Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-28 | Page 5 | Annual Pauper Cost in U. S. is Fixed at $334

ANNUAL ANNU AL PAUPER i J COST IN U. U 1 S. S i IS I FIXED AT WASHINGTON Oct 28 AP- AP AP The average a pauper In the United States obtains an expenditure of ot 64 annually for main and has 2 2 14 acres o of land n cultivated I for rd fi hie his support p t the he department of labor Jabor found in averaging tle te t te varying figures from states of the union The per capita value of or buildings and equipments devoted to tile the paupers pauper's paupers pauper's paupers pau pau- pers per's care averaged States of ot the union were shown o 0 have widely different ideas asi asto as is isto to what and how much should h be bedone i done for their paupers h I In Nevada adb I the subsistence and maintenance of at almshouse Inmates cost per year npr nor capita In Alabama it cost 53 In South Dakota the property in almshouses almshouse and alms alms' almshouse house farms per person cared for or Is s I while In Mississippi It is 4 63 i One of ot the reasons for high coat rost the d department par ment said is the large number of or small Institutions devoted voted I I to the the care care of the poverty stricken and It was found that one third one of or orall all such establishments establishments' had less s I than ten Inmates and one half had i iless less than twenty fIve I II The small almshouse l s u It t was I added 1 stands s out as a web of Indifference In- In I 1 difference and neg le t which h hegins hep he- he i 1 p gins with a public that either knows I nothing of its exi exia once nce or has so little concern that it pays no attention attention at at- to conditions o at