The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-14
The COST IS MORE
State Charitable Institutions
Increase $4,000.
Total of $657,785.25 Expended
During Fiscal Year.
LARGER POPULATION.
More Inmates and Higher Cost
Of Living.
Annual Report of Board of Con-
troll to Governor.
LARGER POPULATION.

One Of the most interesting annual
reports sent to Governor Stubs for the
fiscal year ending July 1903, was COM
piled by the state board of control this
afternoon. It gave the financial state
! ments of the charitable institutions an
the state under the supervision of the
board
| The board has made an excellent
record this year. closing the season
| with an unexpended balance of 1884,
| SSO.6S In other words the board has
| this amount on hand that they did not
| use. They have also succeeded III saw
| ing in the special appropriation fund
| $7,70674. The actual running expenses
| during the fiscal years 1903 have been
| 1851, S41. 65. Fees amounting to $50. 236
were deducted from this leaving a total
| of $64S, 1880
During the last fiscal year, 1909. $685.
1905 amounted to almost $4,000 but was
expected and was provided for by the
legislature. The increased population
in the charitable institutions caused
this.
The complete report reads as follows:
The charity work of any state COW
ers a broad and rapidly growing field
For several years there has been pop
ular unrest in many states regarding
the condition of and the methods of
IEdI
situations. Investigation of these in
stitutions in the different states showed
that the medical administration of the
hospitals for the insane was more Gus
todiaI than curative. and that the
buildings and equipment in the older
institutions were cid. unsanftary. dan
gerouS and in some respects ooSoIete-
To meet these manifest needs and TO
Increase capacity. large amounts have
been expended cy the different states
In looking over a recent report of the
board of charities of Illinois we notice
that in 1907. 81. 43S,7 1872 more was ap-
lions than IN 1905. and for 1909 the Eoard
asked for 81 9SS. 249.S0 more than was
appropriated in 1907.
In our biennial report of 1903, pages
210 to Zl9. discussed the narrow ne 10
covered by the nine state charita bic
institutions at the time we took charge
July 1, 1905, and how the field has been
broadeued and more facilities, equip
rent and buildings provided The leg
islature OF 1907 appropriated S4o6,1Zf
more for these institutions than was
appropriated in 1865. The legislature
OF 1909 appropriated $249,2 67 less to these
institutions than was appropriated IN
1907 but this decrease was in new
buildings. The total amount approprl-
ated for these nine institutions in 1907
Y as 81 969, 517 and in 1909 $1.72e,25O In
addition to the amount appropriated to
the institutions in 1909. the legislature
I ii
the balance of the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1909, and $4,000 for each OF
the years 1910 and 1911 The total
appropriations for the charitable in
situations of Kansas do not amount to
as much as the increase in the cost OF
the charitable institutions of Illinois.
The increase in the appropriations 10
he educational institutions OF Kansas
has been vastly more than to the chart
table.
1.-The provision made by state for
/ the education of its young men and
t women and for the care and treatment
of its unfortunates furnishes a faith
| full exponent of the degree of cIv1llza-
ton, enIightment and intelligence OF
| its citizens.
| 1.-THE increase in the current ex-
penses of the nine state charitable in
| situations has not been proporuonate
with the actual increased population
| of these institutions and the general
| increased cost of living and wages:
This annual report is for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1909. The leg
| isIature of 1907 increased the salary
and maintenance funds $32, $500 for
the fiscal year 1909 over the fiscal
wear 1906. and appropriated all
moneys received for the care and
maintenance of patients and from 9TH
e.. sources for the use of the inst1tu-
1--WE closed the fiscal year 1909 with
an unexpended balance of S84,S3O-6S
in these current funds. In other
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