Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-04-05
SHOWS NEEDS OF W0MEN'S STATE FARM

How they want to use the appro-
priation of $442,500 which they are
asking from the present legislature
the board of directors of the Connecti-
cut State Farm for Women, which has
just been issued.
After reviewing what has been done
from July i, 1917, to September 80,
1918, at this farm of $50 acres around
Bride Lake in East Lyme, all of which
was purchased for $2S, 100, the board
of directors makes the following plea:
We earnestly desire this institution
to be recognized as an integral part of
the great state wide movement, togeth-
er with clinics and other state Gus
todial and correctional institutions. to
stamp out venereal disease among our
men, women and children. And we
would have the general assembly of
| Connecticut and the general public
/ whose servants we are, look to US as
| gathering onto our ample acreage all
the diseased and delinquent women in
need of medical treatments adm GUS
todial care. With such a function to
| perform, we appeal to the legislature of
| 1919 and to all succeeding sessions to
| give US adequate and ample support
not for the sake of our own institution
l w
of its citizens, present and to come.
And SO, as a result of our short eX-
pertinent, the board of directors of the
| Connecticut State Farm for Women
respectfully makes the following rec
concentrations:
| That we be given sufficient appro-
priations with which to erect, during
| the next two years:
| A receiving building for the care
! i
| first three months after their admis-
| sion.
| . A school building with adequate
quarters for academic and vocational
| instruction including domestic science
| in all its branches, laundry, dress
making, millinery, and with an as
sembly hall.
| A sufficient number of cottages fol-
twenty-five inmates each to house zoe
women and the necessary officers
these to contain single rooms and tc
! be separated to provide desirable iso-
! lation of groups.
Also to develop the farm suffi-
GENTLY to provide a food supply for
the inmates and live stock of the insti-
tuition.
| To purchase a good herd of cows
and maintain a model diary plant.
| To establish d small poultry plant
! Z To maintain adequate transporta-
ton facilities between the farm and
! the station at East Lyme and Man
| tic.
s To employ trained staff for the
vocational work of the school and the
management of the cottages.
8 To provide adequate equipment il
| all departments.
/ There have been % women on the
I ,it1r frnYl a f.jfi
as follows:
Bridgeport s, Hartford 2, Mediren /
New Britain 2, New Haven ., NorwalE
| 2, Norwich 1, Putnam 3, Stamford |
Stonington /, Waterbury I, Waterford
/, Winsted /.
The audited financial exhibit for The
farm is shown as follows from Apri
26, 1918 to December 81, 1918:
Receipts.
Appropriation $4,000 expenditure
made by the treasurer of the state o
Connecticut chargeable to appropria
ton OF the Connecticut State Farm
for Women $26,295.85; amounts trans
| ferred by the treasurer of the stat
OF Connecticut to George c. Clark
| treasurer of the Connecticut Stat
Farm for Women $4,000; total eXpen
ditureS and amounts transferred SOL
29585; balance of appropriation SIS,
70415.
Expenditures.
Real estate S25.42365. salaries 81
149, food $102S96. clothing and cloth
ing material $90017 furnishings an
household supplies s5,44606, head. ligh
and power S926.S5. ordinary repair
, S2,66157, farm and stable S6,165.5.
grounds $98094 medical and genera
care S742.05, office and incidental eX