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INDIANA. 



The State is paying annually about one fifth 

 of its entire revenue as interest on its domestic 

 debt, which consists of non-negotiable school 

 bonds of $3,904,783.22, issued in 1867 and 

 1868, bearing 6 per cent, interest ; a non-ne- 

 gotiable Purdue University bond of $340,000, 

 issued in 1881, bearing 5 per cent, interest, 

 and a non-negotiable State University bond 

 of $60,000, bearing 5 per cent, interest. 



Educational. In Indiana University the num- 

 ber of students is steadily increasing, and the 

 work is equal to that done in many more pre- 

 tentious institutions. The library has been 

 largely increased. The museum is very exten- 

 sive. The laboratories now afford excellent 

 facilities for work. 



The success of the State Normal School has 

 demonstrated its usefulness in developing pro- 

 fessional teachers and in promoting the cause 

 of education. During the seventeen years of 

 its existence the average attendance has in- 

 creased from 47 to 433 students. During the 

 past two years 84 per cent, of the students 

 have come from the homes of farmers and me- 

 chanics, and eighty-seven counties of the State 

 have been represented. 



The common-school fund has been increas- 

 ing at the rate of about $60,000 a year for sev- 

 eral years, and amounts to $9,458,085,71. 



There are 9,816 schools, 28 of which are log 

 buildings, 84 stone, 6,531 frame, and 3,173 

 brick, and the total value, including premises, 

 is nearly $14,000,000. Of these schools 556 

 were built in the two years just passed, at a 

 total cost of over $800,000. The school enu- 

 meration for the past two years shows that 

 728,067 white children were of school age, of 

 whom 496,887 were enrolled at school, and of 

 16,931 colored children but 9,239 were enrolled 

 at school. 



Deaf and Dumb and Blind, The report of the 

 Institution for the Deaf and Dumb for 1886 

 shows the value of the real estate is $459,000 ; 

 personal property, $44,890; total, $503,890.- 

 97; value of products of farm and garden, 

 $3,618.65 ; earnings of the institution, $62.81 ; 

 value of clothing furnished pupils and returned 

 to State treasury for collection, $963.93 ; ap- 

 propriation for maintenance, $55,000 ; expend- 

 ed from maintenance fund, $52,069.98; appro- 

 priated for repairs, $3,000; expended from 

 repair fund, $1,388.45; special fund, $726.27 ; 

 expended from special fund, $195.35 ; number 

 of pupils in attendance, 316; per capita cost, 

 $161.52. 



The trustees of the Institution for the Edu- 

 cation of the Blind estimate the value of the 

 real estate at $356,238 ; the personal property 

 at $17,760.66; total valuation, $373,998.66. 

 They report expended for current support, 

 $23,892; for repairs, $1,996.67; total expendi- 

 tures, $25,888.67. The institution furnishes 

 the pupils tuition, board, and washing only. 

 The whole number of pupils enrolled dur- 

 ing the session of 1885 was 126. The total 

 number enrolled during the session of 1886 



was 130 60 males and 70 females. The aver- 

 age monthly attendance was 93. The cost per 

 capita for maintenance was $197.45 for forty 

 weeks. The total amount expended was $25,- 

 888.67, making the cost per capita per annum 

 $278.37, or $6.95 a week for each pupil. 



Insane. The trustees of the Insane Hospital, 

 in their report ending Oct. 31, 1886, estimate 

 the value of the real estate at $1,430,150 ; value 

 of personal property, $221,060.95; total, $1,- 

 651,210.95. There was appropriated for the 

 fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1885, for mainte- 

 nance, clothing, and repairs, $280,000. There 

 was appropriated for the fiscal year 1886 for 

 maintenance, clothing, repairs, and improve- 

 ments, $354,500. There was expended in the 

 fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1885, $319,087.90, 

 and in the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1886, 

 $298,958.60, showing that the entire appropria- 

 tions of the two years of $634,500 were ex- 

 pended, except $16,453.59. The average num- 

 ber of patients during 1885 was 1,422; the 

 average number of patients for 1886 was 1,542. 

 The per capita expense in 1885 was $173.43 ; the 

 per capita expense for 1886 was $160.02. The 

 annual expense of maintaining the institution 

 consumes about one fourth of the entire rev- 

 enue of the State. The commissioners, in the 

 construction of the three additional hospitals, 

 have constructed each institution in such a 

 manner that increased capacity can be obtained 

 at a very low cost per capita. The medical 

 engineer estimates the aggregate capacity of 

 the three hospitals at 1,100, but more can be 

 accommodated without serious inconvenience. 

 The census of 1880 enumerated 3,530 insane 

 persons in the State; 1,195 were males, and 

 1,835 were females. The State Hospital for 

 Insane at Indianapolis has accommodations for 

 about 1,500 patients. Inquiry made in Sep- 

 tember, through the State Board of Health, 

 showed the number of insane persons confined 

 in the jails and poor-houses of the State to be 

 about 1,100, and it is reported that some of 

 them are locked in cells, some wear ball ant r 

 chain, and others are chained to the floor. 



Soldiers' Orphans' Home. The last Genera 

 Assembly amended the law for the goverr 

 rnent of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home and 

 the Institution for Feeble-minded Children, 

 which provided that the Governor should 

 appoint three trustees, one of whom, at least, 

 should be a woman, and the male members 

 of the board should be honorably discharged 

 Union soldiers, and at least one member should 

 be an adherent of one of each of the two po- 

 litical parties casting the largest number of 

 votes at the last general election. The trus- 

 tees had succeeded, by judicious management 

 of the institution, in paying off a large por- 

 tion of its indebtedness, and were congratu- 

 lating themselves upon being able to make re- 

 pairs and beautify the grounds during the year 

 without increasing the expense of their man 

 agement, when on July 21, 1886, a fire de- 

 stroyed the main building, but no lives were 



