New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-08-11


of information concerning the state
wards and their care has just been COM
piled by Public Examiner Fritz, follow
ing an examination of the books of the
state board of control and the institutions
placed in it's care. The examination,
which covers the period ending July 81,
1914, was an exhaustive one. The
board is highly praised.
Its books, it's expenditures, it's method
of management and it's care of the state
property in it's charge, Mr.. Fritz says
are above criticism.
Minnesota's institutional population
is on the increase, Mr.. Fritz points out,
and the one feature is that this increase
largely is in connection with the cor
regional institutions. OF an increase
population of little over per cent in
1914 more than 2 per cent was in cor
rectional and penal institutions.
This increase in population and the
addition of new buildings called for more
employees, but only 1T were added. The
largest number of inmates per employee
is at the Anoka asylum where the number
is 1O.5. The state prison at Saltwater
comes next with 1914 inmates per employee.
Though getting the most out of its en-
ployes, the lowest wages Of any institu
ton is paid at the Anoka asylum. Here
the average annual wage is $400.81.
The state school for the feeble-minded
comes next with an average annual wage
of $425.79.
The gross cost of the 16 state in
stitutions for the fiscal year Of 1914 was
S2,098, 029.66, but this figure was ma
terially reduced by institution receipts
of nearly 100000.
Each inmate, Mr.. Fritz figures out,
cost tax payers $174.83 for the year, but
some of the institutions reduced
this figure considerably as far as their
own population was concerned. Anoka,
as usual, was in the low class, its figure
beings $98.65 or a decrease of $1.06 per
inmate from the previous year. All
institutions devoted to the insane with
the exception of Rochester and St. Peter
were under the figure of $174.83 per head
for the extra Is institutions.
For 1914 the blind cost the state per
head, $431.12; the deaf, $277.14; the
predetermined, $156.46; the public
school at Owatonna, $29S.50; Red Wing
training school for boys, $491.57; girls
school at Sank Center, Spills; ST. Cloud
reformatory, $200.44; hospital for Grip
pied children $406.27, and the Saltwater
prison, $31.24. This is the lowest cost
of any of the state institutions and is
decrease of 1869 from the previous
year.
The highest cost per head was at the
state hospital for inebriates. Here the
figure was $571.34. The consumptives To-
Gated at Walker cost $244.70 per head.
The principal items of support are
provisions, clothing, fuel, light and water
and salaries, and though majority of
these show an increase in cost the figures
for the maintenance of the Is institutions
has not been materially increased. In
individual instances the cost has been re-
duced.
The average cost of provisions per
capita for all the institutions during 1914
was $51.42, an increase of $2.19 over the
previous year. Fuel, light and water per
head cost $1,000, an increase of 1924 per
head, and clothing $11.18 per head.
Salaries and travelling expenses were
$9O.35 per head.
The inmates had on deposit in the
various institutions where the exam
ination was made $107 $4,000.