Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — SOLDIERS’ HOME CROWDED [ARTICLE]

SOLDIERS’ HOME CROWDED

Annual Report of the Commandant Shows No Prospect of Enlargement. Lafayette, Ind., April 3-—That the Institution is filled to its capacity with an attendance of 1,400 members, and that there is no prospect of enlargement of present facilities, Is the gist of the annual report of the Indiana State Soldiers’ home, which Colonel D. B. Kehlev, commandant, has 'prepared for Governor Thomai R. Marshall. The population ..or the home has not changed materially for several years, and while the total membership is 1,400 the average daily attendance of soldiers and soldier*’ widows is ' There is not probability of any more counties providing county cottages at the home, as many counties have done, and still lee?, likelihood of the state appropriating more money top new quarters.. The adjutant’s report shows that there were 971 members present at the home on October l l* 1910, and 976 present in October, 1911. Of this number 384 were men and 662 womep. The average number of officers and attendants during the year was sixtyfour. The expenditures were: Salary and wages, $41,614.12; sub-

sistence, $70,994.61; clothing, $7,. i'41.34, domej-tics and outdoor expense, $43,697.29; ordinary reimira, $6,307.50; total, $170,454.86. The value of the home property is estimated at $670,042.71. The total ninnber of deaths during the year at the hospital and in the dormitories was 67-34 men and thirty-three women.