EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT

OF THE

State Board of Control

OF

MINNESOTA

Period Ending July 31, 1916

1916

SYNDICATE PRINTING CO.

Minneapolis, Minn.

Pursuant to the provisions of law, the State Board of Control herewith respectfully submits its Eighth Biennial Report covering the period ending July 31, 1916, together with the reports of the Chief Executive Officers, in whole or in part, under its control.

C. J. SWENDSEN,

RALPH W. WHEELOCK,
CHAS. E. VASALY,

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Letter of transmittal..

Report of Board of Control.

Recommendations renewed....

County support of the insane.

Home for the Aged and Senile.

Fourth Hospital for the Insane.

Hospital for Inebriates at Willmar.

Detention hospitals and county wards..

Creation of a public guardian.

Child Welfare Commission.

Summary of new duties of State Board...

State Historical Society Building..

County and District Sanatoria for Consumptives.

Women's Reformatory...

Disposition of old prison building, Stillwater..

Prison and Reformatory...

State aid to convicts' families.....

9

Compensation (accident or injury) for state employees.

10

Appropriations recommended for all institutions (current and spe-

cial)

14-19

.....

Per capita statement of gross current expenses for biennial

period

42-43

Table showing net current expenses for biennial period......

Table showing yearly average number of inmates and yearly

per capita cost for 14 years ending July 31, 1916.....

44-45

46

Table showing number of inmates of state institutions at close

of each fiscal year since 1860....

Table showing quantity cost and average prices paid for staple

articles of food for biennial period.....

47

48-53

Table showing subclassification of food and cost per capita for

biennial period..

54-55

Statement of cost of operating state institution farms and

yearly profit for biennial period....

56-59

Valuation of property at state institutions July 31, 1916..

Movement of population of state institutions for biennial period

Financial statements of binding twine and farm machinery in-

dustries at Stillwater Prison for biennial period.....

Board of Control, date of appointment and termination of

service

60-63

64-66

67-69

Expenses of Board of Control for biennial period.

Table of visits to state institutions.

Directory of state institutions..

Biennial Reports of Superintendents, Warden, etc., etc.-

70

70

71-73

74

State Hospital for Crippled and Deformed Children, St. Paul...

233-245

Statistics of Jails, Poorhouses, Etc., Etc.-

County jails, movement of population, years 1914 and 1915.....

County poorhouses, movement of population, years 1914 and

1915

306-309

310-311

County poorhouse expenses, years 1914 and 1915.

312

County poorhouse statistics for 16 years...

313

Statistics of poor relief in counties, years 1914 and 1915....

Statistics of institutions prepared for National Conference of

314-317

Charities and Corrections..

...

318-319

Alphabetical index

321