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Show CONDITIONS AT THE IIRiARY Speaking of conditions at the county coun-ty Infirmary, Chairman Oscar B. Mad- -ii of the board of county commissioners, commis-sioners, stales that the institution Is now In splendid shape. Tlwne has recently re-cently been given a general renovation. renova-tion. The institution has been kept iu that condition ever since Its building. build-ing. Mr. Madson says that every possible possi-ble attention Is given the inmates of the lnflrniHry. most of them being aged people, and deserving of more cre than If they were younger, tho object of the management of the concern con-cern being to make it n homa In very deed for those who need a h.une. The icoms are kept in splendid order, every accommodation wi'hin reason being extended the occupants, a well equipped hotel not affording better service than Is given there. Mr. Madsen states that the board sometimes encounters considerable difficulty to Induce ag d persons who are impecunious io make their home at the Infirmm-v, there being a pre- oiling abhoranee with most of them Tor the "Poor House," as It Is fre quently termed. He says that In many instances they find men and wninea living on a mere pittance and suffering suffer-ing attendant privations and 111 health because of their dread of the county 'nUnn.iry. But, as a matter of fact, when they once lake up their abode at the public Institution they feel perfectly per-fectly at home and suffer no humiliation. humilia-tion. They are given to understand that they have earned the eare and support given them at the Institution Institu-tion and that they should exercise the same Independence as if they were living In their own homes. There are thirty people living at Hie infirmary, only seven uf whom are women, they all at the r. resent time enjoying fairly good health and, apparently, ap-parently, aro happy. It seems that the aged grandma or mother fiuJ4 more loving hands to admiuls'er to hei wants and comforts In a private capacity than do tho aged nun, this meaning, of course, that the women of the infirmary are much fewer thaa Hie men. Jt Is said by Mr. Madson Hat there never has been a eonta Cjious disease in institution and that general illness has always been minimized min-imized to an extr.iordin.iry degree |