South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-21
BIG INCREASE IN
CHARITY EXPENSE
High Food Cost and More Sal
aries Increases lnStitu-
tons Upkeep.

INDIANAPOLIs. Jan. 21-The net
INCREASE OF maintaining Indiana's de-
pendents in public institutions Of the
state for the fiscal year. ending
Sept. 30. 1917. was $13.76 per capita,
over the costs for the preceding
year. according to report from the
Indiana board Of state charities,
summarizing institutional matters
throughout the state and made pub
lie today.
Analysis OF the per capita cost Of
maintenance, disclosed that increases
OF s12.S9 per capita for food supplies
and $2.22 per capita for office, do
nestle and outdoor departments
were recorded. These increases We're
somewhat offset by decreases Of 46I
cents per capita for salaries and
wages. 20 cents for clothing and 90
cents for ordinary repairs.
There was an increase Of $221,-
666.27 in the operating expenses of
the 70 state institutions. the report
showed. So percent Of which was for
food supplies alone, The eXpendi-
lures for food were S1S1,855.77
greater than the year before. SAL
aries and wages increased $7,673.13.
and office, domestic and outdoor de-
partment costs increased S40.226.65.
Each Of the state institutions spent
more for food supplies this year, the
amount Of the increases ranging
from S3S.411.54 at the central hos
pitaI for the insane, 10 s56S.12 at the
T1f i'm
stitution was the only one of the 9
that reported a food increase Of less.
than $1,000 for the year
Food Big Item.
The per capita cost Of food sup
plies increased more than $40 at
four OF the institutions. between $40
and $40 at nine, and less than $40 at
IKE. The Boys school reports show
ed a decrease of IS cents per capita
i'm food costs.
During the year the 10 Institutions
spent S3.O16,532. 90 for regular oper-
ating purposes and S169,537.91 for
new buildings and permanent i'm
provements, or a total of $3,1S6,-
O7O.S1. The 19 began the year with
1928 inmates present. and at the
close there were 1864 inmates en-
rolled 1885 actually present. OF
the number present S,205.45 We're
men and boys, and 5,115.O2 were
women and girls.
10 is noted that the insane. feeble
minded and epilepuc constituted SO
percent OF the whole number of in
mates. and that these unfortunates
have increased 50 percent in 10
years or from a total Of 5,24441 to
7.079.46. The average per capita
cost 20 the state for It's unfortunates
was S226.61. the report showed In
this total cost was S75.36 for acmiu-
istration expenses; $70.06 for sub
sistence; $3.50 for clothing; S61.27
for office, domestic and outdoor de-
partments. and S11.23 for ordinary
repairs and minor improvements.
During the year there was an in
crease Of Isl in the average daily
number of inmates. and a decrease
of 62.24 in the average number Of
officers and employees. The average
number of inmates to each person
ON salary was SIS in 1916, and 6.1 in
1917.
Appropriations Hard Hit.
I'm the list Of appropriations and
receipts Of various sorts for the up
keep Of the Institutions. IL is shown
that S142,961.3O was added to the
total income of the institutions as
whole from the governors emerg-
ency maintenance fund, created by
the 1917 legislature to be used
where state institutions could not
he
lar appropriations. The total of all
income TO the Institutions. including
the governors emergency fund. was
s3,O47, $685., and the institutions
spent $3.O16,532.9O. leaving a ball
ance OF SS1.1O3.65. The report saws:
Eleven of the institutions. having
had an average attendance greater
than that on which their regular ap-
preparations were based. had the adj
vantage OF additional per capita all
Iowances for maintenance. but five of
these, and two others. were OBLIGED
90 draw on the emergency fund
placed i'm the governors hands by
the legislature of 1917. i'm order TO
avoid serious deficits. The Soldiers
home Lafayette used some OF its
excess pension fund as contemplated
Hy law: otherwise it would have had
"a deficit The Robert w Long hos
pital had receipts from pay patients
90 add TO its allowance for mainteu-
ance. The Indiana state farm had
it's per capita allowance The state
school for the Deaf the school for
the Elnd and the Boys scnool COM
pleted the year within their appro-
priations The Woman's prison and
its correctional department had the
highest population in its history. and
the state farm had 2ls more mis-
demeanants this year than last. but
there were decreases of 10 and a..
respectively. i'm the number commit
ted TO the state prison and the re-
formatory