Loss of weight, 14 per cent.
The reduction in the number losing weight is explained as follows:
A larger number of the inmates have been assigned to the outdoor work, gardening and farming, than ever before.
The amount of food served in the dining room has been increased, and its quality much improved.
Many low places in the grounds where mosquitoes breeded and from which malaria emanated have been filled.
During the year more inmates have been paroled, and with better results than ever before in the history of the Reformatory.
| Number placed on parole | 413 |
| Returned for crime | 8 |
| Returned, or not returned, being declared delinquent because of committing new crime or breaking other conditions of parole | 84 |
| Percentage failing to keep parole | 20 |
Contracts in Iowa.—The Fort Madison Farming Tool company will make a fight to retain its business of manufacturing tools at the Fort Madison penitentiary. It will ask that its contract to employ 150 prisoners be continued for at least a year from the expiration of the present contract on November 1, 1914.
The board has announced, however, that it will not renew the contract for any certain period of time, if any extension is granted. It may be advisable, it is said, to continue the present arrangement to keep the men employed from November 1 until such time next year as the legislature can provide some industry at the prison which will take the place of the tool contract.