Appletons Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events; Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs Public Documents Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry. V. [1]-15, 1861 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...shows the expenditure of all the appropriation of $90,000. The report of the Central Hospital for the Insane gives: Patients at beginning of vear, 1,543; received, 483; discharged, 306; died, 134; treated, 2,026; enrolled at close of year, 1,586; daily average, 1.478-4. The institution is overcrowded. The actual per capita cost is $138.63. At the Southern Hospital for the Insane, at Evansville, the cost of maintenance during 1895-'96 was $138,324.71, averaging 48 cents a day for each patient. The printing office and laundry at the State Reform School for Boys, at Plainfield, were burned Juno 1, with a loss of about $7,500. The Legislature this vear passed a law making the Prison South, at Jeffersonville, a reformatory, and providing that all prisoners under thirty years of age, serving their first sentence, should be taken there, while the Prison North, at Michigan City, should be the State penitentiary for older criminals. Transference of prisoners took place April 12, when 291 prisoners were taken from Michigan City to Jeffersonville, and 368 from Jeffersonville to Michigan City. Great precautions were taken, special trains starting simultaneously from the two prisons. The men were shackled in pairs immediately after being fed at breakfast and marched on board trains that had been backed into the prison yards. A company of militia accompanied each train, and in each coach of convicts were three guards. After the exchange the penitentiary contained 980, while the reformatory had fewer than 800. In December there were in round numbers 900 at the reformatory and 840 at the penitentiary. Already the reformatory is badly overcrowded. The night school is attended by 225 inmates. All illiterates are compelled to attend this school. The wageearning system is now ...