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Show INSANE POOR ARE TERRIBLY ABUSED CHICAGO, April 2T. Bevelatipns of most revolting "and inhuman treatment of insane inmates ' of Illinois county almshouses are made in a report just sybmitted to Gov. Deneen by the State Board of Charities. Astounding conditions condi-tions are described in the 130,000-word report, which shows that in many of the almshouses of Illinois there exists hor-. rors which savor vf Europe in dark agec. With the report are submitted photo-grapVis photo-grapVis of some of the monstrous abuses whijA-thus far have been tolerated by ' the yjte. One of the pictures is a box bedJA which an insane woman has been ker ior forty years. Another shows a young girl chained by her ankles. A third discloses a rude box, fashioned somewhat like a coffin, with slats across the top, hasps and bolt, which is used as a sleeping place for the. unruly insane. |