April 19, 1921
One of the principal reasons why the Wexford County Sanitorium construction costs exceeded the appropriation made by the Board of Supervisors was the fact that new heating, lighting and plumbing facilities were made necessary by the enlargements to the building ordered by the board, said W.W. Hodges, one of the poor superintendents, today. The matter was discussed in committee of the whole by the board last week although not brought directly to the attention of the poor commissioners. The new sewage disposal plant, plumbing and heating and lighting plant cost around $3,000. The supervisors appropriated $3,000 after the visit of physicians here, who addressed the board and told them what would be needed to get the state to send army patients here, thus giving the county a revenue for the institution. The construction costs were handled out of the poor fund because that was the only way to have the funds immediately available for paying labor and material accounts. The