TABLE 2.-Amount expended for subsistence during the fiscal year 1900.

TABLE 3.—Total amount expended for maintenance, gross cost per year and per day, during fiscal year 1900.

Gross expenditures for year
Average number of prisoners..

Average cost per man per year
Average cost per man per day

$159, 124.59 791.80 $200.977 $0.5562

TABLE 4.-Comparison of expenditures for the fiscal years 1899 and 1900.

In explanation of this increase it is only necessary to state that during the prior year the average number of prisoners confined was 608, while during the current year the average was 791.80, an increase of nearly 200 prisoners, and also to the fact that the cost of supplies has been greater during the present fiscal year than in 1899.

The WARDEN:

CHAPLAIN'S OFFICE, U. S. PENITENTIARY,

Fort Leavenworth, Kans., June 30, 1900.

In compliance with your instructions, I take pleasure in presenting my report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900:

As the preaching of the Word is of primary importance in the chaplain's work, your attention is called, first, to the

Preaching service. This has been held regularly each Sunday, with fairly encouraging results. It is gratifying to state that the attendance has been usually good. Out of a population averaging 792, fifty per cent, at least, were habitual attendants upon these meetings. Our chapel will seat 600, and at times it was well filled. I have endeavored to preach such sermons as would arouse the conscience and lead to the reformation and salvation of the man. As to the results, eternity alone can fully reveal. The song service has been in charge of Mr.

Hon, a prison guard, during the latter part of the year, and has been a valuable aid to the preaching of the Word. The choir meets regularly once a week for practice. The orchestra has rendered good service, and has improved in its work.

The Bible class. This class meets immediately after the preaching service and continues one hour. The course of study is the International Sunday School Lessons. Forty-eight sessions were held this year, the attendance averaging 127. The chaplain has personally conducted these studies. He has enjoyed the work and believes good has been done. Many of the members take great interest in Bible study, and some appear to have a fairly good knowledge of God's Word. Having no lesson helps, and only 83 Bibles and 193 Testaments, we have labored under some disadvantages. I am glad to say, however, that this condition will be improved, as instructions have been given for the purchase of a large number of Bibles. While we are pleased with what has been accomplished, we hope for better results the ensuing year.

The sick have been regularly visited and such comfort and encouragement given as opportunity afforded. Ten inmates died during the year and were buried in the prison cemetery after brief and appropriate services were held in the chapel.

The library. The catalogue shows 4,981 volumes, which is rather misleading. Some of these volumes are made up of several parts, and each part is numbered as a book. There are nearly 200 books not catalogued. Number condemned because unfit for repair, 81, which includes 13 Bibles. Books are exchanged each week for those who make application. The average number exchanged per week was 500, or 26,000 for the year. Three-fourths of the books issued belong to the light-literature class. The rest are religious, scientific, historical, and poetical works. Eight hundred and fifty-three schoolbooks, not included in the figures given above, are kept by the men for private use in their cells; also 179 slates. It may be proper to state that a large number of books are old and much worn, and can be of service but a short while. It would be a splendid thing if 100 books of good, wholesome literature were added annually to the library. No purchase of books has been made during the year.

Friends interested in prison. reform have favored the institution with papers, magazines, good books in cheap binding, etc., for which we are exceedingly grateful. I desire to make special mention of religious and church papers that come weekly to this office. They are among the best and ablest published, and are furnished gratuitously. To insure the regular receipt of these papers, I recommend that they be annually subscribed for, as this gratuity may cease at any time.

Prisoners' mail.-Since August 15, 1899, 1 have had the superintendence of the prisoners' mail. Convicts are permitted to write twice a month. Three mails are received each day, except Sundays, when no mail work is done in this office. A faithful record of all letters and valuables has been kept. Number of letters mailed during this time, 16,316; number of stamps received, 16,421; stamps on hand this date, 105.

I have carried out, as far as possible, rule 2, under instructions governing the chaplain in his duties, and would refer you to the tabulated statement given below for information.

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The foregoing table includes some whose term of imprisonment expired during the year. Moneys received for prisoners in mail, $1,811.39. The same has been turned over to the chief clerk. The interior of the chapel has been improved in the way of repainting the balcony and decorating the walls, which has added much to the appearance and attractiveness of the auditorium.

In conclusion, permit me to thank you for your confidence and support which has been cheerfully given me in my work. I am also grateful to the deputy warden and the other prison officials and guards for their uniform courtesy and kind treatment shown me in the discharge of my official duties.

Respectfully submitted.

F. J. LEAVITT,

Chaplain.

UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY,

FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANS., June 30, 1900.

I have the honor to submit herewith my report as physician for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900.

As shown by the accompanying tabuler statement, there were 18 cases remaining under treatment from the previous fiscal year; 352 cases were received during the year; 335 were discharged; 11 died, and there were 24 cases remaining under treatment at the end of the year. There were 12,385 cases reported on morning sick call, of which 9,175 were returned to duty, 2,858 were sent to quarters, and the remainder, 352, were admitted to the hospital for treatment.

On December 20, 1899, one of the paroled prisoners developed a case of smallpox. He was promptly isolated and all his clothing and bedding burned. A pest camp was established on the prison farm about three-fourths of a mile from any habitation, to which the patient was removed, and a strict quarantine enforced. The building in which the case had developed (parole quarters) was also rigidly quarantined from the rest of the prison, the inmates being confined there until danger from contagion had passed. The prisoners, as well as the officers and their families, were vaccinated, and in cases where the vaccine did not take at first they were revaccinated.

There was no further outbreak of the disease until January 6, 1900, when two cases of varioloid developed, and there were two additional cases on the 10th of January. These cases were at once removed to the pest camp, and their clothing and bedding burned. All of these

patients recovered, with no serious complications, and no other cases developed. The pest camp was abandoned February 9, 1900, the entire camp being afterwards destroyed by fire.

Upon removing the quarantine from the parole building the quarters were thoroughly fumigated and disinfected in the following manner: First, by sulphur fumes for twenty-four hours; second, by generous application of carbolic acid; third, by cleansing with soap and hot water; fourth, by coating the interior of the quarters with lime wash and paint.

On July 2, 1899, a case of measles developed, and from that date up to and including August 7, 1899, there were 49 additional cases, making 50 in all. These cases were all isolated, as far as possible, in the hospital and adjacent building, and all recovered with no serious results.

During the year there were 14 cases of tuberculosis developed, and 2 cases of this disease were carried over from the previous year. These cases were isolated as far as it was possible to do with our limited facilities for isolation.

The following tabular statement shows the number of medical, surgical, and mortuary cases, and also a recapitulation of these cases:

UNITED STATES PENITENTIARY, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., June 30, 1900.

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith my report as superintendent of farm and transportation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, showing the acreage under cultivation and the estimated yield of the several items of farm produce.

In this report I have not attempted to show the amount of labor that has been performed nor the teaming that has been done both in hauling ice for the use of the penitentiary and the hauling of sand, cement, logs, lumber, cord wood, tiling, etc., for use at the new site.

The amount of sand hauled from the river bed to the new site, a distance of nearly 5 miles, was about 2,300 loads. The cottonwood lumber that was gotten out and hauled to the sawmill and from there to the new site amounted to about 65,000 feet. There were about 1,200 loads of cord wood hauled to the site. The amount of ice hauled and stored in the ice houses was about 1,500 tons.

In addition to the regular farm work, there was dug about 3 miles of ditch, 3 feet deep by 6 feet wide, for the purpose of draining certain portions of the bottom land, in order that it might be placed under cultivation; about 700 stumps were cleared off the farm land, the lane leading through the farm was cleared and fenced, and a large part of the farm was plowed two or more times to get it in proper shape for putting in the crops.

The entire work under my charge has been performed with an average of 25 paroled prisoners a day, with one guard and one teamster.

Respectfully,

The WARDEN.

GEO. T. HOLYBEE, Superintendent Farm and Transportation.