Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-29

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there sitting room in the entire build
ing. When an inmate sits in her own
room 1t is quite impossible for her to
see out of the window of the room, as
her head viii come below the window
sill. Your grand jurors make the follow
ing suggestions and recommendations
That a wing be built at the front
OF the present wOmen's building In
which additional provision be made for
g sitting room and sick ward, and the
upper part Of said building may then be
used as a dOrmitory, as additional rooms
are needed for the inmates. The win
doWs in the present building for women
should be lowered at least eighteen inches
to permit ventilation and so that in
mates may see out.
We also suggest and recommend that
a sick ward or hospital room could very
easily be built on the mems building by
extending the floor and roof and building
q glass-enclOsed sun parlor On the south
side of the building. Such a room would
! care for thirty or forty inmates who are
at this time confined to their rooms which
are scattered over the first floor, making
7 IL difficult for the attendants to care
for them, or give them the proper or
needed attention.
We further Suggest that the live
stock and fowls on said farm be sold and
new stock purchased, as tHe pigs and
chickens now being raised have been in
/
quality and cannot lie fed with any
economy"
The Jurors report on Julietta was as
follows:
ION June Q. we the Grand Jurors,
| visited the Marion County insane institu-
! ton at Julietta. and beg to report that
we were very favorahly impressed with
| conditions existing there. The wards and
| buildings are kept in an up-tO-date and
sanitary manner, and every department
Of In h
The crowded condition Of the institu-
| ton was very apparent. as there were
/ sixteen or seventeen cots IN the sun
parlOrs OF the wOmen's department which
! is entirely too crowded unless the
patients are classified so that the sick
| ores can be removed. At ne present
| time IL Is impossible to separate the
| sick from the well, and the young from
l the old, and the quiet from the vicious,
| because Of the cOngested condition exist
/ ing This condition Is true In both of
/ the wings Of the institution.
There is not at the present time any
| department for the sick. and they must be
/ left in their cots in the same room in
which they live, and are annoyed by
other inmates. and it is quite impossible
/ for them to receive the attention they
should receive in such case. In one in
/ stance we found q woman In a small
/ room where another inmate was dying
/ because Of the condition above referred
/ to.
THE grand jurors were especially i'm
! pressed with the cleanliness Of the in
/ sane institution, and with the condition
/ Of the buildings, and wish TO suggest and
/ recommend that If this condition is to
/ exist a new wing should be built along
/ the front Of said building both on the
| east and west end, to accommodate more
patients, and TO provide sufficient space.
/ so that the sick and well. and the vicious
end quiet, and the ybung and the old.
may be separated, and placed in such
wards or departments where they can re-
/ ceive better care than the officers Of the
I institution are now able to give.
1--WE were informed that there are more
| then forty insane persons in the county
waiting admission TO this Institution. but
| there is not room in the institution to ac-
| cOmmOdate any more"
! Among those who were indicted are
William Payton, embezzlement; James
Turner and Thomas Turner of First
avenue, Beech Grove. Ind. operating q
blind tiger; Spencer Coleman, forgery !;
William Payton, John Pipkens and Rob
ert Dunn, vehicle taking.