1880 Biennial Report Volume 6
SCOTT Scott county is not under township organization The county farm is leased to a contractor who pays four hundred dol lars annual rent and receives compensation for keeping paupers as follows For young children sick persons insane and idiots he is allowed thirty five cents a day for children over two years of age and under ten thirteen cents and for all other paupers ten cents The county furnishes clothing furniture and medical care Every thing else is furnished at the cost of the contractor The amount realized by him under this contract for the board of paupers during the last fiscal year was nine hundred and twenty five dollars The total pauper expenses of the county are about seventeen hundred of which two hundred and forty is for outdoor relief There has been no change in the buildings and furniture since our last report but the appearance of the house has improved The number of inmates present was seventeen of whom three were insane all of them men and none of them capable of labor All three were in seclusion The number of children was two both born in the poor house and illegitimate The salary of the county physician who furnishes medicines and visits the almshouse only is one hundred and fifty dollars
