Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-11-24
COUNTY BOARD DOINGS.

w MnesGdy, tne SccOnd uds Oh bHe
county board session, was occupied
mainly in hearing reports of different
by committees.
The county clerk reported his sched-
ule of expenses for the year ending
Oct. 3lst, the aggregate of which was
S43, $40. 30.
The same officer reported list of
county orders remaining unclaimed in
his hands. the total sum of which is
819.5s.
Messrs. Calvert Spensley, Richard
ing the Soldiers Relief Commission,
reported the expenditure of 1886 for
relief during the year. This sum had
been disbursed to twenty different per-
sons, six of whom are ex-soldiers,
three soldiers children, and the re-
mainder the widows and mothers OF
deceased soldiers. These beficiaries
are scattered throughout the county,
four being residents of Mineral Point.
year, 1854 90. The financial statement
shows cash balance on hand Of
1862 03. An appropriation Of 5000
for the ensuing year was asked for
by the commissioners and granted.
District Attorney Pollard reported
that he had received nothing by virtue
of his office for the past year from
fines, etc, and had no public money
| in his hands to account for.
Hon. Aldro jerks, County Judge,
| reported eleven commitments to the
state hospital for insane, three com
miteG to the county asylum, three to
| the state house for feeble minded at
| Chippewa Falls, three insane persons
transferred from state hospital to the
county asylum. Two Iowa county
patients died in the state hospital and
two were discharged therefrom. Three
inmates of the county asylum died
during the year.
Samuel Swinehart, ole Steensland
and Josephus Bailey, trustees of the
county asylum and poor farm, made
a lod showing for those institutions
in the report submitted. Total re-
ceipts of the asylum during the year,
Sli, 1920. Current expenses SS,6l3.96,
paid for improvements SlS9.9l. leav-
ing cash balance on hand of 81 ,32s. Is
The earnings of the asylum for the
year were for care of Iowa county
patients at Sl.5O per week 1921 30,
other county patients at $500 per
week, n, 95l 81, from private patients
and sales of products of farm
~ ,6}l 80. Total earnings Sli ,507. -.
Deduct running expenses s., 1913. %,
and profits of the institution for the
year are shown to be 50, 1903 %. To
this the trustees add S4,67s.36 that
il would have cost the county to keep
its own insane in other counties, and
claims the actual saving to the county
for the year by the establishment Of
The Institution to be 0,57l,G The |
report concluded with a recommends
tion that provision be made for light |
ing the institution with acetylene gas,
which the board approved and a
plant will Toe put in, estimated to cost
less than 5000.
The same gentle en-, as superiu-
tendents of poor, report the total
expenses on that account for the year
to have been $2,9lL9S, of which |
Sl7l4.63 was paid to towns for temp
orary aid, and ri, 1873 for support
OF inmates of the county farm.
The trustees received during the
year, as mileage and per diem, in the
discharge of their duties, the follow
ing sums; Swinehart, Sll7: Stcensland, |
Sl3ll0; Bailey, Sl00.25. Or. w. j. |
Pearce, physician for the two institu
tions, received $3.50 salary; f.. }, Per-
kins, superintendent, received $1,000
and Mrs. Perkins, maTon, received |
500 All these items as well as sal |
aries OF attendants, and others are in
cluded in the aggregate of expenses.
T.. j. Perkins, superintendent OF
asylum and overseer of the county
farm made detailed report that gives
a good insight into the affairs of
those institutions. There were 1901
patients in the asylum Oct. /, 1897; |
twenty-eight were received during the
year and seven lost 10y death and
other causes, leaving the present pop
ulatiou III, Of which sixty-iiyc are
males and ffty-siN females OF the !
whole number hity-two are Iowa
county patients, and siXty-nine from
other counties. The cost per capita
for maintenance is stated to be Sill
per week In recapiulation Nh, |