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Executive Documents of the
State of Minnesota
For the Fiscal Year
Ending July 31, 1892

                         INSPECTION OF COUNTY POOR HOUSES.
                         
              CHISAGO COUNTY POORHOUSE was visited May 2, 1892.
            There were eight paupers; three men, three women and
            two children. One child, three years old, was about
            to be sent to the state public school at Owatonna.
            This poorhouse is kept in primitive style. The over-
            seer has no separate apartments; the paupers and the
            overseer's family sit at the same table. Two paupers
            had wooden shoes, which they were said to wear from
            choice. The overseer's wife makes starch and soap,
            and spins yarn for the pauper's stockings.
              The house was clean; the beds were furnished with
            clean sheets, etc. The house is infested with bedbugs,
            and it is impossible to keep them out in summer on
            account of the bad condition of the bedsteads and
            plastering. The overseer receives $1.85 per week for
            board, clothing and tobacco for each pauper. This is
            not enough to permit proper provision for the inmates.
            The compensation should be increased and the service
            should be improved.
            
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