. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. I BULLETIN No. 583 Contribution from the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director. SLW^&mru WASHINGTON, D. C. March 7, 1918 REPORT ON EXPERIMENTAL CONVICT ROAD CAMP, FULTON COUNTY, GA. By H. S. Fairbank and R. H. Eastham, Highway Engineers, and W. F. Draper, Passed Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service. CONTENTS. Page. Striking results of the experiment 2 The plan of cooperation 4 The system of convict labor in Georgia 4 Description of the camp site 7 Camp buildings 10 Othe
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. I BULLETIN No. 583 Contribution from the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, LOGAN WALLER PAGE, Director. SLW^&mru WASHINGTON, D. C. March 7, 1918 REPORT ON EXPERIMENTAL CONVICT ROAD CAMP, FULTON COUNTY, GA. By H. S. Fairbank and R. H. Eastham, Highway Engineers, and W. F. Draper, Passed Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service. CONTENTS. Page. Striking results of the experiment 2 The plan of cooperation 4 The system of convict labor in Georgia 4 Description of the camp site 7 Camp buildings 10 Other camp structures and fixtures 15 Moving portable buildings 15 The water supply 19 Sewage disposal 22 Garbage disposal . 23 Clothing 24 Furniture and equipment 25 Subsistence 29 Medicine and medical attention 36 Transportation of convicts and supplies 38 Convict population 39 Discipline and morale 44 Sanitation 45 Records and reports 47 Summarized costs of maintenance 56 Road work 57 Without a single attempt to escape, an average of 40 negro con- victs were maintained for 10 months in the Pulton County (Ga.) honor camp conducted under the observation of the United States Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering and the United States Public Health Service. This notwithstanding the facts that the convicts were worked without armed guards, without exceptional conditions as to hours of labor, without special rewards or other unusual inducements to good behavior, and with the camp located near a trolley line and within 11 miles of the city of Atlanta, from which most of the convicts were sentenced, a condition admitted by all competent authorities to be most unfavorable to the successful operation of an honor camp. With a diet prescribed by the United States Public Health Service, ample in quantity and containing all the properties essential to maintain laborers engaged in heavy outdoor work, the convicts were fed at a cost 9 cents per day lower than that required to maintain ot
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