Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-04-25
TOO MUCH VISITING
TO INMATES OF PEN
Says Superintendent Of Frankfort
Reformatory-State Has 1904
Persons In Its Institutions

|. Frankfort, KY, April 25-There
were 1904 persons in the custody
OF the State Board of Charities
and Corrections in the seven
state institutions on April |, ac-
cording to reports filed with the
! Commissioner of Public Institu-
ltions and made public here today.
jOf these 4,683 are in the three
state hospitals for the insane and
!4l7 in the institute for the feeble
minded.
i There are Az boys and girls in
the Houses of Reform at Green
dale and 420 men on the rolls of
the state penitentiary at Eddy
Iville. There are 1862 prisoners
on the roll of the state reforma-
tory at Frankfort.
Reports show that were z93
men and 608 women at the East
ern State Hospital in Lexington;
l,O28 men and 500 women on the
roll of the Central State Hospital
lat Lakeland and us men and 733
women on the roll at the West
ern State Hospital at Hopkins
willie. The report for the institute
for the feeble minded at Frank
fort did not contain a division Of
the sexes.
During the month a number of
Improvements were noted at the
institutions other than the two
prisons. At the Central hospital
new cold storage plant was COM
pleted and put into operation; the
sewage disposal plant was over
hauled and plans drawn and ap-
iproved by the State Board of
Health for septic tank and otker
additions designed to stop pollu-
ton of a nearby small stream and
work progressed on a new labora-
tory for physicians at the hospi-
tai.
At the Eastern hospital repairs
to the power plant are expected,
it is stated, to save 1,5OO tons of
coal year. DR.. J. w. Hill, of
Pewee Valley, former superin-
tendent Of the Institute for the
Feeble-Minded and assistant at
! Lakeland, was named first assist
lant physician.
The Western hospital manage
!ment reported the laying out of
Jan extensive orchard and planting
thirty acres of Strawberries. The
State University was asked to
send an expert to advise about the
hennery of the institution and the
dairy herd was tested and seven
tubercular cattle condemned. DR..
! J. H. Benson, formerly of the IL
linOis state hospital at Blooming
ton, ILL.,, was appointed assistant
physician.
| Work on the new kitchen at
,Greendale has progressed to the
point where it will be ready for
) occupancy about middle of May.
Many, the superintendent of the
House Of Reform reported. He
also reported thatthe new discip-
linary department would be ready
about the same time.
! During he month the boys hos
pital was vacated and turned over
to the girls, because of the small
amount of illness among the boys.
A temporary hospital for the boys
was arranged. A receiving de-
Ipartment also was established.
DR.. ]. H. Hussey, of Eddyville.
for IS years physician at the Ed
Idyville prison, was reappointed to
that post during March by War
den Chiffon DR.. Hussey succeeds
DR.. D. ]. Travis, who resigned on
March Is The cellohuseS were
renovated and painted, bedding
laundered and cleaned and the en-
tire institution gone over during
the month
The superintendent of the re-
formatory at Frankfort reported
that the state d1etitian is now at
work at institution endeavoring
i to work out a proper diet for the
inmates. The Mutual Welfare
League is repairing the baseball
grounds and grandstand and has
Ispent about $3.50 on it, the super
iintendent said. They also have
purchased quantity of baseball
supplies.
The superintendent of the re-
formatory reported entirely too
much visiting. In some instances,
he said. visits to inmates were al
most of daily occurrence. He has
lattempted to regulate visiting, he
said, and has cut visits to so min
Iutes. The inmates also are limit
led to one letter a week except on
special permission.
A special report on the night
schools in the reformatory was