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Page 117          Biennial Report of the State Board
                     of Corrections and Charities
                                1873
                    
                              SAGINAW
                               
      The poor-house is situated in Saginaw township, about five
    miles northwest of Saginaw City.  It is located upon a pretty
    good but small farm.  The building is a large plain one.  The
    surroundings are pleasant, but no attention has been given to
    ornamenting the grounds.  A small orchard on the place has 
    been in bearing for the pas five or six years, but the fruit is
    poor.  There are two children in this poor-house, and six
    
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    insane persons.  One of them, a man, is locked up all the
    time and is quite noisy.  The room in which he is confined
    contains only a bunk covered with straw and a couple of 
    blankets, and is loathsome in the extreme.  A large iron tub
    has been procured for the use of the inmates of this poor-
    house, and a bath-room is soon to be provided, so that the
    paupers may have the full benefit of plenty of water.  The
    tables are covered with oil-cloth, which, though well worn,
    is certainly a great improvement on bare tables.  The
    crockery and tin-ware that we saw in use were good, and the
    latter seemed to have been nicely scoured.  Some of the rooms
    are kept in excellent order; this is especially the case with
    a couple of rooms in charge of an old gentleman, who said he
    was eighty-nine years of age.  From all that we could learn,
    we should judge that the present keeper, who has only been
    in the house seven months, is keeping it more humanely than
    it has been kept before.
    
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