Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 38

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Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
Number of Pages: 472

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The grounds of the institution consist of 160 neres-the buildings being situated near the center, on a slight eminence. Of this area, about forty neces nce set apart for the immediate grounds surrounding the buildings ; they nre liberally adorned u ith shade Irees, shubbery, etc. ; audl are suitably laid out with maths, drives, etc. Twenty neces are contained in a forest grore ; itud the remainder is used for agricultural purposes, being tilled by the palients.

The original eusl of these grounds was but $4,000. They are now ivorth, at a loir estimate, $50,000.

Umler its management for several years past, The institution has attained n supecior ilegree of efficiency and usefulness-" worlby nlike of the urenitli, intelligence and humunity of ins patrous, the people of the State."

Tho Superintendent's report for 1876, contains the following items re- speeling the statistics and progress of The institution :

There arece 432 palieuts remaining iu the hospital nt tbe beginning of the year, November 1, 1874. Four lintleed and thurly-ciglit patienta ivere wol- mintel within the year. Nine bundred and twenty patients hure, therefore, poeticipnteil iu hospital trentinent within the year. Of these 258 were laschurgrd " restoreil." Fourteen "improved." Fifty-one " mol improveil." Forly-seren " died." Que "not jusque." Making an nggcegnte of 366 diselarged and died, while 664 patients remain in hospital, n reduction belou the full capacity of tho house, usonl at the close of the year, the full enpscity of the house providing for 100 patients.

HYGIENIC.

The "general health" of the hospital population has been fully up to the stouduril of expectancy, and bears favorable testimony, uol ouly of the salubriousness uf the location, but of etreful atleution to details of munuge- meut, forul, clothing, cleanliness, discipline und professional appliances. The ratio of restoraliun and the death rate for the year elinllenge attention, as eriileuces of usefulness and progress in hospital trentureui ot the insane.

The resources from which these expenditures are made, inny be etuled ns follows .

Do linaul Nor, 1, 1874, $71,020.2]

Apquopriution, maintenance, 136,000,00

Approprimion, remire, 8,000.00

Clothing neconut tileil, 15,168.18

Feom enles, 6,117.50

Total,

$236,600.90

Balance for support of hospital to March 21, 1876, $01, 0041.04

It will be remombored Ilint the late General Assembly ilid nol Duke ap. propriations cithec for umnintenauce er repairs corresponding In my estituntes of mucunis cequired, learing the hospital ivith u population increased aud increasing, lo bo suppected from n mutoriully ilimuinished appropriation.

The farm has heeu well eultiruteil and unusually productire.

The suborilinote officers of the hospital have iunininined Theic already nequired republion.

The more peciunnent employes 'of The house are deserring ef honemable meution for the faithful discharge of onetous ilulies.

The house itself, interiorly, is iu excellent condition, although in need of repnic externally, to & consulorable extenl.

The hospital is under obligatien lo o largo nutubec of publishers for gratuitons copies of their papers; and to the frietils of patients for ensh Llonations amouuling to $650. Amil to yourselres, geullemen (lcustecs), for the iutocesled care hieb you home manifested in all of the purlieulurs which i onlcihute to il successful udministration ef hospital affairs ; for which, perinit me lo adil my peranual obligation anil expression of gratitudo.

Although somewhist irrelerant, I cannol close this repocl without con- grululating the friends of the iusque, on necouul of the prorision inte by The late General Assembly for building, in connection with this hospital, a ilepaclineut for iyameu, equal in enqucity to the presout peorision fne both sexoz, which is now' fuirly in progress of coustcuetinn, unil promises lo lie, rheu completeil, equal to the best kuoirn provision for the Irealment of tho iusano in this country. Whou this new department is opencil, all of tho tromen then uecemmounted in The presont builling will he finnsfocreil lo tho new house, unil their plncea occupied by mien. This building thereafter will be known as the "ilepurtment for men."

Tivo years will be requireil lo cumplele llis extonsive improvement, and place liliaun moco neatly on a level with her sister States in the amplitude of hec benerolent mul beneficiary institutions than sho hus heen for mony years.

INDIANA INSTITUTE FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE BLIND, LOCATED AT INDIANAPOLIS,

This lustitule uns founded, by au acl of the General Assembly, in 1817, and was opened in u rented building ou ibe Ist of October of that yeur. Tho permanent builling was completed aud first occupied iu February, 1853. The original cost of buildings and groundls was $110,000; their present voluntion is about $800,000.

The principal edifice is composed of n center building, boriug n front of 00 feet and a depth of Gl feel. It is fire storica in height, together with tivo four-story trings, ench 30 feet in front by 83 feet in ilepth, muking n total frontage of 150 feet. Each of these sections of the building is suruiounted by u haudisomo cupoln of the Corinthinu order of architecture. The build- ing is mainly construcled of briek, stuccoed in imitatien of sundslone, the basement story being faceil with the Intter material. The porlien of the center building, and verandas en the fronts and sides of the wings, are of enud-loue-tho former 30 feel wille by 35 feel ilecp, oud extending to the top of the third story. The portico and coruices of the building are of the lonie oriler.

This institution is silunled uearly in tho couler of the most beautiful see- lion of the cily. lis site occupies the spee of tu'o city bleeks, an area of eight seres, bounded on the south by Norib street, ou the wrest by Meridian, on the north hy Walnul, and on the east by Peansylviuio.

The folletring, which has been published by the officers of tho loslilu- liou, utay bo of use as affording iafuematiou to the public :

The ludiena Institute for the I'duention of the Blind is strictly un eduen- tional est.iblishmeul, baving for ils object the moral, intellectuut nud phys- ienl training of the young blind, of both soxes, residing in the Stale, and is, Therefore, neither an asylum for the aged aud helpless uer a hospital for the treatment of discuse.

We are almost ilnily in receipt of applications for persons uho nish to be trailed fec the cure of blindness, und ire here tuko ocension to explain, for The benefit of such, That we liare no surgical er medienl depurtinen connected with our lustitution,

For The information of appliesuts andl othee interested parties, the fo !- lewing coupilutiou is made from the regulations of the Institution, riz. : 1. The sebool year commences on the first Weilnosday after The Faith iluy of September, aud closes on tho Inst Wednesuny in June following, making n continuous session of furly weeks, und lenving a ruention of twelre reeks iluring the wurm seagou.

2. As u rule, applicants who nre uniler 9 or orer 21 years of age aro nol ailmitteil; but exceplions nro somelimes made in peculiar cases, al the dis- eretion of the Board of Trustees.

3. No person of imbecile or unsound mint, or of confirmed immoral churacter, will be knowingly admitted into the Institution; and ja case nay pupil sbull, uftee a fnir Iriul, prove incompetent for useful instruction, or disobedient to the regulations of the Institulion, such pupil will be there- upon disohnrged.

4. No charge is muile for The bounding or instruction of pupils from the Sinle of Indiana, but those from without the Stute nre charged al the rate of $200 per session of fnety trecky, payable iu nilrunce, i e., ouo-half at lho be- ginuing, and the other half ut the muiddle of the session.

5. All are required to come provided with nu abundant supply of good, contfortuble clothing, embracing suitable nrlieles for boll suminer und win- for wear, in such quantity us to admit of the necesenry clinnges for mashing und repairing.

G. Enrb article of clothing shall be distinctly markeil with the owner's unme, in order to prorent confusion or loss, and must be sent in gooil con- ilition, not only upon the first enlemuteo of the pupil, but ulso at ecob subse- queul return from home after the rneations.

7. In casey where the pacenta or guardians of pupils, front the Style of Imlionn, nee unnble, through indigence, lo supply theus with the necessary clothing, the saine is, by Inir, provided by the institution, nnil the auteuut of ils cost collected from the respecrire counties iu which Buch pupils reside; liko provision is also monde for dofraying the traveling expeuses of imligeul pupils to nul from the institution.

8. 11 is positively required That erory pupil shull be removed front the institution during the annual vacation uf the school, as well as al any other lime when such rewovnl muy be ileemed necessney hy the proper officers thereof; and in case of the failure of the feiculs of buy pupil lo comply with this requisition, prorision is made by Imy for the souding of such pupil to the Trustee of the township in which be or ahe resides, to he by him proviiled for nt the expense of the county.

9. Persons bringing pupils to the institution, or visiling them while hece, cannot be necommuoilnteil with bonruling and loilging during their stay in the city, 10. All leiters to the pupils should be muildressed to The care of the insli- tution, in oriler to insure their promul ilelivery.

11. Persons wishing to procure the ndurission of pupils should apply lo tbe Supocintendent, by letter or olhorwise, for printed instructions us to the munner of procedure, and no pupil should be sent to the institution until such instructions shnll hure been compliedl mich.

INDIOEST GRADUATES' FUND.

It has lung hieen n desideratuin uill us to hinvo ot our disposal n find upon which He could drum, from time to time, for the purpose of supplying nur indigent genilunter with an outfit in the iny of mechanical tools, etc., or a small sum of money iu lieu thereof. Therefore, it is a source of rery great Entiafuetion lo be phile to nnuounce thal, through the disinterested houovo-

The total expenditure for the year, an account of maintenance, impiore- tuents, furuishing utol cepairs, uns $174,609.45. Or, on necount of build- ing. furnishing and repnirs, $24,833.83. Un account of maintenance, iu- cluding eluthing, enlaries ninh rages, $14-1,726.19. These sumis have been drain from the Suite Teensuer on irarrauty from the Auditor's office ( excepl $4,958.10, disbursed by the hospital from fulls derived from rorious sources), Youchers for the sante, corresponding in number und amount, being ou lile in tho DHice of the hospital.

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HISTORY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA,-CONTINUED.

lenco of the lute Mrs. Nancy Fitzpatrick, of the county of Delaware, in this State, the nucleus of such a fuul has hecu erented.

Mrs. Fitzpatrick iras the mother of Margaret Louisa Fitzpatrick, a former pupil of this institution, uour dlecensed, and it is doubtless due to the cir- cuisinnee of her ilunghter heing smitten with bliwitness thut her sympathies were qu'ukeneit toward others similarly afflictedl. Be thal as it quy, holy- erer, dying ebildless, on the 16th ilay of Murch, 1871, she left a will from which the following pusauge is extracteil :

"I giro to ench of the fullewing blind persons, friends nul ussocinies of my bliud daughter, Margaret Louisn, the sum of one hunilred dellars each, to.wil : Melissa ant Phche Garrelsou, Frances Cundiff, Dallas Neurlaud, Naomi Unthunk, not a girl whose name, befare ninrriago, iras Rachel Mar- tin, her husband's nanie not recollecteil. The halunce of my estate, unter paying expenses of milministering, 1 give to the Superinteulent of the Blind Asylum, quil his successor, in trust, for the use onil benefit of the indigent Iliud of Indinua, who may uttenil the ludiana Blindt Asyluro, to be given to them ou lenyiug, in such sans ns the Superintendent tuy judge proper, hut not nore thnu fifty dollars to uny one person. 1 direct that the amount obore directed be loqueit at interest, anil the interest and principal be dis- tributed os abore, agreeable to the best judgment of the Superintendent, so as to iln the greatest good le the greatest number of lilinil persons."

INDIANA INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, TOUATELI AT INDIANAPOLIS.

This institution way authorized by an net of the General Assembly, in 1811. Its location is particularly benutiful, in the enstern part of the city, just south of Washington street.

The lostitute proper consists of three buildings counceled by corridors. Two of these buildings wero erected in 1848-0 ; the third in 1809-70.

The front building hus a fagude of tiro hundred and sixty feet, und een- laius the offices, library, general study rooms, officers' anil teachers' rooms, and the dormitories for the pupils, The center of this building is eighty by Any.four feel iu extent, and five stories high; the loterul isings sixty by thirty feel, and three stories in height ; the transverse wvings, thirty by fifty fret, and four stories high. The milille builling coutuius the store rooms, kitchen, laundry, bakery, dining hall, servants' rooms, hospital und several school rooins. It is three stories high, the center being ferly by cighty feel, and the rings thirty-tiro hy seventy feel. The rear building contains the chapel quil ten school rooms. It is livo stories high, the center being fifty feet squure, and the wings forly by tirenty feel. In addition In these build- ings, there are others, detached from them, containing the engine house, wosh hnuso nud shops for the lwlustriol Depurtmieut. The aggregate cest of these buildings was $220, tx).

The grounds comprise 105 acres, worth $1,000 per uure, The grounds more immediately surrounding the buildings ure beautifully luiil out in walks oud ilrires, aud nre elaborately proameuted with shrubbery anil forest trees; they contain ulso a flower garden with a conservatory. Appropriate spaces are deroted to uu orchard, s regelalle gurileu and play grouuils fur the pupils. The remainder and principal aren is luid off into pasture nod form

Altogether, it is one of the most beautiful spots iu or about lundiunupelis, ond must go far to inako thoso for ivhoso benefit it wos ordained forget their misfortunes in the scenes of beauty uround them. It refleels the largest vredit on the State that fouruled nud has maintained this noble charity, and on tho efficiency of tho successiro wanuguinents that buro so beautifully aderued the plnee. Nor hiare the efforts of officers and teachers to make the institution useful, iu respect to the intellectual and moral ireifure of those con- mitted to their enre, been less successful Iluin the pains taken to munke the grounds oronmental.

The first instructor in the institution wns William Willard, u deaf mute, who iens employed in 1814, at n salury of $800 per unnum, Mr. Willard hw] previously conductedl u small school for the instruction of ileaf inutes in ludionapolis. lio acted as Principal of the institution till July, 1845, when he iras succeeded by .]. S. Browru, irho served ns Principal till July, 1858, und was succceileil by Thomas Melntiro, A. M., who continues atill to be Principal uf the institution.

The condition of the institution ut the present time is shown by the re- port of the Superiutew lent for 1874,

NUNDER OF PUPILS.

The statistica of umuission, discharge and attendance for the year is ns folliirs :

Boys. Girls. Toinl.

141

16 -43

Number in attendnuco Noremhor 1, 1874, 16ů 195 291

About the usual nutaber of pupils wore ilischarged at the close of last EcySIOD, but the udmissions this term have been much more ummerons than ever heforo. Writleu nuplieution for the whoissiou of eighty-three uon pupils this session has been mudo There has been received since the open- ing of the term fifty-nine, ull that ise can accommoilate. Tireuty-four others, most of whom ought te be under justruetion, could not bo milmitted for irout of roem. Krery ilesk in the school roout, erory bed in the dormitories and Clery scat at the table is filled. Hereafter, until further prorislon is munde, ue will he compelled to restrict the number of mimissions to the number of graduotes cuch year.

INGILEASE OF HEATNESS,

That the number of deaf mates in the community hus, of Inte years, largely increaseil there onu be no doubt. Tho institution is becoming rery much cromviled with pupils. The buildings, when ecmipleted, rrero supposed to be large enough to necomnuiodato, for minny yeurs lo eome, all of this class iu the State who would be likely to neeil, or wouldl seek, uu education. 1u our tiventy-fifth annual report it was concludeil from the statistics then be- foro us that the population of the Stute, increhsing ut the rato it then Ir'us, would not, in teu years, supply more than from forly to forty-fro now pupils per unuw. The yearly applications already exceed this by ono-third. I is very erident the misfortune of ilenfness hus, from some enuse, beou iviltoly cxlendeil among the children of the State, Thuut the ratio of increase hus been much greater thun tho growth of the quipulation is munifest frous the increased aftenitance amil the inereusing number of those non seeking ad- ulission ny pupils.

Frem the foundation of the institution it has been customary to recuril, as far as eoulit te nycertained in euch ense, on the admission of pupils, the Enel respecting the cause of deafboss, distinguishing betireen these born denf und tlunge mado so hy iliseuse or uccidenta. The statistics before 113 shows tlust the increuse of ileafness is Hot ntoug those born in this comlition, but unong thuse maile so by disease. Until within tivelve or fifteen years, these børn ileaf unt those hecoming so iu childhoodl from ilisense irere nol full from equal In numbers. But this latter class of enses bos lately inorused uwil now they number Giro lo que of the furiner. lu 18G8, the number of new piqule received into the institution uns ferty-que, of irhow twenty were conigenlinl cars, nul twenty-ono enses of ileafliese cuused by disease aller birth, und fire of these irero roported that yeur as having been ninde denf hy spotted feror. Before flint tinio, this discaso was het premineut as a cause of ileufness. It had ilouhtless prevailed to some extent in the com- munity, but it had not befare been noticed as particularly futul in producing Ulus misfortune. But from that time to this, the muuthor of cases trum thla

disense lins continued to inerense to an astonishing extent, until in the past year lurenty-nine out of fifty-nine uf the nen pupils admitteil to the school ivere ehildren whose deafness wes canseil hy cerebro spinal meningitis, or what is popularly ealled " spotted fever," and if by brain ferer is meant the Bome discuse, then fire others must be addeil, making thirty-five out fifty- nine iu quo yenr caused by this disease alone.

In the seren yenrs just closed, three hundred and fifty-one pupils have been received. Only one hunilreil nud yix of these were born dent, and the others irere all inmile deaf from ilisense, atil neurly one-half them were pro- Unced by spolteil feier nloue. The inerense frum this cause, since 1948 10 the present titue, niny he seen by exnutining the following statement :

1865 1969 16TO 1871 1572 1813 1674 Total 52 50 12 56 69-361

Number born deaf, Nuniber ninile denf by diseases, 18

17 11 11 10-104

0 2 1 7 15 18 29- 91 2 4 0- 16 Cosca undetermined, = 3

Thus it will be perceivedl that the number ut' eases from spotted fever hus increased in seren years from fire to twenty-nine. As n further illustratien of this subject, we gire the following statement of the specific cause nf denf- noug nssigueil by the porents in each of the above cases ;

Congenital ences,

104 94

Conseil by benin fever,

CaulKed hy typhoid fever,

Caused hy lung ferer,

Causeil by entorrhal fever, ('uused by scarlet fever,

Caused by ferer, net specified,

Coused by measles,

Causeil hy serofula,

Caused by inflammation,

Causel by iliphitlerin,

Callsed hy hurt, full or blow,

Cuused by caurulsiuns,

Caused br intermittent ferer,

Caused by mumps, -

Cnused by whooping cough,

Caused by saliention,

Conseil hy erysipelas, Caused hy dropBy,

Caused by sickness uot specified,

Cause not given,

SEPARATE PROVISION NEEDED FOR THE YOPAGEN CHILDREN.

The inerunse ol' deaf innles in the State, the eromileil condition of the in- stilutiun, umul the urgent application for the wlmission of so many children uuder ten years of age, seem to make it necessary that we should take into consideration the propriety, in some iray, of enlarging the accommodations for the education of this elnss of persous. The number of pupils non in al- lendnuce cannot, with propriely, be increased uulese additional room be pro- ride, und it is not adrisable to add to our existing building-, They were ilesigned for not more than three hundred pupils, qui the different upuri- ments are miade lo correspond iu properlion to enet other. To increase their eapocity would require au eutire change in the plau of the structure, which would be impracticable, except al great expense.

Nor is it desirable to uld to the present buildings. They are as large as they ought to be. H is pol best, in any case, to collect in oue househull n nuunber grenier thno ire bare ut present.

Counting tho school uge at frous teu to theutr years, it is estimated thet nut more than seventy-fre per cent. of the deaf und dumb children of the State ure non- in school, to say nothing about (but lurge elase of young chil- ilren minler ten, the pureuts of many of whom are rery urgeut lo hare placed under instruction. Formerly, when the institution hos not so crowdeil, orphuus anil those not properly cared for were receired os pupils irrespeel- ire of nge, bul voir, for irout of rooms, wro are compelled to restrict admis- sion to the oldeat applicants.

If nll the denf nul duib in lodiuon ure to haro un education, and most ussuredly il is the intention of the people that they should hure, then some plan will soon have to be inaugurated by which additional school acequimo- umions will be provided for theul.

There are sererul irnys in which this might be accomplished. One is the establishment of sebools iu locations irhere they may be needed. The State of New York, besides the tiro institutions for deaf tules in the city of New York, ouoof ubich hus over five bundrel pupils, costing, for support, last year, $173,425.G1, hips another in Buffale, uud is orgnuizing a fourth in Rome. Musenchusetts, besides contributing largely to the support of the American Asyluur ut Hurtford, sustajus tivo schools for the ilenf and dumb iu her own bounds, que ni Northampton, aud anether ut Bostou, Connecticut, Pennsyl- runiu nnil Missouri each hare livo schools of this class in their bounils. The school iu Boston nud the one in Pittsburgh nre conducted, and aro supported, ns n jinrl of the cemmon scheel system of those cities. Such schouls, bow- orer, cun be muiulnined only in large cities where pupils enough 10 organizo can be gathered together. These schools, the pupils of which board at homo, Aud nijenil upon the instruction given, the ssiug ns is done by other children in the coutuon schools, must be small, Qui from the nature of the case can ufford but teir of the ndrnolages of a regularly organized institutien, with its well iligested course of alady, and its experienced corps of instructors.

Tho relief that this institution needs is, in the first place, from the pres- sure of numbers; aud, secondly, some better provisions for the care aud iu- struction of the younger pupils, separate from the older oues. By ug amount of extension, practicable of the present buildings, could these objects be obtained, beeunso the more tho pupds are increuseil, the more difficult it be- coules to provide for anit properly instruct the younger ones, Nor unnid a renteily be fouul in the establishment of one or more small schools in iliffer- ent localities of the State, for thero could not he in each pupils enough to formul the proper classification.

In Prussia, many ef the deuf und dumb are taught in the elementary part of their course in tho commou schools by teachers irho haro lind instrue- Tion in the art in u Normal School, established for that purpose hy the gor. erumjent. Sonicthing, iro believe, conlil be done toward the education of tho denf und itumb in this State in the common schicols. Any teccher of ordinary tael, with perseverance mnul patience, can, by pictures, tho manual ulphuhet, irritiug nud natural signs, iloululess ilo much in the way of their instruction, vapeciully if supplied with u copy of the " First Lessou for Denf Mutes," which will be furnished hy the institution to all those teachers in tho Stato irlo will try this experiment in their schools. We therefore advise the parents of all those ileaf nute children, whose admission to the institu- lion has been postponed or from any enuse prevented, us the very best thing they can ile for them under the circumstances, tu send them whenerer they hare tho opportquity to the common schoals. They cnu there be taught the maual ulpbubel, und to spell aml to write the numes of risible objects, actions ani] qualities, and thus leuru to understand aud express umny suuplo ideuy. In this way, improrenient enn be ninile that will irell repay the effort.

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Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 38

Author: Publication date: 1876 Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co. Number of Pages: 472

Author:
Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
Number of Pages: 472