Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1901 — STATE INSTITUTIONS. [ARTICLE]

STATE INSTITUTIONS.

Th« Cost of Maintaining Them and L Their Popnlat on. The cost of running the benevolent, penal and reformatory institutions of Indiana during the six months ending April 30, 1901, was $747,201.13, according to the forty-fifth quarterly bulletin of charities and correction, issted from the office of the State Board of Charities other day. This large amount was di-' vided as follows: The four insane asylums, $298*544.84; Soldiers’ Home and Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, $92,431.91; blind, deaf and feeble-minded institutes, $138,578.20; the four penal and reformatory institutions, $217,040.12. In addition to this amount paid for maintenance, the State paid out $147,930.74 for new buildings at the various institutions, making the total maintenance and construction c05t'5893,137-87. The earnings of the institutions were $01,770.06. making the net cost $833,307.21. The cost of gross maintenance, $747,201.13, is divided per capita as fellows: Central Hospital for the Insane, $80.34; Northern Hospital for the Insane, $89.85; Eastern Hospital for the Insane, $85.85; Southern Hospital for the Insane, $83.97; Soldiers’ Saif&rs’ Orphans’ ilome, $79.04; Institution for Deaf, $128.02; Institution ' for Blind, $153.24; School for Feeble-minded Youth, $105.83; State Prison, $88.27; Reformatory, $97.72; Industrial School for Girls and Woman’s Prison, $91.15; Reform School for Boys, $59.50. The population of the State institutions has shifted considerably. On account of increased accommodations the insane asylums and School for Feeble- . minded Youth have had more inmates. An inqyease is also shown in daily average number present in the State Prison, Industrial Sehool for Girls and Reform School for Boys. The population of the Soldiers’ Home, Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, institutions for deaf and blind, the Indiana Reformatory and the Women’s Prison has shrunk. The number of persons actually present in each of the State's thirteen institutions on April 30, 1901, was as follows: Central Hospital for Insane. 1,673; Northern Hospital for Insane, 787; Eastern Hospital for Insane, 022; Southern Hospital for Insane, 589; Soldiers’ Home, 434; Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, 620; Institution for Deaf, 309; Institution for Blind, 130; School for Feeble-minded Youth, 744; State Prison, 878; Indiana Reformatory, 909; Industrial Sehool for Girls, 103; Woman’s Prison, 46; Reform School for Boys, 579.