The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-02-13

nat wayne county pdIu TIC Gust u
keeping al inmates in state institu.
tons last year, fifty-six of whom were
sent last year, is shown by q report
of the board of state charities. Wayne
county stands tenth in number of in
mates in institutions and tenth In
population as county.
From Wayne county there were 116
patients in Easthaven, seventeen in
mates in the soldiers home at Lafay-
cite, eleven in the soldiers orphans
home at Knightstown. twenty-one in
the school for feeble minded in Fort
Wayne, eight in the village for epilep-
tics at New Castle, seven in the school
for deaf at Indianapolis, three for the
school for blind in indianapolis. thirty
one in the state prison at Michigan
City, fourteen in the reiormatory at
Jeffersonville, three in the Indiana
girls school at Clermont. ten in the
boys school at Plainfield. 1t has no
inmates in other insane hospitals than
Easthaven, in the tuberculosis hospital
at Rockport or in the women's prison,
Indianapolis.
Attendance increases.
According to the report on the East
ern Indiana hospital for insane. there
has been a slight increase in the en-
rollment in the past year. The follow
ing report shows the movement of in.
mates:
Enrolled October, 1 1913. ....... 849
Temporarily absent, Oct. l, 1913 18
Received during year .......... 148
Discharged or withdrawn, includ-
ing deaths 100
Enrolled Sept. 80, 1914 ......... 1854
Present Sept. 80, 1914 ......... 845
Daily average attendance ...... 1892
Compared with the preceding year
there was an increase of Is In the en-
follment and of 1922 in the daily
average attendance. The average
number of officers and employees for
the year-169.9-was 80 more than in
1913. There was an average of 9.S8
patients to each attendant, and of 4.94
patients to each person on salary.
THE average per capita cost Of
maintenance was S20195-S6.95 more
than in 1913. The value of the
products grown on the institution farm
and used during the year was estimat-
ed at $24,6914S and the cost of pro-
duction $13,565.71. The value per
capita Of patients amounted to $29.42.
an increase of 1926 over 1913"
Recommends Other Farms.
Comments made throughout the re-
port indicate the degree of interest
with which the colony farm, idea is
being watched. The report recon-
mends that the legislature establish
other colony farms after the East
haven experiment.
The report on school attendance
shows that Wayne county is ahead Of
other counties. Only fifteen children.
ten boys and five girls were brought
into schools by compulsion in the 1914
school year. The average in the state
is almost 800 to a county.
The report of the number given
assistance by the attendance officer to
keep them in school was 451 which is
higher than the average of all counties
in the state. The cost of the assist
ance was $64O.
A Jail report showing the admissions
for vagrancy and intoxication says
that Wayne county admitted 276 male
prisoners for intoxication. and six
women for the same charge and kept
them at a cost of $1,232.4O for a year.
There were only four Migrants costing
SIG.
The county poor asylum report calls
attention to the need for a woman's
building at the Wayne county infirm-
airy The farm Is one of the biggest in
area in the state having 80 acres.
There were forty-nine inmates at the
time the report was taken.
The method of caring for children
in the Home for Friendless as it is
done in Wayne county while the chill
dren are being held by the board OF
childrens guardians was recommended
to other counties.