Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1899 — COST TO THE STATE. [ARTICLE]

COST TO THE STATE.

Expense of Ma i n ta ini ng Charitable Institutions for a Year. A statistical exhibit accompanies the December number of the Indiana Bulletin of Charities and Correction, showing the number- of inmates enrolled in the charitable and correctional institutions, the cost of maintenance, administration, per capita cost of subsistence, etc., for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1898. At the beginning of the year there were 3,219 inmates in the four hospitals for the insane; 1,001 were received daring the year, making the total enrollment at its close 3,395. The total number received at the charitable institutions, insane hospitals, soldiers’ homes, school for feeble-minded, etc., during the year was 1,616, making the enrollment at its close 5,566, the daily average being 5,047. During the year 1,237 persons were received at the correctional institutions, the total at its end being 2,658. The increase in the charitable institutions of the average number present daily was much greater than in the correctional institutions. The daily average in the hospitals for the insane increased from 2,991 to 3,088; in all the charitable institutions, including hospitals for insane and the Soldiers’ Home, Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, school for feebleminded, etc., there was an increase from 4,887 to 5,047, while in the correctional institutions the increase was from 2,501 to 2,539. Following is a reeapitu'.ation of expenditures in totals for the various groups of institutions: Charitable, including CorrecMaintenance. Insane. tlonal. Administration, salaries and wages.. .$321,277 98 $101,185 25 Subsistence 256,737 59 87,513 83 Clothing 35,487 93 19,977 37 Office, domestic and outdoor departments 194,091 09 85,275 84 Ordered repairs and minor improvements 51,376 36 14,851 07 Total maintenance.sßs9,s7l 45 $308,803 36 Construction. New buildings 3,008 69 $19,399 32 Extraordinary repairs 37,829 52 3,027 93 Maintenance and construction ~.,5901,009 66 $331,230 66 Receipts and earnings, 14.607 67 99,886 91 Net total expenditures $886,401 99 $231,343 75 Below is a comparative statement showing the grand net totals expended for maintenance and construction of. charitable and correctional institutions for fiscal years endiqg Oct. 31, 1898, back to Oct. 31, 1594: Oct. 31, 189 S. $1,117,745 74 Oct. 31, 1897 1,065,591 90 Oct. 31, 1896 1,001,974 50 Oct. 31, 1895 1,006,156 40 Oct. 31, 1894 1,000,979 08 The table of per capita expenditures on account of inmates of all the charitable and correctional institutions shows an encouraging condition as compared with previous years. The gross maintenance per capita of inmates of the hospitals for the insane was $166.98, for the year ending Oct. 31, 1898, and for 1897 $172.27; for all the charitable institutions $170.29 in 1898 and $178.34 in 1897, and for the correctional institutions $121.58 in 1898 aud $118.37 in 1897.