Table 12.-State Penitentiary, Anamosa. Table 13.-Per capita cost of state institutions. Table 14.-Disbursements for the biennial periods ending June 30, 1899, and June 30, 1901, Table 15.-Summary.-Amount expended for support. Table 16-Summary.-Amount expended for salaries. Table 17.-Summary.-Special appropriations. Table 18.-Summary.-Total institutional expenditures. Table 19.-Inventory Summary.-Value of property on band June 30, 1901. Table 20.-Itemized statement of amount and cost, total and per capita of disbursements in state institutions from June 30, 1899, to July 1, 1901, farm products included. Table 21.-Expense account of Board of Control for biennial period ending June 30, 1901. PART I. CHAPTER I. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. The retirement of Ex-Governor Larrabee from this Board on February 14, 1900, by his voluntary act, was an event of no ordinary character. In recognition of his long and distinguished service rendered the state as a State Senator, Governor, and as Chairman of the Board, all of which positions he filled with great ability and with absolute fidelity to every trust confided to him, the Lieutenant Governor of the state and the members of both houses of the General Assembly visited Ex-Governor Larrabee on the day of his retirement, in the rooms of the Board, and through the Lieutenant Governor extended to him their thanks for his many years of unselfish and faithful service as a public officer, and expressed their wishes that he and his family might have a safe voyage to the old world, and return in due time with renewed health and vigor to Iowa, there to enjoy in his declining years the rest he so richly deserved. Though much affected by this unusual and great compliment, Ex-Governor Larrabee made appropriate reply to the body. On March 2, 1900, Judge G. S. Robinson, who had prior thereto been nominated by the Governor for the vacancy, and confirmed by the senate, and after being duly qualified, entered upon his duties as a member of and chairman of the Board. On April 6, 1900, Member Kinne became chairman of the Board, in pursuance of the provision of the statute. On September 11, 1900, the Board accepted the resignation of L. A. Wilkinson as secretary, and on the same day elected F. S. Treat to said position. Pending the qualification of the latter, Member John Cownie was elected as temporary secretary. September 14, 1900, F. S. Treat, secretary elect, duly qualified and entered upon the discharge of his duties. On May 21, 1901, Frank C. Hoyt, M. D., superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane at Mount Pleasant, died, and on June 7, 1901, Charles F. Applegate, M. D., then first assistant physician at the Hospital for the Insane at Clarinda was elected to fill said vacancy. He qualified and entered upon the discharge of his duties on June 18, 1901. A. H. Leonard, superintendent of the Industrial School for Girls, resigned in September, 1899, and James N. Miller was elected to fill the vacancy on September 25, 1899. He resigned to take effect April 1, 1900, and F. P. Fitzgerald, of Eldora, was elected superintendent and has since served in that capacity. In accordance with the recommendations made in our last biennial report, the Twenty-eighth General Assembly amended the law governing the Board and relating to the several institutions as follows: Authorizing the purchase of supplies by one institution from another institution without taking bids therefor and at a price to be fixed by the Board; prohibiting employes of the Board from exerting political influence to induce other officers or employes of the state to favor any candidate for office and from contributing money or any other thing of value for election purpurposes; providing that a person soliciting contributions from officers or employes of the Board, or from officers or employes of institutions for political purposes, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; providing for the appointment of an acting secretary of the Board in certain cases; requiring abstracts of vouchers and pay rolls to the auditor of state and treasurer of state to be certified by some member of the Board (chapter 143, laws Twentyeighth General Assembly); relating to county and private institutions wherein insane persons are kept, and requiring the semiannual inspection of said institutions, and authorizing the removal of patients in certain cases (chapter 144, laws Twentyeighth General Assembly); increasing the salary of the superintendent of the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' home (chapter 141, laws Twenty-eighth General Assembly); prohibiting certain state officers from charging off balances in the support fund to the credit of the institutions as unexpended, unless so requested by this Board (chapter 3, laws Twenty-eighth General Assembly); making certain amendments to the law governing the Industrial School for Girls at Mitchellville (chapters 100 and 101, laws Twenty-eighth General Assembly); proving for an Industrial Reformatory for Females (chapter 102, laws Twenty-eighth General Assembly); authorizing the use of a balance of $3,096.00 remaining of the appropriation made in chapter 140, acts of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly, to provide a water supply, pump and apparatus to make water available for the hospital at Cherokee, also authorizing the superintendent of said hospital to estimate in advance of its opening for 500 patients for the first month at the rate of $13 per capita, and fixing the per capita per month at the Cherokee hospital at $13, and at the other hospitals at $12 per month (chapter 140, laws Twenty-eighth General Assembly); directing the closing of the Industrial Home for the Blind (chapter 103, laws Twenty-eighth General Assembly); making appropriations for the Industrial Home for the Blind (chapter 153, laws Twenty-eighth General Assembly); making appropriations for all institutions (chapter 150, laws Twentyeighth General Assembly); appropriating money to reimburse certain patients of the hospital at Mt. Pleasant (chapter 165, laws Twenty-eighth General Assembly). Other laws were passed relating to the Board and to the institutions and their officers as follows: Reducing the penalty in the bonds of wardens and clerks of the penitentiaries (chapter 136, laws Twenty-eighth General Assembly); allowing 75 per cent of the gate receipts at the penitentiaries to be used in the purchase of books and periodicals, and the remaining 25 per cent to be expended for lectures, concerts or entertainments (chapter 137, laws Twenty-eighth General Assembly); prohibiting the Board from adopting or enforcing any rule which would deprive any member of the Iowa Soldiers" Home of any part of his pension money except in certain specified cases (chapter 92, laws Twenty-eighth General Assembly); and prohibiting the manufacture of butter tubs and pearl buttons, but not to apply to existing contracts (chapter 138, laws. Twenty-eighth General Assembly). The system of keeping financial and storeroom accounts, as originally inaugurated, has been found to be excellent, and no change has been made therein. Several new blank forms which experience has shown would be valuable in the work have, from time to time, been prepared and put into use. We again call attention to the desirability of permitting this Board to pay out of the general appropriation made for its use for all books and blanks which it is required to furnish the several institutions. The financial condition of each institution is ascertained at the close of each month, and the stores and supplies of each are invoiced and checked up at the end of each quarter to ascertain if the proper goods and quantities of goods are on |