Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1905 — 4,992 INSANE REPORTED. [ARTICLE]

4,992 INSANE REPORTED.

Aooordiog to figures just oompleted by Amos W. Batler,. secretary of tbe Board of State Chanties, on October 31,1904, there.were 3,975 patients present in tbe four hospital for tbe iueaae. Ia tbe 92 poor asylum there were §3B insane inmates August 31. Some of these are awaiting transfers to the state hospitals although some have Deen returned from these institutions as obronio oases, la addition the oounty ol<-rke reports that there are 14 in-ane persons Nin jiil and 108 at homes or with *rienda, making, a of 4.992 nsaue retorted 2,362 in the Central, 1035 in the Northerp 820 tbs Eastern and 775 in the I Southern.