The Hospital for Epileptics.

cause, treatment, and prevention of epilepsy be solved. The investigations pursued by the scientific staff in this laboratory have already disclosed some very important facts relative to the cause and prevention of epilepsy.

Many of the patients came from almshouses, many from the lower walks of life, and were uncouth in their manners and dress, filthy in their habits, and rude in their conversation. The improvements most noticed by visitors has been the wonderful change in their deportment. The results of the colony regime and treatment as shown by the recovery of suitable cases have been very gratifying. Especially good results have been attained with cases of recent epilepsy, particularly among the children. Hygienic and dietary measures with a regulation of the habits are employed, and strictly medicinal treatment is assigned to a secondary place. The education of the children and youth is carefully looked after in the excellent schools of the colony.

LIST OF TRUSTEES, OHIO HOSPITAL FOR EPILEPTICS, 1891-1902.

THE BOYS' INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

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'HE Boys' Industrial School is Ohio's reformatory for juvenile male offenders. It is six miles south of Lancaster, Fairfield county, on the Hocking Hills. The state owns 1,210 acres of

land in this pisturesque region, and the boys are taught agriculture and horticulture to the extent of producing all the vegetables and fruit that the institution consumes. The institution is organized on the cottage or segregate system, is not surrounded by walls, and is entirely free from bolts, bars or other suggestions of restraint. It was the first penal institution in America to make the "open system" experiment, and so successfully was it operated that twenty-eight states have used the Lancaster school as a model. There are now 920 boys confined in the school for offenses against the statutes. These boys range in age from 10 to 21 years and are serving indeterminate sentences. When received at the School they are charged with demerits corresponding in number to the nature of the crime. These demerits must be cancelled by exemplary deportment in school and shop, before release. When released, a boy is on parole and can be returned for misconduct at any time before he reaches his majority.

The boys are required to attend school one-half of each day, and are in shop or on the farm the other half. There are many trades schools where the boys are taught useful mechanical knowledge and at the same time contribute to the comfort and support of their fellows. Chief among these trades are blacksmithing, floriculture, tailoring, baking, printing, carpentering, telegraphy, stenography, brickmaking, shoe-making, dairying, cooking, etc. They also operate the steam, cold storage and electric plants, the barn, laundry and poultry plant. A boy band of forty-two pieces is maintained, and the school is organized into a regiment of three battalions, under instructions of a competent military man. Music and physical culture are also features of the training.

THE GIRLS' INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

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LOCATION.

'HE home it situated ten miles southwest of Delaware, with which it is connected by good pikes and long distance telephone. It is four and one-half miles from Hyatts, six from Powell on the Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo Railroad; and eight miles from Arnold on the Toledo division of the Ohio Central Lines. The two latter stations are connected with the home by telephone, and all are easily accessible at all seasons of the year because of the excellent pikes.

FARM.

The farm comprises one hundred and eighty-nine acres on the west bank of the Scioto River. It is beautifully situated in an unusually healthful location. The grounds around the buildings are adorned with shade trees, a large portion of which are of the original growth.

The celebrated White Sulphur Spring furnishes an abundant supply of excellent water which is used for domestic purposes. 11,000 gallons of water per hour flow constantly from a vein more than one hundred feet below the marble basin from which it overflows.

BUILDINGS.

The buildings consist of the Administration, or Central Building, in which reside the Superintendent and family, the Clerk, Director of Music, Superintendent of Schools, Assistant Matron, and a Housekeeper; eight cottages, a school building, and a hospital. The latter is a valuable acquisition to the institution, furnishing commodious quarters for all hospital purposes and complete isolation for inmates affected with contagious diseases. In each cottage an Assistant Matron, Teacher and Housekeeper, with from thirty-five to fifty inmates, reside. Total number of inmates May 15, 1904, 307.