The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-01-05
State Institutions
Have 7,49O inmates
NEVER IN BETTER CONDITION.
SAYS VISITING BOARD RE-
PORT TO BURNQUIsT.


PORT TO BURNQUIST.
There are 7,49O inmates in the elev-
en- state institutions, according to the
report of the state board of visitors to
Governor Burnquist Thursday. Of
this number 1854 are male and 2,906
women and girls.
4 The report, prepared by James
$ 'lMatchitt, executive secretary, states
that the institutions visited never
s were in better condition and that no
loutstanding recommendations or cri-
1ticisns were necessary.
a The report covers inspections of the
st. Cloud reformatory; State Hospital
for Insane at Fergus Falls; State
School for Deaf, Faribault; State
Public School, Owatonna; State Hos
pital for crippled children, Phalen
Park, st. Paul; State Training School
Red Wing; Hospital for Insane, Ro-
chester; State Asylum for Insane at
Hastings; State Asylum for Insane at
Anoka; State Hospital for Insane, st.
Peter; and State School for the Blind,
Faribault.
The stone crusher plant at the St.
Cloud institution, which in the past,
has shut down through the winter,
this year is in full operation and will
continue so through the winter. With
the increase in prices of stone sold to
the highway commission, this depart
ment will be made to profit. The re-
formatory will add furniture manu-
featuring and auto repairing to the
list of occupational training. One of
the inmates, the report adds, will be
prepared to enter the engineering col
lege at the University of Minnesota
next semester. He had received his
preliminary training at the refornla-
tory.
The school at the institution has
been in the past conducted by stu
dents advanced far enough to teach,
but this practice will be discontinued
and a staff of experienced teachers
employed.
The report states there are 461 in
mates at the institution and sixty-six
employees.
The Fergus Falls hospital for in
sane, with 786 male and 735 female
inmates was found in good condition
and DIR. George o. Welch, superin-
tendent, is reported to be making
many improvements. A new treat
ment for epileptics in use is meeting
great success, and in some instances
It is thought cure has been accom-
plished.
Approximately $4,000 bushels Of po-
tatoes were raised on the institution
farm this season, 5000 more than the
needs and requirements of this col
ony. The excess was sold at a large
profit.
At the State School for Deaf, the
board of visitors recommended that
Mott hall, formerly the main build
ing, he razed and new service
building be erected from the wreck
age.
The percentage of illegitimate chill
dren admitted to the State Public
school at Owatonna has increased
from to 19 per cent, during the past
three years. The condition prevails,
it is reported, because Of increased
activity of the various juvenile courts
and county boards However, despite
the increase in crime through the
country, there is no perceptible in
crease in incorrigibility among chill
dren, the report adds.
Attendants at the Phalen Park
Home for Crippled Children are TAX
ing plaster casts of deformities for
clinical work, instead of the photo
graphs, as formerly the custom. This
enables specialist to study more
closely specialist to study more
among the children.
The State Training School for Boys
at Red Wing has 800 boys and is
overcrowded, the report states. 1t is
necessary for boys to be dismissed
after ten months training, instead of
twelve. J. T. Fulton, superintendent,
believes it requires fifteen months
training for rehabilitation Of the
youth.
Inmates of the Hospital for Insane
at Rochester have entered the stone
crushing business, and since Septem-
Der last have sold more than $4,000
worth of stone crushed in their plant.
The Hasting asylum at Hastings,
built on the cottage plan, has 875
male inmates. Each cottage houses
: sixty inmates and is supervised by a
man and WIFE, Conditions at the in
stitution are reported as being very
good
More than 1000 pounds of bread are
baked daily at the state asylum at
Anoka to feed the $50 inmates and
seventy-eight employees. The super
intendent, John Coleman, closes his
years business with balance of $37,-
900.
Because of shortage of women help
at the State Hospital for Insane at
st. Peter, the forty-five nurses and
attendants now employed are COM
pelled to work overtime. Sixty wom-
en- are needed: The women work on
S.n eight hour basis. Work after this
aeriod is paid for as overtime" The
anstitution has TAT male and SIT fe-
s1ale inmates.
ZumWinkle- Cameron.