The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-11
VERY BAD CONDITIONS
Found By State Probation Officer in
Some st. Adams Homes.

St Albans. Feb IA general inves
tigation in this city and Richford by
State Probation Officer w. II. JEFFREY OF
Montpelier has resulted in the making
of provision for the care of II children
IL in this city and two in Richford
Some will he taken to institutions and
arrangements for the care of others in
this city will be made. Following the in
vestigation Frank Finnemore of Water
street appeared before Judge n. y. Post
in city court and was sentenced to serve
from Is to "a months in the house of
correction for cruelty to ,hildren and not
taking proper care of his family. He
was placed on probation and will be un-
der constant surveillance. If conditions
are not satisfactory he will be sent to
the house of correction without further
| trial
The local people who were most ac-
! lively interested in having Mr.. Jeffrey
come here express themselves well
pleased with the result vf his investiga.
tion and the way he handled the situa-
tion generally. Filthy and unsanitary
conditions were found in most of the ten
places visited and other conditions of
revolving nature were disclosed
Although Mr.. Jeffrey refused to be in
terviewed in the matter. il is probable
that the state board of health will be
called upon later to investigate some
places It is understood that tenement
house conditions in the section of the
city which was visited are very unsatis-
factory TO the board of charities and
probation which Mr. Jeffrey represents.
In the house on Water street occupied
by the Finnemores each of their two chill
dren. aged, respectively. two and four
years, was found dressed in a short cali.
co garment, They wore no dndercloth-
ing, shoes or stockings and they were
very dirty. In court Saturday Finne
more testified that at times ife earned as
much as SIS or 500 week In the other |
half Of the same house lived a man and |
his wife and four children. All the chill |
dren were out of school, one with with /
cred arm having just been sent home on |
account of his physical condition. The |
boy wore no Undertaking and his body /
was in filthy condition.
On Lascelle street in a family where
bad conditions were found one of the
children is a mute. This family Is said
TO belong To Morrisville The man. is
now "a years old For his first wife he
married a l4year-old girl and to this
lnion two children were born. The wife 4
lied and the man married another IA I,
year old girl To them II children were
born. Four are now in the state indus.
rial school.
In another house on Lascele street
vas found a family consisting of two
men and their wives, another woman
low out of the house OF correction on /
parole, who IS a sister of the other two !
women. and 10 children. The family oc- {
upied three rooms and there were two S
'eds in the tenement, one double and the 4,
ther three-quarters bed.
On the same street conditions were I
ound filthy and unsanitary in home L
where the wife was feeble minded at the
ime of her marriage several years ago l.
In Federal street home two rooms -
'ere found occupied by woman with =
hree children, her sister and five chill p
ren and boarder Two Young men at 1
he house at the time of the investiga- u
ion were said TO be callers There were C
wo beds for the entire family. The "
-oman with the five children has been t,
aken to the hospital. The sanitary con- t,
itions in the house. the yard and the d
,llar were probably the worst of any "
the places investigated toilet in t.
ne house had frozen and burst some q
me before and nothing had been done h
, place it in condition for use Evident Il
canned goods were used extensively A
nd bushel or more of empty cans were m
,und in the cellar The odor in the A
ouse was indescribable This house W
as qnarantined for infantile paralysis
st spring.
One of the houses where bad condition.
ere found was on Houghton street and r
ere were also houses on Pine street.
In one house a bed which was in use
ID on it only piece of floor carpeting
some springs. f
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