Excerpt from Report of the Joint Committee of the Twenty-Third General Assembly of the State of Iowa, Appointed to Visit the Hospital for the Insane Located at Mt. Pleasant, 1890 Your Joint Committee appointed to visit the Hospital for the Insane at Mt. Pleasant and examine into its management, beg leave to submit the following report: Your Committee met at the Hospital on the morning of F ebru ary 25, 1890, and organized by electing a Chairman and Secretary, and then proceeded to the examination of the institution in accord ance with your joint resolution. We began our investigation by first going through the different wards of the Hospital, carefully inspecting the sanitary condition of the same, the general appearance of the inmates, their clothing, character and quality of food, drinking Water, ventilation, sun light, temperature of the wards, etc., all of which were eminently satisfactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.