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received as much care and attention by those in charge as any 

 furniture in the institution. All goods received and all goods 

 consumed are checked over these scales. 



At the Central Maine Sanatorium, in Fairfield, I found but 

 two sets of scales, one being a set of Jones scales used for 

 hospital purposes and a small set of family scales used in the 

 store to check up goods used in the kitchen. The type of scales 

 used there is of the same type that is generally condemned. I 

 find no system of checking goods received at that institution. 



At the State School for Girls, in Hallowell, I found four 

 sets of scales which, had they been used in any store in Maine, 

 unless by accident they had escaped sight of the local sealer, 

 would have been condemned. The platform scales passed in- 

 spection as did the brass faced spring balances used in the barn 

 for the purpose of weighing the milk, and one small scoop 

 scale. They have no facilities whatever for weighing or check- 

 ing up their coal. 



At the Western Maine Sanatorium, in Hebron, I found the 

 scales used in weighing drugs to be absolutely useless so far 

 as weighing drugs is concerned and not in any way satisfactory 

 to the parties obliged to use them. Another set of equal arm 

 scoop scales used for checking up small goods as was the set of 

 spring scales in the barn, worthless. A test which was given the 

 heavy hay scales over which they were checking coal at my 

 visit, were found to be all right, as were the platform scales 

 used in reweighing and checking their groceries. 



The Maine School for the Deaf, in Portland, had one set 

 of family scales of the capacity of twenty pounds, condition 

 fair, but unfit for the purpose of checking up goods bought for 

 use in the institution. 



The Maine School for Feeble Minded, in Povvnal, had four 

 sets of scales : A small set of counter scales found to be all 

 right and a set of platform scales used in the grain-room were 

 all right; a set of scales used in the store were old and much 

 corroded, much out of balance and worthless. An effort is 

 being made by this institution to keep close tabs on everything 

 purchased for the institution, which they are unable to do 

 with any degree of accuracy with the weighing devices they 

 now have. 



