Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1909 — Securing Statistics of State Charity Institutions. [ARTICLE]

Securing Statistics of State Charity Institutions.

State Statistician John L. Peetz, of Indianapolis, and Ed J. Huff, junior editor of the Monon News, were in Rensselaer Monday, meeting the township assessors and securing statistics about the various charity institutions of the state. Mr. Huff -will start from here to visit nineteen other counties to secure the information required. Both public and private institutions are recorded and the solicitor is required to find out the number of inmates, the source of income for the institutions, the purpose, the name, the location, the amount of property owned, the value of improvements and equipment, and any other information of a general character. Orphans’ homes, old peoples’ homes, poor asylums and hospitals are the institutions of which inquiry is made. The idea is to find out the most approved method of management and thereby to systematize the work as nearly as possible. Mr. Peetz has also been of the opinion that many of the smaller institutions have been left out of previous reports and Jie proposes to have his work complete.