Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1899 — EXPENDITURES ON THE POOR. [ARTICLE]

EXPENDITURES ON THE POOR.

Statistics from Counties Reported to State Bureau. The several counties of the State report to the bureau • of statistics the following items on account of relief and care of the poor for 1898, the total amount being $1,059,614.97: Relief by township trustees $553,500 03 Medical nnd other expenses 44,610 66 l’oor asylums and superintendents’ salaries 292,898 35 Orphans’ homes and maintenance .......................... 123,975 09 Land and new buildings 26,214 47 The total cost per capita Of each county varies between $0,099 in Crawford County, being the lowest, to $0,619 in Pulaski, the highest, the average being $0,342 for the State. Pulaski, however, expended $7,620 for lands and new buildings, while Crawford expended nothing for this purpose. The highest expenditure for poor relief aside from lands and buildings was in Warren, of $0,569 per capita, and the next highest in Johnson, of $0,561 per capita. The expenditures for free gravel roads in the several counties of the State were for 1898: Purchased nnd built $490,941 51 Repaired and Improved 634,557 43 Twenty-seven counties are represented in the first item and forty-eight in the second item of expenditures. There are 8,683 miles of free gravel roads and 278 miles of toll roads in the several counties reporting these items, which embrace sixty-four counties. Of these only eleven report toll roads.