. North Carolina and its resources. ons for benevolentor correctional purposes, and all county and municipal jails, work-houses and homes shall be under the supervision of the Board ofPublic Charities, elected by the General Assembly, or appointed bythe Executive in case of failure to elect, for the term of five present Board consists of Dr. Charles Duffy, Chairman, Cravencounty; Lawrence J. Haughton, Chatham; Wesley N. Jones, Wake;Wm. A. Blair, Forsyth; S. W. Reid, Mecklenburg; with C. , Wake, Secretary. The members of the Board receive nosalary, and their labors have been e
. North Carolina and its resources. ons for benevolentor correctional purposes, and all county and municipal jails, work-houses and homes shall be under the supervision of the Board ofPublic Charities, elected by the General Assembly, or appointed bythe Executive in case of failure to elect, for the term of five present Board consists of Dr. Charles Duffy, Chairman, Cravencounty; Lawrence J. Haughton, Chatham; Wesley N. Jones, Wake;Wm. A. Blair, Forsyth; S. W. Reid, Mecklenburg; with C. , Wake, Secretary. The members of the Board receive nosalary, and their labors have been effectual in systematizing the workof the State, and elevating the standard of the care and treatment ofthe prisoners and the poor in the several county institutions. In thiswork the leading authorities on such subjects in this country haveesteemed North Carolina as a pioneer in the south. Completeinformation in reference to these subjects maybe found in the reportsof the Board, published annually. In these the needs of the institu-. Public Charities. 239 tions are presented to the General Assembly, and neglect on the partof officials is reported to the Judge and Solicitor on service in thecounty of its occurrence. INSANE ASYLUn, was one of the institutions that honored the labors of the lamentedMiss D. ly. Dix. It was opened for patients in February, 1856,having been seven years in construction. The original design wasthat of a cross, with main building one hundred and sixteen feetlong, eighty feet eight inches wide and eighty-six feet two inchesfrom first floor to top of dome, an arcade eighty feet eight inches long,and twenty-six feet four inches wide. The wings are each threehundred and twenty-five feet long, forty feet eight inches wide andfifty feet high, at right angles. This was intended for two hundred and twenty-four patients,but by the use of an associated dormitory and the placing of twopatients in a certain number of rooms, three hundred patients werecared for. On t
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