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is old and has no home. She does quite a bit of work in the 
place under supervision. 
Rose Abbott has been described as a member of “A Fam- 
ily of Institutional Cases”. She has a higher mental age 
than some of the people who are better able to care for them- 
selves than she. She has spent 10 years, 11 months, and 27 
days in the institution up to date. Five times she has tried 
to live outside the Poor Asylum, but each time she has had 
to return in a worse condition than in which she left it. She 
usually comes back with a fresh venereal infection and has to 
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be treated at the expense of the county and cared for by the 
matron. 
Ethel Abbott, the sister-in-law of Rose, has been iii and 
out of the Almshouse since 1898. Most of her children have 
been born since that time. Like Rose, she leaves the Farm 
only to bring trouble on society. She and Rose with their 
children have spent a total of 54 years, 11 months, and 20 
days in the Almshouse at a cost to the county of $7,946.40 
computed at 40 cents per day. Besides this amount, town- 
ship poor relief has been given at times when they have not 
been in the County House; medical help has been provided 
and some of the children have been cared for in state insti- 
tutions. 
