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Page 114          Biennial Report of the State Board
                     of Corrections and Charities
                                1873

                               MIDLAND

      This house is situated about three miles south-east of the
   city of Midland, on a new farm, and the principal part of the
   buildings are new.  The house is neat, and looks like a good
   farm-house, but it is poorly adapted to the purposes for which it
   is used, there being no means for a separation of the family of
   the keeper from the paupers, and no arrangement by which
   the sexes can be properly separated.  The house is well painted
   inside and out.  There is a new barn, and the general appear-
   ance of the farm is good.  But little attention has been paid to
   shade trees or the cultivation of fruit.  There are four children
   in the institution, and two insane persons.  One of these is
   kept shut up in a close room, and is really an object of pity.
   In this house the keeper and the paupers all live, as it were,
   together, eating at the same table, and mingling much in the
   same rooms.  There is a stream of water running through the
   farm.

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Abstract of the Reports
Superintendents of the Poor
State of Michigan, 1891

    [41]

        Midland. - The poorhouse is located in the township of Midland,
     four miles from Midland, the county seat.  The house and other build-
     ings are in good condition.  Facilities for bathing are a bath tub,
     suitably arranged.  The building is warmed by a hot water heater and
     stoves.  Ventilation is by doors and windows.  The paupers are treated
     kindly.  An abundance of good, wholesome food is furnished and proper-
     ly cooked.  Extra diet is always furnished the sick when required.
     Clothing supplied suitable to the season of the year.  The sick are
     attended by a competent physician employed by the county, and nurses
     are employed when required.  We have suitable rooms for the insane and
     idiotic, but do not keep them.  Do not keep any children in the poor-
     house; send them to the State school.
     
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Page 142          Biennial Report of the State Board
                    of Corrections and Charities
                             1907-1908

                              MIDLAND

        Infirmary four miles from Midland.  Is a frame story and a half
     building, old and dilapidated, wholly unfit for occupation and situ-
     ated where the premises are frequently flooded.  Is altogether un-
     worthy of the county and should be replaced by a new building on a
     better site.  Has repeatedly been condemned by this Board.

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