Part V. State Institutions
- State Board of Control
[pp. 719-721]
MEMBERS.
Terms expire Aug. 3, 1910.
HERMAN GROTOPHORST ................................................................................................................................
Baraboo
ALLAN D. CONOVER ........................................................................................................................................
Madison
LESTER B. DRESSER .................................................................................................................................
St. Croix Falls
ALMAH J. FRISBY ..........................................................................................................................................
Milwaukee
State Hospital for the Insane ..................................................................................................................................
Mendota
Northern Hospital for the Insane .........................................................................................................................
Winnebago
School for the Deaf .................................................................................................................................................
Delavan
School for the Blind ...............................................................................................................................................
Janesville
Industrial School for Boys ...................................................................................................................................
Waukesha
State Prison ............................................................................................................................................................
Waupun
State School for Dependent Children .........................................................................................................................
Sparta
Wisconsin Home for Feeble-Minded ............................................................................................................
Chippewa Falls
Wisconsin State Reformatory ..............................................................................................................................
Green Bay
Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanitorium ....................................................................................................................
Wales
OTHER INSTITUTIONS INSPECTED.
Five Semi-State Institutions.
Thirty-two County Insane Asylums.
Sixty-nine Jails.
Forty-eight Poor Houses.
Fifty Private Benevolent Institutions.
Two Hundred and six Police Stations and Lockups.
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD.
HERMAN GROTOPHORST ..............................................................................................................................
President
ALLAN D. CONOVER ..............................................................................................................................
Vice-President
M. J. TAPPINS ...................................................................................................................................................
Secretary
The State Board of Control of Reformatory, Charitable and
Penal Institutions, established by Chapter 381, Laws of
1905, consists of five members, one of whom shall be a woman,
appointed by the governor, subject to the approval of the senate,
for a term of five years. The members appointed under the act
are to hold the office for the term of five years. The members
are required to devote their entire time to the discharge of
their duties and receive a salary of two thousand dollars each,
per annum, and all necessary disbursements in the discharge of
their duties. They are authorized to elect a secretary, four
clerks and a stenographer. All accounts for disbursements and
charges and debts contracted by the stewards of the institutions
or the board are authorized by the board.
Section 7. Said board shall act as commissioners in lunacy,
with power to investigate and examine into, with or without
expert assistance, the question of the insanity and condition
of any person committed or confined in any insane asylum or hospital,
public or private, or restrained of his liberty by reason of
alleged insanity, at any place within this state, and shall take
the proper and legal steps for the discharge of any person so
committed or restrained, if, in its opinion, such person is not
insane, or can be cared for after such discharge without danger
to others, and with benefit to such person.
Section 8. Said board shall have power to fully investigate
all complaints against any of the institutions above named, or
against the official conduct or management thereof; to send
for books and papers, summon, compel the attendance of, and swear
witnesses; and conduct at any time, thorough investigation into
the affairs of any such institution, in such manner as it shall
deem best. Any letter, communication or complaint addressed to
such Board or any member thereof, by any inmate, employee, or
subordinate officer in any of said institutions, shall be forewith
forwarded as addressed, without interference therewith, or the
breaking of the seal, or the reading thereof by any officer or
employee of such institution.
Section 9. The duties of such Board shall be: 1. To maintain
and govern the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, the
Northern Hospital for the Insane, the Wisconsin State Prison,
the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys, the Wisconsin Institution
for the Education of the Blind, the Wisconsin Institution for
the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, the State Public School for
Dependent or Neglected Children, the Home for the Feeble-Minded,
the State Reformatory, and such other charitable, reformatory
and penal institutions as may hereafter be established or maintained
by the state. 2. To carefully supervise and direct the management
and affairs of said institutions, and faithfully and diligently
promote the objects for which the same have been established.
3. To preserve and care for the buildings, ground and all property
connected with said institutions. 4. To take and hold in trust
for the said several institutions any land conveyed or devised,
or money or property given or bequeathed, to be applied for any
purpose connected therewith, and faithfully apply the same as
directed by the donor, and faithfully to apply all funds, effects
and property which may be received for the use of such institutions.
5. To make, on or before October 1, in each year, full and complete
inventories and appraisals of all the property of each of said
institutions, which inventories and appraisals shall be recorded
and shall be so classified as to separately show the amount,
kind and value of all real and personal property belonging to
such institutions. 6. To make such by-laws, necessary for the
government of said institutions and for its own government, and
cause the same to be printed. 7. To visit and carefully inspect
each of said institutions as often as once in each month, either
by the full board or by some member thereof, and ascertain whether
all officers, teachers, servants and employees in such institutions
are competent and faithful in the discharge of their duties,
and all inmates thereof properly cared for and governed, and
all accounts, account books and vouchers properly kept, and all
the business affairs thereof properly conducted. 8. To fix the
number of subordinate officers, teachers, servants and employees
in each of said institutions, and prescribe the duties and compensation
of each, and to employ the same upon the nomination of the respective
superintendents and wardens. 9. To promptly remove or discharge
any officer, teacher, servant or employee in any of said institutions
who shall be guilty of any malfeasance or misbehavior in office,
or of neglect or improper discharge of duty. 10. To annually
appoint for the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane and for
the Northern Hospital for the Insane, for each, a superintendent,
one assistant physician, a matron and a steward, and for the
Institutions for the Education of the Blind and the Institution
for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Industrial School
for Boys, for each, a superintendent, a steward, and all necessary
teachers; for the State Prison, a warden and a steward, who shall
be the officers of said institutions, respectively, and whose
duties shall be fixed by said board, except as herein otherwise
provided. 11. To maintain and govern the school, prescribe the
course of study, and provide the necessary apparatus and means
of instruction for the Institution for the Education of the Blind,
and for the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.
12. To prescribe and collect such charges as it may think just,
for tuition, and maintenance of pupils, not entitled to the same
free of charge, in the Institution for the Education of the Blind
and in the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.
13. To fix the period of the academic year, not less than forty
weeks, and prescribe the school terms in the Institution for
the Education of the Blind, and in the Institution for the Education
of the Deaf and Dumb. 14. To confer, in its discretion, upon
meritorious pupils, such academic and literary degrees as are
usually conferred by similar institutions, and grant diplomas
accordingly, in the Institution for the Education of the Blind,
and in the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.