Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-25
BOARD or CONTROL PROVIDES
FOOD FOR 10000 At STATE -
INSTITUTIONS. Il
VARIETY OF EDlsLEs
TO MEET REQUIREMENTS
List Of Wards Of Each institution and
Average Cost Per Meal Compiled
Convicts in Prisons Well Fed-Spe-
eiai Dietary For Some Of Institutions
Other News Of the State.

Des Moines, April 2b.-1n spite OF
the increase in cost of food products.
1.-The state board of control has been
fourteen state institutions at a cost
varying from to Z cents "a 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
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.
| The average cost of meals at the
various institutions follows:
Iowa soldiers orphans home. DAY.
senport-Number of person served.
!4SS: cost per meal. 81 cents.
State hospital for inebriates. Knox
jville-22S persons served: cost per
lmeal. SO cents.
Iowa school for the deaf. Council
Rluffs-267 persons served: cost per
meal. $50 cents.
Women's reformatory. Anamosa -
!2S persons served: cost per meal 1
cents.
| Reformatory. Anamosa -- 755 per-
sons served: cost per meal, IL cents.
! State hospital. Cherokee--SS7 per-
sons served: cost per meal. cents.
! State hospital, Ciarinda-l, 0l6 per-
sons served: cost per meal 81 cents.
: State sanatorium for tuberculosis
e57 served: cost per meal. 10 cents.
| Industrial school for boys. Eldora
persons served. Ala; cost per meal.
ISL cents.
Penitentiary. Fort Madison per
sons served 655: cost per meal Z cents.
! Institution for feeble minded chill
dren, Glenwood-porsons served 1,455;
cost per meal. cents.
State hospital. Independence-per-
sons served. 1850: cost per meal. 4.6
cents.
Iowa Soldiers home Marshalltown
persons served 437; cost per meal, 6
cents.
Industrial school for girls Mitch
ellville-persons served 167; cost per
meal. 5.5s cents.
State hospital, Mount Pleasant -
persons served, $50; cost per meal,
$3.50 cents.
convicts Well Fed.
The reports show that the men at
the state prisons consume twice the
amount of food that the children at
the orphans home require. It costs
the state 81 so week to supply food
for each convlct5 at the Fort Madison
prison. The men are wen 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. cof-
fee, potatoes, butter. and sometimes
onions, cabbage, tomatoes. crackers.
For supper the cooks provide bread,
apples, sugar. biscuits. tea, peas, but
ter. beef or pork. potatoes.
Patients at the insane hospitals eat
big meals. consuming more food than
the average person The following is
a sample bill of fare from the Mount
Pleasant hospital where the cost per
meal is cents and the cost Of food
for each patient per week is $l.34.
Breakfast, oatmeal. bacon. potatoe
bread and butter. sugar. coffee, milk
toast, syrup. Dinner. soup, beef and
potatoes, kraut, peas, bread pudding,
bread. syrup. Supper, rice. beets
prunes, bread. tea, milk, syrup, pota-
toes. butter sugar.
AT the sanatorium for tuberculosis
at Oakdale patients are maintained
at a cost for food alone OF $2.19 a.
week. The patients are given regular
hospital rations
The persons at the inebriate hospital
at Knoxville do not require as much
food as the men in the prisons. They
can be maintained for $125 a week,
for food alone. The bill of fare
for the hospital is about the same as
that OF the prisoners. except that the
quantities are not SO great.
Include Pie and Cake.
Foods served are nutritious, but the
institutions do not run to frills and
iknickknacks at the meals. The wards
get very little ice cream, but plenty
iof fruit and the Sunday meals usually
include pie and cake. although the
meals during the week, as q rnle in
most institutions. do not provide lux
uries. The children at the orphans
! home get cookies at supper and the in
! ebriates also get cookies or ginger
bread for the last meal OF the day.
Eggs. milk and butter are literally
| supplied to the states wards.
To feed the 10000 wards, the state
buys immense quantities OF food,
About 100000 pounds OF meat are
purchased each year, in addition To
the beef and pork raised at the state
| farms; beans. rice and other foods
are bought by the tons; sugar is pur-
chased at the rate of 100000 pounds
| a year, and other foods I'm r,ronorf,nv,