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The L'Anse Sentinel
January 8, 1898


              A Houghton dispatch says there are now ten insane
            persons in the county jail there with no proper fa-
            cilities or attendants for their care. It is announced
            semi-officially that the opening of several new cottages
            at the upper peninsula asylum in Newberry this month
            will provide room for the care of the insane for several
            years, but the fallacy of this expectation will be re-
            vealed before spring. The insane asylum at Traverse
            City is terribly overcrowded and with the opening of
            the new cottages at Newberry a large number of patients
            from the lower peninsula will be brought north of the
            straits. Nearly every upper peninsula county has insane
            persons detained in the jails and their transfer to
            Newberry in connection with the influx of patients 
            from Traverse City will fill the new cottages to their
            utmost capacity within a few weeks after they are
            opened. It was promised when the first cottage was
            opened at Newberry two years ago, that there should
            be ample accommodations for the insane of Michigan
            for all time thereafter, but the promise was not kept
            and the present promise of like tenor will be simi-
            larly broken. The asylum at Newberry is a model, being
            excellent in construction, appointments and maintenance,
            but it is far too small and will prove inadequate with
            the doubling of its present accommodations.
            
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