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Village, "that I could get sixteen paid teamsters who would 

 give us as little trouble in their work as these selected patients." 



The village for epileptics is more than a place in which to 

 keep busy. It is a place in which to enjoy some degree of indi- 

 vidual life. The congregate plan of housing inmates, which 

 brings them all together under one roof, has been abandoned, 

 and instead patients are scattered about the farm in small 

 groups, carefully selected to be as nearly homogeneous as pos- 

 sible. 



When women are received the Blue River will be used as a 

 natural division for the sexes. On each side three separate 

 colonies will be built : one will be devoted to adults of the bet- 

 ter class, one to children of the better class, and one to low grade 

 adults and children. The colonies for the men are already partly 

 built and occupied. The low grade adults and children, while 

 in the same group, live apart from each other. 



Each colony has its own orchard, garden and small fruits, 

 its own horses, pigs, chickens, duoks and turkeys. The living 

 rooms are provided with phonographs, newspapers and maga- 

 zines. Some of the inmates receive their own home papers. 

 Leslie's Weekly, Judge and Life are the most popular of the 

 magazines taken, and "Robinson Crusoe" is most in demand of 

 the books. 



While Indiana is not the first state to make special provision 

 for her epileptics, the movement is comparatively new. The first 

 special public institution for epileptics was established in 1867 

 at Bielefeld, Germany. In 1886 a colony was opened in England 

 by private philanthropy. Ohio opened its institution for both 

 sane and insane epileptics at Gallipolis in 1892. From these be- 

 ginnings the movement has grown rapidly. There are to-day 

 fifty institutions in Germany having special provisions for 

 epileptics, nine in England and several in Switzerland, Holland, 

 Belgium, Australia and Canada. 



New York was the second state in this country to found an 

 epileptic colony, her institution for sane epileptics at Sonyea 

 being open in 1894. Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kansas, Mis- 

 souri, Texas, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Connecticut, Illinois, Towa, 

 Michigan and Wisconsin have since been added to the list of 

 states making special provision. 



