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The Detroit Journal publishes the following article ob the report of the state board of corrections and charities concerning the Calhoun counts' poor house: * ‘Dr. Hal, C. Wyman, of Detroit, examined the Calhoun county house, April 22, Qe found the building so old as to need rebuilding in order to keep pace with the general state of affairs in the county. It is a fiie trap of the worst description. The department used For the restraint and confinement of the most helpless insane, contains 13 persons in all degrees of the most abject misery. They are kept in as clean a condition as is possible with the facilities at the com mend of the keeper. In case of a fire the helpless inmates could not be removed with the help employed, Nothing e*u be done until the supervisors meet in October. Then they can either erect a new building or bo repair the old one as to remove the greatest dangers. “I suggested a fire drill,” writes Dr. Wyman, “but was told that while the keeper was hastily getting one inmate opt another would be killing some one or runuing away. More help is needed to make the management of the place safe.” Bishop. Gillespie eays: 'The so-called jail where ibo insane of Calhoun county sjre kepi is horrible. (Thirteen inmates, Beany all of whom are women, ire confined. in their cells, except as they wwe to the table or are brought out to be washed. Therein no ventilation except a door opened in summer. The oounty ought to erect a brick building for their incurable idiotsand insane.”
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Semi Weekly Statesman
Marshall, Michigan, US
Tue, May 31, 1887
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