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Page 119          Biennial Report of the State Board
                     of Corrections and Charities
                                1873
                    
                              SHIAWASSEE
                               
      The poor-house of this county is a large, square two story
    building, situated on a farm of eighty acres.  The paupers
    dining-room is in the basement.  This place is also used as
    a common room, where many of the paupers, male and female,
    mingle and associate together.  Here we found eight of them,
    five men and three women, all gathered about the stove, save
    one, a young woman of 27, and she crazed; she was chained in
    a corner, and was constantly moving to and fro within the 
    limit of her chain.  Mingling with these men was also a girl
    of twenty, whose sanity was in no wise certain; but were her
    mind not yet unbalanced, commingling with such associations
    could not fail to drive her to madness.  At the time of the
    visitation there were 17 inmates in the house.  The grounds
    were barren in front, but shade trees had been set out by 
    the overseer.  The rooms seemed to be clean, and the inmates
    well fed, but the provision for the insane and the prom-
    iscuous association of the males and the female insane must
    be condemned. 
    
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