The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-10-12
RECEIVE BIG Bill.
FOR DETECTIVES
County Must Pay $4,000.
This Year for Care of
Insane and Sick.
MAY COLLECT BILLS
Demand Is to Be Made on Rel
atives to Lift Burden From
the General Funds.

Kenosha county will pay $28,295.55
for the support of its wards in the
various institutions of the state dur
ing the year just closed, according to
a statement of the account Of the
county with these institutions furn-
ished to County Clerk Charles L.
Holderness by the State. Board of
Control today
The amount is just little in in
crease Of the amount which the county
paid last year and no change has been
made in the charges made by the vari-
Gus institutions for the care of the
patients. AS in other years the larger
share of this money will be paid to
the Racine county hospital for the
care Of the/insane. This county in
stitution will receive S13,540.50 from
Kenosha county this year. A consid-
cradle majority of the insanity patients
cared for under the direction of Ke-
nosha county are now in the hospital
at Racine, but the demands of Racine
county for the institution, due to
growing population, has made it nee
essary for many Kenosha patients to
be sent to other county institutions
=, in the state. The bill to the county
does not represent the entire cost of
the detectives apd the delinquents to
Kenosha county, Many patients held
in the various state institutions are
not supported al the expense of the
county, but their bills are paid by
relatives
Seek to Protect County Farther.
Under formal action of the county
board of supervisors an effort will be
made to have more of these costs paid
by the relatives of inmates in the
various institutions. Bills demanding
settlement for the cost of this service
are to be sent to relatives of the
patients in different parts of the
county and it is possible that the
county will resort to the courts ii
necessary to collect some Of these
bills. 1t is admitted that there is no
chance for the county to get away
from payments in many cases as the
patients themselves have no relatives
here. 1t is a notable fact that an ex-
animation Of the lists of patients in
these hospitals and other institutions
shows that large proportion of
them were foreign born.
The report this year shows that nire
Of the county hospitals in the state ere
. L.l.s,,c. KoOoeLo oo,,p4xr 70 saliva tbe
problem of caring for these dependents
Don't Like Hospital Plan.
With the list of these dependents
constantly growing the plan of having
county hospital in Kenosha county
is again being revived, but men-w who
have made study of the conditions
surrounding the cost to the county
are insistents that the county will be
better off byShsving these other coun-
ties care for these people. While the
cost for taking care of insane from
Kenosha county is in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000 this year, it is declar-
ed that this amount would not GO
very far toward the maintenance of 9
hospital. for the insane in this county
and shat there is not q demand in the
state for additional hospital facilities
What Institutions Get.
The bills from the various institu,
tions in the state as rendered to tht
county follow: School for girls, Mil
waukee, $16465; Northern Hospital
for the Insane, $3,2SS.27; Tuberculo
sis Santatorium, Wales, S611.79; Wis
consin State Hospital, insane, S1,675.
sc; Home for Feeble Minded. $2,4S7.
80; Tomahawk Camp, tuberculosis
$3.50; Industrial School for Boys
$2,34167; Central State Hospital, $207.
Ga; Waukesha asylum, $1,S99.O7; Wal
worth asylum, $2,488.58; Rock Count!
asylum, $466.49 Richland Count.
asylum, $5O3.21; Sank County asylum
lS276,O8; Racine County asylum, SIS,
$4,000; Jefferson County asylum
$685. Grant County ayslum, $6482
Green County asylum, $48272.