The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-08-22
FIVE INSTITUTIONS
Of STATE BUILT
IN INDIANAP Oils
One Located Outside City Hos
pitaI Under Construction
in Marion County.
NINETEEN IN STATE
Girls School, Blind, Deaf, IN
sane and Woman's Prison
All Here.

Six of Indiana's nineteen State in
situations are located in Marion Coun-
ty, five within the corporate limits of
the city of Indianapolis and one, the
Indiana Girls School at Clermont on
the Charlottesville road eight miles
west of the city. These within the
city are the Indiana State School for
the Deaf, the Central Hospital for the
Insane, the Indiana School for the
Blind, the Indiana Woman's Prison
and the Robert W. Long Hospital.
The Indiana Girls School at Cler-
mont was established in 1869 as a
correct .Ona1 institution for girls be-
tween the ages of 10 and Is years. II
is State-maintained but counties pay
half the estimated expenses of inmates
sent there, or parents. when they send
girls at their own instigation, and pro-
vided they are able to make such pay
ment
The school is located on a tract of
1874 acres Of land and is built on the
cottage plan.
School for Deaf
The Indiana State School for the
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the training of deaf children between
the ages CT s and q. was created by
an act of legislature in 1914. The
State maintains the institution, requir-
ing only those parents who can afford
TO do so, to pay for the tuition of the
children.
The Central Hospital for the Insane,
known under the act Of Legislature
by which it was created in 1914 as
the State Lunatic Asylum, is a chart
table institution for the care Of feeble
minded OF twenty-five counties of the
State. Half the expense of pa
tient are chargeable to the county
in the regular way.
School for Blind
7 The Indiana School for the Blind,
which now has four distinct branches
of education, was created in 1S47. The
school has developed remarkable IA
cilities for the education Of blind chill
dren and has welded a great infiu-
ence in the State. Teaching Of the
Braille system Of reading, by which
the blind read by a touch system, be-
wildering TO those save the s!ghtless,
is one of its most commendable
/ achievements.
The Indiana WOman's Prison, for
I inmates more than Is years of age.
/ whose commitment there is for mis-
( demeanors, is not as old as some other
+ state institutions but had considerable
difficulty in years gone TO establish
its identity from the girls reforma-
tory. Legislation finally conquered
this obstacle The institution is wholly
in charge of women.
Robert Long Hospital.
The Robert W. Long hospital, made
possible as a State institution through
the generosity of DR.. and Mrs. Robert
W. Long, is a distinct part of the In
diana University. having bee nso des-
ignated by the Longs and confirmed
by the State Legislature at the time
the gift was officially accepted by the
State.
The hospitals faculties are open to
those needing medical, surgical, ortho-
pedic or obstetrical care. An annual
State appropriation Of $4,000 main
tains the institution. A corps of
nurses in training under the supervi-
sion of Indiana University is main
tanned and the university department
of social service has it's offices in the
building.
The Riley Memorial hospital being
planned and anticipated will also be
State institution to be conducted in
conjunction with the Long hospital