of any of said institutions the names of such inmates of said institution whose mental and physical condition they desire examined, and said experts and the superintendent of said institution shall meet, take evidence and examine into the mental and physical condition of such inmates and report said mental and physical condition to the said state board of control.

(3) If such experts and superintendent unanimously find that procreation is inadvisable it shall be lawful to perform such operation for the prevention of procreation as shall be decided safest and most effective; provided, however, that the operation shall not be performed except in such cases as are authorized by the said board of control.

(4) Before such operation shall be performed, it shall be the duty of the state board of control to give at least thirty days' notice in writing to the husband or wife, parent or guardian, if the same shall be known, and if unknown, to the person with whom such inmate last resided.

(5) The said experts shall receive as compensation a sum to be fixed by the state board of control, which shall not exceed ten dollars per day and expenses, and such experts shall only be paid for the actual number of days consumed in the performance of their duties.

(6) The record taken upon the examination of every such inmate shall be preserved and shall be filed in the office of said board of control at Madison, Wisconsin, and semiannually after the performing of the operation, the superintendent of the institution wherein such inmate is legally confined, shall report to said board of control the condition of such inmate and the effect of such operation upon such inmate.

(7) The state board of control shall report biennially in its regular biennial report the number of operations performed under the authority of this section and the result of such operations. [Stats. 1917 s. 561jm; 1919 c. 328 s. 19.]

46.13 Wasserman tests. The board of control is hereby authorized to make necessary arrangements with the laboratory of the psychiatric institute of Mendota for the giving of

the Wasserman test to any person confined in any state or county institution, and of making such test for any practicing physician of this state who makes application therefor in behalf of any resident of this state, free of charge. Arrangements shall also be made with said institute for the making of chemical examinations of the cerebro-spinal fluid for any practicing physician of this state free of charge. [Stats. 1917 s. 561jn; 1919 c. 328 s. 20.]

46.14 Reports from state institutions. (1) (1) The officer in charge of each state institution under the control of said board shall make a monthly report to the board, comprising an itemized statement of all receipts and disbursements, and of the daily number of inmates, officers, teachers, and employes, and the wages paid to each..

(2) On the first day of July in each even-numbered year the officer in charge of each such institution shall make a report to said board, covering the preceding biennial fiscal term, comprising a summarized statement of the management of every department of the institution and of all receipts and disbursements, and such other information as may be required by the board. [Stats. 1917 s. 562; 1919 c. 328 s. 21.]

46.15 Biennial report of the board. (1) On or before December first in each even-numbered year the board shall make to the governor a report of its proceedings during the preceding biennial fiscal term, with such recommendations as it may deem fit respecting the subjects in its charge or under its supervision, and including also: a detailed statement of all expenditures from the state treasury on behalf of the board and all state and county charitable, curative, reformatory, and penal institutions; a summary of the results of all its visits, inspections, and investigations in respect to matters committed to it, and of all statistical information collected by it properly tabulated; and a concise statement showing the condition of said institutions.

(2) Said report shall further show, with respect to each state institution:

a The kind and estimated value of all the property in its charge at the commencement of the biennial term;

b The kind and cost of all permanent additions and improvements made;

c The amount of money received from all public and private sources;

d The receipt of all money and property from private sources for the benefit of inmates and the disposition made thereof;

e The amount and estimated value of all products of the farm, shop, industries and other sources of support and supply in its charge and the cost and application thereof;

f The number of all inmates maintained at the commencement and at the close of each fiscal year, the average number during the year, and the average cost of maintenance per capita per week, based upon the total amount expended during the year for subsistence and for repairs and renewals of property, including the net value of all products of the farm and garden consumed at the institution and of all labor expended in the care and repair of the property, but excluding the cost of permanent additions to and improvements of property and private contributions for inmates;

g Such further facts relating to the financial condition as the board may deem necessary for the information of the legislature;

h An estimate of the expenses for the ensuing biennial fiscal term;

i Such parts of the reports of the officers in immediate charge as the board shall deem proper to lay before the legislature. [Stats. 1917 s. 561 d; 1919 c. 328 s. 22.]

LOCAL BOARDS

46.16 General supervision and inspection. (1) The state board of control shall:

a Investigate and supervise all the charitable, curative, reformatory and penal institutions of every county and other municipality, and all industrial schools, hospitals and asylums, organized or existing or which shall be organized under chap

ter 86 of these statutes, and familiarize itself with all the circumstances affecting their management and usefulness.

b Visit the poorhouses in the state, and ascertain how many persons of each sex, how many insane, idiotic, deaf and dumb, or blind persons, and how many children are supported in each, at what cost and under what circumstances affecting their health, comfort, morals, and education; collect statistics of the number and cost of support, and other important facts, of the poor relieved at public expense outside of poorhouses; and collect such other information as may throw light on the adequacy and efficiency of existing laws for the support and relief of the poor, and the causes operating to increase or diminish pauperism in the state.

c Visit the jails, municipal prisons, houses of correction, workhouses, and all other places in which persons convicted or suspected of crime, or insane persons, are confined, and ascertain their sanitary condition and arrangement for the separation of the hardened criminals from juvenile offenders and persons suspected of crime or detained as witnesses; collect important statistics concerning the inmates, their treatment, employment, and reformation; and collect information of all other important facts and considerations affecting the increase or diminution of crime and insanity.

d Visit each of the institutions herein before referred to and inquire into their methods of treatment, instruction, government, and management of their inmates; the official conduct of their trustees, managers, directors, superintendents, and other officers and employes; the condition of the buildings, grounds, and all other property pertaining to said institutions, and all other matters and things pertaining to their usefulness and management; and recommend to the officers in charge such changes and additional provisions as it shall deem proper.

e Inspect each such institution annually, or oftener if necessary; and, whenever directed by the governor, make special investigation into their past or present management, or anything connected therewith, and report to him the testimony taken, the facts found, and conclusions thereon.

f Inform the governor, and the district attorney of the county in which the institution is located, of any violation of law disclosed in any investigation of any such institution.

(2) All trustees, managers, directors, superintendents and other officers or employes of the institutions aforesaid shall at all times afford to every member of said board, or its agents, unrestrained facility for inspection of and free access to all parts of the buildings and grounds and to all books and papers of such institutions and shall give, either verbally or in writing, such information as the board may require; and if any such person shall offend against this requirement he shall forfeit not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. Each member of the board is authorized to administer oaths and take testimony; and may cause depositions to be taken pursuant to law. All expenses of such investigations, including fees of officers and witnesses, shall be charged to the appropriation for the state board of control. [Stats. 1917 s. 564, 565; 1919 c. 328 s. 23.]

46.17 Establishment, approval, and inspection of buildings. (1) The state board of control, with the advice and approval of the state chief engineer, shall ascertain and fix reasonable standards and regulations for the construction, repair and maintenance of poorhouses, asylums for the insane, tuberculosis hospitals and sanatoriums, houses of correction, workhouses, jails, and lockups, with respect to their safety, sanitation, and adequacy and fitness for the needs of the community which they are to serve.

(2) The establishment of, purchase of the site, and erection of buildings for any such institution shall be subject to the approval of the state board of control.

(3) No building for any such institution shall be constructed until the plans and specifications therefor have been approved by said board, or its secretary when directed by the board, and the state chief engineer, as conforming with such standards and all other requirements of law.

(4) Before the occupancy of any such building, and semi-annually thereafter, the board shall cause such build