Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-21
xAnrs WOMEN rhr,onrna
TAKEN TO STATE EARN


 TAKEN TO STATE FARM
 The preliminary report of tne state board of charities for the fiscal years 1919 and 1920 has just been presented to Governor Lake for transmissal by him to the general assembly. In the opening pages of the report the board makes the following recommendations:
 1. That the wome nprisoners at the Connecticut state prison be removed to the state farm for women as soon as the latter institution is properly equipped to care for them.
 2. That a sufficient appropriation be enable it to fulhll in more nearly ade- quate measure the purpose for which 1t was established.
 3. That the Connecticut state school for boys be authorized to employ a suf- ficient number of agents to provide care | ful supervision and placement for the boys released from the school on parole. 4. That the Connecticut school for boys De removed to a suburban or rural | location.
 8. That the state board of charities be authorized to employ at feast two visitors of the public health nurse type to inves- tigate homes making application for H. cense to board children and to supervise the places when licensed.
 8. That an adequate appropriation ba made to establish the proposed state ir- frmary for the care of diseased and in- curable persons for whom no treatment is available in existing institutions and for the poor from such towns as have nc
 almshouse or are insuff1cientIy equipped
 to care for them properly.
 The report shows that there are in the
 state for the care of delinquent. defective
 and dependent persons 1S3 institutions
 almost all of which come within the stat.
 utory supervision of the board. Approxi
 mately 67 of these institutions receiv, l finnacial aid from the state treasury. IT
 behalf of these institutions the net ex
 penditure by the state for maintenance
 supervision, etc, was s2.oss 435 in tn,
 nine months ended June 30, 1919, ant
 s3,1o2,195 in the year ended June 30
 1920. This Is the first time in the his
 tory Of the state that the annual expen
 dfture for these purposes has reached th
 three million. dollar mark.
 The development of the state farm fo women at Mantle is reported as slow oi
 account of the comparatively small ap
 propriations granted to 1t go far by tn . legislatures of 1917 and 1919. Notwith standing these handicaps, tho institution gives evidence of much good work accom-
 plished in it's efforts to regenerate tn
 women physically and morally and {
 arouse in them an interest in useft
 work.
 Norwich Hospital Work.
 At the Norwich state hospital wor . has been well advanced upon the ne' I psychopathic building for which apprc 7riations were made in 1915 and 1s1' and the new sanatorium building for tJ . bercular patients is expected to be read c for use this winter. For several year .E-4 n have building operations kept pace wit l the normal annual increase in Ire nun d Der of insane.
 U Child Welfare Department. ;. Tn reference to the work of the board v child welfare department in hoTne rnlrH 1. and child-placing for wards of the coul 4 ty temporary homes, the reo7-t makes
 strong appeal that the present number {
 three supervisors in this department
 increased to 10. Such an 'ccrease
 necessary if any effective work ir to
 accomplished for the l, 100 ebildiCn in u
 county homes and the 500 wards of T
 homes who are living out with relaiiV
 or in foster-homes. So long IS the sta
 Is required by the dictates O. humeai
 to remove these children fronI their na n ural guardians. it should take overy pn v sible precaution to make sur, that 1t t' does not become delinquent in IS g1ar l. ianship of these juvenile waras. v. Children in County Home. r. The total number of children on su y port of the eight county tempo-A of homes June 90. 1920, was 1.Oss. C r. more than the number so re>orted Id Sept. 30, 1918. Comparison Of the nun d. Der on support of the homes in the SC l. eral counties on these wo dates sas' Id an increase in Hartfor1, New Have ct Windham and Holland. an1 a decrease
 New London, Fairfield. L'tchiieid a III Middlesex. Lack of sufIlC.en. workers At carry on the desired homS-fnding 2 L. 1 child-placing activities is sad 90 accou no in large measure for this lecun,uiat'rn al children in the first .ol- counties ma TX tioned.
 he state School at Mansfield. on The state school for the fecble-mind
 at Mansfield shove an increase in A. daily average number of 77,et's pres, n- from 413 in 1918 to 5es in 1920. 'i ok report shows that there arc more tll ng 800 other feeble-minded, pe -shrs in ah state who ought to be cl'.d fo- n ed Mansfield school and declares that c nu tinued program of building snOuld nm maintained at Mansfield until there sh ps, be total accommodations fn. at le 1rt | 1 200 persons.