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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. 248-249]
         
         GRUNDY. - The Grundy county almshouse is comparatively new,
       and was, when inspected, in good condition throughout, but
       the farm building attached to it is a miserable affair, un-
       plastered, with small sleeping-rooms, and a kitchen so small
       that there is barely room to pass around the stove. It's
       proximity to the main building is a source of perpetual
       danger from fire. The number of paupers on the day of visitation
       was eighteen, of whom four were children, three insane and four
       idiots. The number admitted during the year 1881 was twenty-two;
       discharged, twenty-one; and there was one death. The average
       number is seventeen, and the annual cost for maintenance one
       thousand seven hundred dollars; but the amount paid for out-
       door relief by the county is five thousand dollars.
       
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