Public Welfare in Indiana Volume 84-91 (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. 1911 Excerpt: ...In comparing 1911 with 1910, in regard to the number of persons aided, we find a decrease of 234, and a further analysis discloses that all but two of the 234 are children under sixteen years of age. The number of adults who shared the relief was 22,699 in 1910 and 22,697 In 1911. The number of adult males aided was 10,571 in 1910 and 10,665 in 1911; the number of adult females aided was 12,128 in 1910 and 12,032 in 1911. Again, it is due principally to Knox, Madison and Lake counties that the number of persons aided this year shows so little decrease from the preceding year, Knox County having increased from 1,561 to 2.306, Madison from 1,031 to 1,284, and Lake from 1,355 to 1,851. In comparing one county with another, the average amount of relief given and the average number of persons helped in proportion to population is found to vary greatly. Indiana has 2.700,876 inhabitants according The trustee of Wayne Township, Starke County, gave aid from the public funds amounting to 1807.00, but made no report of the persons aided, as required by law. to the census of 1910. Poor relief in 1911 cost $271,078.64, slightly more than 10 cents for each man, woman and child. The two extremes are $0,021 in Washington County and $0,386 in Knox. Both counties are in the Southern part of the State and only a few miles apart. Washington is inland, while Knox is a "river county," and for some reason (doubtless the ease with which help from public funds can be secured) has attracted large numbers of that undesirable class which lives in houseboats or miserable shacks and shanties along-shore. Forty-one counties fall below the general average cost of poor relief, including Washington, Crawford, Floyd, Perry, Marion, Dubois, Owen, Greene and Spencer, in all of which...