Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1912 — Annual Report of the State School Far the Deaf. [ARTICLE]

Annual Report of the State School Far the Deaf.

The per eftpita cost of malntaiaaace for the State Schol for the Deaf for the fiscal year ending September 3*» was $21105 net, according to file annual report of the superintendent, R. O. Johnson. The enrollment tor the year was 391. The total cost tor the year, including the maintalnanc* of -the Industries taught In the school, was approximately $77,000. Of the sum appropriated for the .industries $7,171 reverted to the state treasury. Tee report does not cover any part of the time the school has been In the new home recently constructed, near the state fair ground. The report shows that during the year two boys were expelled for incendiarism. Pupils were enrolled from eighty of the ninety-two counties of the state, those not being represented being Brown, Crawford, Decatur, Franklin, Jackson, Martin, Ohio, Porter, Pulaski, Scott, Union and Warren. , The appropriations tor the year were made up of $79,090 tor msintaimmee and $6,000 for industries. The total of the inventory of refcl and personal property at the institution reached $23,111.68. Superintendent Johnson shows that approximately SBOO,OOO has been expended so fsr by the state In the buildings at the new institution. The original plans for the institutions contemplated an expenditure of approximately $1,500,000.