The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-12
CHARITY IN FORE.
Increased Population in State
Hospitals Is 24O.
Expenses for Fiscal Year De-
crease $94,SSO.12.
BIENNIAL REPORTOUT
Board of Control Data Ready
for the Printers.
Comparison Made of Years 1909
and 1910.

The biennial report of the Kansas
board of control, which is ready for
the printers, shows Kansas to the fore
in state charitable work. Advance
ment has been made in the facilities
and capacities of the nine separate in
stitutions. Their population also has
increased. The Topeka insane asylum,
for instance, had an enlarged enroll
rollment of 149 patients on July l.
1910, over the year previous. The m
crease in other institutions brings the
total to 24O.
The financial report of the board of
control gives a comparison of the years
1909 and 1910. This is the official
record. The report follows:
1.-The increase in the current ex-
penses of the nine state charitable in
stitutions has not been proportlonate
with the actual increased population OF
these institutions and the general IN
creased cost of living and wages. The
legislature of 1907 increased the sal
ary and maintenance funds $3S,O14
for the fiscal year ending June 81,
1905 and a further increase OF $S2,-
S99 for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1909. The legislature of 1903 IN
creased the salary and maintenance
funds $27.092 for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1910. but did not appro-
pirate as much for special improve
ments as was appropriated by the leg
lSlature OF lSUt. Inc lOtdl dppi Oplld- :
tions made by the legislature of 1903
for the fiscal years 1910 and 1911 to
the nine state charitable institutions
for all purposes. are less than what
were appropriated by the legislature of
1907 for the fiscal years 1908 and
1909. The total appropriations to the
charitable institutions of Kansas since
1905 do not amount to as much as the
annual increase in the cost of the
charitable institutions of some or the
/ 60 ha r11o
Figures for Two Years.
.sThis biennial report is for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1909, the
appropriations for which were made
by the legislature of 1907; and for the
fiscal year ending June 80. 1910. the
appropriations for which were made
| by the legislature of 1909.
For the fiscal year 1903, $262,-
522. was expended from the salary
funds, $440. 721.81 from the main
tenance funds and s29,565.S6 from fee
account funds, total of s732,S1O.04,
from which should be deducted $44,-
S89.78 fees collected and deposited
with the state treasurer, making the
actual cost of the current expenses to
the taxpayers of the state $6S7 ,920.2 rs.
was expended from the salary funds,
| $438327.6O from the maintenance
! funds and $31,421.43 from the fee &C
count funds, total of $742,766. Al
| less $76,147.11 1eeS conecteu ana Oe-
| posted with the state treasurer, max
! ing the actual cost of the current ex-
penses for the fiscal year 1910, $685.
! 619.24, as compared with 6S7,92O.26
for the fiscal year 1909, a decrease OF
| 1.301.02.
| The number Of inmates have in
| creased 240 since July 1, 1909.
I'VE closed the fiscal year 1909 with
an unexpended balance of $S4, ,S3068 i'll
these current support funds. Thirty
one thousand one hundred and sixty
three dollars and eighty-two cents Of
| this went into the general revenue
fund of the state and the balance. $53,-
! 666 sc, was placed to the credit of the
fee account funds of the institutions.
! We closed the fiscal year 1910 with an
unexpended balance in these funds of
I $14S, 54S. 81; $50,15502 of this went into
! the general revenue fund of the state
and the balance, SOS. 1892. SO, was placed
to the credit of the fee account funds.
Coal Fund Balance.
1.-The legislature of 1909 appropriated