South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-07
CHARITY BOARD IS
OUT WITH REPORT
State Hospitals Have Inmates
From All Counties = In
creased Need is Shown in All
Institutions.

Special Correspondence.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. "A report
just issued here by the board OF state
charities. for the first time in the his
tory of the board gives the repre-
sentatiOn Of the counties in the states
institutions. The report is 10 become
a part of the annual report from the
state board. The first of these tables
shows the number Of inmates present
Sept. 80, 1914. Every county in the
state is represented In one of the five
hospitals for the insane, in the school
for feeble-minded youth and in one
Of the five state penal and correction
al institutions. All the counties eX-
cept Jasper. Ohio Steuben and
Switzerland are represented at the
state prison at Michigan City; all eX-
cept Bartholomew, Crawford, Fulton,
Johnson, Ohio and Switzerland at the
refOrmatOry at JeffCrsonville. Sixty
one counties have no representatives
in the wOman's prison, 2S in the Indi-
ana girls school and IS in the Indi-
ana boys school. Twelve counties are
represented in every one Of the II in
situations. These include the more
populous counties OF Marion, Nigo, St.
Joseph, Lake, Vanderburg, Madison
and Delaware. all of which have more
than $4,000 inhabitants, as we'll as
some smaller ones, TippecanOe,
Greene. Gibson, Montgomery and
Huntington.
Institutions Report.
The Il state institutions under the
supervision Of the state board drew
$2.SS4.642O3 from the state treasurer
during the past fiscal year. OF this
sum $2,445.016.66 was required for
regular operating expenses and $439,-
'625.37 was expended on additional
land new buildings and permanent
improvements. The daily average at
tendance of inmates was 11,6OS.76;
Of officers and employees. 2,069.39. At
the close of the year there were
11.745 inmates present and 96S 9TH
ers temporarily absent, making total
enrolment of 12,70S.
The regular operating expenses
were divided as follows: 1902, 1862,
or $77.77 per capita, for salaries and
wages: $673.091.06, or $57.9S per
capita. for subsistence; SSS,94l45. or
$7.66 per capita, for clothing; SEAL
$685., or $55.25 per capita, for office,
domestic and outdoor departments:
S13S,S53.54, or $11.96 per capita for
ordinary repairs and minor improve
ments. The whole per capita cost was
$210.62. This was an increase Of
.S7.93 over the preceding year, to
which the cost of subsistence con-
tributed 81 per cent. of salaries and
wages % per cent, repairs q per cent
office, domestic and outdoor depart
ments IA per cent. ard clothing eight
per cent
New Buildings.
Compared with 1913, the eXpendi-
lures for new buildings and perma-
nent improvements show an increase
of S23,181.9O. In the daily average
attendance of inmates there is net
increase of HIP. Twelve Of the in
stitutions report an aggregate in
crease of 272.37, as follows: The in
situations for mental detectives 1896,
the Soldiers home and the Soldiers
and Sailors Orphans home S4.55, the
tuberculosis hospital SIS, the school
for the deaf 1929 and the refOrma-
tory 1879 These increases are offset
by decreases of IA in the school for
the blind, 1866 in the state prison,
23.27 in the woman's prison, 1888 in
the girls school and 7.59 in the boys
school BY another classification. it is
found that there is an increase in the
population of the benevolent and edu
cational institutions under the state
the penal and correctional institu-
tons.
OF 12.7OS persons enrolled as in
Sept so 1914 963 were temporarily
ent, 6.937 males and 4,S0S females
the year, of whom S.fO1 were new ad-
missions or commitments, and 54S
were former inmates returned.