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whether that course suited their purpose or not itVls not for me here to conjecture, TIu-v could mat hare enquired, about the amount of laboremployed, nor the difficulty of procuring it._The overseer and his wife have attended exclusively to the houses up to the first of 6ep-tejhber, embracing seven mouths,during' which time there were two hundred and forty-t«ar inmates, averaging from forty five to fifty, and with nil the ill-trtiatment alleged to the overseer, there were during: that period fourteen death*. Sow I aj-k the board ir this shows want of attention either on the part of the ov«r seer or the attending physician.The board can readily judge what would likely ho the condition of a hospital with even twenty or thirty sick persons under the ac.iuu rtf medit-ine, and tjiis continuing from day n, d|y, and from night tonight, can it at all times aiid at every mtiment be clean and clear of 'ijnell. and more particularly when the overseer haid been absent for an hour or two, and when all efforts failed to procure sniiable attendants.:Jn order to satisfy myself fully iu regard to He alleged mismanagement, (they Were principally Germans in.that house,) 1 procured the services of one of the Aldermen of the city to interpret for me, aiid proceeded to get all the information I could, notes of which 1 present to die board for examination. I questioned all wfc were in a state; of health to warrant it, and found the greatest Complaints about the rotten potatoes, some said their tea and coffee was not -.weet enough, while others said they were Well -atit-fied with it ; the board 1 am sure have -time idea of the taste of the sick geuerally.— All said the meat'* Were good.iLvst tin* majorUy rrport should be too soon forgotten, the Scnfmet follows suit and says, ‘ that we heard from what we Considered a reliable source, a statement; that -£ouie of the inmates of the city poor house are suffering for •wjint of food; that two of them are so emaciated as to be almost suable to walk.” To that I .-have no comments to make, and refer the biard to Dr. Garner's certificate (the intending physician) to that nhbject! JiA casual reader would jnaturally infer that tb'ts eighteen or twefijy thousand dollars spoken of** being the amoifnt of anuual expenses, ap pip'd exclusively to the Support of the two pdiir houses, when the actual annual expence of it lie two houses, including officers salaries repairs. new. wagons, farm stock. 4c., dom notexceed Hi thousand five hundred dollars__A#i the total amount for support of poor houses and out paupers, iticluding officers sal-’*U,1 ,?ot siittwn thousand fivehundred doUam for thy year ending the first nf July 1855, embracing the lunprecedente.1 *h„l
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Milwaukee Daily News
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Oct 20, 1855
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