The Alaska daily empire., 1921-04-18
IMPROVEMENTS ATT S|TKA HOME ARE.
 ASKED IN REPORT.
Committee Reports Inmates
 We'll Cared For - Poor .>
 System of Management.

islature this morning. The repCrt comments the care that is being given the inmates of the Home but severely criticises the system Of management of the Home and de clares that business conditions are deplorable"
 The report also states that the Committee visited the Goddard Sani tarium at Sitka studying the hot springs as a possible location for a Territorial sanitarium for Alaska in sane persons, but it made no recom- mendations on that subject The report was presented in the House by Representative Rickert, chairman of the House Committee on Terri torial Institutions, and in the Senate by Senator Hunt. Other members of the committee making the report are Senator Luther c. Hess, Repre- sentatives Arthur Frame and Charles w, Brown.
 Committee Recommendation
 The following conclusions are pre-, scented in. the report
 New floors are needed throughout dormitories.
 New and sanitary bathing faciii- ties
 Improvements of present system Of 
 Wheeled chairs should be provide J for inmates several of whom are un- able to walk
 New dishes are needed; those now in use are an assortment Of porcelain and enamel; old unsani- tary and mostly unfit for use.
 The dormitory needs paints throughout. It's condition is now dark and gloomy and dirty. and in its present state is not credit to any territory.
 The physician of the Home should be required to inspect the entire institution daily and it might be ad to appoint a physician as superintendent of the Home.
 The location of the hospital and laundry is questionable The upper story should be completed, and stairway completed from the first floor of the hospital to the base ment The basement should be ceiled.
 The interior arrangement of the dormitory should be changed to con form to suggestions made by the doctor in charge as found in the last report of the Board of Trus- tees. The heating system of the dormitory and superintendent house is in very bad condition and needs either general overhauling or the installation of a. new furnace.
 The inmates of the Home appear to be well fed and bedded and sani- tary conditions are said to be main tained.
 Demands Investigation
 The business conduct of the in stitution is deplOrable. A detailed report should be required each bi- ennium, giving all receipts and ex- penditures, including salaries paid An accounting to date should be demanded at once from the Board of Trustees showing all indebtedness and req sons for nonpayment
 The business management of both the Board of Trustees and Superin- tendent of the Home are open to severe criticism. The law creating the Board of Trustees was loosely drawn. It does not provide for the employment of any specific officers for the Home, but leaves all details in the hands of an unsalaried boarC and the Board has, in turn. virtually surrendered the entire control Of the Home to a superintendent, an officer unknown to the law.
 We recommend the enactment ot amendments to the present law to cure the present glaring defects and abuses.
 The committee visited the ceme terey, where 92 of the aged pioneers have been inferred. and found noth ing but wooden slabs to mark the graves. The committee respectfully recommends the placing of marble markers at the head of each grave with the name, date of death and if possible. the date of birth of the deceosed. This is due to the mar tyrs of Alaskas development and i the cost is not too great should b' done at once.
 sanitarium Visited
 Owing to the agitation for tht care and treatment of Alaska's in sane within her borders. the commit tee visited Dr. Goddard's Sanitariun and found well equipped and con ducted hotel of 25 rooms. on goo' harbor. with a pleasing view.
 The report goes thoroughly mt the equipment of the Sanitarium ant ends with the statement: "No dis cussion nor exchange of opinion ha been indulged in by the committee regarding any action towards pro visions for Alaska's insane at thi nlacp "