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*W. W. Comstock resides at Fayette but acts as reporter of the Superior Court at Oelwein.
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Crawford, Denison
Jan. 23, March 27, Sept. 11, Nov. 13
Dallas, Adel.
Jan. 3, March 23, Sept. 5, Nov. 8
Davis, Bloomfield
Jan. 2, March 20, Aug. 28, Oct. 16
Decatur, Leon
Jan. 2, March 20, May 15, Oct. 23 March 13, May 1, Oct. 16. Dec. 11 Jan. 16, April 10, Sept. 18, Nov. 13 Jan. 2, March 6, May 1, Sept. 25
Delaware, Manchester
Des Moines, Burlington
Dickinson, Spirit Lake
Dubuque, Dubuque
Emmet, Estherville
Fayette, West Union
Jan. 23, April 24, Sept. 11, Nov. 13
Floyd, Charles City
Franklin, Hampton
Fremont, Sidney
Jan. 9, March 13, Sept. 4, Nov. 7 Jan. 30, April 3, Sept. 18, Nov. 13 Jan. 3, March 14, Aug. 29, Oct. 31 Jan. 2, March 6, Aug. 21, Oct. 23
Greene, Jefferson.
Feb. 6, May 1, Sept. 4, Dec. 11
Guthrie, Guthrie Center
Feb. 7, May 2, Oct. 3, Dec. 5
Hamilton, Webster City.
Feb. 13, May 1, Oct. 2, Dec. 11 Feb. 6, April 10, Sept. 18, Oct. 23
Hancock, Garner
Hardin, Eldora.
Harrison, Logan Henry, Mt. Pleasant
Jan. 9, March 13, Aug. 28, Oct. 23 Jan. 31, April 11, Sept. 26, Nov. 21 Feb. 6, April 24, Oct. 2, Dec. 4 March 6, June 5, Oct 9, Dec. 11
Howard, Cresco .
Humboldt, Dakota City Ida, Ida Grove. Iowa, Marengo Jackson, Maquoketa
Feb. 13, April 17, Oct. 2, Dec. 4 Feb. 13, April 17, Oct. 2, Dec. 4 Jan. 9, March 13, June 12, Oct. 9 Jan. 10, April 4, June 5, Sept. 12 Nov. 14
Jasper, Newton
Jefferson, Fairfield.
Johnson, Iowa City
Jones, Anamosa.
Keokuk, Sigourney
Kossuth, Algona
Lee, Ft. Madison.
Lee, Keokuk.
Linn, Marion.
Louisa, Wapello
Lucas, Chariton
Lyon, Rock Rapids
Feb. 7, April 11, Oct. 3, Dec. 5 Feb. 6, April 24, Sept. 25, Nov. 27 Feb. 6, May 1, Sept. 11, Nov. 20 March 6, May 15, Sept. 25, Dec. 4 Feb. 7, April, 11, Oct. 3, Dec. 5 Feb. 13, April 24, Sept 11, Nov. 13 Jan. 9, April 10, June 12, Oct. 9 March 13, May 8, Sept. 11, Nov. 13 Jan. 2, April 17, Sept. 18, Nov. 13 Jan. 2, March 27, Sept. 4, Oct. 30 Jan. 2, March 20, Aug. 28, Oct. 23 Jan. 30, April 10, Oct. 2, Nov. 20
Madison, Winterset Feb. 7, May 2, Oct. 3, Dec. 5 Mahaska, Oskaloosa Feb. 7, April 11, Oct. 3, Dec. 5 Marion, Knoxville. Feb, 7, May 2, Oct. 3, Dec. 5 Marshall, Marshalltown Jan. 9, March 20, Aug. 28, Oct. 23 Mills, Glenwood,; Jan. 31, April 4, Sept. 19, Nov.21 Mitchell, Osage Jan. 23, April 17, Sept. 18, Nov.7 Monona, Onawa Jan. 2, April 17, Sept. 5, Nov. 8 Monroe, Albia. Jan. 30, April, 17, Sept. 18, Nov. 13
Montgomery, Red Oak Feb. 21, May 2, Oct. 10, Dec. 12 Muscatine, Muscatine Jan. 10, Apr. 4, June 5, Sept, 12, Nov. 14
O'Brien, Primghar Feb. 20, May 1, Oct. 16, Dec. 4 Osceola, Sibley. Jan. 2, March 13, Sept. 5, Nov. 6
Jan. 2, March 6, May 1, Oct. 2 Jan. 30, April 10, Aug. 28, Oct. 30
Grundy, Grundy Center
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Page, Clarinda Feb. 21, May 2, Oct. 10, Dec. 12
Palo Alto, Emmetsburg
March 20, May 15, Oct. 9, Dec. 4
Plymouth, LeMars Feb. 13, April 24, Oct. 9, Nov.27 Pocahontas, Pocahontas Jan. 16, March 20, May 15, Oct. 16 Polk, Des Moines Jan. 2, March 6, May 1, Sept. 18 Pottawattamie, Avoca Jan. 31, April 11, Sept. 26, Nov. 21 Pottawattamie, Council Bluffs .Jan. 3, March 14, Sept. 5, Oct.31
Poweshiek, Montezuma. Jan. 10, March 14, Sept. 5, Nov. 7 Ringgold, Mt. Ayr. Jan. 23, April 10, Aug. 28, Nov. 13 Sac, Sac City. Feb. 13, April 17, Oct. 2, Dec. 4 Scott, Davenport Jan. 10, April 4, June 5, Sept. 12, Nov. 14
Shelby, Harlan Jan. 3, March 14, Sept. 5, Oct. 31
Sioux, Orange City
Jan. 16, March 27, Sept. 18, Nov. 13
Story, Nevada .Jan. 9, March 20, Aug. 28, Oct. 30
Tama, Toledo. Feb. 20, April 24, Oct. 9, Dec. 4
Taylor, Bedford
Union, Creston
.Feb. 6, April 24, Sept. 11, Nov.27 Jan. 16, March 13, Aug.28, Oct.16 Jan. 2, March27, Aug .28, Oct. 30
Van Buren, Keosauqua.
Wapello, Ottumwa Jan. 2, March 20, Aug. 28, Oct.23
Warren, Indianola
Washington, Washington
.Jan. 3, March 23, Sept. 5, Nov. 8 Jan. 10, March 14, Sept. 5, Nov. 7
Wayne, Corydon
Feb. 27, April 24, Oct. 2, Nov. 27
Webster, Ft. Dodge Jan. 9, March 20, Aug.28, Oct. 30
Winnebago, Forest City Feb. 20, May 1, Oct. 2, Nov. 27
Winneshiek, Decorah Jan. 30, May 8, Sept. 18, Nov. 27
Woodbury, Sionx City Jan. 2, March 13, May 1, Sept. 5 Nov. 8.
Worth, Northwood Jan. 9, March 20, Sept. 4, Oct. 23 Feb. 20, April 24, Oct. 9, Dec. 4
Wright, Clarion
PART III.
BOARD OF CONTROL.
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
IOWA NATIONAL GUARD,
COUNTY OFFICERS.
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Board of Control of State Institutions.
HEADQUARTERS, CAPITOL BUILDING, DES MOINES, IOWA.
MEMBERS.
Terms Expire.
G. S. ROBINSON, Chairman, Sioux City April 5, 1906
L. G. KINNE, Des Moines April 5, 1908
JOHN COWNIE, South Amana April 5, 1910
F. S. TREAT, Secretary, Des Moines.
HENRY F. LIEBBE, Architect, Des Moines.
The Board of Control of State Institutions was created under the provisions of chapter 118, laws of the Twenty-seventh General Assembly, which, with the amendments thereto, clothes the board with full power to manage, control and govern, subject only to the limitations contained in the act, the following named institutions :
Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home at Davenport.
Iowa Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown.
School for the Deaf, at Council Bluffs.
College for the Blind, at Vinton.
Institution for Feeble-minded Children, at Glenwood.
Mt. Pleasant State Hospital.
Hospital for Inebriates (Mt. Pleasant).
Independence State Hospital.
Hospital for Inebriates (Independence).
Clarinda State Hospital.
Cherokee State Hospital.
Hospital for Inebriates (Cherokee).
State Hospital for Inebriates (Knoxville).
Industrial School for Boys, at Eldora.
Industrial School for Girls, at Mitchellville.
Industrial Reformatory for Females, at Anamosa.
Penitentiary, at Anamosa.
Penitentiary, at Fort Madison.
The board is also required to investigate thoroughly the reports and doings of the Regents of the State University, the trustees of the State Normal School, and the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and the books and records of said institutions. It also has supervision of county and private insti- tutions in which"insane persons are kept, and of associations and societies receiving friendless children.
Prior to July 1,1898, the foregoing state institutions, except the peniten- tiaries, were in charge of separate boards, each of which had its officers and each had a"secretary and treasurer.
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The Board of Control was organized on April 6, 1898, and took full control, as provided by statute, on July 1, 1898, of the institutions heretofore named. At that time the various boards of trustees and commissioners ceased to exist.
The Board publishes quarterly a bulletin of over a hundred pages, devoted to the scientific investigation of the treatment of insanity and epilepsy, and the feeble-minded, and information embodying the experience of soldiers' homes, charitable, reformatory and penal institutions in this and other countries, it being the intention of the board to keep in touch with the best thought and judgment of the age.
As provided by law, under the direction of the board, the State institutions under its control are supplied with goods for their support on compe itive bids, thus procuring proper supplies at the lowest market prices. An opportunity to bid is afforded anyone who indicates a desire to the Board.
The Twenty-ninth General Assembly passed an act for the detention and ยท treatment of dipsomaniacs and inebriates and directed the Board of Control to designate a ward or wards in the State hospitals for the insane to which they should be sent. Wards have been opened in the Mount Pleasant State Hospital, Independence State Hospital and the Cherokee State Hospital. The table at the end of this chapter shows the population of each of said hospitals.
The Thirtieth General Assembly enacted a law directing that a State Hos- pital for Inebriates be opened at Knoxville in the buildings formerly used as a Home for the Adult Blind and in such additional buildings as the Board should cause to be erected. When this institution is opened all inebriates in the insane hospitals (except women) will be transferred to it. It is expected to be in operation in the fall of 1905.
As to the institutions under its control the Board is charged with the duty of investigating their management and financial condition; it must determine questions as to the sanity of patients in hospitals and determine when persons shall be admitted to State hospitals as State charges, and it is to divide the State into hospital and penitentiary districts. It must make biennial reports to the Governor and legislature; make a statement showing the cost of operating the institutions for the preceding two years, visit all institutions twice a year, and some of its members must visit each State hospital once a month; must meet the superintendents in quarterly conference, gather statistics, publish a bulletin, compel institutions to provide fire escapes, require employes handling State property to give bonds, require the making of an annual inventory of the State's property, make a quarterly invoice of all stores at the institutions, annually fix salaries of officers and employes, except the chief executive officers, appoint a State architect and perform many other duties. Since the Board took charge the population of the institutions has increased 1,800. In other words, there are over one-third more people being supported in them than there were seven years ago, and notwithstanding the advanced prices they are being better fed, clothed and cared for than ever before, and for a less sum for sup- port than under the former system. The physical conditions of the several properties at the institutions have been greatly improved. Space will permit of the mention of but a few of the things which have been done. The following, among other improvements, have been made:
AT THE SOLDIERS' ORPHANS' HOME.
A new power house, engine house, coal shed, smokestack, chapel, steam tunnel, baths and lavatories in cottages, cow barn, conservatory, sewerage plant, half the cottages have been made two stories instead of one, new boilers
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put in power house, new school books provided, the library greatly added to, Duck Creek filled and extensive additions made to the farm.
AT THE SOLDIERS' HOME.
More land has been secured, tunnels built, the power house greatly improved, a new smokestack erected and the following buildings put up: Barn, amusement hall, a cottage for nurses, a cottage for dining room girls, a cold storage building, laundry, administration building, fire escapes, a large exten- sion to the old people's and also to the hospital building, and new lavatories, stools, bath rooms, boilers, dynamo and engines, laundry machinery, ranges, etc., have been added to the equipment.
AT THE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.
A new building for housing the students and for administration purposes is being erected and the new hospital is finished, a coal house erected and exten- sive improvements made on the industrial building, a temporary school build- ing put up, new engines and dynamos, new laundry machinery, ranges, piano, etc., installed.
AT THE COLLEGE FOR THE BLIND.
A new hospital building, pipe organ, electric lighting, seating amusement hall with opera chairs, paving with brick walks and drives, new pianos, furni- ture and an entire new steam cooking kitchen equipment and new washers.
AT THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
A new schoolhouse, extension to chapel, new power house, engine house, laundry, shop building, new steam and electric plant, nearly complete, new printing plant, woodworking plant, cisterns and pumps and a new well, new lavatories and closets and baths in all cottages, new furnishings for boys' sitting rooms in all cottages and a new piano.
AT THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
A new power house and chimney, a cottage, well, waterworks and elevated tank, new laundry machinery, boilers, dynamo, scenery for amusement hall, ranges and piano.
AT THE INSTITUTION FOR FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN.
Two new cottages, fire department building, barn, hospital, exterior repairs to the custodial building, including roofing same with slate, rebuilding porches, replastering ceilings and whitecoating all walls, enlarging boys' farm cottage, fire department equipment, ice plant and cold storage, repairs to boiler house and girls' cottage made necessary by reason of damage caused by storm, a new piano and organs.
AT MOUNT PLEASANT STATE HOSPITAL.
Cow barn, hog houses, laundry buildings, tunnels, cistern, shop, paintshop, chimney and improvements to power house, laundry machinery, new kitchen and equipment, new bake oven, ventilating apparatus, stools, over 500 new beds, shop equipment, cementing floors of main building, sewerage disposal plant, piano.
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AT THE INDEPENDENCE STATE HOSPITAL.
Store building, fire department building, addition to power house and laundry, cisterns and water mains, pumps, boilers, laundry equipment, new furniture and furnishings for main building, including a piano.
AT THE CLARINDA STATE HOSPITAL.
Shop building, coal house, barn, piggery, cottage, cottage at Willowdale, conservatory, engine, three pianos.
AT THE CHEROKEE STATE HOSPITAL.
Completing main building, erecting laundry building, engine and power house, coal house, smokestack, shop building, laboratory, barns, piggery, cot- tage, granary, tool house, ice house, and furnishing and equipping all the buildings.
AT THE PENITENTIARY AT FT. MADISON.
New hospital and library building, shop building, power house, engine house, boilers, smokestack, engines and dynamos, and piano.
AT THE PENITENTIARY AT ANAMOSA.
New shop, north cell house, cold storage, barn, laundry equipment, bath equipment, completion and furnishing of administration building, dining hall and kitchen at the quarry.
TUBERCULOSIS.
The Thirtieth General Assembly authorized the Board of Control of State Institutions to "investigate the extent of tuberculosis in Iowa and the best means of prevention and treatment of the disease and report its findings to the next General Assembly."
It also authorized the Board if it "deems is advisable to place under its immediate observation a number of cases of the disease for the purpose of more fully advising the General Assembly of the results of care and treatment, " also "to publish and distribute at its discretion such facts as will advise the publio regarding the prevention of tuberculosis."
For all of the above purposes an appropriation of one thousand dollars was made. The questions the board was called upon to decide were how to obtain reasonably accurateinformation regarding the "extent of tuberculosis in Iowa ;" the advisability of placing cases under observation, and if this was deemed best then the proper means of housing the patients; the requisites for such a patients' camp as well as such requisites for a permanent institution in the event such an one should be hereafter established.
In the absence of any reliable vital statistics in this State, except in a few cities, the Board determined to obtain the opinions of experts on tuberculosis in this State and elsewhere regarding the best method of securing the informa- tion desired regarding the extent of tuberculosis and also to invite from them an expression of opinion regarding the other matters heretofore men- tioned. A letter was prepared and mailed to seventy-three physicians, embra- cing the leading experts on tuberculosis in this country and in Europe. The following questions were submitted to them, viz:
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1. In prosecuting said investigation as to the "extent of tuberculosis" in Iowa, from what sources other than the census reports, reports of vital statis- tics and information obtainable from practicing physicians and from experts in the treatment of the disease, would you expect to obtain information of value?
2. Would it be desirable to ask the physicians of the State how many cases of tuberculosis they have treated during a given period, the age and sex of each patient, the duration of the treatment, the extent and character of prior treat- ment, if any, the condition of the patient when treatment began (incipient case, advanced case, far advanced or doubtful), methods of treatment (medical, out-of-doors, etc.), condition of patients when discharged (apparently cured, disease arrested, disease improved, disease unimproved, doubtful, died), the effect of treatment on prominent symptoms such as a decrease in the num- ber of bacilli in expectorations, gain or loss in weight, and in your judgment what other questions should be propounded, and if it is your opinion that some of those above suggested be omitted will you kindly indicate what ones you would eliminate?
3. What is your opinion as to the advisability of placing under observation cases of the disease for the purpose of advising the next General Assembly of the actual results of care and treatment, and if you would recommend such a course would you for that purpose recommend the use of tents or of temporary wooden structures and would there be any objection to conducting such a camp within a reasonable distance from an existing State hospital for the insane?
4. In your judgment can the results of care and treatment be as well ascer- tained and demonstrated with tubercular patients who may be insane as with tubercular patients who were not insane?
5. What in your opinion are the indispensable requisites for the location of such a camp as well as for the location of a permanent institution for the treat- ment of tubercular patients?
6. What in your opinion are the desirable, though not indispensable, requisites for the location of such a camp or permanent institution?
7. Kindly give us fully any other information which will in your opinion be of value to us in the proper prosecution of this work.
A return stamped envelope was enclosed and over 'sixty of the physicians addressed replied fully.
A majority of them favored the plan indicated in questions one and two. Some proposed adding other questions; a few deemed statistics so gathered of little value, others would confine the search for information to a limited por- tion of the State, and still others thought that known facts in other states were a sufficient guide to follow. A majority opposed placing cases under observa- tion, the objections being various, including insufficient time in which to make the experiment and too small an appropriation. In the event that patients were placed under observation, the physicians were about equally divided in opinion as to the use of tents or wooden structures for the purpose of housing patients. A large majority saw no objection to locating such a camp a reason- able distance from a hospital for the insane. The experts were practically unanimous in the opinion that as good results could not be obtained with in- sane tubercular patients as with sane patients. All advised the following as desirable for the location of either a temporary or permanent hospital for the treatment of tubercular patients, viz. : pure air, a considerable elevation, a reasonable distance from a city, or town, good drainage, timber protection, southern exposure, etc. A few advised a high altitude of from 1, 500 to several 12 IOR
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thousand feet as desirable, although the greater number favored a moderate elevation and deemed out-of-door care and proper treatment more important than altitude.
In view of the information thus received and its great value, coming from men who had made a study of tuberculosis and its treatment, the Board con- cluded that it was not wise to attempt to place cases under observation, that the time was too short and the funds insufficient to carry out all of the purposes of the act. It also determined to send to each physician in Iowa a blank calling for the following information, viz. : The number of persons treated for tuber- culosis by each or known by them to have had said disease during the year end- ing June 30, 1904, the name, age, sex, social state, color, occupation, residence and nativity of each of said persons so treated or known ; also a statement as to whether they were afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis or with tuberculosis of some other organ or part of the body. During the month of September, 1904, the blanks were mailed to all of the physicians in Iowa, 3, 532 in number, and up to the evening of October 29, 1904, replies had been received from 1,596 of whom 678 reported no cases and 918 reported one or more cases. Of those not reporting cases a few had retired from practice and some had removed from the state or died. These 918 physicians reported 3, 300 cases as existing during the period heretofore mentioned.
Early in November a second letter was mailed to every physician in the State who had failed to fill out and return the blanks sent to him. This re- sulted in receiving several hundred additional returns.
Up to January 6, 1905, the board received return from 2, 416 of the 3, 532 physicians in this State. Of those reporting 1, 032 say they have had no cases during the year, ending June 30, 1901; 1, 384 report 4, 512 cases.
If all had been heard from and the same percentage of cases been reported as heretofore, we should have a record of over 6, 00 cases.
As many physicians who do report some cases, advise the board that they have had other cases which they are unable to fully report because they have kept no record of the same, it is fair to assume that there were more than 7, 000 cases in this State during the year ending June 30, 1904.
Nearly one-third of the cases exist in persons between twenty-one and thirty years of age. Of the 4, 512 cases reported 3, 679 are of a pulmonary character and 833 tuberculosis in other parts of the body .
While the foreign born people of Iowa constitute less than one-sixth of the total population, yet almost one-third of the total number affiicted are of foreign birth. Almost two-thirds of the total number of cases reported are found among people whose occupation is in doors. The Board has not yet determined upon its recommendations to the next legislature.
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STATE INSTITUTIONS.
EDUCATIONAL.
STATE UNIVERSITY-IOWA CITY.
President-GEO. E. MACLEAN, A. M., Ph. D., LL. D., Iowa City.
Secretary-WM. JUDD MCCHESNEY, Iowa City.
Treasurer-LOVELL SWISHER, Iowa City.
Board of Regents-His Excellency, the Governor, ex officio President. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, ex officio.
Terms Expire.
First District-W. I. Babb, Mt. Pleasant 1906
Second District Joe R. Lane, Davenport. 1906
Third District -C. E. Pickett, Waterloo 1908
Fourth District-Alonzo Abernethy, Osage 1908
Fifth District-Thomas B. Hanley, Tipton 1910
Sixth District-W. D. Tisdale, Ottumwa 1906
Seventh District-Carroll Wright, Des Moines
1906
Eighth District -J. W. Lauder, Afton. 1910
Ninth District-V. L. Treynor, Council Bluffs 1910
Tenth District-Joseph H. Allen, Pocahontas 1908
Eleventh District-P. K. Holbrook, Onawa 1908
The State University of Iowa is an integral part of the public school system of the State. As required by law, the work of the University is based upon the preparation afforded by the duly accredited high schools of the State, whose graduates are admitted to the undergraduate and professional courses upon presentation of the proper certificates. A sense of this vital connection with the public schools determines, in a large measure, the requirements for admission to the University, its spirit, and its courses of study.
The control of the University is intrusted to a board of regents, consisting of the Governor of the State and the Superintendent of Public Instruction ex officiis, and of one member from each of the eleven congressional districts, elected by the general assembly.
The University is administered through the following organizations :
The College of Liberal Arts, including engineering and the summer ses- sion :
The College of Law ;
The College of Medicine ;
The College of Homeopathic Medicine;
The College of Dentistry;
The College of Pharmacy ;
The Graduate College;
The School of Political and Social Science ;
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The School of Applied Science ; The Nurses' Training Schools; The Hospitals.
The College of Liberal Arts embraces four courses of study: Classical, philosophical, scientific, engineering and mining. Four years are required to graduate in either one of these courses, and on completion the appropriate Bachelor's degree is granted.
. In the College of Law the course of study extends through three years, and on completion thereof the graduate is given the degree of LL. B., and admitted to practice before the State and United States courts.
The College of Medicine and the College of Homeopathic Medicine require the student to pursue his studies during a four year's course of nine months each, and on completion of such course the degree of M. D. is granted.
The College of Dentistry requires three years of nine months each, to com- plete the course and obtain the degree D. D. S.
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