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Biennial Report
Michigan State Board
Corrections and Charities
1882

              [82]

              ALCONA.

              The poorhouse is about eight miles from Harrisville, the
           county seat. It is an old frame house about 24x34, two stories
           high, with a plank cellar about 16x34 feet, and a wing about
           16x30 feet for the keeper, who uses also a large dining-room in
           the main part. For the paupers there are a dining and sitting
           room about 12x16, and a bed-room 10x12 feet, with two beds. In
           the second story there are four rooms about 12 feet square. No
           provision for bathing. The water-closets are outside and very
           offensive. Fo (sic) provision for female paupers. Have but few
           paupers, only two when visited, one old man of seventy-three at
           work, and an imbecile of eighteen unable to do anything. The
           building is warmed by stoves, ventilated by windows. Appeared
           reasonably clean. Superintendents of poor, Geo. H. Blush,
           William Shepard, David Mulholland.

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