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October 14, 1906
The Richmond Palladium
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana
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Indiana Board of Charities reports statistics on state care for 86,300 dependents and delinquents, including prisoners, parolees, insane patients, students in special schools, and poor relief recipients, as of October 1906.
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INDIANA'S DEPENDENTS.
That Indiana looks well after the comfort of its thousands of unfortunates who through some cause or other become dependents upon the commonwealth for their maintenance was most forcibly pointed out at the recent meeting of the Indiana Board of Charities. Summed up the statistical report gives a comprehensive idea of what the great Hoosier State is doing.
There are 940 inmates in the State prison; 140 inmates from the State prison paroled and reporting; 1100 inmates from the Indiana reformatory on parole and reporting; 550 incorrigible boys at Plainfield; 850 boys from Plainfield on parole; 539 criminals in work-houses and jails of the State; 1040 inmates in the school for feeble-minded youth at Ft. Wayne; 935 inmates in hospital for insane at Logansport; 2150 inmates in the hospital for insane at Indianapolis; 692 inmates in the hospital for insane at Evansville; 760 inmates in the hospital for insane at Richmond; 990 inmates in Soldiers home at Lafayette; 325 scholars in the school for the deaf; 160 scholars in the school for the blind; 22,789 children put in school under operation of the compulsory education law; 3115 inmates in poor asylums of the State; 1699 inmates in private orphans' home; 45,331 people cared for by township trustees for the year ending October 1906, making a grand total of 86,300 dependents and delinquents that are at this time being cared for by people of this State.
That Indiana looks well after the comfort of its thousands of unfortunates who through some cause or other become dependents upon the commonwealth for their maintenance was most forcibly pointed out at the recent meeting of the Indiana Board of Charities. Summed up the statistical report gives a comprehensive idea of what the great Hoosier State is doing.
There are 940 inmates in the State prison; 140 inmates from the State prison paroled and reporting; 1100 inmates from the Indiana reformatory on parole and reporting; 550 incorrigible boys at Plainfield; 850 boys from Plainfield on parole; 539 criminals in work-houses and jails of the State; 1040 inmates in the school for feeble-minded youth at Ft. Wayne; 935 inmates in hospital for insane at Logansport; 2150 inmates in the hospital for insane at Indianapolis; 692 inmates in the hospital for insane at Evansville; 760 inmates in the hospital for insane at Richmond; 990 inmates in Soldiers home at Lafayette; 325 scholars in the school for the deaf; 160 scholars in the school for the blind; 22,789 children put in school under operation of the compulsory education law; 3115 inmates in poor asylums of the State; 1699 inmates in private orphans' home; 45,331 people cared for by township trustees for the year ending October 1906, making a grand total of 86,300 dependents and delinquents that are at this time being cared for by people of this State.
What sub-type of article is it?
Statistical Report
Institutional Census
What keywords are associated?
Indiana Charities
State Dependents
Prison Inmates
Insane Hospitals
Compulsory Education
Poor Asylums
Where did it happen?
Indiana
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Location
Indiana
Event Date
Year Ending October 1906
Story Details
Statistical report from Indiana Board of Charities detailing inmates in prisons, reformatories, hospitals for insane, schools for deaf and blind, feeble-minded, soldiers home, poor asylums, orphans homes, children under compulsory education, and people cared for by township trustees, totaling 86,300 dependents and delinquents.