Ventilation Of Jail Is Very Poor

VENTILATION OF JAIL IS VERY POOR

Board of Inspectors Have Made Their Report.

County Jail is not Large Enough to Accommodate the Inmates. Improvements needed.

The board of jail inspectors, consisting of James Taylor, Philip Duffy, F. J. Fletcher, board of superintendents of the poor, and William K. Childs, county agent, have made their report and filed it with County Clerk Blum. They report that on Feb. 19 they carefully inspected the county jail. That since the period of their last examination in September there has been confined at different times 486 prisoners, charged with offenses as follows: Drunk, 364; insane, 7; boarding train, 6; indecent exposure, 1; larceny from person, 6; obtaining money by false pretenses, 1; larceny, 22; carrying concealed weapons, 2; resisting officer, 1; suspected of assault, 2; truant, 3; violation of city ordinances, 2; burglary, 3; inspection of larceny, 8; disorderly, 8; suspicion, 1; eavesdropping, 1; disturbing meeting, 2; keeping disorderly house, 1; prostitutes, 7; horse stealing, 1; maliciousness, 2; assault and battery, 7; receiving stolen property, 1; trespass, 2; assault with intent to commit harm, 2; vagrancy, 13; gambling, 4; keeping of gambling house, 1; seduction, 1; robbery, 1; suspicion of burglary, 1; assault, 2. Of these 11 were females. Prisoners detained for trail have been held in jail the following number of days each: William Stewart, 43 days, and Thomas Hession, 37 days. They say the prisoners have no employment and that the beds, cells and halls are fair and the closets might be better. Their conclusions are that the building is too small and that the ventilation is not as good as it should be.