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of the personal property $40,288.56. Tin- total 

 ex pi ndiiiires I'm- two vears were $10.% 11 1.04, lea\- 

 iii- a balance ..I' 



report fort In- Northern Hospital for the 

 snows that the 'total number admitted 

 since the opening of the hospital, in July, 1888, 

 until Oct. l,is 1.101. The number enrolled Oct. 

 (::::. Fifty per cent, of the patients did 

 >ome manual work. It was not imposed upon 

 them, but was encouraged. The value of the 

 real e-tate is $480,268.78, and of the personal 

 property *:;<;. 104.81. 



The (ieiieral Assembly of 1891 made a special 

 appropriation of $17,500 for improvements at 

 the Institution for the Education of the Deaf and 

 Dumb. The number admitted during the year 

 \va- : Boys, 180 ; girls, 162 ; total, 342. Num- 

 ber discharged: Boys, 25; girls, 18; total, 43. 

 Number in attendance at end of year: Boys, 

 141 : girls, 127; total, 268. New pupils received 

 during the year : Boys. 15 ; girls, 20. The school 

 publishes a magazine fortnightly, which has been 

 of great assistance to the pupils in their work. 

 The trades taught, and the number of years oc- 

 cupied in each are as follow: Carpentry and cab- 

 inet-making. <> ; shoe and leather work, 6 ; print- 

 ing composition, presswork, binding, 4; chair 

 caning, 1 ; cooking. 1 ; sewing, plain, 2 ; dress- 

 making cutting, fitting, draping, 2; tailoring, 

 '2: sewing fancy needlework, 1. 



The School for Feeble-minded Children, at 

 Fort Wayne, is, according to the report for the 

 year ending Oct. 31, in a most prosperous con- 

 dition. The appropriation of $33,000 made by 

 the last Legislature has been expended in the 

 ereci ion of a schoolhouse for boys, an industrial 

 building, a fever hospital, and several lesser 

 buildings, all of which are in use. The treasurer 

 closed the year with a balance of $1,000 on hand 

 out of the maintenance fund, the cost of running 

 the institution for the year being $76,949.74. 

 There were 80 new pupils admitted during the 

 year. 17 were discharged, and 9 died. The su- 

 perintendent says the buildings are filled to 

 their utmost capacity. 



A branch of the Children's Home Society was 

 organized in Indianapolis in .Inly. Its purpose 

 \^ \<> provide homes for helpless children. 



The report of the State Board of Charities, snb- 

 mitted in January, 1893, commended the man- 

 agement of State institutions. The secretary re- 

 po-rts that 225 visits to the State and county insti- 

 tutions were made during the year. He shows by 

 -tali-tics that the ratio of insane to population in 

 this State is growing less instead of increasing, 

 as is frequently declared. The rate of increase 

 in the number of insane was 15-6 per cent., while 

 the rate of increase in the population was 2."> per 

 cent, for the same period. The Indiana ratio is 

 smaller than that of the whole country. 



Slate Board of Health. The report of the 

 secretary says the total number of deaths in the 

 State for the year was 16,532, of which 5,011 died 

 from zymotic diseases. A board of health has 

 been organized in every county. The following 

 recommendations to the Legislature were incor- 

 porated in the report : 



(1) That burial permits be required : (2) that a small 

 fee be authorized for a collection of vitality statistics ; 

 (8) that the appointment of health officers be- 

 in the State board ; (4) that an increase in the num- 



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her of the report.- printed Ix- authorized ; (5) that the 

 M>ptOprUtion !>< in<Tea-i-d IP mi t',,t**> to $10,000; (6) 



that a ei.iitiiitfeiiey tun,) lor ej.idrn.. vie* bo 



providwL 



The Iron Hall. Attention was drawn this 

 year to the affairs of this order, which apparent- 

 ly has been one of the most pros|K-rous of the 

 mutual-benefit orders in the West, having had 

 a membership of about 70,000. A complaint 

 was filed, in July, at Indianapolis, asking that a 

 receiver be appointed, and alleging 



That the corporation i indebted for maturing l>enctita 

 for the remainder of the veur !".'_' over $1,000,000, and 

 for sick and disability benefits over $325,000. For 



1893 it is indebted for maturing benefit* $4,000,000, 

 and for sick und disability benefits over $650,000. For 



1894 it is indebted for maturing benefito $6,000,000; 

 for sick and disability benefit -. *';:>0,000. For 1895 it 

 is indebted for maturing benefits over $9,000,000, and 

 for sick and disability benefit* over $650,000. 



The complaint also charged reckless and ex- 

 travagant payment of salaries, and the expendi- 

 ture of large sums of money for traveling ex- 

 penses and pretended claims, amounting in one 

 year to over $50,000. 



A receiver was appointed, the evidence show- 

 ing gross mismanagement. Over $20,000 had 

 been used ostensibly to influence legislation in 

 the New England and other States. About 

 $720,000 of the funds had been placed in a bank 

 in Philadelphia, of which Somerby, chief justice 

 of the order, was vice-president, and Hayes, ti 

 supreme trustee, secretary and treasurer. The 

 books showed only $440,000 of the $720,000. In 

 October the Marion County grand jury found in- 

 dict ments against the supreme officers of the 

 order who voted to transfer money to the Phila- 

 delphia bank, the counts charging them with 

 embezzling $200,000 of the order's funds and 

 converting it to their own use by placing it in 

 the bank. In December four of the officers 

 Messrs. Somerby, Baker, Eckersley, and Glad- 

 ding were arrested in Philadelphia on a charge 

 of "conspiring to cheat and defraud, with un- 

 lawfully using the money belonging to the order, 

 and with hindering and obstructing the admin- 

 istration of public justice." 



The World's Fair. It was expected that the 

 State building at the fair will be finished in Feb- 

 ruary or March, 1893. It stands between the 

 buildings of California and Illinois, at the side of 

 one of the lakes, and between diverging roadways 

 leading from the main building to most of the 

 other State buildings. It will cover an area of 

 100 by 170 feet, will be of stone, and will have 

 two stone towers. The Legislature will be asked 

 for an appropriation of $135,000 to carry out the 

 plans of the executive committee. 



Road Congress. The first State Congress in 

 the interest of good roads was held in Indianapo- 

 lis in December. A permanent organization 

 was made and a report to the legislature pre- 

 pared. It asks that body to sot a-ide entirely 

 the present system, abolishing the office of dis- 

 trict supervisor, and also the functions now ex- 

 crci-ed by township trustees in connection with 

 roads. In place Oi these the commissioners of 

 each county are to appoint a county su|H?rintend- 

 ent of highways and one supervisor for each 

 township. The supervisors are to have charge 

 of the construction of roads in their resp- 



