South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-20
IT. JOSEPH COUNTY
HAS 1871 INMATES
IN STATE SCHOOL
County Leads Section With
Number IN Homes for
Mental Deficient.

St. Joseph county with 1s1 leads
the surrounding counties i'm the
number Of inmates in the hospitals
Tor the insane and ln the schools
Tor the feeble minded, 'rding TO
"a report made lubl.c Amos W.
Butler. secretary OF tho state board
% charities The Ig. gives 1863 .n-
mates OF ~. Joseph county in hos
pitfalls for the insane and 28 iu-'
mates ln The school for feeble
minded.
of the Couutle- u the vicinity
Elkhart county ls Mex with 100
people On both institutions KOS
ciuskO IS third with 81. Marshall.
Isp porte. Starke mad Fulton CoGn-
lies have no inmates In these instl-
buttons and are not listed s. Jos
ooh county ranks fifth an the state
ip number OF inmates OF this c.ass
and IS led by NIgO county. which
has 2e7 inmates. Allen 20. Wander
bJrCh go and L',ke 2OS The re-
rIa'n'nE counties vary In lower
rumters. some OF them having
meme.
Twenty ln Girl,' school
TscsIdes the inmates of this class,
s.. Joseph county has I'm the other
benevolent. charitable and penal IL
stitut:Ons 81 the county II IN tho
Scidiets Home. 10 iu the Sold Crs'
tnd Sailors Orphans Home, Il I'm
tee Village for Epileptics. Ono in
the Robert w Long hospital. -urec
I'M the school 10" deaf, five i'm the
ec1uol for blind. "a in the state
prison. 5 in the refOrmatory. nine
m the renal farm. and 20 eocn in
tie boys and gir,s' school.
More than half Of the inmates Of
1ndiana's benevolent, charitable and
penal institutions are in the insane
hospitals and the school for feeble
minded. The number OF inmates OF
insane hospitals and the feeble
minded school is more than twice
the number OF prisoners in the
penal Institutions. and more than
the combined number Of aged and
orphan dependents. the sick, the
blind and the deaf
Patients at the five insane hOspi-
tails number 53O4, and those at the
school for feeble minded 1,414,
while the prisoners at the six penal
institutions total 2.s75. with the
eight other state Institutions caring
for 1.912. making the total popu-
lation Of the 10 state institutions
aggregate 1885.
Report I'm Detail.
The number Of inmates az each
Of the state institutions. as shown
by Mr.. Buffers report. follows:
school for feeble minded .....1 Ala
Central hospital for insane 1,40l
Northern HOSPITAL for insane. 1. COS
southeastern hospital for in
sane .....................l,2lt
southern hospital for insane. 7S2
state prison (Michigan city,. SS1
Indiana reformatOry (Jeffer-
sOnVlle) ................. tlU
state penal farm putnam
vllle) 81 q
Woman's prison UndiauapoHs) 80
Indiana girls school CCler-
MONTY ..--..-....-. .--.-.-.-- so o
Indiana boys school CPlain-
Heidi ---.-.-. .-.--.-.---. - i.
village for Epileptics. .-...... 81
state sanatOrium ............ 100
Robert w. LOng hospital. ..... 122
state school for deaf ....- 2T6
school for blind ....... 115
Soldiers home .............. Gal
Soldiers and sailors orphans
home ............. w
Every county IN the state has in
mates in the hospitals for insane.
1T the school for feeble minded and
In the penal Institutions Carroll.
Ohio, Spencer. Switzerland and
Warren are the only counties not
having prisoners at the state prison
az Michigan City. while score of
other counties have none Of its Citi-
Zens held IN the Jacksonville re
fOrrnatOry. Likewise so counties
have no inmates Of the woman 5
prison.
Eleven counties have no boy or
girl prisoners at Plainfieid. or NJ
Clermont but all other counties are
represented at one or both Of these
institutions. The counties which
have neither boys or girls at these
institutions are Crawford. Dekalb,
Franklin. Jasper. Jennings. La
grange, Martin, Newton. owen. Rif-
lev and Scott