Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-01
NEW RECEIVING HOSPITAL AT
 STATE FARM FOR WOMEN

At the State Farm For Women, WhfcE is located in the town of East Lyme. the state has been building a new receiving hospital during the past year at a con tract price of about $60,00O. It is a three story wooden building which will have separa.e accommodations for 2s girls and will mako valuable addition to the equipment of the farm when completed which it. is believed will be some tfrns during this winter. On the first floor are the office and examining rooms. while the individual wards :ake up the second floor In the basement are half a dozen shower baths and lockers for the use of girls coming in from work in the fields.
 Four Remodeled Farm Houses.
 At the present time four remodelea farm houses make up the buildings, where the staff of officials, the 80 women in- mates and the Is babies are housed. The great majority of the babies were born on the farm after their mothers v-ere committed.
 In the opinion of Superintendent Pc | tersen, the institution should be equip. ' ped in the next two years with at least Tive more cottages each with a capacity ! for housing 25 girls. If the farm Is to continue to expand it will be absolutely necessary to provide better housing and training facilities. Among other things for which a need Is felt Is a building 10 ! which suitable educational and vocation d
 instruction can be given the inmates. Ex-
 perience in handling the women has
 demonstrated to the authorities that ths younger girls should be taught funda-
 mental academic work, while the older
 women should be given instruction along
 vocational lines.
 With tho present rather crude faeilL
 ties at the farm :. is not possible to car.
 " out satisfactorily the work of educse
 ing and training the girls. The inmatei
 not confined to the hospital are divIdet ] into what are termed the senior and jun
 for groups, each consisting of about 1.
 women or girls. as the case may be
 These groups live in separate cottages
 under the supervision of an attendant , The cottages are crowded to capacity. Ii l fact. they are overtaxed. Judges hay been asked to stop committing girls ( , the farm.
 Training in Household Duties. /
 It is the desire of the superintendent
 to grade the girls ard women, but tEi Is impossible at present for want Q | space. As it Is, the inmates now receiv d practical training in general househoi n duties. Nearly all of them arrive q s the institution lacking even fundamenti l knowledge as to how to care for then l- selves. The plan now in operation at tt IS farm gives each inmate a term of thr, It months duty in the kitchen, laundry, ses e ing room and about the farm In add $ ton she Is instructed in personal h-giel and other everyday matters. to such e le tent as Is possible under the present n = convenient facilities.
 is A barn where 27 milking cows Is calves and 55 pigs are kept and an u y to-date dairy and refrigerating plsi
 comprise the other buildings on the far n of 120 acres.
 n Adequate water supply for the eno ie farm has been a difficult problem. dus
 the fact that the various buildings are
 haphazardly scattered. Up to the pre-
 ent. individual artesian wells and wh a- mills for each building have been resoT '. ed to. This difficulty is being met DO IT, however. with the installation of a h il- thousand gallon tank at the edge of Brf h. lake. Between the tank and the lake es 150 foot sand filter has been construed 2. over a well of 5000 gallons capacii 1d Pipes will eventually connect this wat al supply with all the buildings on | re farm
 To carry on the work of the farm f
 the next six months. Superintendent r ne tersen has found it necessary to ask 1 IT. an emergency appropriation of tse.0i ,s, The work already accomplished by { lie institution Is noteworthy, but it ia or it's an indication of what might be done 'or the scope of the farm were enlarged q d- sufficient funds provided for its proy h. development I. is estimated ti tai throughout the state there are nearly
 900 girls and women who should se he a similar institution. Yet the state fai Iv- has scanty accommodations for only