Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1908 — CONSIDER THESE FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

CONSIDER THESE FIGURES.

The current number of the Indiana Bulletin of Charities and Correction, Issued by the Indiana Board of State Charities, contains a report for the nine months ending June 30, 1908, the figures relating to thd Institutions under the supervision of the board, including the four hospitals for the insane, the school for feeble-minded, the soldiers’ home, soldiers' and Sailors’ orphans' home, the village for epileptics, the state schools for the deaf and for the blind and the five penal and correctional institutions. The maintenance expenses of these institutions for the nine months make a total of 11,392,304.52, divided as follows: SALARIES AND WAGES.! 517,778.41 Subsistence 384,327.33 Clothing .... 63,580.70 OFFICE, DOMESTIC AND OUTDOOR EXPENSES. 357,114.81 Ordinary repairs 69,503.27 STota! $1,392,304.52 The above figures are rather striking. They show that for nine months of this year the state has paid on acoount of the above named institutions the sum of $874,893.22 for salaries, Wages, office, etc., expenses, while in the same time there was paid for food and clothing for all of the state’s charges the sum of $447,908.03. In Other words, only half as much money wap spent for the inmates of the institutions as was spent in the way of salaries, etc. Did the inmates get toe little or the officials too much?