The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-08
IF SANITARIUN
|NO7 ONLY One HIT
In FUND is LIMITED, WITH
pEAsE OF INMATES AND
eosT OF EVERYTHING.

ANTA.-That authorities af
ate sanitarium are going to
. send a number of inmates
. the counties from whence
anne because the appropriation
10 900 is not enough to main
% institution and take care of
hoo inmates, or else make pro-
for more money, is attracting
comment among officials and
who come in contact with state
ments generally.
evelops, however, that the strin-
brought about by the enormous
Sc in the cost of maintenance
hot, after all, fall heaviest on
ate sanitarium, but on the state
department. 1t has been prop
figured out that the almost one
/ additional cost of everything
bv either of the institutions has
it practically an impossibility
at this time within what it
ven a year ago. In figuring out
enance cost the state sanitarium
to need $120 per capita for
lion. The prison commission,
other hand, has a per capita
" supply of about $40.
eresting in this connection is the
hing, which is to be found by an
1lnation of the commission rec
Showing the enormously increas-
Aost of those necessities which
to be provided by the prison
ission: Meat last year cost 9
ii cents per pound; this year the
81 IS cents. Blankets which could
hight last year for rs cents were
|bsable this year for a time at
and now can't be bought at
6gure; striped goods which cost
bits last year is available this
at 317a cents; brogan shoes
were bought last year for $1.15
R1.50 to $1.60 per pair this year;
BIT goods, for clothes, bought last
~ u cents, are bought this year
he cents; -four, which was
1t at SIS per barrel last year,
about $3.50 a barrel this year,
n this the commission is saving
\ fact that it is now grinding it's
wheat, but later on will have to
Hour. By holding on to a con-
made some time ago the cost of
30, of which a considerable
Eity is used, is being bought for
] me old price. Taken as a whole,
Yer, the entire list of necessi-
khich the commission has to buy
hcrease is from 40 to so per
|in advance Of the cost of the
|list a year ago, and will average
than that compared with the
list and cost of two years ago.
Meets Other Demands.
er and above the cost of neces-
for maintenance of the convicts
state-there are 800 now being
Eained-the fact is frequently
Fight of in making calculations
out of the appropriation of
poo the prison commission has
y its office expense, the cost of
ction of the camps all over the
transportation of convicts to
rom the state farm and to and
camps where the prisoner is as
d, together with the transporta-
of the guards, and in this con-
pm it is found that frequently
a convict is turned over to the
b commission in a county, as
d and removed for penal SER
i'm a few days that convict's fine
id in the county where he was
cted. The fine paid goes into
hes and forfeitures in that coun-
into the common county fund,
ret the prison commission is re-
d to pay the transportation of
convict back to the coun-
pm which he was taken by them.
of which constitutes a small
of the study in economies which
leXt Georgia general assembly
ng to be required to make in the
EST of continued good organi-
and operation of the state in
ions and their proper mainte,