"A Bulletin on the Condition of the County Almshouses of Missouri" by Charles A. Ellwood

Published in 1904, this sad document discusses the county almshouse, which housed the poor and indigent along with "defective classes."  Included are the 1903 statistics on ninety of these institutions.  The author, a sociology professor from the University of Missouri, advocates separation of "inmates" by sex, race, health, and mental/moral condition.  He calls for legislation to improve the almshouses and prevent abuses, and he ends by recommending that Missouri follow England's example of  administrative control over their "workhouses."  This book is in our Missouriana collection and is the second that I've read on the subject this month; that's enough for me.  31 pages, copyright 1904.