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 General Assembly 
 
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 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
 
 William B. Bailey, President . 25 Lynwood Place, New Haven 
 
 Ida M. S. Thompson, M. D. Secretary 190 Retreat Ave.. Hartford 
 
 George C. Clark, Treasurer . . Terryville 
 
 Anne Rogers Minor . . Waterford 
 
 Helen W. Rogers 27 Edgehill Terrace, Hamden 
 
 Edward W. Hazen . . . Haddam 
 
 John H. Goss 70 Hillside Avenue, Waterbury 
 
CONNECTICUT 
 STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 
 A State Reformatory for Women, known 
 officially as the Connecticut State Farm for 
 Women, was established by an Act of the General 
 Assembly of January, 1917 
 
 For several years prior thereto there had been 
 a steadily growing feeling among those well- 
 informed that delinquent women and girls 
 should receive care by the State, under some 
 provision" other than that of the jails and the 
 Prison where they were being committed. It 
 was felt, indeed was demonstrable, that the 
 association of the old ]and young in years, and 
 of recent offenders with those of established 
 criminal tendencies, resulted harmfully. The 
 Judges recognized this fact and frequently 
 placed on probation or gave suspended sentences 
 to women who were brought before them. 
 
 The question of a Reformatory for Women 
 was brought to the attention of Governor Bald- 
 win who in 1913 appointed a Commission, 
 which, after investigating conditions in Connec- 
 ticut and visiting institutions in several eastern 
 States, recommended the establishment of such 
 a Reformatory. The Act introduced and passed 
 
in 1917 has been generally considered the best 
 of its kind in this country. Under it, girls of 
 sixteen years and over may be committed to the 
 State Farm for Women for a period not exceed- 
 ing three years in all cases except felonies, for 
 which commitment for a definite term may be 
 made. The Bill carried an appropriation of 
 $50,000. 
 
 In July, 1917, Governor Holcomb appointed 
 a Commission consisting of four men and three 
 women to select a site, construct or remodel 
 buildings, and begin to operate such an insti- 
 tution. After visiting about twenty sites, the 
 Committee selected the present location at 
 Bride Lake in the town of East Lyme. Land 
 containing about seven hundred acres com- 
 pletely surrounding Bride Lake, a beautiful 
 body of water of about seventy-five acres, was 
 purchased. Upon the property were several 
 houses and farm buildings. These were re- 
 modeled and furnished, and in July, 1918, the 
 first group of women was received . These women 
 did pioneer work and assisted in preparing the 
 farm houses for occupancy. 
 
 When the war came on the need for segre- 
 gating and treating diseased women residing 
 near army camps and naval bases became 
 imperative, and at the instance of the Federal 
 Government, acting through the State Board 
 of Health, a hospital was erected for the treat- 
 
frnent of his class. This work delayed to some 
 extent the development of the original purpose 
 of the Farm. At the close of the war commit- 
 ments through the courts were resumed, and 
 the capacity of the institution has been con- 
 stantly overtaxed, so that recently it has been 
 necessary to set up cots in the Superintendent's 
 office. At present there are eighty-six women 
 and sixteen babies in the institution, with an 
 actual capacity of not more than fifty. Housing 
 for babies has of necessity been extemporized. 
 
 War prices of maintenance and construction of 
 new buildings have seriously interfered with a 
 program for adequate increase of accommoda- 
 tions. A receiving building to accommodate 
 about thirty women is nearing completion, 
 but this will be filled to capacity almost as soon 
 as it is built. The principal need of the institu- 
 tion at present is for additional cottages to house 
 distinct groups of girls, for efficiency of the work 
 depends on a proper classification to insure 
 successful training from a mental, moral, and 
 physical standpoint. On admission each girl 
 is given a thorough mental and physical exami- 
 nation, and as full a history as is obtainable is 
 gathered by a parole officer. This makes possi- 
 ble early classification as to individual needs 
 and requirements. It is the hope of the Com- 
 mission that at the coming session of the Legis- 
 lature the over-crowded condition may be 
 
relieved by sufficient appropriation, and provi^ 
 sion made for further growth which is certain 
 to follow. 
 
 The institution, having tripled its population 
 in less than a year, on November 10, 1920, 
 Governor Holcomb, on information from the 
 Commission, issued a proclamation restricting 
 further commitments to the Farm until accom- 
 modations could be made available by parole of 
 inmates. 
 
 It is the policy of the institution, first, to 
 provide nutritious food and plenty of out-door 
 life; second, to awaken and develop normal 
 social responsibilities; third, to educate along 
 domestic and vocational lines ; fourth, to awaken 
 and develop spiritual impulses; fifth, to en- 
 courage and morally sustain each inmate when 
 returned to the world, principally through the 
 efforts of the parole officers, whose function it 
 is to keep under supervision those who are placed 
 out in various vocations, usually in domestic 
 service, and to see that they are fulfilling condi- 
 tions under which they are paroled, thus assist- 
 ing them toward becoming self-supporting and 
 useful members of society. The girls have, as 
 a rule, shown an appreciation of the efforts of 
 the parole officers in their behalf, and generally 
 have given their co-operation. Indeed, the 
 conduct of the inmates in their relation to the 
 management has in the main been remarkably 
 
pod from the outset. Individual interest is 
 now actively shown in a plan of self-government 
 that is being instituted. It is anticipated this 
 will serve as a stimulas to further well-doing. 
 In developing policy of care, delinquency is not 
 overlooked or condoned, but corrected in the 
 best possible way. It is recognized that nothing 
 is gained by merely punishing. Loss of liberty 
 is in itself one of the greatest punishments that 
 can be meted out to any human being. There- 
 fore to bring a delinquent to the consciousness 
 of laws broken, to the point of repentance, is a 
 long stride forward in the process of reforma- 
 tion. 
 
 The aim of the Commission is to give to the 
 State of Connecticut an institution the best of 
 its kind in modern equipment and service. 
 Equipment should include cottages to house 
 not more than twenty-fi\e inmates each, a 
 receiving building, a hospital, a school, an 
 industrial and recreation building, and a chapel. 
 Service should comprehend a staff, competent 
 and well-trained in their special departments, 
 a superintendent, hospital nurses, teachers, 
 matrons, and a dietician, with the necessary 
 aid of oculist, dentist, psychologist and physi- 
 cian. 
 
[Senate Bill No. 599] 
 
 CHAPTER 276 
 
 An Ach authorizing the Connecticut State Farm for 
 Women to Receive Gifts. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 
 General Assembly convened. 
 
 Section 1. The Connecticut state farm for women is 
 authorized to receive, hold and use real estate, and to 
 receive, hold, invest and disburse money, securities, 
 supplies or equipment offered it for the purposes for which 
 said farm is established, by the federal government, or by 
 any person, corporation or association, provided such real 
 estate, money, securities, supplies or equipment shall be 
 used only for such purposes, and provided such purposes 
 are not contrary to the laws of this state. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said department shall include in its annual 
 report, as provided in section 1723 of the general statutes, 
 an account of the property so received, the names of its 
 donors, its location, the use made thereof and the amount 
 of unexpended balances on hand. 
 
 Sec 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
 
 Approved, May 21, 1919. 
 
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 #tat^ of Olontt^rttrul 
 
 ANNUAL REPORT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Board of Directors 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Connecticut State Farm 
 for Women 
 
 TO 
 
 THE GOVERNOR 
 
 For the Period between October 1, 1918 and 
 June 30, 1920 
 
BtnU of Olottttf rttrut 
 
 PUBLIC DOCUMENT No. 67 
 
 ANNUAL REPORT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Board of Directors 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Connecticut State Farm 
 for Women 
 
 TO 
 
 THE GOVERNOR 
 
 For the Period between October 1, 1918 and 
 June 30, 1920 
 
 PRINTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH STATUTE 
 
 HARTFORD 
 
 Published by the State 
 
 1920 
 
Publication 
 
 Approved by 
 
 The Board of Control 
 
 The Tuttie, Morehouse & Taylor Press 
 New Haven, Conn. 
 
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
 
 Term Expires 
 
 Anne Rogers Minor, Waterford July i, 1921 
 
 Edward W. Hazen, Haddam July i, 1922 
 
 George C. Clark, Plymouth July i, 1923 
 
 Helen W. Rogers, Hamden July i, 1924 
 
 William B. Bailey, New Haven July i, 1925 
 
 Ida jNI. S. Thompson, M.D., Hartford July i, 1926 
 
 John H. Goss, \\'aterbury July i, 1927 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
 William B. Bailey, President, 25 Lynwood Place, New Haven 
 Ida ]\I. S. Thompson, M.D., Secretary, 
 
 190 Retreat Avenue, Hartford 
 George C. Clark, Treasurer, Terryville, Conn. 
 
 STAFF 
 
 Anna M. Peterson, Superintendent 
 Allen B. Cook, Farm Superintendent 
 Ethel L. Scofield, Parole Officer 
 
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 
 To His Excellency, Marcus H. Holcomh, Governor: 
 
 Sir: The Board of Directors of the Connecticut State Farm 
 for Women has the honor to present its report covering the period 
 from October i, 1918, to June 30, 1920. 
 
 From the opening of the Farm, July i, 1918, to October i, 1918, 
 twenty-nine women had been committed. During the period cov- 
 ered by this report eighty-five were received, bringing the total 
 number of commitments since the opening of the institution to 
 one hundred fourteen. Of this total, fifty-six were at the Farm 
 on June 30, 1920, while twenty-eight were on parole. Twelve 
 have been transferred to other institutions. 
 
 During the period of the war most of the commitments were 
 health cases, since the institution was co-operating with the State 
 and Federal authorities in the attempt to remove the diseased 
 women from the vicinity of the army and naval bases. Inasmuch 
 as the hospital treatment absorbed a considerable share of the 
 activities of the Farm, Dr. Elizabeth E. Enz was, upon the advice 
 of experts, appointed Acting Superintendent. Although a psy- 
 chologist had been appointed she was called into war work, and 
 arrangements were made with Yale University to have the mental 
 tests of the inmates continued. 
 
 In February, 1919, the Directors decided to admit no more 
 health cases unless committed by the courts, finding that it was 
 disturbing to the discipline of the institution to discharge inmates 
 who, though cured physically, were still in need of further train- 
 ing before being returned to their communities. At this time 
 Mrs. Wilhelmina Key was appointed Education Director and 
 made Acting Superintendent. 
 
 In March, 1919, Mr. Allen B. Cook was appointed Farm Super- 
 intendent, and since then the farming operations have been under 
 his supervision. On April 14, 1919, the first woman was placed 
 on parole, and on July 3, 1919, Miss Ethel L. Scofield was 
 appointed Parole Officer. In July, 1919, the new hospital was 
 opened, and after some alterations the building which had for- 
 merly been used for a hospital was turned over to the mothers 
 with babies. 
 
O CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 
 In January, 1920, the Board secured the services of Miss Anna 
 M. Petersen as Superintendent. Miss Petersen had been for 
 several years Superintendent of the Girls' Industrial School at 
 Bon Air, Virginia, where she had been very successful. The 
 Farm has shared with other institutions of a similar nature the 
 difficult problem of engaging and keeping satisfactory matrons, 
 nurses, and instructors required for work of this kind, but if 
 the test of the success of the Farm is the ability of the inmates 
 on parole to fit into society and make good, the records of the 
 first complete year of parole work are extremely encouraging. 
 
 It has been most difficult to carry out the provisions of the 
 law with regard to the classification, employment, and training 
 of the inmates on account of the over-crowded condition of the 
 cottages and the fact that all 'of the buildings occupied are 
 remodeled farm-houses or barns. The congestion was so great 
 that in October, 1918, the Board was compelled to ask the 
 Governor to forbid further commitments by the courts until 
 additional accommodation was secured by additions to some of 
 the cottages and the paroling of some of the inmates. This 
 step was taken reluctantly as the Board realized that the courts 
 were searching in vain for a place for these girls, many of 
 whom were diseased or in danger of falling into habits of vice, 
 and who needed the medical treatment and training provided at 
 the Farm. At the same time the presence of these girls in the 
 community was a distinct menace. 
 
 Proper care of the inmates has been handicapped by the fact 
 that in none of the remodeled biiildings has it been possible to 
 give each girl a separate sleeping room ; the, dormitory system 
 must be used for all, including the hospital group. Contracts, 
 however, have been let for the erection of a reception building 
 with separate sleeping rooms. This building should be ready 
 for occupancy by February, 1921, and will do much to relieve 
 the congestion and will allow a more complete classification of 
 the inmates than has been possible up to the present. 
 
 Farming operations have been continued on a larger scale, and 
 with the present herd of cows, together with the sheep, swine, and 
 poultry, it will be possible, through the labor of the inmates, to 
 provide an increasing proportion of the food for the institution. 
 
 The following needs of the Farm should be met in the immedi- 
 ate future if it is to do the work expected from it by the State: — 
 
 1. An educational building to provide suitable accommodations 
 for elementary class-room work and vocational training. 
 
 2. At least four cottages to accommodate twenty-five girls 
 each. These would care for part of the girls whom the courts 
 are anxious to send to the institution, and permit better 
 classification. 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOE WOMEN 
 
 3. A suitable road to connect these different buildings on the 
 property. 
 
 A detailed report of the work submitted by the Superintendent, 
 Parole Officer, and farmer, is included. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Anne Rogers Minor, 
 Edward. W. Hazen, 
 George C. Cl.-^rk, 
 Helen W. Rogers, 
 William B. Bailey, 
 Ida M. S. Thompson, 
 John H. Goss, 
 
 Members of the Board of Directors of the 
 Connecticut State Farm for Women. 
 
REPORT OF PAROLE OFFICER. 
 
 In submitting to you a report of the first year's parole work 
 of the Connecticut State Farm for Women, let me first acknowl- 
 edge my deep appreciation of the inestimable privilege of having 
 been the first Parole Officer. The opportunity of translating into 
 actual practice the highly socialized principles embodied in the 
 law governing our institution could not have been given to one 
 who was more alive to its significance. Every day spent in the 
 work has been crowded with stimulating experiences. The 
 problems involved have brought me in contact with so many 
 phases of social organization and of human psychology that I am 
 amazed one year of life could hold so much. 
 
 The Parole Officer occupies the unique position of intermediary 
 between the institution and the community, and in this capacity 
 has her finger on the pulse of both. Her first problem is to get 
 across to the community the essential ideas of parole. The 
 community is represented by three main groups — the relatives 
 and friends of the girl, the employers to whose custody the girl 
 is released while on parole, and those persons concerned in the 
 administration of the law. Each of these groups is still think- 
 ing in terms of the punishment of offenders rather than of 
 diagnosis and treatment. To deprive individuals of their liberty 
 by shutting them up in an institution is recognized as customary 
 procedure. To control their lives while at liberty as members 
 of the social group presents an idea so new and striking as to 
 require elaborate and painstaking explanations. This is appar- 
 ently due to the perfunctory nature of parole as previously inter- 
 preted, where inmates were released, after a sojourn at the 
 institution, into the casual custody of any relative who will be 
 responsible for them, with little attention given as to whether or 
 no such relative is fitted by nature and experience to guide the 
 life of this particular individual. Supervised life in a selected 
 environment, whose essential aim is the development of indi- 
 viduals rather than their punishment, must ultimately be recog- 
 nized as the only adequate way of dealing with delinquents from 
 the standpoint of both ethics and economics. 
 
 The Parole Officer grapples with the skeptic who maintains 
 that reform is not a reality but the product of an over-zealous 
 and enthusiastic imagination, and in support of his belief points 
 to the percentage of recidivists in our penal institutions. To 
 him we affirm that this is because these institutions have not an 
 adequate and comprehensive parole system ; that inasmuch as 
 institutional life provides an unnatural environment it stultifies 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 9 
 
 the individual, destroying his initiative and such capacity for 
 development as he may have ; that the very fact of his removal 
 from the normal activities of life alienates him from normal 
 reactions to those activities when he again faces them ; that only 
 through a selected environment, with supervision and direction 
 during the period of adjustment thereto, can such an individual 
 hope to function as a unit of society. Our friends are laboring 
 under the belief that by reform we mean some mysterious change 
 affecting individuals by which they acquire a new set of motives 
 and reactions. That we merely mean the cutting off of old 
 associations and habits and the substitution of new ones is so 
 simple as to have escaped their notice. 
 
 Earnest and constant reiteration of our principles and stand- 
 ards has been necessary to secure the cooperation required for 
 the success of our work, and this I have endeavored faithfully 
 to do. One of the important problems has been to make clear to 
 the families of our girls why they cannot be allowed to return to 
 the town from which they came. The girls themselves are sure 
 that nothing can ever again tempt them from the path of recti- 
 tude, and they naturally desire to return to the parental, or it may 
 be the conjugal, roof. By careful and persuasive reasoning, it 
 is often possible to convince relatives of the wisdom of the girl's 
 starting life in a new environment, where there is no critical eye 
 to cast a questioning glance nor old associates to lift a beckon- 
 ing finger. In some instances they have gladly moved to another 
 town in order that they may not longer be separated from the 
 companionship of their dear one. In cases where such removal 
 would work too great a hardship to the wage earner, then it is, 
 indeed, a nice problem to determine whether this girl will stand 
 a better chance of wholesome living in a home other than that 
 of her people, or whether the strain of longer separation from 
 them will hinder her success. In many cases strangers can exer- 
 cise a more judicious restraint than relatives, and the problem 
 of separation from them can be solved by frequent week-ends 
 spent at home. 
 
 In the case of two of our middle-aged women, after a few 
 months spent on parole, during which they demonstrated their 
 sincerity of purpose, they were allowed to return to their former 
 homes. It appeared that they felt a sense of confidence and 
 assurance there that they could not feel elsewhere. In both cases 
 they have maintained themselves with dignity and self-respect 
 even though they have long court records in this city. One of 
 them is unfailing in her gratitude to the State Farm as she 
 realizes it is our parole system which has enabled her to attain 
 her present social status. She had formerly been treated at the 
 Inebriate Farm, and released from there with no work secured 
 for her, no money or clothing, and nothing to seek but her former 
 
10 CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 
 companions, and she inevitably drifted back to her old habits 
 of life. 
 
 Students of sociology have been wont to question seriously the 
 wisdom of placing women on parole in domestic service. There 
 is a conviction that the work is menial and that a stigma attaches 
 to it ; that the girl is liable to become a prey, especially in a small 
 town where her origin and history readily become known. My 
 experience does not bear this out, possibly because I have had the 
 good fortune to secure places for our girls in homes of unusual 
 quality, where a very real human interest has been brought to 
 bear upon the girl and her problem. Their leisure and recreation 
 are planned for as carefully as that of the family, and, indeed, often 
 coincide with that of the family. They are thus offered a 
 maximum of protection with an ideal of family life which must 
 follow them into their own family when they marry, as they 
 presumably will. The breadth of vision and personal self-sacri- 
 fice displayed by people who have taken our girls into their homes 
 has been my most constant source of inspiration. 
 
 The position of Parole Officer is one which may readily become 
 a most unenviable one, when we consider that liberty is identical 
 with life itself ; that all things living are seeking self-expression 
 and resisting that which prohibits self-expression. The girl on 
 parole is in the world but not of it. She is subjected to all the 
 varied stimuli of our complex civilization yet under a restraint, 
 and that restraint imposed from without. To deprive her of so 
 much of her liberty as shall provide a safeguard and yet make 
 her as little as possible conscious that she is being so deprived 
 is the task of the Parole Officer. 
 
 If I have attained any measure of success in gaining the con- 
 fidence of my wards it has been because I have succeeded in 
 regarding them as "just folks." To be sure, they are a selected 
 group with very definite limitations, but open to all the approaches 
 of normal human relationships. To deal with them effectively 
 one has to learn when to hold them to our standards and when to 
 make allowances for their limitations. 
 
 My parole memories will always partake largely of my first 
 week's experiences, when I learned to know and love that group 
 of middle-aged alcohoHcs who must go down in history as the 
 pioneers of State Farm life. They had listened to the magic 
 words, "thirty days," a score of times. What wonder that to 
 spend a whole year in penance for "one little glass of whiskey" 
 was rank injustice! They had such distinct individualities, and 
 they were so sure that they would never again fall by the way- 
 side ! Of course, they fell, one by one, much to the chagrin of 
 the new parole officer ; but twelve are not yet weary in well doing, 
 and that is over fifty per cent., so truly it is very much worth 
 while. 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN II 
 
 Parole statistics may' be briefly stated thus: Two were paroled 
 prior to my incumbency. Twenty-eight were paroled between 
 July I, 1919, and July i, 1920. Thirteen violated their parole; 
 seven were returned, and two of this number were subsequently 
 re-paroled. Two who were not satisfactory to their employers 
 were returned to the Farm and later re-paroled. One chronic 
 asthmatic was unable to carry on her occupation and was returned 
 to the Farm. An effort has been made to meet the wishes of 
 the girls in their occupation while on parole. One was placed 
 as student nurse, one as student dietitian, one student boarding 
 school, one practical nurse, three returned to relatives, four 
 obtained factory work, five were returned to their husbands, and 
 twelve were placed in domestic service. 
 
 My faith in human nature has been strengthened, rather than 
 otherwise, by my contact with the delinquent problem. Some of 
 our successes have been so phenomenal ! Women with such 
 unsavory histories that no one would believe reform was possible 
 for them have amazed us by their strength of character and 
 their ability to live acceptably under new conditions. In the 
 case of married couples we have frequently accomplished the 
 rehabilitation of both by making very definite requirements for 
 the husband before his wife is restored to him. 
 
 I am constrained to present to you a picture contrasting the 
 way in which Connecticut at one time dealt with her delinquent 
 women with the method which it has been my privilege to admin- 
 ister. In 1723 Mary Arnold of Norwalk did "wickedly, devil- 
 ishly, and in a burglarious and felonious manner, break open ye 
 house of Matthew Gregory of Norwalk and did steale a silke 
 scarffe'to ye value of thirty shillings." She was branded with a 
 letter B on the forehead with a red-hot iron. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Ethel Lord Scofield, 
 
 Parole Officer, 
 
To the Board of Directors, Connecticut State Farm for Women: 
 I herewith submit my report as Superintendent of the Connect- 
 icut State Farm for Women for the period ending June 30, 1920. 
 
 General. 
 
 The previous report, published September 30, 1918, gave a 
 history of the efforts made to estabHsh a State Farm and the 
 accompHshments of the first months of its functioning, together 
 with an outHne of the possible future development of the institu- 
 tion. Since the publication of that report much progress has 
 been made. Electric lights have replaced old kerosene lamps. 
 The transformation of the old barn back of the Staff House into 
 a hospital for the care and training of venereal cases has been 
 accomplished. This building was remodeled at the earnest solici- 
 tation of the State Board of Health and the Federal Government 
 in order that the diseased women land girls found around the 
 army and navy posts might be cared for. It is equipped with heat, 
 light and plumbing, and has dormitory space for twenty-five girls, 
 an operating room, and living room and bedroom for two nurses. 
 Lacking other proper isolation quarters the new girls have been 
 detained in this building for a period of observation and training 
 under closer supervision than is necessary or advisable in the 
 other cottages, where the girls are classified as the junior and 
 senior groups, the latter being composed mostly of intoxication 
 cases, and the former of young girls sent for sex offences only. 
 
 As space in the Venereal Hospital was somewhat limited, 
 advantage was taken of the proximity of the kitchen of the Staff 
 House to add hereto a kitchen and dining-room which were 
 connected to the hospital by an outside corridor, thus making of 
 the whole an architectural unit. 
 
 At House 2 a wing has been added which furnishes a sunny 
 living room on the first floor for the girls and a much-needed 
 dormitory on the second floor. This dormitory accommodates 
 the wards who were sleeping in the two attic rooms on the third 
 floor. A room to be used as a laundry was also added at the back 
 of the kitchen, and a new pantry built to replace the old one. 
 
 The Allen House, occupied by the farm supervisor, has been 
 repaired and modern improvements installed so as to make the 
 old house livable. It now stands as the most attractive of the old 
 buildings that were on the farms purchased for the property of 
 the State Farm. It was necessary to provide a means of supply- 
 ing the house with water, consequently a motor and pump were 
 purchased and installed. 
 
 Extensive repairs were also made on the Beebe House. This 
 house is occupied by the assistant to the farm supervisor. 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 13 
 
 Plumbing and heating systems were installed, new floors laid, 
 and a new chimney built, with other necessary repairs to plaster- 
 ing and woodwork. This house together with the Allen House, 
 situated on opposite sides of the Farm, are located in strategic 
 positions as far as the protection and natural policing of the 
 Farm are concerned. In order to keep good employees we must 
 provide suitable accommodations for them, and it is particularly 
 desirable to have homes for men employees as we have no place 
 to board them in the buildings occupied 'by the girls. 
 
 The Emergency Hospital, which had been originally an old 
 stable, was used for five months as a hospital, and then as a sew- 
 ing room. As the need of a nursery became apparent this build- 
 ing was rebuilt and refurnished to meet the new use to which it 
 was to-be put. Dormer windows were built in the second story, 
 and a partition placed through the center of the large dormitory, 
 dividing it into two rooms, each with a bathroom. A small space 
 was partitioned off as a bedroom for the nurse. A cellar was 
 dug and a furnace installed, as well as plumbing and electric 
 lights. The interior was lined with plaster board in order to 
 keep out the cold and make it more habitable. Here the girls 
 have been comfortable and happy,* away from the larger groups 
 from whom they ought to be differentiated. The girls who live in 
 the nursery take entire charge of their babies, care for the house, 
 and do most of the sewing for themselves and their babies under 
 the supervision of a nurse especially trained in the care of infants. 
 
 During the year we have also built a piggery and hen houses, 
 enlarged the creamery building, and remodeled the barn at 
 House I to provide storage space for provisions, tools, and farm 
 machinery, as well as a garage. Further mention of this will 
 be found in the appended report of the farm supervisor. 
 
 The shack at the Lake has had the interior divided into eight 
 dressing rooms to be used for bathing. 
 
 A vast amount of repairs has been made in all the cottages, 
 as the buildings are old and the wear and tear on them by so many 
 people makes frequent replacements necessary. 
 
 On May 17, 1920, ground was broken for the reception cottage. 
 This is the only new building we have had and is the first in our 
 building program. With delinquency greatly on the increase and 
 the sorting processes of society developing along finer lines, we 
 must be prepared to receive the army of misfits that are the 
 product of harder economic conditions and a society whose mode 
 of living is becoming ever more complex. This building will be 
 used as a receiving cottage and hospital where all health cases 
 will be kept until cured. It has twenty separate rooms, with a 
 ward for eight patients, on the first floor, and a room of similar 
 size on the second floor which is provided with Whitney sash on 
 the entire south side so that in the event of an, epidemic of 
 
14 CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOE WOMEN 
 
 influenza or pneumonia we could quickly turn it into an open-air 
 ward. Two isolation rooms with an outside entry and a room for 
 the use of the dentist are also planned. In this building the new 
 girls will be studied and trained. From this cottage the girls 
 will be transferred to the other smaller cottages where classifica- 
 tion according to mentality, social status, age, and previous 
 personal history will form the basis of the grouping. 
 
 At present we are able to classify only along certain broad lines. 
 At House I we have the older women and the girls returned 
 after violation of parole. At House 2 are the younger girls who 
 take care of the stock and who have been sent there chiefly on the 
 basis of a clean bill of health. 
 
 At the Emergency Hospital, which we now call the nursery, are 
 housed eleven mothers and twelve babies, in two dormitories with 
 separate baths, one being for infected or suspected cases. 
 
 At the Big Hospital we have all the diseased girls in one dormi- 
 tory, and in the other, girls who do not seem to fit into any of the 
 other groups either because of poor physical condition or mental 
 instability. This makes a difficult group as it is less homogeneous 
 than any other group and needs special care and more officers 
 to handle. 
 
 Each cottage is a complete domestic unit. All the work of 
 each house is done by the girls living therein. It is the plan to 
 have the work of the house as nearly that of a family home as 
 is possible. We are preparing these girls to go back into society 
 to take their place as self-supporting members of the community, 
 therefore we must guard against institutionalizing them. Our 
 training here must fit them for the work they are to do when 
 they go out, as most of them will go, into family life. 
 
 Medical Work. 
 
 Treatment of venereal diseases is an important part of the 
 work here, and we are treating on an average of five cases a week. 
 Since the opening of the institution we have had forty-seven 
 venereal cases. Of this number four were infected with both 
 gonorrhea and syphilis. The cases are given the most scientific 
 and most efficient treatment known to medical science. The 
 following procedure is used: — 
 
 Upon admission a new girl is given examination by a nurse, 
 and specimens to ascertain whether the patient is infected with 
 venereal disease are sent to the State Laboratory for examina- 
 tion. If the test is reported positive, treatment is begun imme- 
 diately. If gonococcic infection is reported or suspected by the 
 presence of clinical symptoms, daily applications of solutions of 
 argyrol, potassium permanganate, silver nitrate, or iodine, are 
 given in alternating order. After clinical symptoms clear up a 
 specimen is again sent to the Laboratory for examination. This 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOE WOMEN IS 
 
 process is repeated as long as tests are positive or clinical symp- 
 toms exist to indicate presence of infection. After all symptoms 
 have disappeared treatment is stopped, but the patient is given 
 tests at intervals to determine possible recurrence of the condi- 
 tion. Sixteen cases of gonorrhea have been received in the hos- 
 pital. One case was deported before a cure was effected. The 
 others were rendered non-infectious after varying periods of 
 treatment. 
 
 If the Wasserman test is positive the patient is given a course 
 of six intravenous injections of neoarsphenamine at the rate of 
 one a week, with an intramuscular injection of mercury or grey 
 oil given mid-week. A rest period of five or six weeks follows, 
 at the end of which time another test is made. If this brings a 
 positive return another set of six treatments followed by a rest 
 period is ordered, and is repeated a third or fourth time if neces- 
 sary to obtain a negative condition. After this has been attained 
 tests are given at intervals to discover any flare-up of the condi- 
 tion, and treatment given again if any positive return is made. 
 
 Since the standardization of our methods each girl must have 
 three negative tests each for gonorrhea and syphilis before she 
 will be considered eligible for parole, irrespective of whether 
 she is ready to leave by virtue of her mental or moral development. 
 
 We have received thirty-eight cases infected with syphilis. 
 Three cases were transferred to other institutions before they 
 were cured ; two cases of permanent Wasserman, but in non- 
 infectious stages, were allowed on parole by the physician after 
 a year of treatment; nine cases are still under treatment here 
 in the institution ; twenty have gone out cured as far as medical 
 science is able to determine by tests or inspection. 
 
 Since the opening of the institution four hundred thirty-eight 
 tests have been made by the laboratory of the Health Depart- 
 ment. Two hundred fifteen of these have been for gonorrhea, 
 and two hundred twenty-three for syphilis. The results have 
 been gratifying, and much credit is due to the splendid work done 
 by Dr. Lyons, whose loss we greatly regret. The general health 
 of the girls has been good. One case of diphtheria developed, 
 but complete isolation prevented contamination. Cultures were 
 taken of all girls and officers, and treatment given to a few cases 
 who were indicated as having pseudo-diphtheretic germs in nose 
 or throat. 
 
 During the past six months six infants have been circumcised ; 
 one has had adenoids and tonsils removed ; one girl has been 
 operated upon for strabismus ; twenty-four girls have been fitted 
 with eye-glasses; and fifteen girls have been taken to the dentist. 
 
 Four cases have been sent to Grace Hospital, New Haven, for 
 diagnosis and operative work. Eight cases have been sent to the 
 Lawrence Memorial Hospital for delivery, as it seems wiser not 
 
l6 CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOE WOMEN 
 
 to attempt that work here until the New Hospital is opened and 
 a resident physician is provided. 
 
 I wish publicly to acknowledge our indebtedness for service 
 rendered by the medical profession in caring for our girls, par- 
 ticularly to Dr. Minor for his unfailing and unstinted services to 
 the institution at all times; also, for courtesies extended to us 
 so magnanimously by the Grace Hospital of New Haven and 
 the Lawrence Hospital of New London, and the valuable assist- 
 ance given us by the State Board of Health for the many tests 
 made and advice given. 
 
 In the future I should like to have a thorough and exhaustive 
 examination made of every entrant as a matter of routine. All 
 possible tests, such as sputum, blood, feces, nose and throat, 
 intestinal parasites, urinalysis should be made, if clinics can be 
 located to make these tests for us. To my knowledge this is not 
 done in any institution of a similar kind anywhere, and would 
 set a high standard for this type of work and form a basis for 
 greater efficiency. 
 
 Farm.- 
 
 The farm is probably the most important factor in the upbuild- 
 ing of our girls. The work in the garden helps to build up the 
 weak, unhealthy bodies, and to strengthen high-strung, nervous 
 creatures that come to us worn out by their habits of late hours, 
 improper eating, and vile indulgence. The outdoor work is espe- 
 cially helpful in the training and development of the mentally 
 inferior girls. It involves the use of the larger muscles, and the 
 control of , the finer muscles and nervous system. The girls 
 have assisted in all outdoor work. Detailed report by the Farm 
 Supervisor is attached in connection with the development work. 
 
 Parole Work. 
 
 I am particularly anxious to secure the services of a psychia- 
 trist who will furnish us with full records for the classification 
 and training of our wards. As the population increases we get 
 a more conglomerate mass of humanity to sort out. As training 
 should be on a basis of mental capacity the classification of this 
 large group into small homogeneous groups is most essential. 
 Each case should be analyzed with respect to four distinct 
 approaches: The personal, the physical, the psychological, and 
 the environmental. Vocational guidance as well as academic 
 training can be made more effective if the individual girl is 
 studied. We will get a fairly high percentage of mental inferiors 
 and mental deviates who need to be segregated and given special 
 care and training. We need to study the girl on parole. This 
 work is fully as important as the training of the girl in the insti- 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 1 7 
 
 tution. The work of readjusting institution wards to society is 
 always a hard task and is fully fifty per cent of our work. It 
 means to a great extent weekly visits to each girl located within 
 reasonable distance from the institution, to make the adjustment 
 between the girl and her employer, and when unsuitability or unfit- 
 ness for a particular piece of work is apparent, immediate adjust- 
 ment by removal to another place or further training is resorted 
 to. The Parole Agent must try to make a point of contact 
 between the girl and every normal activity in a community — - 
 that is, with the church, and the social group into which she 
 would naturally fall by virtue of her mentality and training in 
 social standards. 
 
 Each girl's home is investigated before her parole is considered. 
 If her own home is suitable and promises to hold her up to the 
 standards to which she has been trained in the institution, she is 
 sent there. For that reason our training should teach our 
 wards not only how to adjust themselves to their environment, 
 but also how to change their environment so as to make it con- 
 form to the standards to which they are trained. The work of 
 teaching the girls to shop, to spend their money wisely and in 
 the purchase of articles suitable to their positions and stations in 
 life, is a very important part of the parole workers' task. 
 
 A report of the year's work as reviewed by the Parole Officer is 
 appended. 
 
 Recreation. 
 
 For recreation our equipment is limited. We have two sleds 
 and seven pairs of skates which were magnanimously donated 
 by friends last winter, but our natural surroundings lend them- 
 selves to many recreational activities — tramping, picnics, swim- 
 ming, fishing. The resourcefulness of the officers has furnished 
 many happy times. Ring games, baseball, charades and stunts 
 have played a large part in the recreation hour. The girls are 
 permitted to dance two or three titnes a week, and each holiday 
 as it comes along is celebrated by some program suited to the 
 occasion and in keeping with the traditions centering around it. 
 Much is made of these holidays that the girls may learn their 
 full significance and teach others to appreciate them. Occasion- 
 ally dramatics are given, and though we have no suitable place 
 for these performances much ingenuity has been shown in devis- 
 ing ways and means of giving their production in a creditable 
 fashion. These entertainments aim at two things: The amuse- 
 ment of the girls, and the training of the girls to participate in 
 social affairs and conduct themselves properly. 
 
 We need a gymnasium where physical training can be given. 
 Exercise aids function, helps correct bad habits, increases self- 
 control, develops leadership, and teaches fair play. 
 
1 8 CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 
 Religion. 
 
 The religious side of the girls' training is not neglected, though 
 it has not yet attained the high standard that we hope to reach. 
 Each Sunday afternoon we have religious service conducted by 
 a visiting clergyman or someone known as a leader in work 
 affiliated with church work. We are greatly indebted to these 
 friends for the service they have rendered. Service for Catholic 
 girls has been held as often as the services of one of the priests 
 from the neighboring churches could be secured. In each cot- 
 tage the Catholic girls have an altar set up for their daily wor- 
 ship. This has been made possible through the generous gifts 
 of some of our Catholic friends who presented statues, holy 
 pictures, and the other appurtenances. We encourage and invite 
 ministers of every' denomination to come to us as often as possible. 
 Prayers are held each night in each cottage before bedtime. 
 These are of a non-sectarian nature and are participated in by 
 all the girls. 
 
 Conclusion. 
 
 My incumbency covers the past six months. It is difficult for 
 a new person to record the progress made during the period that 
 has elapsed since the last report, which was issued September 30, 
 1918. The appended statistical tables give certain valuable facts, 
 and indicate the trend of the delinquency problem in the State. 
 These six months of my incumbency have been principally a 
 period of readjustment; namely, an effort, first, to amalgamate 
 the old staff with the new, to raise the standards of cooperation 
 and to effect an organization with the social service point of view 
 and an ideal worthy of a group of women who are giving their 
 services for humanity and not for hire; secondly, to establish 
 among the girls certain habits and an attitude of mind that will 
 make them receptive and retentive of the ideals that we are trying 
 to create for them and in them. 
 
 The institution exists to meet the needs of the particular type 
 of girls who come within the law establishing this institution. 
 In days gone by we used to say that girls were sent to institu- 
 tions, first, for the protection of society, and second, for the 
 reformation of the girl. In the evolution of our penal system 
 from the old primitive form to the educational, our ideas about 
 the individual have materially changed and we should properly 
 transpose these two, putting the girl first and society second. 
 
 To state our purpose in a few words I should say that the 
 function of this institution is: First, the rehabilitation of a class 
 of girls and women who through poor heredity or environment 
 or both have fallen into a class designated as delinquent ; second, 
 to contribute to the study of delinquency, its causes, effects, pre- 
 vention and elimination, by practical investigations and scientific 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 1 9 
 
 research into all the phases of delinquency and allied subjects; 
 third, to make the institution as nearly self-supporting as is con- 
 sistent with the primary object of its existence, namely, the 
 rehabilitation of delinquent girls and women. 
 
 The reformation of girls who are nearing, or have reached, 
 maturity is difficult. The work of building character is a slow 
 process, and the process of rebuilding still slower. Most of the 
 wards sent to us have violated the laws set up by society for its 
 own protection; they come to us ignorant, devoid of manners, 
 morals, truth and honor. They come with stunted morals, a 
 limited education, a weak, nervous body, and a warped outlook 
 on life. 
 
 The first step toward rehabilitation consists in gaining their 
 confidence, then to instill in them respect for themselves, respect 
 for authority and the dignity of labor. Each girl must be shown 
 and taught the rudiments of honesty, industry and morality. She 
 must learn that happiness is measured by degrees of usefulness 
 and the spirit of service and not by self-indulgence and so-called 
 liberty. In short, our problem is to train girls who have been 
 given up by every other agency, private and public, to be self- 
 respecting, self-supporting. God-fearing citizens. It is our 
 earnest endeavor to make good home-makers of the girls sent 
 here. Every girl and woman has the ambition of playing a part 
 in somefbody's home, usually her own. We can render the State 
 no greater service than to prepare the5e girls and women to 
 become good housekeepers and homemakers. 
 
 In going over the statistical tables one is impressed with the 
 fact that the work of the institution has gone through four prac- 
 tically distinct phases in its short history. The first group of 
 women sent here for treatment was made up almost entirely of 
 alcoholic cases. Of twenty-eight commitments during the first 
 three months eighteen were of this class. 
 
 Then followed a period of almost six months in which nearly 
 all the cases committed were health cases. These were taken 
 at the solicitation of the U. S. Government to help care for girls 
 around camps in a public campaign against venereal disease. 
 
 During the next six months the majority of commitments falls 
 into the most purely incorrigible group — younger girls who, 
 through the unsettled social conditions and economic pressure, 
 were turning to lives of ease and shame. 
 
 During the past six months an entirely diflFerent phase has been 
 entered upon — ^that of the mothers and expectant mothers. Up to 
 the beginning of 1920 this part of the work had been side-stepped 
 because of lack of facilities, but at that time the demand for this 
 part of the work became so urgent that it was decided to use the 
 Board Room for a Nursery until other provisions could be made. 
 
 On April 19, 1920, the Emergency Hospital, rebuilt and refur- 
 
26 CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 
 riished, was opened as a Maternity Hospital with six babies. 
 Since then ten others have been added, and since the capacity 
 of this building is limited to twelve we have had to reestablish 
 an auxiliary nursery in the big hospital, using again the Board 
 Room, which in the meantime had been converted into a sewing- 
 room. This is difficult because of the inconvenient location of 
 the bath-room, and the fact that a large group of other girls has 
 to share the same house and use the same living-room with the 
 babies and mothers. 
 
 Needs. 
 
 I would respectfully call attention to the following needs :- — 
 
 1. The erection of an educational, vocational and recreational 
 building. This need is imperative. The buildings are so crowded 
 that it is practically impossible to give even academic work in 
 the cottages. This building should contain four educational class- 
 rooms, an auditorium on the second floor, and a gymnasium in 
 the basement. 
 
 2. The erection during the next two years of several cottages, 
 to house twenty-five girls each, in order to meet the insistent 
 demands on the institution for the reception of a larger number 
 of girls. At the present rate of admission we will need five 
 cottages to meet the demand. 
 
 3. The construction of a good road within our own premises 
 which will connect up • the buildings and make easy access to 
 various buildings without use of the State road; also, the repair 
 of the public road from the main highway to the Allen House. 
 
 4. Employment of a psychiatrist. More and more emphasis 
 is being placed upon the care and training based on psychological 
 and psychiatric findings in a case. Vocational guidance as well 
 as better academic training can be more effectively directed with 
 the help of these studies. Also, the school should be relieved 
 of the care of such mental inferiors as cannot profit by the train- 
 ing here and who can be cared for in other institutions provided 
 for their kind. 
 
 In conclusion I wish to express my thanks to the members of 
 my staff for their untiring efforts to sustain and promote this 
 difficult work. 
 
 I am grateful to friends who have visited us and given inspira- 
 tion. We are indebted to friends for gifts of books, pictures, 
 magazines, and other valuable articles, a list of which is appended. 
 
 To the Board of Directors of the Farm I am indebted for loyal 
 support and counsel. Their untiring efforts and ever-increasing 
 interest have made it what it is to-day. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Anna M. Petersen, 
 
 Superintendent. 
 
Number of Commitments from Jui-y i, 1918, to July i, 1920. 
 
 1918 Commitments 
 
 July 12 
 
 August IS 
 
 September 2 
 
 October 2 
 
 November i 
 
 December 6 
 
 1919 
 
 January 3 
 
 February $ 
 
 March 2 
 
 April I 
 
 May o 
 
 June 4 
 
 Total for ist year S3 
 
 July 8 
 
 August 2 
 
 September 2 
 
 October 10 
 
 November 3 
 
 December 9 
 
 January 3 
 
 February i 
 
 March 4 
 
 April 6 
 
 May 7 
 
 June 6 
 
 Total for 2d year 61 
 
 Total for tviro years . . , ., 114 
 
 Occupation at Time of Arrest. 
 
 Bench work in automobile shop i 
 
 Clerk , 8 
 
 Dish washer I 
 
 Domestic n 
 
 Dressmaker 1 
 
 Factory , 10 
 
 House work 7 
 
 Laundry 3 
 
 Office work 
 
 Paper box factory 
 
 Sales girl 
 
 Spinner in cotton mill 
 
 Telephone operator 
 
 Waitress 9 
 
 Wrestler in carnival i 
 
 No occupation 57 
 
 Total 114 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 Ages Represented. 
 
 Yrs. 
 i6 . 
 
 17 • 
 
 18 . 
 
 19 . 
 
 20 . 
 
 21 . 
 
 22 . 
 
 23 • 
 
 24 . 
 
 2$ . 
 27 ■ 
 
 29 . 
 
 30 . 
 
 31 ■ 
 
 32 . 
 
 33 
 
 No. 
 
 9 
 8 
 6 
 
 12 
 
 II 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 S 
 I 
 
 3 
 
 i^ 
 
 3 
 3 
 I 
 I 
 . I 
 
 Yrs. 
 
 37 
 
 38 
 
 39 
 
 40 ........ 
 
 41 
 
 43 
 
 44 
 
 45 
 
 47 
 
 48 
 
 52 
 
 S8 
 
 61 
 
 Unknown 
 
 No. 
 
 5 
 2 
 
 5 
 2 
 
 3 
 I 
 2 
 2 
 
 Average age of commitment 26 years. 
 
 Total 114 
 
 GiKL Herself. 
 
 BIRTHPLACE. 
 
 United States 87 
 
 Connecticut 60 
 
 Indiana I 
 
 Maine I 
 
 Massachusetts 5 
 
 New Jersey 2 
 
 New York 9 
 
 Ohio I 
 
 Rhode Island 3 
 
 South CaroUna i 
 
 Vermont 2 
 
 Virginia I 
 
 Pennsylvania i 
 
 Austria 2 
 
 Canada i 
 
 Denmark I 
 
 England 3 
 
 Germany 2 
 
 Ireland 
 
 Poland 
 
 Russia 
 
 Scotland 
 
 Sweden 
 
 Unknown 7 
 
 Total ... 114 
 
 PARENTAGE. 
 
 American 13 
 
 Austrian 2 
 
 English 3 
 
 French 9 
 
 French-Irish 3 
 
 French-Spanish I 
 
 French-German i 
 
 German i 
 
 German-American I 
 
 Irish 7 
 
 Irish-English 2 
 
 Irish-German 2 
 
 Jewish I 
 
 Negro 4 
 
 Polish I 
 
 Scotch I 
 
 Scotch-Irish 2 
 
 Swedish i 
 
 Syrian i 
 
 Total 
 
 56 
 
 MARITAL STATUS. 
 
 Divorced 3 
 
 Married 20 
 
 Single 32 
 
 Widow I 
 
 Total 56 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 Fourth grade 2 
 
 Fifth grade 4 
 
 Sixth grade 5 
 
 Seventh grade 12 
 
 RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE 
 
 Member Attendant 
 
 Baptist I 4 
 
 Catholic 27 o 
 
 Congregational ... i o 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOE WOMEN 
 
 23 
 
 Eighth grade 12 
 
 Ninth grade 4 
 
 Graduate grammar 3 
 
 First year high i 
 
 Second year high 2 
 
 Third year high i 
 
 High school grade i 
 
 Business college i 
 
 Night high i 
 
 Regents i 
 
 One month I 
 
 Undetermined S 
 
 Episcopalian 11 i 
 
 Lutheran i o 
 
 Methodist i 2 
 
 Meth. Epis i i 
 
 Swedish Cong. . . . i i 
 
 Unknown 3 
 
 Total number Catholics 27 
 
 Total number Protestants .... 29 
 
 Total 56 
 
 Total number of commitments since opening of institution is 114. 
 were 56 girls actually present on July i, 1920. 
 
 S6 
 
 There 
 
 Girls Committed Since 1918. 
 
 COUNTIES REPRESENTED. 
 
 Fairfield 31 
 
 Hartford 26 
 
 Litchfield 5 
 
 Middlesex i 
 
 New Haven 29 
 
 New London 14 
 
 Windham 8 
 
 Total 114 
 
 CHARGES. 
 
 Manifest danger 16 
 
 Prostitution 24 
 
 Lascivious carriage 11 
 
 Fornication S 
 
 Intoxication 24 
 
 Health cases 14 
 
 Incorrigible 3 
 
 Stealing 8 
 
 Adultery 3 
 
 Wayward i 
 
 Abandoning child I 
 
 Vagrancy 3 
 
 Disorderly conduct i 
 
 Total 
 
 114 
 
 CITIES AND TOWNS REPRESENTED. 
 
 Ansonia 2 
 
 Bridgeport 24 
 
 Bristol I 
 
 Farmington 2 
 
 Groton 2 
 
 Hartford IS 
 
 Lyme I 
 
 Manchester I 
 
 Middletown i 
 
 Meriden 2 
 
 New Britain 5 
 
 i\'ew Haven 18 
 
 New London 7 
 
 North Stonington I 
 
 Norwalk 5 
 
 Norwich 2 
 
 Plainville 2 
 
 Putnam 8 
 
 Salisbury i 
 
 Stamford 2 
 
 Thomaston i 
 
 Torrington 2 
 
 Waterbury 7 
 
 Waterford I 
 
 Winchester I 
 
 Total 114 
 
 Girls' Ambition after Leaving C. S. F. W. 
 
 Chamber work •• i 
 
 Clerical work i 
 
 Clock shop ! 1 
 
 Cook I 
 
 Factory work i3 
 
 Hospital work 2 
 
 Housework 12 
 
 Home ^ 
 
 Laundry 2 
 
•24 CONNECTICUT STATE FASM FOR WOMEN 
 
 School 2 
 
 Trateed nurse 3 
 
 Telephone operator .-..., I 
 
 Traveling companion i 
 
 Waitress i 
 
 Waitress in private family S 
 
 Uncertain ■ 8 
 
 Total S6 
 
 Number of Girls from other Institutions. 
 
 House of Good Shepherd in New York i 
 
 House of Good Shepherd in Hartford 9 
 
 Hillside House, Ansbnia , i 
 
 Norwich State Hospital 2 
 
 County House in New Haven i 
 
 New York Institution i 
 
 Industrial School, Middletown 2 
 
 Children's Homes, Connecticut 2 
 
 House of Correction, Massachusetts 2 
 
 Episcopal Orphanage, Hartford, Connecticut i 
 
 Total 22 
 
 Syphilis Committed, 38. 
 
 Cases escaped 3 
 
 Cases transferred 4 
 
 Cases allowed on parole '. . . . 2 
 
 Cases on treatment in institution June 30 9 
 
 Cases cured to date 20 
 
 Total 38 
 
 Gonorrhea Committed, 16. 
 
 Cases deported I 
 
 Cases cured 15 
 
 Total 16 
 
 Syphilis and Gonorrhea, 4. 
 Cases having both syphilis and gonorrhea 4 
 
 occupation of father. religion of father. 
 
 Bfass moulder 1 Member Attendant 
 
 Brick layer i Baptist 2 2 
 
 Carpenter i Catholic 21 o 
 
 Clerk I Congregational . . . i i 
 
 Coal business i Episcopal 8 o 
 
 Construction work I Jewish i o 
 
 Cotton mill I Methodist 4 2 
 
 Captain boat 2 No church 9 o 
 
 Custom house i Swedish Cong. . . . i o 
 
 Engineer 2 Unknown 4 
 
 Farmer 8 — — 
 
 Factory 7 Si 5 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 
 25 
 
 Furniture business 
 
 Gardener 
 
 General manager 
 
 Grocery and saloon 
 
 House man in hotel 
 
 Janitor 
 
 Machinist 
 
 Moulder 
 
 Livery stable 
 
 Night watchman 
 
 Painter 
 
 Printer 
 
 . Policeman 
 
 Real estate jitney 
 
 Stage manager 
 
 Seaman 
 
 Silversmith 
 
 Trainman 
 
 Truck driver 
 
 Tailor 
 
 Unknown 3 
 
 Total 56 
 
 Catholic -. 21 
 
 Protestant 35 
 
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 NATIONALITY OF FATHER. 
 
 Negro 3 
 
 American 12 
 
 Austrian 2 
 
 English s 
 
 French 9 
 
 French Canadian i 
 
 German 3 
 
 Irish 9 
 
 Jewish I 
 
 Scotch 2 
 
 Polish I 
 
 Syrian i 
 
 Unknown 7 
 
 Total 
 
 56 
 
 Girls Discharged, Paroled, and 
 Transferred. 
 
 Deported i 
 
 Discharged 6 
 
 Escaped 11 
 
 Paroled 28 
 
 Transferred 12 
 
 At farm 56 
 
 Total 
 
 114 
 
 NATIONALITY OF MOTHER. 
 
 American 12 
 
 Austrian i 
 
 Canadian I 
 
 French Canadian I 
 
 English 2 
 
 French 8 
 
 French Indian I 
 
 German 3 
 
 Jewish I 
 
 Irish 13 
 
 Negro 4 
 
 Polish I 
 
 Scotch 2 
 
 Spanish I 
 
 Syrian I 
 
 Unknown 4 
 
 Total 
 
 S6 
 
 OCCUPATION OF MOTHER. 
 
 Dressmaker 3 
 
 MARITAL STATUS OF PARENTS. 
 
 Both parents living 11 
 
 Own mother living 6 
 
 Own father living 13 
 
 Step-mother living 9 
 
 Step- father living 5 
 
 Foster parent living I 
 
 Both parents dead 7 
 
 Own mother dead 20 
 
 Father dead 10 
 
 Mother, divorced i 
 
 RELIGION OF MOTHER. 
 
 Member Attendant 
 
 Baptist 3 o 
 
 Catholic 25 
 
 Congregational ... 1 1 
 
 Episcopal 10 I 
 
 Jewish I 
 
 Lutheran i 
 
 Methodist 3 i 
 
 Swedish Cong. . . . i 
 
26 CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 
 Factory t i Unknown 8 
 
 House lodging i — — 
 
 ' Housework 45 53 3 
 
 Laundress i Total number Catholics 25 
 
 Nurse I Total number Protestants .... 23 
 
 Mill work 2 Total number unknown 8 
 
 Unknown 2 
 
 Total 56 
 
 S6 
 
 January i to July i. 
 
 Gingham dresses loi 
 
 White dresses : ; 32 " 
 
 Serge dresses 6 
 
 House dresses I3 
 
 Street dresses 4 
 
 White underskirts 8 
 
 White slips 20 
 
 White nightgowns 32 
 
 White chemise 8 
 
 White aprons 1 150 
 
 White collars " no 
 
 White cuffs (pairs) 88 
 
 Bloomer suits 27 
 
 Gingham aprons 54 
 
 Muslin petticoats 86 
 
 Corset covers 86 
 
 Belts 51 
 
 Napkins 296 
 
 Nightgowns 30 
 
 Rompers 10 
 
 Baby dresses 39 
 
 Baby petticoats 21 
 
 Flannel petticoats 23 
 
 Baby jackets 25 
 
 Diapers , 219 
 
 Baby caps 3 
 
 Sheets 48 
 
 Pillow cases 38 
 
 Baby pillows 14 
 
 Table cloths 8 
 
 Sheets 18 
 
 Table napkins 46 
 
 Dresser scarfs 12 
 
 Dish towels 12 
 
 Surgery towels 16 
 
 Pneumonia jackets 2 
 
 Hot water bottle covers 12 
 
 Rubber aprons 5 
 
 Shoe bags , 52 
 
 Sewing bags 44 
 
 Needle cases 60 
 
 Donations. 
 
 Bas relief Mrs. Helen W. Rogers 
 
 Statue of Blessed Virgin and Child Miss Madeline Leahy 
 
 Statue of Sacred Heart Miss Madeline Leahy 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOE WOMEN 27 
 
 Rosaries, Scapulas and Holy Pictures Miss Madeline Leahy 
 
 Statue of Blessed Virgin Miss Louise Coyle 
 
 Statue of Sacred Heart Miss Louise Coyle 
 
 Prayer Books, Scapulas, Rosaries Father McGrath 
 
 Catholic magazines Mrs. A. Troup 
 
 Picture (Cries of London) Mrs. Henry A. Burastead 
 
 Picture (Jeanne D'Arc) Miss Louise Coyle 
 
 Books Mr. George C. Clark 
 
 Flowers for Easter Sunday Congregation United Church, N. H. 
 
 Flowers for Easter Sunday Congregation Center Church, N. H. 
 
 Twenty-five dollars Mrs. Victor Smith 
 
 Set Hymnals W. C. T. U., Hartford 
 
 Hymnals Center Church, Hartford 
 
 Victrola Dr. Valeria H. Parker 
 
 .S^olian with 100 rolls Mrs. Guy S. Callander 
 
 One pair skates Mr. Charles Bowman 
 
 Three pairs skates Mrs. F. Williams 
 
 One pair skates Mrs. Charles Rounds 
 
 One sled Mrs. Charles Rounds 
 
 One pair skates Mrs. Wilham Paulin 
 
 One sled Mrs. A. S. Russell 
 
 One pair skates Mrs. A. S. Russell 
 
 Visitors from January 4 to June 30, 1920. 
 
 To institution 17O 
 
 To girls S3 
 
REPORT OF FARM SUPERINTENDENT. 
 
 A year's experience an4 study of the soil on the Farm proves 
 beyond any question of doubt that all of the cultivated land has 
 been very much depleted, being particularly lacking in lime and 
 humus, and is also very full of weeds. 
 
 The lime can readily be supplied by purchase, but it will require 
 several years to replace the humus and get rid of the weeds. 
 My experience last year, and more particularly this year, shows 
 that lime is just as important as fertilizer. Where lime has been 
 applied in small amounts experimentally there has been very 
 marked increase in production, in some cases as much as 800% 
 to 1000%. 
 
 The humus can be replaced to a certain extent by the use of 
 commercial fertilizers and the ploughing under of green- crops, 
 but it can be replaced more satisfactorily by the generous use of 
 animal manure, and the more of this that is available the more 
 quickly the land can be made productive. 
 
 Rotation of Crops. 
 
 After carefully considering the conditions and the available 
 land and after consultation with Professor Slate and Professor 
 Dorsey of the Connecticut Agricultural College, the following 
 eight-year rotation has been adopted : corn, wheat or rye, clover, 
 corn, potatoes, beans, etc., oats or barley, grass, grass. 
 
 There are on the Farm approximately one hundred twenty acres 
 of comparatively clear land so located as to divide very nicely 
 into eight nearly equal plots of about fifteen acres each. The 
 flat land back of House i contains about forty-five acres, almost 
 exactly one-third of which is cut off by the present road running 
 from the house toward the Lake. This lot is nearly level and is 
 free from stones and trees, but is of a light sandy nature and 
 very badly depleted. In 1919 ten acres of the best of this lot 
 yielded less than four tons of poor hay. 
 
 At the north end of the Lake there are about forty-three acres 
 (known as the Grant Place), two-thirds of which we have already 
 cleared of trees and stones ; the other third is partly covered with 
 sumachs, bayberries, and other small growing trees and shrubs. 
 This lot is a little more rolling than the first-mentioned lot, and 
 is not quite so sandy, although it, too, is of a light sandy nature. 
 
 At the Allen Place, so-called, are twenty-six acres, and there 
 are two adjoining lots back of the Hospital containing four acres. 
 This land is heavier and more rolling than either of the' other 
 tracts. It is cut up by stone walls into eight lots, and part of it 
 
CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 29 
 
 IS quite stony, but it is well worth clearing and in a few years 
 could be made practically as clear as the other two tracts. 
 
 In addition to these one hundred twenty acres there are several 
 detached fields which are available for various uses ; one of these, 
 containing about six acres, is well adapted for a garden. There 
 is also a considerable tract near the Grant Place which could be 
 cleared in later years to add materially to the cultivated area. 
 
 Crops. 
 
 Corn. About twenty acres were planted to corn in 1919, half 
 of which was on land that was more exhausted than the average. 
 The yield on this part was small and was put in the silo. After 
 the silo was filled the remaining corn was left for husking, and 
 about four hundred bushels of ears were obtained. On a small 
 area where a liberal application of manure had been spread the 
 growth was particularly good, which shows the possibilities when 
 sufficient fertilizer is available. In 1920 about thirty acres have 
 been planted with the promise of somewhat better yields than 
 last year. 
 
 Potatoes. Seven acres were planted in 1919, using about four- 
 teen hundred pounds of fertilizer per acre, and considering the 
 condition of the soil, the weather, etc., the results were quite 
 satisfactory. We began digging for use about the first of July, 
 and dug a total of seven hundred seventy bushels of sound 
 potatoes. Although farmers all about us suffered considerably 
 from rot we were quite fortunate, losing not more than fifty 
 bushels. This year eight acres have been planted. Owing to 
 delay in the delivery of fertilizer they were not planted as early 
 as was desired. 
 
 Beans. A few beans were planted, and about five bushels were 
 harvested. 
 
 Hay. Approximately thirty tons of hay were cut in 1919, with 
 prospects of a somewhat larger crop this year. 
 
 Alfalfa. One-half acre of land is being used experimentally 
 with alfalfa, and although the results so far are negative I still 
 hope that it can be grown satisfactorily on the farm. 
 
 Garden Crops. While it is not possible for me to give exact 
 figures on these products, I feel that a valuation of $425 would be 
 very conservative. 
 
 Live Stock. 
 Cattle The first cows arrived on the farm about the last of 
 Tune 1919, and the second lot in October of the same year. Of 
 these fourteen cows, nine are pure-bred Holstems and five are 
 erades In July a pure-bred bull calf was purchased. Durmg 
 the year fourteen calves have been born on the farm, five pure- 
 
3° CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 
 bred females, three grade females, four pure-bred males, and two 
 grade males — a total of eight females and six males. 
 
 Swine. During the summer and fall of 1919 four Chester sows 
 and a boar were purchased. In addition to these we now have 
 twenty-nine late fall pigs, twenty-nine late spring pigs, and seven 
 fat hogs. A small flock of sheep was purchased, also, with the 
 hope that they would help to a certain extent in freeing the 
 pastures of weeds. 
 
 Poultry. In April and May, 1919, one thousand day-old Rhode 
 Island Red chicks were purchased, and from these we wintered 
 about three hundred fifty pullets. In April, 1920, five hundred 
 chicks were purchased, but we were unable later to get more that 
 would be satisfactory. 
 
 LrvE Stock on Hand June 30, 1920. 
 
 Cows, pure-bred 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 grade 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 14 
 
 
 Bull, pure-bred 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 Calves, pure-bred females 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 grade 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 
 steers 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 bull 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 Boar 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 Brood sows 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 Fat hogs 
 
 
 7 
 
 
 Fall pigs 
 
 
 29 
 
 
 Spring pigs 
 
 
 29 
 
 
 
 
 
 70 
 
 Ram 
 
 
 I 
 
 
 Ewes 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 Lambs 
 
 
 6 
 
 
 * 
 
 
 
 27 
 
 Hens, approximately 
 
 
 200 
 
 
 Chickens, approximately 
 
 
 350 
 
 550 
 
connecticut state farm for women j i 
 
 Buildings. 
 
 In the fall of 1919 we built three hen-houses, each large enough 
 to accommodate from one hundred to one hundred twenty-five 
 hens, and a piggery large enough to accommodate five or six 
 brood sows and their offspring during the winter. 
 
 The barn near House i has been raised and an eight-foot 
 cellar built under it. A substantial floor has been put in this 
 barn, strong enough for the storage of machinery, fertilizer, etc. 
 Rooms have been provided for work room, tool room, and three 
 rooms which may be used for storing supplies. Most of the work 
 on this building has been done by the regular help when the 
 weather would not permit of outside work. 
 
 We have also nearly completed an addition to the creamery 
 building to house the cold storage and ice plant, as well as to 
 provide an additional room for creamery work. All of the 
 Work on these buildings has been done by the regular farm 
 employees. 
 
 Machinery. 
 
 Considerable necessary machinery has 'been purchased, and now 
 the farm is fairly well equipped with tractors, manure- and 
 fertilizer-spreaders, ploughs, harrows, planters, weeders, culti- 
 vators, hay machinery, and corn harvester. 
 
 The creamery equipment is adequate for present needs, and 
 probably for some time to come except for occasional replace- 
 ments. 
 
 Returns. 
 
 During the year ending June 30, 1929, there has been consumed 
 on the farm, besides the crops already mentioned : — 
 
 9,903 qts. whole milk at $ .17 $1,683.51 
 
 10,846 qts. skim milk at .03 325.38 
 
 666 qts. cream at 1. 00 666.00 
 
 722 lbs. butter at .65 46930 
 
 87 chickens 174.00 ' 
 
 100 fowls 164.51 
 
 797 doz. eggs 478.20 
 
 2,106 lbs. pork 404.13 
 
 We have also sold : — 
 
 Butter $140.00 
 
 Chickens 668.24 
 
 Eggs 559-05 
 
 Potatoes 300.00 
 
 $4,365-03 
 
 1,667.29 
 $6,012.32 
 
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 Conclusion. 
 
 After an experience of nearly a year and a half I am just as 
 confident as ever that as time goes on and the population of the 
 institution increases the farm can be made to produce a large 
 part of the food needed for the institution, and also that it will 
 be possible for a large part of the outside work to be done by the 
 inmates provided suitable officers can be secured to supervise the 
 work. All the work at the dairy barn and dairy has been per- 
 formed by them, and at times as many as thirty-five have been 
 employed in the fields. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 Allen B. Cook, 
 
 Farm Superintendent. 
 
REPORT OF TREASURER. 
 
 Receipts and Expenditures from October i, 1918, to June 30, 1919. 
 
 Balance on Hand October i, 1918 $ 3,687.04 
 
 Received from State of Connecticut , 50,704.15 
 
 Interest on Deposits 59-75 
 
 Earnings and Income 2,060.41 
 
 $56,511.35 
 Bills of Expenditure from October i, 1918, to June 30, 1919 . . . $56,511.14 
 
 Balance on Hand July i, 1919 .21 
 
 Receipts and Expenditures from July i, 1919, to June 30, 1920. 
 
 Balance on Hand July i, 1919 $ .21 
 
 Received from State of Connecticut 105,000.00 
 
 Interest on Deposits 141.68 
 
 Earnings and Income 1,506.53 
 
 $106,648.42 
 
 expenditures. 
 
 Salaries $10,438.94 
 
 Office and Travel ; 5,151.48 
 
 Food 6,886.54 
 
 Clothing 4,702.05 
 
 Furnishings and Household Supplies 4,770.16 
 
 Medical and General Care 2,398.90 
 
 Heat, Light and Power : 3,177.10 
 
 Farm and Stable 21,190.24 
 
 Ordinary Repairs 4,538.64 
 
 Miscellaneous 904.72 
 
 Expense of Commission 1,443.69 
 
 $65,602.46 
 Xew Construction 35,693.06 
 
 $101,295.52 
 
 Interest to Comptroller 141.68 
 
 $101,437.20 
 
 Balance on Hand July i, 1920 -. $5,211.22 
 
 Appropriation, 1919-1921 $225,220.00 < 
 
 Drawn to June 30, 1920 105,000.00 
 
 $120,220.00 
 Amount spent by Comptroller for Land, etc 7,941.68 
 
 Available State of Connecticut June 30, 1920 $112,278.32 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 George C. Clark, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
34 CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 
 Hartford, Conn., Feb. 23, 1921. 
 
 Thig is to certify that we have audited the accounts of the State Farm 
 for Women for the period ending June 30, 1920, and have found them 
 correct. 
 
 (Signed) William P. Bailey, 
 Lewis W. Phelps, 
 , Auditors of Public Accounts. 
 
LAW ESTABLISHING THE CONNECTICUT STATE FARM 
 FOR WOMEN. 
 
 AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN. 
 
 General Assembly, January Session, A. D. 1917. 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
 Assembly convened: 
 
 Section i. A state reformatory for women to be known as The Con- 
 necticut State Farm for Women is established. 
 
 Sec. ,2. The Connecticut State Farm for Women shall be under the 
 management of seven directors who shall be appointed by the governor, 
 and at least three of whom shall be women. Within sixty days after the 
 passage of this act the governor shall appoint one director for one year, 
 one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, one for five 
 years, one for six years and one for seven years ; from the first day of 
 the next month after their appointment, and annually thereafter the gov- 
 ernor shall appoint one director for seven years. He shall also fill by 
 appointment any vacancies that may occur for the unexpired term or 
 terms thereof. All such appointments shall be of a non-partisan character. 
 The governor shall have power to remove any of said directors for cause. 
 The directors shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall 
 be paid their necessary expenses incurred while engaged in the performance 
 of their official duties. There shall be at all times a representation of at 
 least three women upon said board of directors. 
 
 Sec. 3. The directors are authorized to purchase in the name of the 
 state as a site for said farm, not less than two hundred acres of suitable 
 land. Such land shall include woodland and tillable pasture, with a natural 
 water supply, to be located reasonably near a railroad. The board of 
 directors is authorized to use if practicable, for the purpose of said 
 institution, any site already in use by this state. 
 
 Sec. 4. The directors shall cause to be prepared plans and specifications 
 for remodelling or erecting on such site necessary buildings for a suit- 
 able plant for the institution, which plans shall provide for cottages 
 to be arranged for the proper classification of inmates, as to the char- 
 acter and needs of such inmates. The directors shall furnish and equip 
 the same ready for use. Contracts shall be made by the directors and 
 those calling for an expenditure of over five hundred dollars shall be duly 
 advertised and competitive bids received thereon. In connection with the 
 remodelling or erection of the various cottages and buildings comprising 
 the plant of the institution, no building permit shall be required from the 
 municipal corporation in which the institution may be located. When such 
 buildings have been perpared and equipped, and the necessary staff of 
 officers been organized, the directors shall so certify to the governor, who 
 thereupon shall issue a public proclamation that the institution is ready 
 for the reception of inmates. 
 
 Sec. 5. The sum of fifty thousand dollars is appropriated for the 
 purchase of a site for the institution and for the preparation of the 
 buildings necessary to start the institution and to make it ready for the 
 reception of inmates and for the payment of salaries and running expenses 
 for the two fiscal years after the passage of this act. 
 
 Sec. 6. The directors shall have control of the institution; determine 
 the policy of the same and make necessary rules for the discipline, 
 instruction and labor of inmates ; form a board of parole and discharge ; 
 cause to be kept proper records, including those of inmates; fix the 
 
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 salaries of the officers of said institution ; appoint from their own number 
 a president and a secretary who shall hold office for such length of time 
 as the board may determine ; hold meetings at least quarterly at said 
 institution and audit the accounts of the superintendent quarterly. They 
 shall report annually to the governor the general and financial condition 
 of said institution, with such recommendations as they may desire to make, 
 a copy of which report shall be sent to the secretary of each state. 
 
 Sec. 7. The directors shall appoint and remove at discretion, a super- 
 intendent of said institution who shall be a woman, not of their number, 
 and who, before entering upon the duties of her office, shall give a bond 
 to the state, with sufficient surety in the sum of five thousand dollars, and 
 shall be sworn to a faithful performance of her duties. The superin- 
 tendent shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by the directors 
 and shall reside at said institution. 
 
 Sec. 8. The superintendent shall manage said institution and have 
 control over the inmates thereof, and shall make rules and regulations 
 for the administration of said institution, subject to the approval of the 
 board of directors. The superintendent shall, also, subject to the approval 
 of the board of directors, determine the number, select, appoint and assign 
 duties of all subordinate officers of said institution, who shall be women, 
 as far as practicable, and shall be sworn to a faithful performance of 
 their duties. There shall be a deputy superintendent and, as soon as the 
 size of the institution demands it, a resident physician and a clerk. The 
 superintendent may remove any officer appointed by her. The clerk of the 
 institution shall give a bond to the state with sufficient surety in the sum 
 of five thousand dollars. 
 
 Sec. 9. Women over sixteen years of age belonging to any of the 
 following classes may be committed by any court of criminal jurisdiction 
 to said institution ; first, persons convicted of, or who plead guilty to the 
 commission of felonies; second, persons convicted of, or who plead guilty 
 to the commission of misdemeanors, including prostitution, intoxication, 
 drug-using, disorderly conduct ; third, unmarried girls between the ages 
 of sixteen and twenty-one years who are in manifest danger of falling 
 into habits of vice or who are leading vicioiis lives, and who may be con- 
 victed thereof in accordance with the provisions of chapter 233 of -the 
 public acts of igos as amended by chapter 48 of the pubHc acts of 1907. 
 Only such offenders, however, may be committed to said institution as, in 
 the opinion of the trial court, will be benefited physically, mentally or 
 morally by such commitment, and immediately upon commitment a care- 
 ful physical and mental examination, by a competent physician, shall be 
 made of the person committed. The court imposing a sentence on offend- 
 ers of either class shall not fix the term of such commitment. Commit- 
 ment to said institution shall be made within one week after sentence 
 is imposed, by the sheriff when sentenced by the superior court, and by a 
 police officer when sentence is imposed by any city, town or borough court, 
 but no offender shall be committed to such institution without being 
 accompanied by a woman in addition to the officer. The expenses of 
 such commitment shall be paid the same as commitments to other penal 
 institutions in the state. The trial court shall cause a record of. the case 
 to be sent with the commitment papers on blanks furnished by the institu- 
 tion. The duration of such commitment, including the time spent on 
 parole, shall not exceed three years, except where the maximum term 
 specified by law for the crime for which the offender was sentenced shall 
 exceed that period, in which event such maximum term shall be the limit 
 of detention under the provisions of this act, and in such cases it shall 
 be the duty of the trial court to specify the maximum term for which the 
 offender may be held under such commitment. 
 
 Sec. 10. Said board of directors shall constitute a board of parole and 
 discharge. Any inmate of the institution who has been in confinement 
 
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 within said institution, may, upon recommendation of the superintendent, 
 be allowed to ,go on parole in the discretion of a majority of said board 
 of parol under the following conditions : That she is in good physical 
 condition, has ability to earn an honest living, has a satisfactory institu- 
 tional record, based on the merit system, and a proper home to which she 
 may go, or that suitable employment has been secured in advance by the 
 board of parole. Each person paroled or discharged from said institu- 
 tion shall be given, if the superintendent deems it best, suitable clothing, 
 transportation expenses and not more than five dollars. Authority is 
 conferred on said board of parole to establish such rules and regulations 
 as it may deem necessary, setting forth the conditions upon which inmates 
 may be discharged upon parole, and to enforce such rules and regulations 
 and provide suitaible supervision by agents of the institution. 
 
 Sec. II. While upon parole, each inmate of said institution shaft remain 
 in the legal custody and under the control of the board of directors^ and 
 subject at any time to be taken back to said institution for any reason 
 that shall seem sufficient to said board. Whenever any paroled inmate 
 of said institution shall violate her parole and be returned to the institu- 
 tion, she may be required to serve the unexpired term of her maximum 
 sentence including the time she was out on parole or any part thereof in 
 the discretion of the board of directors, or she may be paroled again if 
 the said board of parole so decide. The request of said board of directors, 
 or any person authorized by the rules of said board, shall be sufficient 
 warrant to authorize any officer of said institution or any officer authorized 
 by law to serve criminal process within this state, to return any inmate 
 on parole into actual custody ;. and it shall be the duty of police officers, 
 constables and sheriffs to arrest and hold any parole inmate when so 
 requested, without any written warrant, and, ior the performance of such 
 duty, the officer performing the same, except officers of said institution, 
 shall be paid by the board of directors of said institution out of the insti- 
 tution funds such reasonable compensation as is provided by law for 
 similar services in other cases. 
 
 Sec. 12. If any inmate shall escape from said institution or from any 
 keeper or officer having her in charge or from her place of work while 
 engaged in working outside the walls of said institution, she shall be 
 returned to said institution when arrested, and may be disciplined in such 
 manner as the board of directors may determine. All the provisions of 
 section eleven relating to the arrest and return of paroled inmates shall 
 apply to the arrest and return of escaped inmates. 
 
 Sec. 13. The board of directors may transfer to the state prison, or 
 to the jail of the county from which she was sentenced, any inmate of 
 said institution who shall appear to said board to be incorrigible, or whose 
 presence in said institution may be seriously detrimental to its well-being, 
 provided such inmate might have been originally so committed, subject 
 to be returned upon requisition of the board of directors. The directors 
 may transfer to any other appropriate state institution^ any inmate whose 
 welfare the board, after proper study and examination of her case, shall 
 decide may be best cared for at such other institution. Whenever any 
 inmate of said institution shall be, in the judgment of the board of 
 directors, in need of special medical attention, such inmate may be trans- 
 ferred to a hospital or other appropriate state institution, subject to return 
 upon requisition by the board of directors. The board of directors may 
 transfer to the Connecticut hospital for the insane any inmate of said 
 institution who may be insane, but no inmate of said institution shall be 
 transferred except upon the written certificate of two competent physicians 
 not connected with the institution to the eifect that such inmate has become 
 insane, and any inmate declared to be insane shall have a right of appeal 
 to the superior court of the county in which said institution is located 
 from said order of transfer. Upon the written certification of the super- 
 
38 CONITECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN 
 
 intendent of the Connecticut hospital for the insane that an inmate trans- 
 ferred has become cured of her insanity, the directors shall, by requisition, 
 require the return of such inmate to said institution. 
 
 Sec. 14. If it shall appear to said board of directors, acting as a board 
 of parole and discharge, that any inmate on parole, although not having yet 
 reached her maximum term, has maintained a satisfactory parole record, 
 and will continue to lead an orderly life if discharged, said board, by 
 unanimous vote of all the members present at any stated meeting thereof, 
 may discharge such inmate from said institution. 
 
 Sec. 15. If any woman committed to said institution is, at the time of 
 her commitment, the mother of a child under one year of age, such 
 woman may retain such child in said institution until it attains the age of 
 two years, when it must be removed therefrom. The board of directors 
 may cause such child to be placed in an asylum for the children in this 
 state and pay for the care and maintenance of such child therein at the 
 rate 'fixed by law until the mother of such child shall , be discharged, or 
 may commit such child to the care and custody of some relative or proper 
 person willing lo assume such care and pay for such child at the same 
 rate if deemed necessary. Any child of a woman committed to said insti- 
 tution who is over one year of age at the time of its mother's commit- 
 ment, and which might otherwise be left without proper care or 
 guardianship, shall be committed by the trial court, upon the same terms 
 as to payment as herein provided, to such asylum for children as may be 
 provided by law in this state for such purpose, or to the care and custody 
 of some relative or proper person willing to assume such care. If a child 
 shall be born to any woman while an inmate of said institution, such 
 child may be retained in said institution until it shall be two years of 
 age, when it must be removed therefrom. The board of directors may 
 cause such child to be placed in an asylum for children in this state and 
 pay for the care and maintenance of such child therein at the rate fixed 
 by law until the mother of such child shall have been discharged, or may 
 commit such child to the care and custody of some relative or proper 
 person willing to assume such care, and pay for such child at the same rate 
 if deemed necessary. 
 
 Sec. 16. The state board of charities shall have, with reference to said 
 institution, the same authority that is conferred upon said board by sec- 
 tions .2858 and 2862 of the general statutes with reference to the state 
 prison as amended by chapter 94 of the public acts of 1913. 
 
 Sec. 17. The bodies of inmates who die in said institution may, if 
 unclaimed for a period of twenty-four hours, be at the disposal of the 
 professors of anatomy and surgery in the medical school of Yale Univer- 
 sity, to be used for the purpose of advancing medical science in this state, 
 and shall be subject to their order. 
 
 Sec. 18. The board of directors in making rules and regulations for 
 the government of said institution, shall make provision for a system of 
 general and vocational instruction, including useful trades and domestic 
 science, and for proper recreation facilities. 
 
 Sec. 19. This act shall take effect from its passage, except such pro- 
 visions as provide for the commitment, custody and treatment of inmates, 
 which shall take effect upon the issuance of the proclamation by the 
 governor as provided in section four. 
 
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 [Senate Bill. No. 251.] 
 CHAPTER I3S. 
 
 AN ACT CONCERNING THE RETURN AND DISCIPLINE OF PERSONS COMMITTED TO 
 THE STATE EARM FOR WOMEN. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate' and House of Representatives in General 
 Assembly convened: 
 
 Section 1729 of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: If 
 any inmate shall escape from said institution or from any keeper or officer 
 having her in charge or from her place of work while engaged in work- 
 ing outside the walls of said institution, she shall be returned to said 
 institution when arrested, and may be disciplined in such manner as the 
 board of directors may determine. The provisions of section 1728 of the 
 general statutes relating to the arrest and return of paroled inmates shall 
 apply to the arrest and return of escaped inmates, also the provisions of 
 chapter 342 of the general statutes shall apply to such inmates as shall 
 have escaped and become fugitives from justice. 
 
 Approved April 15, 1919. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 599.] 
 CHAPTER 276. 
 
 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CONNECTICUT STATE FARM FOR WOMEN TO 
 RECEIVE GIFTS. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
 Assembly convened: 
 
 Section i. The Connecticut state farm for women is authorized to 
 receive, hold and use real estate, and to receive, hold, invest and disburse 
 money, securities, supplies or equipment offered it for the purposes for 
 which said farm is established, by the federal government, or by any 
 person, corporation or association, provided such real estate, money, securi- 
 ties, supplies or equipment shall be used only for such purposes, and 
 provided such purposes are not contrary to the laws of this state. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said department shall include in its annual report, as provided 
 in section 1723 of the general statutes, an account of the property so 
 received, the names of its donors, its location, the use made thereof and 
 the amount of unexpended balances on hand. 
 
 Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
 
 Approved May 21, 1919.