Milford chronicle., 1939-02-10
SALARIES TAKE MOST
OF STATE FUNDS
tcopLlnued from Elrsl Pssel

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A separate report listed per capiti
costs of caring for inmates of in
stitutions at: s1,190 in Brandywint
and $1,000 in Edgewood Sanatoriums
$3SS.43 in Delaware State Hospital
$3S1.22 in Delaware Colony, anG
$359.O3 at Ferris Industrial School.
The new business budget to show
where Delaware's money went list
ed:
For travel. $4,000; postage, tele.
phone, and similar services, $63, 900;
I power, light, and water, $51 1,343, and
stationery and printing, $S0,291.
Debts and Pension
As debtor the State paid out ST.
O7S.OOO, or $675,OOO for highway in
terest. $394,O00 in bond redemption,
and $4,000 in mortgages.
Old age l~nsions cost another
$145,0O0 in State funds, and other
payments of a service nature totaled
1887, 900, bringing the total bill for
compensation of all kinds to &c.
765.OOO.
Mr.. Truss declared the figures
were reliable" if not 100 per cent
accurate, designed to give legislators
a rough picture Of what $13,000,000
brought.
The Delaware tercentenary cost
the State about $4,000. and Fort
Christina Park, $373.O0O.
Deducting these extraordinary"
bills of 1898. the States actual
budget shows only an increase of
S5S3,0OO over the preceding fiscal
year.
Contributions" by the State for
children. hospitals, fire companies.
veterans, and others totaled 1858, 500.
$221,3OS School Supplies
To educate its children, Delaware
poured another $221,308 into school
supplies, and S2S4.613 more to the
school board. Teachers salaries
were included in the $6,OO0,OOO pay
roll.
Appropriations included $167,0O0
for Brandywine Sanatorium, $34,-
1924 at Edgewood, $385.075 for the
State Hospital at Farnhurst, $162.-
111.O4 for the delaware Colony, and
S13O,224.95 at Ferris.
Per Capita Rate
Other appropriations and per cap
ita costs we're:
Industrial School. colored girls.
S47.77216. and $636.56; for white
girls. $55, ,144.27 and $S46.31; Welfare
Home. $136,887.32 and $376.50; Lay
ton Home. 81 $50 and $84.3S; Palmer
Home, $4,000 and $145; st. Michael's
Home. $4,000 and s526.32, the last
four being institutions to which the
State made only partial cOntribu-
tiOn.
Also: For foster homes for the
State Board of Charities to give di-
rect care, s65.8S4.03 in appropria-
tiOn. and S4O4.21 per capita cost;
care of the blind, $4,000 and $474.68,
on relief, $1S3,946.S6
and $694.40 per case. with $159,-
76O33 and $298.O7 per capita for reg
ular aid to unemplOyables, and an
other $24,1S6.53 for administrative
s692, 900 miscellaneous"
Other major service costs listed
by MFR. Truss were:
Equipment, S194.107; motor sup /
plies. s5S.1S8; premiums. $55.2S6;
medical and hospital supplies, s52.-
69S; Office supplies. $25.510; shop,
s1S.23O: farm supplies. $1S,961; SER
nm and virus for the agriculture de-
sS.677; boat supplies, s135,
highway supplies, 1867 7,241.
Other buildings than roads cost.
1854 900: walks. bridges and similar
construction, $154,000; repairs"
'134.OOO: foreign study claimed,
$4,000; and "recreations." includ- f.
ng the tercentenary celebration.
Fair. and Constitution
il sesqui-centennial, $50 500.
For miscellaneous services. Della
ware paid out another S692,000.