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HEADQUARTERS, CAPITOL BUILDING, DES MOINES, IOWA
Term six years. Appointed by the Governor, confirmed by the Senate.

                      * Term expires April 5, 1910. + Term expires April 5, 1912. # Term expires April 5, 1914

      The Board of Control of State Institutions was created under the provisions of chapter 118, laws of the twenty-seventh general assembly, which, with the amendments thereto, clothes the board with full power to manage, control and govern, subject only to the limitations contained in the act, the following named institutions:

     Iowa Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown
     Iowa Soldier's Orphans' Home at Davenport
     College for the Blind at Vinton
     School for the Deaf at Council Bluffs
     Institution for Feeble-Minded Children at Glenwood.
     State Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis at Oakdale.
     Industrial School for Boys at Eldora.
     Industrial School for Girls at Mitchelville.
     Mt. Pleasant State Hospital at Mt. Pleasant.
     Independence State Hospital at Independence.
     Clarinda State Hospital at Clarinda.
     Cherokee State Hospital at Cherokee.
     State Hospital for Inebriates at Knoxville.
     Hospital for Female Inebriates at Mt. Pleasant.
     Penitentiary at Ft. Madison.
     Reformatory at Anamosa.
     Industrial Reformatory for Females at Anamosa.

     The board is also required to investigate thoroughly the reports and doings of the regents of the State University, the trustees of the State Normal School and the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and the books and records of said institutions. It is also required to inspect county and private institutions in which insane persons are kept, associations and societies receiving friendless children and detention homes provided for juvenile offenders.
     Prior to July 1, 1898, the foregoing state institutions, except for reformatory and penitentiary, were in the charge of  separate boards, each of which had its officers and each had a secretary and treasurer.
     The board publishes quarterly a bulletin of over one hundred pages, devoted to the scientific investigation of the treatment of insanity and epilepsy and the feeble-minded, and information embodying the experience of soldiers' homes, charitable, reformatory and penal institutions in this and other countries.
     As provided by law, under the direction of the board the state institutions under its control are supplied with goods for their support on competitive bids, thus procuring proper supplies at the lowest market prices. An opportunity to bid is afforded any one who asks for it.
     The board is required to investigate the management and financial condition of the state institutions under its control, to determine questions as to the sanity of patients in state hospitals, and determine when persons shall be admitted to them as state charges, and is required to divide the state into hospital districts. It is required to make biennial reports to the governor and legislature showing the cost of operating the institutions for the preceding two years and to visit all institutions twice each year. Some member of the board or its agent is also required to visit each hospital once each month. It is required to meet the superintendents and other heads of institutions in quarterly conferences, to gather statistics, to publish a bulletin, to require official bonds of certain institutions officers, to make semi-annual invoice of all the stores of the institutions, to fix annually the salaries of officers and employes not fixed by law, and to appoint a state architect and perform other duties provided by law.

COLLEGE FOR THE BLIND - VINTON

Superintendent- JOSEPH E. VANCE
Physician - CLARK C. GRIFFIN
Oculist - LEE WALLACE DEAN, M.D.
Steward - OSGOOD B. BATCHELER

     There is a regular appropriation for this institution of $22 per capita per month for nine months of each year to cover support and maintenance.
     The school term begins on the first Wednesday in September and usually ends about the first of June. It is desirable that the students enter at the first and remain until the close. They may, however, be admitted at any time, and they are at liberty to go home whenever their parents send for them.
     The department of music is supplied with a large number of pianos, one pipe organ, several cabinet organs, and a sufficient number of violins, guitars, bass viols and brass instruments. Every student capable of receiving it is given a complete course in this department.
     In the industrial department the girls are required to learn knitting, crocheting, fancy work, hand and machine sewing; the boys, netting, broom making, mattress making and cane seating. Those of  either sex who so desire may learn carpet weaving.
     These advantages are free to every person either blind or of defective vision, and of suitable school age and capacity in the state. All that the friends are expected to do is pay the traveling expenses and furnish clothing. If they are unable to clothe the pupil the necessary clothing will be furnished here and the bill sent to the county from which the pupil came.

SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF - COUNCIL BLUFFS

Superintendent-HENRY W. ROTHERT
Physician-ALFRED P. HANCHETT, M.D.
Steward-E.D. SHIREY.
Matron-MARY M. CRAWFORD.

     There is a regular appropriation for this institution of $22 per capita per month for nine months of each year for the payment of officers' and teachers' salaries and for a support fund.
     This institution is free to all of school age too deaf to be educated in the common schools, sound in mind and free from immoral habits and from contagious and offensive diseases. There is no charge for board or tuition.
     The session of the school begins the first day of October and continues until the last day of June of each year. Pupils should come promptly at the beginning and remain until the end of the session.

IOWA SOLDIERS' HOME - MARSHALLTOWN

Commandant-CHARLES C. HORTON
Adjutant-BYRON A. BEESON
Quartermaster-HORACE J. BENNETT
Surgeon-HAMILTON P. DUFFIELD, M.D.
Assistant Surgeon-WILLIAM J. NEUZIL, M.D.
Chief Engineer-ROBERT MULLIN

     The average number of members on the rolls each year, ending June 30th, is as follows:

     The United States government pays to the state of Iowa the sum of $100 per year for each male inmate of the Soldiers' Home who served in any war in which the United States was engaged, which amount is used as a part of the support fund of the institution.
     Persons who have property or means for their support, or who draw a pension sufficient therefor, are not admitted to the home; and if after admission an inmate of the home shall receive a pension or other means sufficient for his support, or shall recover his health so as to enable him to support himself, he will be discharged from the home.
     The regular appropriation by the state is $15 per month for each member, and $10 per month for each officer and employe not a member of the home.

IOWA SOLDIERS' ORPHANS' HOME - DAVENPORT

Superintendent- FRANK J. SESSIONS
Physician- WILLIAM L. ALLEN, M.D.
Steward- URIAH D. RUNKLE

     There is in connection with this institution a school building, pleasant, commodious and well lighted, and it is the policy of the board to have the course of instruction at a high standard. A kindergarten is operated for the very young pupils.
     The age limit is beyond which children are not kept in the home is sixteen years. Fewer than 20 per cent remain to the age limit.
     A library of well selected juvenile literature is a source of pleasure and profitable entertainment to the children, as from necessity their pastimes and pleasures are somewhat circumscribed.
     It is the aim to provide the children with plenty of good comfortable clothing and to have them taught to take good care of the same. Their clothing is all manufactured at the home, the large girls assisting in its manufacture. The table is supplied with a good variety of plain, wholesome food and a reasonable amount of luxuries.
     The home is supported by a regular appropriation of $12 per month for each inmate and the actual transportation charges of inmates to and from the institution. Each county is liable to the state for the support of its children to the extent of $6 per month, except soldiers' orphans, who are cared for at the expense of the state.

INSTITUTION FOR FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN-GLENWOOD

Superintendent-GEORGE MOGRIDGE, M.D.
Physician and Assistant Superintendent-ANTON R. SCHIER, M.D.
Assistant Physician-EDGAR CHRISTY, M.D.
Steward and Storekeeper-ED. C. COOK.

     There is a regular appropriation for this institution of $12 per month for each inmate.
    The purposes or objects of this institution are to provide special methods of training for the class of children deficient in mind or marked with such peculiarities to deprive them of the benefits and privileges provided for children with normal faculties. The object is to make each child as nearly self-supporting as practical, and to approach as nearly as possible the movements and actions of normal people. If further aims to provide a home for those who are not susceptible of mental culture, relying wholly on others to supply their simple wants.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS-ELDORA

Superintendent-WILLIAM L. KUSER
Assistant Superintendent-GEORGE H. ILIFF
Steward-HENRY W. ELLIOTT
Physician-WILLIAM E. WITNEY, M.D.
Matron-SUSIE ILIFF

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS-MITCHELVILLE

Superintendent-FRANK P. FITZGERALD
Physician-G.B. HIBBS, M.D.
Matron-ALICE LUCE
Storekeeper-MARGARET McGRATH

     There is appropriated for the support of these schools the sum of $13 monthly for each boy and $16 monthly for each girl inmate.
     The object of the institution is the reformation of juvenile delinquents. It is not a prison. It is a compulsory educational institution. It is a school where wayward and criminal boys and girls are brought under the influence of Christian instructors and taught by example, as well as precept, the better ways of life. It is a training school where the moral, intellectual and industrial education of the child is carried on at one and the same time.
     With a few exceptions any boy or girl over seven and under sixteen years of age, who has become habitually vagrant, disorderly or incorrigible, or over the age of nine and under the age of sixteen, found guilty of a crime in a court of record may be committed to this school by any court of record. Any boy or girl may be discharged, or paroled from the school, at any time after one year's training, upon satisfactory evidence of reformation. They may also in exceptional cases be paroled or discharged in less than one year.

MOUNT PLEASANT STATE HOSPITAL

Superintendent-CHARLES F. APPLEGATE, M.D.
First Assistant Physician-FRANK T. STEVENS, M.D.
Second Assistant Physician-EDWARD L. EMRICH, M.D.
Third Assistant Physician-JOHN F. SCHAEFER, M.D.
Woman Physician-ANNE BURNET, M.D.
Pathologist-FRED G. ELLIS
Steward-RALPH HULINGS
Matron-JANET DONALDSON

     The amount allowed for the support of this hospital is $12 per month for each patient. All expenses of the hospital, except for special purposes, are paid from the sum so named, and the amount is charged to the counties from which patients are sent.

INDEPENDENCE STATE HOSPITAL

Superintendent-WILLIAM P. CRUMBACKER, M.D.
First Assistant Physician-SAMUEL C. LINDSAY, M.D.
Second Assistant Physician-GEORGE DONOHOE, M.D.
Pathologist-JOSEPH C. OHLMACKER, M.D.
Woman Physician-CORA B. MURDOCK, M.D.
Steward-JAMES NETCOTT.
Matron-ISABELLE McWILLIAMS.

     The amount allowed for the support of this hospital is $12 per month for each patient.

CLARINDA STATE HOSPITAL

Superintendent-MAX E. WITTE, M.D.
First Assistant Physician-M. CHARLES MACKIN, M.D.
Second Assistant Physician-ROY MOON, M.D.
Third Assistant Physician-
Fourth Assistant Physician-
Woman Physician-PAULINE LEADER, M.D.
Steward-JOHN W. PAYNE
Matron-MARY E. COATS

     The amount allowed for the support of this hospital is $12 per month for each patient.

CHEROKEE STATE HOSPITAL

Superintendent-M. NELSON VOLDENG, M.D.
First Assistant Physician-BENJAMIN R. McALLASTER, M.D.
Second Assistant Physician-T.L. LONG, M.D.
Third Assistant Physician-HARRY D. EARL, M.D.
Woman Physician-LENA A. BEECH, M.D.
Steward-A.J. RAE
Matron-ELLA McNIVEN

    The allowance for support is $15 per capita until population exceeds 600, then $14 per capita per month until population exceeds 750, when it is reduced to $13 per capita per month. When the population exceeds 900 the per capita per month allowance is to be $12. The excess over $12 per capita per month is paid from the state treasury.

STATE HOSPITAL FOR INEBRIATES-KNOXVILLE.

Superintendent-HERBERT S. MINER, M.D.
First Assistant Physician-JAMES C. McMAHON, M.D.
Steward, Storekeeper and Bookkeeper-FRANK H. HAMILTON.
Matron-ROSE FRANCK.

      The amount allowed for the support of this hospital is $20 per month for each patient.

STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS-OAKDALE

Superintendent-HARRY E. KIRSCHNER, M.D.
Assistant Superintendent-JAMES C. McMAHON, M.D.
Steward-JOHN COOK
Matron-

     The amount allowed for the support of this hospital is $30 per month for each patient.

PENITENTIARY AT FORT MADISON

Warden-JAMES C. SANDERS
Deputy Warden-JACOB F. McKAIG.
Assistant Deputy Warden-ARTHUR E. STEVENSON.
Clerk-BERCELE A. GREEN
Chaplain-REV. A.H. JESSUP
Physician-JOHN W. PHILPOTT, M.D.
Hospital Steward-WILLIAM A. HINES

     Labor of convicts is let out to contractors who pay the state a stipulated sum for services rendered, the state furnishing shops and necessary supervision in preserving order. The Iowa Farming Tool Company and the Fort Madison Chair Company are the present contractors.

REFORMATORY AT ANAMOSA

Warden-MARQUIS BARR
Deputy Warden-HARRY P. SMITH
Assistant Deputy Warden-JAMES H. LOWE
Clerk-CHARLES A. BEEMS
Storekeeper-CHARLES H. IRELAND
Chaplain-REV. FELIX H. PICKWORTH
Matron-ANNE TREMAN
Physician-SAMUEL DRUET, M.D.
Hospital Steward-HARRY H. KRATOCHVIL
Engineer and Electrician-MARCUS E. HANSELL
Constructing Engineeer-CHARLES A. MERCER.
Foreman of Stone Masons-HARRY V. POWERS
Foreman of Derricks and Woodwork-ABRAM A. FIFE
Foreman of Quarries-JOHN BARRETT

     The labor of the convicts at this institution is employed in the erection and completion of the buildings. The labor of a small number is let to the American Cooperage Company.
     This institution has a well appointed and equipped department for female prisoners, also a department for the care of the criminal insane.

POPULATION OF STATE INSTITUTIONS AT THE CLOSE OF EACH BIENNIAL PERIOD.

     The population shown in the column headed 1906 is for one year only.
     * Population May 31st, since June is vacation month.
     + Department contained females only after January 18, 1906
     # Departments for inebriates in these state hospitals closed when the state hospital for inebriates at Knoxville was opened January 18, 1906.
     & The Anamosa institution was a penitentiary until April 3, 1907

GENERAL STATISTICS

     Number of employes (not inmates), June 30, 1908.....................................1, 324
     Number of employes (inmates),       June 30, 1908.....................................    408
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          Total employes......................................................................................1,732

EXPENDITURES FOR THE BIENNIAL PERIOD ENDING JUNE 30, 1908

     For new buildings, extraordinary repairs, equipment, land, transportation
 of inmates, and miscellaneous items ....................................................$  871,755.83
     For support of inmates, including salaries and supplies.......................2,882,481.21
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          Total Expenditures.....................................................................$3,754,237.04