINCE
CELL a practice which merits entire
condemnation. The board heartily con-
ours in the statement concerning coun-
ty jailS made in the report of the
Convict Labor commission to the gen
eral assembly of 1915, from which it
quotes as follows: Regarding the Jail
system OF our state, the only remedy
for the conditions now prevailing in
the counties of Hartford, New Haven
and Fairfield, in our judgment, is the
establishment of state farm and the
entire diScontinuance of the jails for
the Imprisonment of offenders and sub
ject to state prison sentence, the jails
to be used merely as places of de-
tention for persons waiting trial by
the courts. We believe that provision
zta~ N4IS b. e.. 80
fences for jail prisoners.
Urges Hospital Appropriations.
The report declares that by the end :
emulation in the state of nearly 700
insane persons and of nearly 900 /
predetermined and epileptic persons for
whom provision should be made in the |
classes of detectives. In order to ac- |
conpiish its part of solving this prob |
lem the general assembly of 1917 is |
urged to make appropriations for the |
construction at each of the two state /
hospitals for the insane at Middletown |
and Norwich, respectively, of a psy- /
chopathic hospital for the treatment of |
incipient cases and of two sanitarium |
buildings for care of tubercular insane |
patients. At the Colony for Epileptics |
and the new plant of the School for
Predetermined at Mansfield Depot, it
Is recommended that appropriations /
be made for an additional ward build
ng to accommodate 135 feeb1e-m minded,
and an inffrrnary and hospital to ac-
100, both feelbe-minded
and epileptics. If the general assembly
should decide to unite the two insti-
;utions mentioned under one admins
ration, it is strongly recommended
hat this union be regarded as only
temporary and that as soon as the
unds of the state should justify it an
,ther site be selected for the re-loca-
ion of one of the institutions. For
he present aabout 200 of the feeble
minded must be retained at Lakeville
IT be placed in farmhouses at Mans
ield Depot as a temporary experients
md the general assembly of 1919 will
rave TO make further appropriations
or new buildings if the feeble-minded
adequately cared for.
Inebraite Farm Beneficial.
In regard to the State Farm for
-nebriates, maintained in connection
With the hospital for the insane at
has been an interesting one
Ind beneficial results have been ac-
in number of cases but
may be questioned whether it will
,e better to enlarge this unusual de-
oartment of the state hospital or the
an independent institu-
ion for the purposes in some 9TH I
II locality.
County Temporary Homes
The county temporary homes for de- {
PENDENT children are discussed at some T
ergth and there is said to be an in.
.reasing sentiment that the whole {
work OF caring for these children, of :
which the state already pays practi- | :
tally the entire cost of maintenance. 2