The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-20
Cost Of Meals In State Institutions
Varies From Three to Seven
Cents, Statistics Com
piled Show.
PRISONERS EAT MUCH
Mon Who Are Serving Time Are
Heavy Eaters and Consume Twice
as Much as do Orphans
Home Children.

In spite of the Increase in cost OF
food products, the state board Of
control has been able to feed the
10000 wards in the fourteen state in
situations at a cost varying from to
z cents meal. This does not include
the cost Of labor.
In order to make certain that the
inmates Of the various institutions
are well fed, the board requires the
superintendent of each institution to
send in bill of fare for each meal.
giving the cost and the number Of
persons served. BY purchasing sup
plies in big lots, the state is able to
provide, the best in the food line at a
low cost.
The average cost of meals at the
various institutions follows:
Iowa soldiers orphans home, Dav-
enport-Number of persons served,
4ss; cost per meal, 81 cents.
State hospital for inebriates, Knox
ville-22S persons served; cost per
meal, 90 cents
Iowa school for the deaf, Council
Bluffs PCT persons served; cost per
meal, $50 cents.
Women's reformatory, Anamosa-
% persons served; cost per meal,
cents.
Reformatory, Anamosa-755 per-
sons served; cost per meal, To cents.
State hospital. Cherolee-8S7 per-
sons served; cost per meal, cents.
State hospital, Clarinda-1 ,010 per-
sons served; cost per meal. OF cents.
State sanatorium for tuberculosis-
257 served cost per meal, 10 cents.
Industrial school for boys, Eldora-
Persons served, Ala; cost per meal,
81 cents.
Penitentfary, Ft Madison-Persons
served, 655; cost per meal, cents.
Institution for feeble minded chill
dren, acknowledgements served, l..
1856; cost per meal, 4 cents.
state hospital, independence
sons served, 1850; cost per meal,
4.6 cents.
Iowa soldiers home, Marshalltowr
Persons served, 437; cost per meal,
6 cents.
Industrial school for girls, Mitch
eIlville-Persons served, 1877; cost per
meal, SIS cents.
State hospital, Mt. Pleasant-Per-
sons served, $50; cost per meal, 6.o9
cents.
Prisoners Eat Much.
The reports show that the men a.
the state prisons consume twice the
amount of food that the children at
the orphans home require. 1t costs
the state $50 a week to supply 1000
for each convict at FIT. Madison
prison. The men are well fed.
For breakfast they are furnished
bread. potatoes. coffee, eggs, butter
and syrup, with a different kind OF
meat each day. For dinner they get
beef. bread, parsnips, milk, sugar,
coffee, potatoes, butter, and some
times onions, cabbage, tomatoes.
crackers. For supper the cooks pro-
vide bread, apples, sugar, biscuits
tea. peas. butter, beef or pork, pota-
toes.
Patients in the insane hospital eat
big meals, consuming more food imam
the average person. The following 10
a sample bill Of fare from the Mount
Pleasant hospital, where the cost per
meal is 6 cents and the cost OF Iooo
for each patient per Week is Sl.o4'
breakfast, oatmeal, bacon, pota-
toes bread and butter, sugar, coffee,
MIX, TOAST, Syiop'
and potatoes, kraut, peas, bread pud-
ding. bread, syrup. Supper, r1ce'
beets. prunes. bread, tea, milk, syrup,
potatoes, butter, sugar.
The patients at the feeble minded
institution at GIenwood are fed at a
cost of 4 cents per meal, or Sl.ol per
week. They have an unusually Dig
hill of fare. Following is a sample:
breakfast, steak, bacon, potatoes,
oatmeal, rice, bread, butter, coffee,
milk. sugar, eggs, jelly, biscuits
oranges. Dinner, beef, pork, potatoes,
tomatoes. beans, peas, turnlps, bread,
hutter. coffee, milk, sugar, tapioca,
crackers, eggs, jelly, pickles, apple
pudding.
at Oaktale, patients are maintained
at a cost for food alone OF S2.l9
week. The patients are given regu-
lar hospital rations.
inebriates Eat Less.
The persons at the inebriate hos
initial at Knoxville do not require as
much food as the men in the prisons.
Uhev can be maintained for s1.25
week, for food alone. The bill of fare
for the hospital is about the same
az that of the prisoners, except that
the Quantities are not SO great.
Foods served are nutritious, but
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