The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-21
Give men ROOM
State Prison VIII Take All
Having Social Diseases.
They VIII Be Given Same
Treatment Given Women.
STATE BOARD GIVES ORDER
Cured Patients Win Be Re-
turned Home by State.
All Treatment VIII Be Given
Free of Charge.
STATE BOARD GIVES ORDER

Hospital facilities at the state peni-
tenrIary are to be placed in readiness
to care for civilian patients suffering
from social diseases. Commitments
may be made to the penitentiary sub
ject to such rules and regulations as
the warden may provide and are APP
proved by the state board of admin
sstration.
In an order made public today the
state board of administration paved
the way for a fight on social diseases
in every section of Kansas. The doors
of the state prison at Lansing are to
be opened to accommodate as many
men as possible who are suffering
from venereal disease. Treatments
are to be free and the number of men
sent to the prison hospitals will be
determined only by the capacity of
the plant and the ability of prison
officials TO enforce rules of discipline.
Same Care Given Women.
Men will be cared for in a manner
similar to that provided f. women
at the prison farm and detention
home. Men who enter the prison will
enter under strict and rigid quaran-
tine regulations. Under the enforce
ment of this regulation the state pris-
on plan may be used for the care and
treatment of men suffering from the
dread disease.
1t is the purpose of the state board
OF administration to cooperate with
the state health department in its So
-cial disease fight. In the order today
the board requires only that a man
has sufficient money to insure his re
turn home before he is granted ,ad-
mission.
Following is the formal order of
the board:
Order of Board.
Voted. in consideration Of the needs of
n suitable place for the quarantine of men
10 cooperate with the state board of
health and the government authorities in
restricting the spread of such disease, that
place the hospital and other facilities Of
the penitentiary at the disposal of the state
board Of health in quarantining men who
are afflicted with venereal disease. Pro-
vided, that the men thus received shall be
subject to such rules and regulations as
the warden may, with the approval of the
board, prescribe for the discipline and con-
troll Of the Institution. This action is to be
effective at once and continue until further
THE men sent to the penitentiafy for
quarantine and treatment are given free of
cost all the facilities and medical care af-
fordcd by the penitentiary.
THE cures effected prove the wisdom of
this action and the substantial ben efit re-
suiting to the men who are treated and to
the communities from which the men come.
when the men are cured, it is an in
Justice to release them from quarantine
without so much enough money In hand
to pay the car fare for their return home.
The board of administration, therefore,
has this day voted to require, as a condi-
ton previous to the admission of a man to
quarantine treatment, that a sum of money
at least equal to the car fare for the return
trip to the place from which the person is
committed shall be deposited with the war
den Of the penitentiary to be used for the
benefit Of the patient in returning him to
his family or friends, or to point where
nc may secure honorable employment for
his own support"