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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. 270]
         
         WILL. - The new county alsmhouse, not completed at the time
       of our last report. is now occupied. The basement is divided
       in such a manner that each sex has a separate dining-room and
       a separate sitting-room. The premises are well cared for, the
       rooms clean, and the bedding neat and tidy. The inmates seem
       to be kindly treated and comfortable. There were fifty-nine
       paupers present when visited, of whom five were children, one
       of them illegitimate and two idiotic. Of the adult paupers
       fourteen were insane, three idiots, one a deaf-mute, four blind,
       one bedridden and three crippled. Of the insane, three were in
       seclusion. These latter were in rooms which are clean and well
       ventilated, and they are taken out once a week for an airing.
       The number of paupers admitted in 1881 was forty-nine, dis-
       charged forty-seven, and there were ten deaths.
       
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