Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1893 — STATE CHARITY STATISTICS. [ARTICLE]

STATE CHARITY STATISTICS.

Orlgnal Cost, Maintenance and Inmate* of State Institution*. The charts prepared by the State Boar; of Charities, as a World’s Fair exhibit from the State intltutions, will show the cost of tho plants and their maintcnanc; since they were established. The Institutions under, the State control number twelve, and their total cost, including grounds and Improvement, to October 31 1892, was $5,123,166.55. The operating expenses last year reached $1,074,768.42, and the total number of days board furnished during their existence has been 2.149,872 The Marion county work-house has cost (125,000. The ninety-two county jails fiave, at an estimate, cost $2,760,500, and Muring 1892 the operating expenses amounted $152,986. The ninety-two sounty poor-houses cost $2,770,000, and >143,972.76 was spent hi operating them in 1892. The twenty-five county orphans' homes in the State show air-expenditure of >145,500, with expenses last year of $82,700. The counties have invested in these jails and poor-houses $5,808,000, and their maintenance last year was $494,030.76. Thenare twenty-one Institutions under private control in the State. Ten orphans’ homes have cost $136,000, with $45,050 operating expenses. Rose orphans’ home at Terre Haute heads tho list, with SIIB,OOO as thi total cost. The number of prisoners serving sentences in the county Jails on October 31 1892, was about 550. Of all the institutions the number of inmates was 2,702, or .001: per cent, of the population. The dependent classes of the State numbered 9,701, divided as follows: Insane, 2,768; paupers. 1,253; aged, 326: children. 2,929: -feebleminded. 428. This is on a basis of 0042: percent, of the State’s population Tlier ire ten city hospitals in the State contain ing 439 beds. During 1892 they had 2,44 t patients.