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Seventh Biennial Report of the
Board of State Commissioners of
Public Charities of the
State of Illinois
Presented to the Governor, November 1882


         
         [p. 238]
         
         BROWN. - Twenty-eight inmates were found in the Brown
       county almshouse, of whom eight were under sixteen years
       of age, one insane, three idiots and two cripples. The
       total cost of maintaining an average of thirty inmates
       was a little over fifteen hundred dollars. No almshouse
       register was kept before March 1, 1882, but a record has
       now been opened. The premises are in fair condition, rooms
       tolerably neat and clean, and the beds and bedding are
       also clean. The inmates seem to be well cared for. The
       insane man alluded to is very filthy in his habits, and
       is kept at night in an out-house, where he sleeps on straw
       in a box on the floor. The straw is not renewed as often
       as it should be, and the impression made upon the mind of
       the visitor is very unpleasant.
       
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