The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-23
STATE CHARITIES.
Annual Report Of the Board Jail and Innrmary
StatistiCs-The Prison Syltem and Recommend
atIons- Solution OF the Tramp Problem.

Annual Report Of the Board Jail and InirmarJ
StatlstiCs-The Prison SyAttm and Recommend
atIOns- Solution OF the Tramp Problem.
The annual report of the Board ofState
Charities to the Governor, gives In6rm'
ary statistics from eighty.two counties
out OF the eighty-eight. Total number
Of inmates for the year 12,765; number
received during the year 6O72; number
born in inhrmaries during year 249
number discharged $3.50; number Of
deaths 694; number removed to other
counties, States or institutions 757 ; total
number of children under 16 years old
received during year 2,O7S; placed in
homes 401 children remaining, Sept. l,
1878, boys 700, girls 522; children help
lessly crippled So; insane inmates, males
22O, females 243; epileptiCs, males 2l7,
females 200; idiots, males 256, females
223 insane removed to State hospitals
since 1875, 535 returned from State hos
pitfalls during year 423, Total current ex-
penses of in6rmaries for year $484 817 81;
total value of farm products $l57 ISL go
total amount paid for out door help
$269, ,O34 54 amount of salaries paid for
year $40 9ll,65, wages paid employees
$l9,6S3,76.
The jail statistics from seventy-nine
counties show 7,7l9 prisoners received
during the year, l 727 of whom were
sentenced to jail; 1881 were held for
trial; 253 were insane and ga epileptic;
800 were under l6 years of age, Total
cost Of keeping prisoners for the year
&c. 81, number of escapes during the
year "a.
The total expenses Of the Board for
the year were $l,977,75.
The Board recommends as matter of
absolute economy to the people of the
State, separate asylum for epileptiCs,
and gives reasons for the same,
A paper is given on Epilepsy by DR..
II. G. Rutter, of Cincinnati, and ConClu.
sions in regard to that disease.
The report also discusses the future
policy of the State in regard to provid'
ing for the insane, and devotes consider
able space to the infrmary system, it's
defects, &C., and recommends local su
pervision and other improvements in
the system.
The Board then goes on to consider
che prison system of the State, and the
recommendation of last year in regard
to district work houses for vagrants, and
an intermediate State prison are re-
newed.
The secretary's report includes the
visitation of So County IDfrmaries and
iails, general observation OF classes, man
agement, ETC., with tabulated statistics
showing numbers, conditions and costs
One recommendation in regard to
what the Board classes as habitual Grim
inals, is especially worthy of notice, AT
ter recommending the establishment OF
warehouses;, the Board suggests that
criminals who have been repeatedly
convicted and sentenced, thereby estab'
fishing the fact that they live by crime,
shall be required by law, upon the expi.
ration of the term of imprisonment, to
register with the chief of police in cit
les, and with the Sheriff in the country,
his name and occupation, and for a spec.
flied period shall keep those officials ad.
vised of his whereabouts, and in case Of
refusal or neglect to do 80, or if, having
registered as being engaged in honest
employment, is afterwards found to be
without visible means of support, or not
at honest work, the man should be ar
rested, taken before a magistrate to be
treated according to law, and on convic-
ton thereof, to be committed to the
workhouse and made to earn his living,
and the community thus relieved of a
dangerous class of criminals.
Is this solution of the tramp ques-
tion2 The Board of State Charities
think go