| Show I WANT FT I DUCHESNE Gowans Recommends Procuring Procuring Procuring ing it for Home for Feeble FeebleMinded Minded Foremost among the tho recommend recommend- recommendations recommendations In the tho biennial report of Dr E.G. E.G. E.G. E. E G. G Gowans head of or the state 1 industrial indus mIl s- s trial school is one ono advocating the state to procure the abandoned site of or Fort Duchesne for ahone for tor feeble feeble feeble fee fee- ble minded Tho The superintendent outlines that feeble mi mindedness ruled ness is increasing at nn an an alarming rate andIs andis and andis is responsible for much of the cr crime me The Tho lack of a proper institution to care for these unfortunates at the present time Is outlined in the tho report This clas of or people leople cannot be bo efficiently efficient efficient- ly handled by the tho state mental hos bos- pital l. l Nor can the tho prison accomplish the results to bo be desired in tile the opinion opinion ion of the For Por this reason the superintendent asks that the state take tale steps toward inducing inducing- the government go to give the sate of oC Utah the old military reservation reservation reservation reserva reserva- tion at Duchesne for a reformatory intermediate institution or home for forthe forthe forthe the feeble minded The Tho report of oC the tho superintendent I I I out the need of an Institution with concise observation made durIng during dur dur- ing the period of oC his office According Accord Accord- lug ing to the tine report two thirty women have been released from the industrial rial school during the last five years whit wl were feeble minded Eighteen of this number 11 have given birth to thirty children since sinco tho the date of their release Nino of the thirty children were born out of wedlock In July 1914 there were ere fifteen I feeble minded girls gills in the state industrial in industrial in in-I ol oh The superintendent points out t that lat the affliction is transmitted transmitted transmitted trans trans- from parents to heir children and declares hat feeble mindedness is increasing aL at an alarming rate Feeble minded people are Increasing twice as is fast Cast as normal minded peo peo- Dr Gowans believes that the marriage laws should be made mado stricter strict strict- er in order to check check the marriages that will vill Increase the affliction of tl tle o world The rho report d declares that feeble minded women and girls Tare Ire a greater menace to society than feeble feebleminded feebleminded feebleminded minded men and boys The state should have some Institution institution tullon between the industrial school and the state prison for Cor the care of tl those ose wh who are not vicious criminals yet should not be allowed to remain In either the state prison or the be in industrial industrial industrial in- in schol according to the re re- re- re port It also recommends a more careful study of juvenile delinquency and that the state should establish a home homo finding and child placing bureau which would concern itself in th the finding of suitable homes bomes for children The rhe report leport covers pages of ot typewritten matter and gives in detail detail detail de de- tail the work of the school for the thelast thelast thelast last two years Dr GI Gowans ans declares that the school needs three more cottages for tor forthe forthe the use of officers a and d teachers so that they ma may be close to tine tile s school bool boolat at nights instead of living at some distance from the school The superintendent asks that an nn appropriation of be made for Cor 1915 16 for the maintenance of oC the institution Tl TIe The e report shows that during thelast the tho lest last two years boys and girls have bave been paroled the school The majority of them are reported as doing well The boys released dur d during ring r- r ing lug the last two years have earned a total Salt Salt Lake Tele Tele- gram Aside from the above this paper has long advocated that tl e tile state secure tho sic sie of ot Fort and andset andset andset set it apart as a branch of ot the tho State Agricultural College n |
