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Page 106         Biennial Report of the State Board
                    of Corrections and Charities
                               1875

                             HOUGHTON

      This poor-house is a larg building, with stone foundation,
   on a farm of 240 acres, bordering on Portage Lake.  The
   house is roomy, well built, and kept, as far as we could judge,
   in a good condition.  We saw the paupers at table, and can
   bear witness that the table, with its neat oil-cloth covering and
   good crockery dishes and well scoured knives and forks, pre-
   sented a very inviting appearance.  There were thirty paupers
   in the institution; three of them were insane, but not violent,
   and seventeen children.  The inmates of this institution, under
   the direction of the keeper, raised and picked this season a
   sufficient quantity of strawberries to realize $186.00.
      There is no provision here for the care of the insane.  Thos.
   D. Meads, of of the superintendents, accompanied us to this
   house.

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Page 138          Biennial Report of the State Board
                    of Corrections and Charities
                               1907

                             HOUGHTON

        Infirmary five miles from Houghton.  The county has erected a
     large, thoroughly modern and well equipped brick building on a com-
     manding site overlooking the valley, and not far distant from the old
     building, at a cost of $30,000.  At the time of visit the building was
     in process of erection and has since been completed and occupied.  It
     furnishes every facility for the care of the poor and provides for
     hospital service.

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