Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1919 — INTERESTING ANNUAL REPORT [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING ANNUAL REPORT

OF STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES PROVES OF INTEREST TO CITIZENS OF STATE. The twenty-ninth annual report of the board of sttte charities of Indiana has just reached this office. It is the report of the work of this board and statistics compiled for the year ending September 30, 1918. The report shows that the total number of persons admitted to the county jail during the year on the charges of vagrancy and intoxication were ■two, and that the total amount of cost was $29.40. Another table has been compiled showing the total number of inmates admitted to the county jail during the year as thirteen. This number is divided jpto the following classes: Serving sentence, one male; insane, one male and one female; miscellaneous, ten men. When the report from White county was sent in, there was just one woman in the jail, who was awaiting admission to the insane hospital. The report says: “After six months of state-wide prohibition and one year of war, the county jail population of Indiana is cut in two. Which of the two exerted the more influence, it is impossible to say. It is a well known fact that countries at war have fewer men prisoners. We expected that condition in Indiana. At the same time there is no doubt that prohibition alone has brought a large reduction in the jail population. Statistics compiled from thf sheriff’s reports to this office show that in the first six months under prohibition (April 1 to September 30, 1918), there were 1,966 commitments to the county jails on account of drunkenness as against 4,411 for the six months immediately preceding. The reduction is 55 per cent.” The population of the county asylums on August 31, 1918, has been classified and in White county was as follows: Feeble-minded, eight miles, six females; insane, one male; sickly, one male; total population, fifteen men and seven women; admissions during year were seven men and one woman. • Statistics have also been compiled regarding the compulsory school attendance and show that in White county sixty boys and thirty girls were brought into School. Of these forty of the boys and twenty-one of the girls were under fourteen years of age; twenty boys and nineteen girls were between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years. The probation officer made on hundred and eight calls and received for his work during the year the sum of $176, The report contains much of interest to the citizens of Indiana. Monticello Herald.