The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02

That Is Represented in the Main
tenance OF the Insane, Dependent
and Criminal Classes in State
Institutions, 1858 Being the
Number Cared for Last Year-Some
Marked Differences Observable.
Secretary Jackson, of the state board
of corrections and charities, has made I'D
the financial statement of the state ia
stitutions for the fiscal year which ended
july 81, last, and the figures reveal some
interesting Facts. A million AMI a half
OF dollars and more is represented in the
expenditure of the state each year in the
care of the insane, criminal and depend
ent classes, although the net cost is re-
duced about 10 per cent by receipts from
various sources. The total expense last
year was 81, 524, 55S17, divided as follows:
St. Peter hospital for insane, $199, SOP. IS;
Rochester hospital for insane. s191, 557. %:
FERGUS Falls hospital for insane. $685.
1851 Anoka and Hastings asylums, S23,-
9S1;o5; total for insane. 1851, 97O.6S
State Soldiers home. s55. 73425; school
for the deaf, $57,S93.67: school for the
blind, S2l,OO2S4; school for the feeble
minded. $123,247.77; Owatonna public
school, $4S,S6710: Red Wing training
school. $92967.32; ST. Cloud reformatorv
S6,6l1.S4; state prison. $415, 2626O; grand
total, $1,524, 55817
Ihe insane hospitals took IN S14O00 the
school for detectives about $1,000; the
training school nearly $1,000; the reforma
tory $1O3S2.57, and the prison $5S, 921. 40;
fnta I
oeing $50, $685. The net cost of operating
the institutions is thus s., 4SS, 6S919.
The total population of all the institu-
lions Gnmates) was 1858; the total num-
Der of days board furnished inmates
was 2,0S0.33O, besides 1856, 1873 DAYS board
for officers and employees.
The average yearly expense per in
mate was $3.50, as against S159 the year
before and $176 and $3.50 in the years work
ing backward Heretofore This would
seem to Indicate that the present institu-
lions cannot be maintained at a per
capita cost much less, at least along
present lines The reformatory is the most
expensive institution per CAPITA the cost
there being S257, yet this has been re-
duced in almost the same ratio as the
general average during the last few years.
StS III 1917 IL was 4Zo0, dIlu Ill 1850 91tO.
The state training school at Red Wing
on the other hand shows a gradual in
crease in the cost per capita from S14S
in 1886 to $1S3 in 1899
The insane hospitals show an almost
uniform reduction. Each of them has
this year reduced the per capita expense,
and the total for the three is this year
on a per capita basis of $155, as against
$15S $167 and $1S7 in the years before. The
Rochester is the lowest in it's per capita
expense. yet its cost of food per capita
per Gay was exactly the average for the
three hospitals, los cents; as against
liz cents at St. Peter and 1913 cents at
Fergus Falls. The food for the inma tes
# the soldiers home cost highest, 15.S
cents per capita per day, and that at the
state training school at Red Wing least,
Sc cents. The food at the prison cost
y cents per day per capita, although the
per capita expense for all at the prison Is
but SIS per year, scarcely haf what it
costs at the other institutions.
The burial expenses are distributed as
follows: St. Peter hospital, $121; Roches-
ter. $27: Fergus Falls, $1S4; total, insane
hospitals, $SS3260; soldiers home, $70460;
Institute for detectives, sic; Owatonna
public school, $3.50; state prison, $3.50.