[MD Expat in PA]

While disease could have claimed some lives, if you think all those kids died due to disease, you are mistaken. This place was a hell hole where kids were dumped into, even orphans who were abandoned by their parents or those who were incarcerated for rather minor crimes who were subjected to sadistic beatings, many of which resulted in deaths that the “school” never recorded, their family members never informed of their deaths or allowed to give them proper burials. This was not a “reform” school but a sadistic prison camp for children.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkBVfxmmQiQ

[fso301]

While disease could have claimed some lives, if you think all those kids died due to disease, you are mistaken.

My bet is the majority died of disease.

This place was a hell hole where kids were dumped into,

By modern standards, all southern detention facilities prior to the latter half of the 20th century were hellholes.

even orphans who were abandoned by their parents

Dozier was not an orphanage.

or those who were incarcerated for rather minor crimes

I suspect you will find long rap sheets and a judges warning about "the next time" prior to the "minor" crime.

who were subjected to sadistic beatings,

Unfortunately, this was widespread, even in mental hospitals.

many of which resulted in deaths that the “school” never recorded, their family members never informed of their deaths or allowed to give them proper burials.

In the first half of the 20th century in Florida, notification of next of kin, especially when next of kin may have been unknown would have been difficult.

People back then buried the dead near where they died, placed a makeshift wooden cross on the grave and moved on. Within a year, or two, the wooden marker would have rotted away.

[drunknsage]

Sounds like Haut de la Garenne children’s home.