Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-15

utter dismay we observed food served to
most infirm persons that would be diff
ficult for robust and healthy persons to
digest. As no limit in this respect is
placed on the management, the condition
ought not TO exist, and we are sure the
extra cost if any Will not worry the tax
payers.
"Our inspection Of the farm proper
was diScOuraging, as previously stated.
There is urgent need for new poultry
and Lighthouses, and these should be re
located, and the hoghOuSes should have
cement floors. We found cholera hogs
running with brood sows and feeders,
dead pig in q watering place, which
should not be allowed A dairy
man is employed to care for thirteen
high priced cows, and milk enough
should be secured to have Il little for ali
the wards, Yet we understand only the
sick have it."
VISITED JULIETTA AND
FOUND 1T CROWDED.
The grand jurors reported that on Nov.
80, they visited Julietta Home for the in
durable insane and found this institu-
ton lin an exceptionally clean and sani-
tary condition and the buildings and
equipment in good condition, hut the
overcrowded state Of the home IS wholly
unwarranted."
The reports shows there are about three
hundred wards IN quarters designed u
accommodate not more than two hundred
patients.
The report stated that the result Is
greatly handicapping the management
II caring for the wards in their best in
terests and the dignity of the State"
The grand jurors reported:
We believe that the care Of these wards
should never have been undertaken
by the county in the first place. The tax
payers of Marion County contributed
large sum TO maintain insane wards Of
the State and We feel that the state
should care for the insane of Marion
County as It does for those Of the other
ninety odd counties. We urge the com
missiOners Of Marion County and all
other persons Of influence to consider the
wisdom of this change and do what they
can to bring fl about. The county spent
last year SJS.S4 TO maintain this in
stitUtiOn in addition to what was paid
fl taxes to the State for the State insti-
tuition. The water supply and pumping
machinery are good and sufficient, but
the storage tank is entirely too small so
that ut certain times during the day the
water closets do not flush and cause tenn
pOrarily very bad conditions and much
unnecessary work and we strongly urge
that a tank Of sufficient capacity for
this institution be provided at once.
The grand jurors for the January
term Of this year recommended a new
wing or wings be built for the main
building to relieve the overcrOwded con-
which are very much needed, and Il we
are to continue to care for these wards,
this should be done as matter Of com
mon humanity. II the good people OF
this county could see the overcrOwded
condition Of this and other institutions
they would ct behind a movement for
proper Capitalization that would in
short time effect a saving in operation
enough to pay for an up-to- date institu-
ton for all our wards"
BENJAMIN MORGAN
NOW SUPERINTENDEST.
Benjamin Morgan IS superintendent Of
Julietta having followed DR.. I. A. Hyde.
who resigned as the superintendent short
" before his death.
Concerning the Marion County fail. the
report stated that this Institution is over
crowded. but that conditions VIII be
remedied when the powerhOuse, which is
being converted into q jail for women, is
completed.
1.-THE food served at the Jail we found
to be simple, but wholesome and suf-
fcient, but we urgently recommend that
a new sink and draining board be put In
at once, as this was the one bad feature
we found in the Kitchen" the Jurors re-
ported. THE total cost last year for
feeding prisoners was sci, $50"
A few other minor recommendations
were made relative to increasing the
Sunnyside was found to lie IN 'splen-
did order" the report shows.
"On Dec. Il we visited Sunnyside, es-
tablished and maintained by the county
on a fraction over forty-three acres of
ground located near Oaklanden," the re-
port reads. This is a new institution
that is accomplishing much good and
aside from its Overcrowded condition is
in splendid order. We understand the
county has a program for enlargement
now under way which Will shortly be
carried into effect We are reliably in
formed there are $50 patients at the hos
pltal at this time and more than a hun
bred more await admittance. The amount
received from taxes last year by this in
stitutiOn was SSS.5S7.00.
There is one recommendation we
would like to make in connection with
this institution. We believe a laundry
should he installed as We are informed
the county Is spending 100000 a month
for Laundering. not to mention the loss
Of many articles and much damage re-
sultlng from public laundry work"
JURY'S REPORT on
CHILDREN'S HOMES.
The grand Jurors made the following
report on the indianapolis Orphans
Home, the Children's Guardian Home and
the Colored Orphans Home:
I'VE visited the Indianapolis Orphans
Home. the Children's Guardian Home
and the COlored Orphans Home on the
18th day Of December. These institu-
lions are privately owned and managed
with the exception of the Guardians
Home which is a county institution, but
all receive money from the county. We
are advised the county supported On
average Of seventy five children at the
Guardians Home last year at a cost Of
$50, 1920 and an average Of thirty chill
dren at the Detention Home at a cost of
$4,000, and maintained an average of
eighty Juvenile delinQuents at Whites
Manual Institute at Wabash, Ind. at a
cost Of S15,1S9O0. In addition to these
wards Of the county, We paid to the In
dianapolis Orphans Home S13, 90
which maintains an average of seventy
FIVE; to the Colored Orphans Home SIT
$1,000, which maintain an average of
ninety, and the Julia Works Home S770 90
for maintaining an average of Ave.
"At each of the places we visited we
found the children were receiving the
very best care possible under existing
conditions. 1t is the policy of these in
Sfffuffona IN DIaee fhaRa children in co0d