The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1894-06-29

nual Report of the Board of State
Charities Of Ind. Ii contains much
interesting information in regard 10
the charitable and correctional in
stitutions Of the State, and some
pertinent recommendations. Among
Others il says:
This Board would urge that il is
money well invested for county
commissioners to send the superin-
tendents of the poor asylums and
orphans' homes to the conferences
from year to year, defraying their
expenses the same AS other ex-
penses of the asylums and homes.
The commissioners themselves and
the township trustees should also
attend. The better ideas of economy
and management which the officers
gain at the meetings will result in a
sufficient improvement in the per
Torrance of their duties 10 more
than compensate for the expense.
In regard 10 the State Prison
South the Board shows that in three
months there was 304 cases Of pun
ishment of prisoners, and it thinks
the number too large. In the
northern prison in the same time,
with more prisoners, there were blu,
80 cases of punishment.
The Board recommends the dis
continuance of the best labor con
tract of the Southern Prison, that o.
the hollow-ware, employing POI
convicts, at an average of 80 cents 4
day. 1t says:
1T should be noted in this con
nection that a very large proportion
of the punishments inflicted at the
Southern Prison are because Of fail
ure on the part Of prisoners to per
form their required tasks III the hol
low-ware foundry. An experience,
of several years has shown that tn,
class of work which is done under
this hollow-ware contract is not suit
ed to prison labor. This committe,
would strongly urge that at the ex
piration of the contract now in force
the foundry department be discon
tinued and the hollow-ware contract
displaced by a contract for som,
class of labor less complicated anc
difficult. F"
1t also says Warden Patten i.
anxious for such a change Of tn,
law as will enable the Warden t,
work the prisoners himself on tn,
States account, and at such worl
"a he deems best.
The Report shows there is one in
sane person in Indiana to each 6O'
5 inhabitants, or about 300 insane
J. of whom 2,561 are in the Insan,
j Hospitals, and 361 in County Asy
: lums, and the rest at large. |
!, recommends the enlargement Of tn
Hospitals, SO as to be able to car
for all the insane.
: 1t commends the general manage
ment of the Southern Hospital.
In regard to the Soldiers ant
: Sailors Orphans home it says:
During the year about one hun
( dred children have been placed GU
q in private homes. When the chill
q dren are thus placed out, their car
n and treatment in their adoptiv
y homes are looked after by the near
!. est posts Of the Grand Army Of tn
% Republic or % he Women's Relic
Corps. 1t is -sserted by those mos
- directly associated in the work, tina
- this method of after-supervision ha
/. proved satisfactory. There exists
O. however, the danger that what
the business of number Of person
may become the business OF none
A. and the children, a. consequence
n be forgotten or neglected. TIL
3 placing Of one hundred childre
from the home annually, into pr
vate families, is not sufficient I
make room for the applicants Il
admission. During the past yea
the names of about three hundre
I eligible children who are waitin
Z their turn for admission, have bee
upon the records Of the home. III
3 health Of the pupils for many month
has been remarkable, not a sing
q death having occurred among thel
! for about a year and half. III
8 children appear contented and haI
) py, and for the most part, seel
= bright and capable Of making u.s.
full, self-supporting citizens.
d As to the inmates Of Poor As,
~ lums il shows that Dubois count
: has one ablc-bodied pauper, Crav
ford 2, Daviess2, Gibson 3, Knox
, Martin 3, Orange 3, Perry 1, Pill
. none, Vanderburg Is, Warrick nom
Dubois county expended in 1885,
II -, 939.6S for poor expense, bcir
&345. IS less than the same expen,
> in 1891; that for asylum maint
nance there was expended $766. A
i. being $247.9 less than in 1879