Patient labor at the Elgin State Hospital (Illinois) has become
one of the most striking features in any of the seventeen
charitable institutions of Illinois.
Fiscal Supervisor Whipp, of the State Board of Administration,
has just returned from Elgin, where he has been investigating
the construction of buildings of cement blocks veneered with
granite.
Patients have already built a cold storage room and bath-house,
and now are at work on a cottage for the acute insane. They
make the veneered blocks in the basement of the institution in
winter. The process itself is comparatively new. It has been
employed no more than a year at Elgin, but has worked out with
remarkable success--Boston _Journal_.
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