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

                         INSPECTION OF COUNTY POOR HOUSES.
                         
              GOODHUE COUNTY POORHOUSE was visited June 5, 1891, with
            the secretary, and Oct. 8, 1892, by Rev. S. G. Smith, D. D.
              The Goodhue county poorhouse is the best poorhouse in
            the State. It was built on plans provided by the state
            board of corrections and charities and was opened about
            Jan. 1, 1891.
              The house is finely located in a grove of trees about
            200 feet back from the road. It is built of brick. The
            basement contains janitor's room, furnace room, smoking
            room, sitting rooms, bath room and closet. The first floor
            contains the overseer's office, sitting room and dining
            room, women's apartments, bath room, closets, men's sick
            room, day room, pauper's dining room and kitchen. The
            second floor contains sleeping rooms for the overseer's
            family and dormitory for male paupers. The house is well
            built and conveniently planned. There is a supply of water
            from an aretsian well which flows nearly to the top of the
            second story. When the house was first built there were
            defects in the plumbing and ventilation; singularly enough
            every room was supplied with ventilation except the smok-
            ing room and the water closet. Several cases of typhoid
            fever occurred in the house which were ascribed to the
            plumbing. The defects in the plumbing and ventilation have
            now been remedied.
              The poorhouse remains in the care of Alfred Anderson,
            but the contract plan has been abandoned and the house is
            now run at county expense.
              The administration is satisfactory. The paupers are com-
            fortably clad and well cared for.
            
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