Show FILTH I 1 IN JAIL Sani sanitary tarr condition of a large number of institutions As civilization advances the treatment of the unfortunate and criminal i classes is said to become more hur humane nane and asa as a nation we love lore to boast of our prison and asylum reforms but now and then humanity receives a rude shock from revelations coming comin r out of these very signs of our advancement with one or two exceptions the pr prison i ason pens of war times for whose condition there was at least the partial excuse of necessity and the bitterness engendered 0 by the strife we say with one or two exceptions these places are today to day surpassed by pris prison cand i in both the south and th the 0 N north while city jails and workhouses work houses are notoriously bid bad and often criminally M managed an tile the plumbing inspector of minneapolis la recently made an inspection of the county jail wherein lie he found ft beekin reeling abomination of filth for the long iong continued existence of which no excuse can be offered for the officials have been notified more than once of its bad sanitary condition filth alone it is well known will breed crime and it certainly is IL a fit environment for other extremely bad and easily avoided conditions which maintain in almost all jails viz the comming r ling Z of the hardened criminal and the novice ein in the milder forms of lawbreaking law IW breaking 7 but it is the sanitary condition of these places to which our readers attention is called in the minneapolis jail mr mi hazen found a veritable cesspool cess pool in the basement caused by tho the wash water running from the jail apartments it bove above the plumber had used the convenient and inexpensive putty to make his joints a material quite largely Irr gely in use in ili this as no doubt in many another city and the old and cheapest clie apost forms of closets poorly sot set had also been used fiscal and they were sadly out of JO joint an ali enlightened public sentiment will correct these abuses but the correction is always apeci specific lie one olle job at a time and that after infinite harm has been done seems to be all that the public can handle the ounce of prep pre ve vestion thorl has never been weighed by this public and it still seems a pound to the men whom we all love to honor with v ith our franchises to ro employ an all architect to build a jail would be the heights 0 of folly and the acme of eltray extravagance but soun the voice ot of the architect will be heard not ter crying in 9 out am against dinst old abuses but as a warn into in 0 to avoid all such calamities and the sooner that voice is heard the better northwestern architect |