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Page 102          Biennial Report of the State Board
                     of Corrections and Charities
                                1873

                               BRANCH

      The poor-house of this county is situated a short distance
   from the city of Coldwater, on a farm of one hundred and forty
   acres.  The house is a two-story brick building, commodious,
   but not as well arranged as it should be.  We found two insane

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Page 103

   persons confined here in cells of about eight by ten feet in size;
   one, a woman, had been here over a year, and is quite noisy at
   times.  She has been at the asylum at Kalamazoo, but was
   dismissed as incurable.  The house presented a general appear-
   ance of cleanliness and order.

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Page 136          Biennial Report of the State Board
                     of Corrections and Charities
                                1907

                               BRANCH

     Infirmary two miles from Coldwater.  A two story brick building with
  an attic used for sleeping apartment; though of old construction, it has
  been remodeled and is modern in its appointments and is admirably kept;
  is heated with steam, well provided with bathing facilities; the equip-
  ment for lighting, heating and laundry work is much in advance of the
  average institutions of the kind.  A detached building supplies the hos-
  pital need.

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