The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-03-06
(FoURTH INsTALLMENT)
Report.

Report.
TO the County Board Of Supervisors:
Gentlemen:- As your County Agent
and pursuant to instructions, | have
during the year made visits to the Ra-
cine County Insane Asylum as well as
Waukesha County, where I found eight
patients and all well anI well cared for
and in an institution which compares
very favorably with our good 1sighbor,
Racine County. I was very Hospitality
received by the genial Superintendent
and Matron, Mr.. and Mrs. CAIRO and
was shown through the institution as
we'll as through the out-buildings and
found all in the finest of condition.
On my visit to Racine County, /
found Kenosha County g patients, sixty
in number, in tie same usual well fed
and well cared for surroundings. 1t is
needless for me to say more in regard
to the manner in which cur patients
are cared for in Racine County, more
than that they are in the best Of health
and receiving the best care it is posi-
BILE to give them and the same Hospital
BILE reception was extended by the
worthy Superintendent and M&tron,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis and closest in
spection invited.
I did not visit Walworth County
Asylum this year and did not deem it
necessary as very few patients were
there this year and last year s visit
revealed no occasion to suspicion that
q visit was necessary.
AS your County Agent, / have re-
built according to instructions the walk
ON the east of the County Jail as well
as south of the Jail and the Municipal
Court and taken such care of the county
property as seemed to the best inter
est of the county.
The plaster fell from the ceiling of
the Office of the Clerk of the Municipal
Court and only by luck the Clerk es-
capped injury This was replaced and
at this time it was deemed advisable
to take off the old plaster and replace
same on ceiling of the Judges office.
This has been done, but ceilings were
not decorated as ] felt il was time that
the entire Municipal Court building
should be re-decorated and all could be
done at the same time. / res ommend
that the Board visit the Municipal
Court and inspect the decorations as
some decorating must be done.
Expenses as you we'll know, have been
high this year as supplies for county
officers, bike all other supplies, have in
creased in cost and in some cases
doubled and during the influenza cpl
demie / was called upon to care for
several while sick and eight of whom
passed away and the county compelled
to bury them. Undertakers have in
creased their charges for burial so that
what service the county used to receive
for $500 now costs $4,000.
/ was instructed to purchase coal for
the county by Your Honorable Board
(by the car load), but of course, you
all know that under the present fuel
regulations that was impossible and it
was only after considerable effort
through the fuel administrator that I
was permitted to get anthracite coal at
all and it is impossible with the present
chimney facilities to burn soft coal.
AS this is my final report as County
Agent | wish to thank the County
Board for the confidence they have plac-
ed in me as County Agent IN past years
and have given you my best efforts to
act as Purchasing Agent and although
may have made mistakes I assure you
none were intentional and / trust the
balance of my term may prove as sat
.sfactory to you as / wish it to be.
AS [ have stated before every cost
has increased and l fear that nav APP
preparation will hardly be sufficient to
larry me to the end of my term and [
would not like to leave the Office with
any unpaid bills. / most respectfully
equest that Your Honorable Body make
an additional appropriation of $4,000
20 pay contingent expenses to the
irst of the year.
Most respectfully submitted,
Russell Fl. Jones,
Cnuntxy oau4