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Section 10. Said board may employ a secretary, who shall be a competent and experi- enced book-keeper, and such assistant book-keeper or clerk as may be necessary. The sec- retary shall keep the books, records and accounts of the board, under such rules and regulations as the board may prescribe. He shall keep a c'ear, distinct and separate bek account with all the several departments of the several institutions, Including all its purchased or sold on account thereof, and the products thereof, with an estimate of the value of all such products, in such manner as to always show the relative cost and extra il. ture on account of each such department, and the income thereof ; and In case the income or profits of any one department shall be made to contribute to the income or support of any other department of any such institution, the same shall be made to appear upon the books of such board.
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The following tables show the average population, the total and per capita cost for cur- rent expenses and the movements of population at the several institutions for the biennial period ending September 30, 1883:
AVERAGE POPULATION AND COST.
Total Cost.
Average Population.
Yearly cost per capita.
Weekly cost per capita.
1887.
1888.
1887.
18SS.
1SS7.
1SSS.
1557.
1588.
State Hospital for the Insane .
$95,213 15
$93, 154 83
516
479
$184 52
$194 48
$3 55
$3 74
Northern Hospital for the Insane
112,076 02
125,219 62
650
634
172 42
197 51
3 32
3 SO
School for the Deaf.
35,515 30
37,609 29;
198
206
179 37
182 57
3 46
3 51
School for the Blind ...
19, 630 52
20,365 41
73
84
268 91
242 45
5 14
4 66
Industrial School for Boys.
45,583 12
49,104 25
334
359
136 48
136 28
2 02
2 63
State Prison
59,325 53
61,073 87
448
441
132 42
138 49
2 55
2 66
State Public School.
11,278 18
20,123 48
67
116
108 33
173 52
3 24
3 34
Total for all institu- tions.
$378, 621 82
$406,655 75
2,286
2,319
$165 63
$175 36
$3 19
$3 27
MOVEMENT OF POPULATION.
2
State Hospital.
Northern Hospi-
School for the Deaf.
School for the
Industrial School
for Boys.
State Prison.
State Public School.
No. present or enrolled Octo- tober 1, 1886-87.
531 252
507 . 285
669 337
360
51
57
20
16
136
184
211
13℃
164
Total
783
792
1006 1012
2.44
259
93
101
461
453
634
6.20
13.
Indentured and on trial.
Returned to counties.
Died .
29
37
48
53
1
2
2
3
1
1
3
9
Escaped
Discharged, recovered.
87
105
Discharged, improved
6:2
163
115
Discharged, unimproved.
113
128
70
124
Graduated
S
4
Dismissed
1
Transferred to hospital.
3
81
19
11
204
191
41
53
8
10
3
Transferred to State Public School
10
Transferred to School .
Industrial
1
3
Average for the year
516
478
610 630; 631
206
731
SI
350
448
116
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-
-
85
325
340 143
450
..
112
Admitted during the year ..
.
2
5
4
5
Discharged, not insane
5
Released conditionally .
Sentence expired or reduced Absent or dropped from roll Honorably discharged ..
No. present or enrolled Sep- teniber 30.
19:2
652
190
202
73
Blind.
tal.
1887 1888 1887,1888 1887 1858 1887 |1SS8 1887 1888 1887 1888 1887 1558
INSTITUTIONS.
310 334
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It appears from these tables that 4,594 different persons were cared for in the several state Institutions, for a longer or shorter term during the past two years, and that the cost for each averaged less than $200, that the daily average number of inmates was 2.304, and the average annual cost for each was §170.49, the total cost for the two years being $785,277.57.
Two thousand four hundred and thirty-four persons were treated in the Hospitals for the Insane, of whom 335 fully recovered, and 404 were discharged much improved. In the four schools instruction has been furnished to 1,315 youths, many of whom from physical or other disability, could not be elsewhere taught, and the prison has afforded protection to society by restraining 845 prisoners.
WISCONSIN STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
OFFICERS. S. B. BUCKMASTER, M. D., SUPERINTENDENT.
C. E. ARMSTRONG, M. D., E. P. TAYLOR, M. D., ASSISTANT PHYSICIANS.
S. J. M. PUTNAM, STEWARD.
LUDVIG EILERTSEN, ASSISTANT STEWARD.
MISS ELIZABETH WHITEHEAD, MATRON.
M. C. CLARKE, TREASURER.
The Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, located at Mendota, near Madison, was opened for patients in July, 1860. Two years later, one longitudinal and one tranverse wing on the west side were completa, since which time other additions have been made. The entire length of the hospital building is 569 feet, the center building being 65x120 feet. The first longitudinal wing on each side of the center is 132 feet, and the last on each ex- tremity is 119 feet. The traverse wings are. 87 feet long. This commodious building is surrounded by ornamental grounds, woods and farming lands, to the extent of 437 acres. and is well adapted for the care of the unfortunates needing its protection. The hospital will now accommodate comfortably 520 patients.
J. Edwards Lee, M. D., was the first medical superintendent, having been elected by the first board of trustees on the 22d of June, 1859, and the furniture and furnishing of the center building and first wing, and arrangements for the reception of patients, were con- ducted under his supervision.
The second board of trustees, organized April 10, 1860, and on the 22d of May following. appointed John P. Clement, M. D., to supersede Dr. Lee as superintendent, and in June, 1860, Mrs. Mary C. Halliday was appointed matron. The first patient was admitted July 14, 1860.
Dr. Clement resigned January 1, 1861, and from that time until April 20, the hospital was In charge of John W. Sawyer, M. D., assistant physician, when A. H. Van Norstrand, M. D., was elected superintendent.
Dr Van Norstrand resigned June 6. 1868, and was succeeded by A. S. MeDill, M. D.
Dr. McDill resigned In October, 1879, and on the 9th of April, 1873, Mark Rauney, M. D. was appointed superintendent, and entered upon his duties July 23.
WISCONSIN STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, MENDOTA. (NEAR MADISON.)
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NEAR OSHKOSH,
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Dr. Ranney resigned and was succeeded by A. S. McDill, M. D., in April, 1875. Dr. McDi was removed by death November 12, 1875.
D. F. Boughton; M. D., who had served a number of years as assistant physician in the hospital, was chosen to fill the vacancy occasioned by Dr. McDill's death, and he held that position until July 1, 1881.
Dr. R. M. Wigginton, of Watertown, was chosen his successor by the Board of Super- vision, July 1, 1881, and having been elected to be superintendent of the Northern Hospi- tal for the Insane, was succeeded by Dr. S. B. Buckmaster, July 1, 1884.
There has been paid from the State Treasury, up to October 1, 1888, for real estate buildings, improvements, repairs, and current expenses of the hospital, in all the sum of $2, 808,568:02.
Whole number of patients admitted since the opening of the hospital July 14, 1860. .
4,001
Discharged recovered 1,377
1,110
Discharged improved
Discharged unimproved. 1,272
4
Died ..
600
Under treatment September 30, 1888.
478
4,901
The average number of patients in the hospital the past year has been 479, as against 516 the previous year, and the current expenses $93, 154.83, as against $95, 213.15.
NORTHERN HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. .
OFFICERS.
CHARLES E. BOOTH, M. D., SUPERINTENDENT. . ADOLPH ROOS. M. D., C. W. MORE, M. D., ASSISTANT PHYSICIANS.
FRANK E. GROVE, STEWARD. HENRY DEHDE, ASSISTANT STEWARD.
MISS KATE HALE, MATRON. M. C. CLARKE, TREASURER. 1
In 1870 a law was passed authorizing an additional hospital for the Insano. After an examination of several sites in different parts of the State by a commission appointed for that purpose, choice was made of the location offered by the citizens of Oshkosh, consist- Ing of 3:37 acres of land, about four miles north of the city, on the west shore of Lake Winnebago. The necessary appropriations were made, and the north wing and central building were completed and opened for the admission of patients in 18.3. Further appro- priations were made from time to time for additional wings, and in 15.3 the hospital was completed according to the original design, at a total cost to the State of six hundred and
Discharged not insane.
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twenty-five thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars. Since that time some additional land Gas been purchased, the original buildings modified, and others erected. This hospital will . now, without crowding suitably accommodate 650 patients.
In December, 1873, Dr. Walter Kempster, of Utica, New York, was elected superintendent and continued to act as such by successive re-elections, until the close of the term ending July 1, 1884, when he was succeeded by Dr. R. M. Wiggington, who had had several years -experience as assistant and superintendent at the State Hospital for the Insane, near Madison. Upon the close of the official year, July 1, 1887, Dr. Walter Kempster was again -elected superintendent, but, after serving three months, he resigned the position, and
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; Dr. Charles E. Booth, of Elroy, Wis., was elected his successor. 1
There has been paid from the State treasury up to October 1, 1888, for real estate, · buildings, improvements, repairs and current expenses of the hospital, in all the sum of -$2,308,365.35.
' Whole number of patients admitted since the opening of the hospital, April 21, 1873 3, 843
¿ Discharged recovered
870
" Discharged improved .. 1,070
636
"Discharged unimproved
: Discharged not insane. 12
Died .... 615
₮Under treatment September 30, 1888. 610
3, 843
* The average number of patients in the hospital the past year has been 634 as against 650 «the previous year. and the current expenses $125,219.62 as against $112,076.02
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STATE INSTITUTIONS
SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.
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OFFICERS. JOHN W. SWILER, A. M., SUPERINTENDENT AND STEWARD.
EDGAR D. FISKE, - ASSISTANT STEWARD. MISS SARAH D. GIBSON, MATRON. S. B. O'NEAL, BOY'S SUPERVISOR. MRS. ELLEN L. MCLEAN, GIRL'S SUPERVISOR AND ASSISTANT MATROX.
MISS EMILY EDDY, MISS ALLIE I. HOBART, MISS ELSIE M. STEINKE. TEACHERS OF ARTICULATION.
MISS EVA L. CUTLER,
TEACHER OF PAINTING, DRAWING AND PENMANSHIP.
W. A. COCHRANE,
W. F. GRAY, MISS ELIZABETH BRIGHT,
B. F. BENSTED,
WARREN ROBINSON, MRS. ELEANOR MCCOY,
JAMES J. MURPHY,
MRS. MARY H. FISKE, MISS ANNE M. GRAY,
MISS IVA C. PEARCE, TEACHERS LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
JOHN BEAMSLEY, FOREMAN SHOE SHOP. DANIEL E. LEE, FOREMAN OF CABINET SHOP.
CHARLES E. BADGER, FOREMAN OF PRINTING OFFICE.
GEORGE BAKER, FOREMAN OF BAKERY.
M. C. CLARKE, TREASURER.
This Institution is located at Delavan, Walworth county, on the Southwestern division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, sixty miles from Milwaukee. The land first occupied, comprising 11 46-100 acres, was donated by Hon. F. K. Phoenix, one of the first trustees, but the original boundaries have since been enlarged by the purchase of twenty - two acres. The main building was burned to the ground on the 16th of September, 15.9. but during the year 1880 four new buildings were erected, and with the increased facilities provided, 250 children may be well cared for.
The new buildings are a school house, boys' dormitory, dining room and chapel, with & main or administration building. These buildings are plain, neat, substantial structures and well fitted for the uses intended.
The institution was originally a private school for the deaf, but was incorporated by act of the Legislature, April 19, 1852, and it is now maintained by the State of Wisconsin for the education of those children within her borders who, on account of deafness, are unable to receive instruction in the common schools. It has three departments:
First - The school, in which the pupils are taught writing, reading, composition, arith. metic, geography, history, natural science and drawing. Instruction in lip-reading and oral speech is given to seul-mutes and capable congenital mutes.
Second-The shops, where the pupils are taught printing, cabinet-making and shoe- making.
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Third -The domestic department, in which they discharge various household duties, and learn baking and sewing.
The law provides that all deaf and dumb residents of this state, of proper age and suit- able capacity to receive instruction, shall be received and taught free of charge. The regular course of instruction occupies about eight years. The latest and most popular text-books, globes, maps, charts, etc.,- so far as they are adapted to deaf-mute instruction, -are employed. Articulation and lip-reading are taught by ladies of skill and experience with very gratifying results.
The day is divided into hours for labor, study, and recreation, with the design of securing habits of industry and of promoting health as well as intellectual and moral development. No leave of absence is granted during the term, except in cases of sickness or extreme necessity .
Deaf mutes of Wisconsin, of proper age, are admitted to the privileges of the institution free of charge, being furnished tuition, books, board and washing. Friends are required to pay traveling and incidental expenses, and to provide clothing, a sufficient supply of which should be furnished at the beginning of the school year, or sent by express as needed.
Candidates for admission should not be under eight or more than twenty years of age, of sound moral principles and good physical health. Imbecile, idiotic or feeble-minded children are not received.
The annual session begins the first Wednesday in September, and continues forty weeks. The Summer vacation extends from June to September. Pupils are sent home promptly at the close of the term, accompanied to prominent railroad points by messengers from Che institution.
There has been paid from the State Treasury, up to October 1, 1888, for real estate, build- Ings, improvements, repaairs and current expenses of the school, in all the sum of 61,110, 692.47.
The whole number of pupils under instruction from the opening of the school in 1852, is 803, of whom 192 were in attendance September 30, 1888.
The average number of pupils the past year was 206, as against 198 the previous year; And the current expenses $37, 609.29, as against $35, 515.30.
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STATE INSTITUTIONS.
SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.
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OFFICERS.
MRS. SARAH C. LITTLE, A. M., SUPERINTENDENT AND STEWARD.
MISS LIZZIE J. CURTISS. MATRON.
Miss S. AUGUSTA WATSON,
. MISS EMMA M. WILLIAMS,
FRED. B. MAXWELL, MISS CLARA Y. MORSE (Kindergartner).
TEACHERS IN LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
MRS. J. H. JONES,
MISS OTELIA G. RUSTAD,
TEACHERS IN MUSICAL DEPARTMENT.
MISS ANGIE B. MCKIBBEN,
MRS. ELLEN HANSON,
JOSEPH PRESTON,
TEACHERS IN INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT.
M. C. CLARKE, TREASURER.
This is the first charitable institution established by the State. A school for the blind had been opened at Janesville, in the latter part of 1313, which received its support from the citizens of that place and vicinity. At the next session of the Legislature it was adopted by the State, by an act approved February 9, 1850. On October 7, 1850, it was opened for the reception of pupils under the direction of the board of trustees appointed by the Gov- ernor. It occupied rented rooms until June 1, 1852, when it was removed to a building erected for its use at a cost of about $3.000. The lot of ten acres had been donated by the owners, and now forms a part of the grounds, forty acres in extent, belonging to the insti- tution. This building was so arranged as to admit of becoming the wing of a larger one, which was commenced in 1854 and fully completed in 1830. In 1861-5, a brick building was erected for a shop and other purposes. The foundation of the wing first built proved defective, and in 1867 that portion of the building had to be taken down. The next year work was begun on an extension which should replace the demolished portion and afford room for the growth of the school. That was completed in 1870, and the value of the build- ings, grounds and personal property belonging to the institution were estimated at $182,000. On the 13th of April, 1874, the building was destroyed by fire, and at the ensuing session of the Legislature an appropriation of $56,000 was made for the erection of a wing of a new building on the old site, but on a somewhat different plan; and in 1876 a further appropria- tion of $30,000 was made for rebuilding the main structure.
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The school was not allowed to close on account of the fire. Suitable accommodations were procured for the pupils by the board of trustees in the city of Janesville, where at some disadvantage, the work of the Institution was carried on until January 1. 1876. when the wing of the new building was ready for occupancy. The main structure has since been completed. It is designed to accommodate one hundred pupils, the same number as the building destroyed in 1874. The exterior is plainer than in the former structure, but a con- siderable sum has been expended in fire-proofing and in laying solid foundations under the main building. It is now believed to be practically fire-proof.
The object of the Institution as declared by law is. "to qualify, as far as may be, " the blind "for the enjoyment of the blessings of a free government, obtaining the means of subsistence and the discharge of those duties, social and political, devolving upon American citizens." The Institution is therefore neither a hospital nor an asylum, but a school, into which blind persons residing in Wisconsin, "of suitable age and capacity to receive instruo- tion," are admitted for education. For the purposes of the Institution, those permets an regarded as blind who are shut out from the benefits of the common schools by deficiency of sight. Pupils are regularly received who are between the ages of eight and twenty one years. In occasional instances others have been admitted. Tuition and board during the
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school year are furnished by the state without charge, but parents and guardians are ex- pected to provide clothing, traveling expenses, and a home during the summer vacation. The school year commences on the second Wednesday in September and continues forty Teeks.
The operations of the school fall naturally into three departments. In one, instruction is given in the subjects usually taught in the common schools. Some use is made of books printed in raised letters; but instruction is mostly given orally. In another department musical training, vocal, instrumental and theoretical, is imparted to an extent sufficient to furnish to most an important source of enjoyment, and to some the means of support. These two departments were opened at the commencement of the school, and have been ever since maintained. A little later the third department was opened, in which, weaving, seating cane-bottomed chairs, sewing, knitting, and various kinds of fancy work are sys- tematically taught. The "Kindergarten " was established in 1SS3 and proves a most valu- able adjunct to all the departments.
The care exercised over the pupils of this Institution, looks closely to their physical and moral well-being, and the details of the discipline are only such as are consistent with and will further this purpose; while the instruction is systematic and thorough, as the character and scholarship of those who have completed the prescribed course of study abundantly attest.
There has been paid from the state treasury up to October 1, 1SS8, for real estate, build- Ing, improvements, repairs and current expenses of the school, in all the sum of $$74,840.73. The whole number of pupils under instruction from the opening of the school, October 7, 1850, is 419, of whom 85 were in attendance September 30, 1888.
The average number of pupils the past year was 84 as against 73 the previous year, and the current expenses $20,365.41, as against $19,630.52.
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STATE INSTITUTIONS.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
OFFICERS. WILLIAM H. SLEEP, SUPERINTENDENT AND STEWARD.
MARTIN MADSON,
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ASSISTANT STEWARD.
M. C. CLARKE, TREASURER.
EPHRAIM DIXON, PRINCIPAL TEACHER.
8. P. GILMORE, LEON WARD, J. E. SUTTON,
MISS GERTRUDE BUSH, MISS HANNAH KINGS, MRS. A. E. MCILROY.
TEACHERS LITERARY DEPARTMENT.
A. C. GOYETTE,
· Foreman Shoe Shop.
D. G. WOODWARD,
Foreman Tailor Shop.
. JOSEPH HAM, Foreman Bakery.
EDWARD JAMES, Foreman Carpenter Shop.
The Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys is situated about three-fourths of a mile west of the railroad depots in the village of Waukesha, the county seat of Waukesha county.
It was organized as a house of refuge, and opened in 1860. The name was afterward changed to "State Reform School," and again to "Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys," Its present title. The buildings are located on the southern bank of Fox river, in view of the trains as they pass to and from Milwaukee and Madison, presenting an attractive sight to the traveling public. and furnishing good evidence of the parental care of the State au- horities for the juvenile wards within its borders.
The buildings include a main central edifice, three stories high, used for the residence of the superintendent's family, office, chapel, school rooms, reading room aud library, officers' kitchen, dining and lodging rooms, furnace room and cellar.
On the east of the main central building are three family buildings, three stories high. each with a dining hall, play room, bath room, dressing room, hospital room, officers' rooms. dormitory and store room,
On the west of the main central building are four family buildings like those on the east in all respects, with the exception of the building at the west end of this line, which is a wooden building with a stone basement.
In the rear of this line of buildings is the shop building. 38.x253 feet, three stories high. which embraces boot factory, sock and knitting factory, tailor shop, carpenter shop, engine room, laundry and steam drying room, bath rooms, store, store rooms, bakery and celler; the correction house, 44x80 feet (intended for the most refractory boys), and a double fam- ly building 38x117 feet for the accommodation of two families of boys, 50 each.
There is on the farm, which consists of 377 acres of land, a comfortable house, a stone carriage and horse barn, two stories high, built in the most substantial manner, two con venient wooden barns, with sheds for cattle, wagons and farm machinery, and cellars for roots.
The total amount paid from the State Treasury up to October 1, 1858, for real estate, buildings, improvements, repairs aud current expenses, is $1, 248,903.79.
The whole number of commitments since the opening of the school, August 3, 1560, Ls 1,653, of whom 376 were present September 30, 1858.
The average number of boys during the past year was 359, as against 334 the previous roar, and the current expenses were $ 13, 101.25 as against $15,583.12
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STATE PRISON.
OFFICERS.
GEORGE W. CARTER, WARDEN AND STEWARD.
A. A. LOPER,
DEPUTY WARDEN.
JACOB FUSS, CLERK. REV. VICTOR KUTCHIN, M. D., CHAPLAIN AND PHYSICIAN. REV. E. ALLEN, CHAPLAIN, CATHOLIO. 1 MISS PHOEBE C. GRIDER, MATRON. M. C. CLARKE, TREASURER.
The State Prison was located in Waupun in July, 1851, by Messrs. John Bullen, John Taylor and A. W. Worth, who were appointed commissioners to determine such location under a law enacted that year. A contract was at once entered into for the construction of a temporary prison; in 1853 the contract was let for the mason work upon the south wing of the prison; and additions have been made from time to time since that date.
From March 28, 1853, to January 4, 1874, the office of State Prison Commissioner was an elective office, the Commissioner having full control of the management of the prison.
From January 4, 1874, to June 1, 1881, the management was in the hands of three directors appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. In place of a Commissioner, the directors appointed a Warden, who had charge and custody of the prison, to serve three years.
In June, 1881, the management of the prison was placed in the hands of the State Board of Supervision, who have continued the control and custody as established by the directors.
The warden, steward and treasurer are appointed by the State Board of Supervision anually. All other officers are appointed by the board from time to time, as vacancies occur upon the nomination of the warden.
The convict labor was leased to MI. D. Wells & Co., of Chicago, for the manufucture of boots and shoes, for five years from January 1, 1978, and the contract was renewed with that firm for five years beginning with January 1, 1553, at the rate of fifty cents per day for ten hours. Upon the expiration of the contract at the close of the year 1587, the con- tractors, by consent of the Board of Supervision, continued to employ the prisoners for several months, when the contract was renewed for five years, without change of terms. Manufacture on the part of the state was therefore discontinued on January 1, 18.S. The prisoners' earnnings for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1887, were $50,250.98, and for the last year $18,906.98.
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