The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-04
ANNUAL COST OF
STATE CHARITIES
OVER Z MILLIONS
Bulletin Issued by State Board
Shows Number, Kind and
Cost of the Persons Depend
ent Upon the State.
PRISON POPULATION
DROPS TWO HUNDRED

~ss'~S sSssssSs WV SAy
Decrease Is Caused by
Closing of SaIoons-More
Insane Than Ever Before.
Indianapolis, June 4.-IntereetinY
facts are contained in the current Is
sue OF the bulletin OF the board OF
state charities regarding the statistics
Of the various state institutions under
the supervision of the board for the
six months ending March 81. 1910
On March 81. 1910. there were en-
rolled in the fifteen institutions IL.
519 persons, OF whom 6.Sl7 or 50 per
cent. were men and boys. and A,60S,
or Al per cent. were women and girls.
In the four insane hospitals the women
numbered about the same rs the men.
the women being slightly in the ma
jority. There were more women than
men in the Soldiers' homo ct LAfay-
cite. In the three penal institutions
for adults there were twenty men To
every woman. and In the two reform
schools two boys to every girl. There
were more girls than boys In the Sol
diers and Sailors Orphans' home and
in the school for the deaf. The oppo-
site was true of the school for the
blind. Only men have % far been re-
ceived at the village for epileptics.
Largest Percentage inssns.
Classified in another way. % per
cent OF the total enrolment were to be
found in the hospitals for the insane.
15 per cent In the soldiers home and
the soldiers and sailors orphans home.
II per cent. In, the institutions for the
feeble minded and epileptics, per cent
in the school for the blind and the
deaf. % per cent in the two prisons
and reformatory and 8 per cent in the
schools for delinquent boys and girls.
The detectives and dependents consti-
tuted 20 per cent and the delinquents
30 per cent.
Six of the fifteen institutions have
now passed the 1000 mark in enroll
ment. These are the central hospital
for the insane with .995; the soldiers
home with $50: the reformatory
with 1.193: the state prison with 1.15O:
the school for feeble minded youth
with 1.149. and the northern hospital
for insane with 1907. Tho other In
stitutions range from 115 at the VII
lage for epileptics to 80 ut the eastern
hospital for insane at Richmond.
Average Shows Increase.
The daily average attendance for the
six months was 1O.717. or 128 greater
than for the corresponding period OF
the preceding year. There was IN In
| crease Of 100 in the daily average at-
tendance at the hospitals for the in
sane. 65 at the soldiers' home. and d
II at the village for epileptics. II at
the school for tho blind, . at the wo-
mans prison, 43 ct the girls school
and 81 at the boys school.
Deiinqusnts on Dserease.
These increases were ONSET by de-
| orphans home, II at tho school for the
deaf. II at the state prison and 140 at
the reformatory. The decrease in the
population and reformatory and the
state prison ii especially striking. and
It Is believed to be due largely to the
drying up of many Of the counties OF
/ the state and tho ousting of the liquor
| trafic from them.
The state employed IN average Of
1.71O persons to care for these wards.
The number q inmates to each per-
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