Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-06
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

Below, we present abstracts of various pub
lie documents-reports of Public Institutions,
&c.-which were presented to the Legislature
yesterday. The year for which they are made
up, ends, by law, on the Both of September:
State Reform School for Boys.-The report of
the Trustees of this Institution states that the
number of boys admitted during the year was
I'll; number discharged 1863; and there were
remaining Sept. 30, 557. The average num-
Der for the year was 800 This is larger ag-
gregate and larger average than has
been in attendance in any previous year,
and is larger than can be suitably accommoda-
ed in the institution. The number of deaths
during the year was seven. The general con-
duct of the inmates has been good
The best teachers are employed, and tho
rough semi-annual examinations are made
The library numbers 1850 volumes, $50 vol
umes of which have been added the past year.
The total amount received for labor of boys,
is S3,456 81, against $3.50 81 for ten months
of last year.
10 meet the expenses of the current year,
the Trustees estimated that S44 900 will be
necessary. The receipts of the past year were
S52, 267, and the disbursements SAT ,587, leav-
ing $4708 on hand.
Since the establishment of the school 2409
boys have been received into it, of whom 1902
were born in the United States, 1904 being of
American parentage, and 507 in other coun-
tries.
Forty per cent. of the boys have Roman
Catholic parents. The religious instruction of
the past year has made a manifest impression
upon the boys.
Industrial School for Girls-There have been
received into the institution during the year
III girls; II have been indentured, and there
.sY,fI tho, nl,, II
year was Sll 943, leaving an unexpended bal
ance from the appropriation for 1868 of $1056.
The girls have been employed in needlework
and knitting, and have produced socks to the
value of 1868. The expense of the farm over
and above receipts was $256. From the inn
proyements that have been made it is believ-
ed that next year the farm will pay for itself,
and thereafter become a source of profit 1t is
of much advantage to the institution
The trustees express the conviction that the
effort which has been made, as an experiment,
to effect thorough reformation in the moral
character of the children committed to the insti-
tuition, has equaled their most lively hopes.
There is not one of the number who has not
been benefited to a valuable degree in physi-
cal and moral health. The experiment is now
an accomplished fact. OF II girls bound out
for service during the year, not one has been
returned for moral delinquency. Two new
houses, each to accommodate thirty inmates,
will be needed in the future for the use of the
school, and the means of obtaining them is
asked for.
Every article of apparel, except shawls and
shoes, has been made by the girls. Each one
shares in every form of housework, and if per-
mltted to remain a suitable period in the
school, will be familiar with all the details of
domestic economy, from the care of the kitch-
On tn r,oly I..,, 4 I
the institution has been remarkable; but one
death has occurred in two years The school
has been crowded during the year, and appli-
cations for admission have beeu refused almost
daily.
School for Idiotic and Feeble Minded You'd
From the report of Alexander Mcdonald, the
Superintendent of this Institution, we learn
that the number of pupils admitted since Janu-
airy l, is 20, of whom IA were State beneficial
res; and there have been discharged 9 State
beneticiaries and private pupils, while pri-
yate pupils have died. Number in the insti-
tuition Both Sept, SO, of whom 46 were State
beneficiaries.
The Trustees speak in decided terms of
praise OF the manner in which the inmates are
cared for, and the way in which the interests
OF the institution are managed.
The Atmshouse at Briidge,cater. Inspect
ors OF this establishment report that owing to
the financial embarrassments of the past year,
the number of the needy and the destitute has
greatly increased, and at some periods the aims
house has been crowded with inmates, a large
portion OF whom were of the lowest most de-
graded, worn-out, idiotic class of human beings
The number of inmates has varied from 800 TO
upwards of 100. In view of the experience
of the past year, the Inspectors advise that the
number OF inmates in the State Almshouse be
limited, beyond which no admission can be eff
fected.
L. L. Goodspeed, the Superintendent, re-
ports the number of inmates admitted during
the year to be GIL, and the whole number who
have received support during the year 2209
Number discharged, returned, and placed at
service, 1857 died, 287; eloped, 80; remain
ing October l, 1858, 525. The total outlay for
the year was $43,457 80, and the amount re-
celved the same OF the receipts, $1143 was
from sales Of farm produce and from money
LETT by deceased inmates. The cost of support
ing each inmate for the whole year was S53
04. There remains $9777 81 of the legislative
appropriation for 1858, all of which would no
doubt be expended by the beginning of 1859.
AtnshouSe at Ie,utSbwy.-The Inspectors
state that during the severity of last Winter
more than twelve hundred persons were daily
lodged at this establishment, a number alto
gether too great for the accommodations The
number of insane paupers in the institution the
past year has been eighty, and the Inspectors
ask that funds for separate building for the
accommodation of the schools NAV be furnish
ed, so that rooms may be had in the house for
the exclusive use Oft the insane
The reports of two Superintendents accom-
pany that of the Ispectors, Isaac II. Meserve
having been removed by the Governor on the
10th of June, and Thomas j. Marsh appointed
III his place. From these we learn that preyi-
GUS to June 10, 269 persons, who had become
State charges, were sent out of the State
There were i'll the institution at the commence
ment OF the year 757 persons; there have been
admitted since 1885, and there now remain
o2z. The number of deaths during the year
was 221, and the number of births 81. There
was ON hand at the beginning of the year, pro-
duce, stores, and materials, valued at S14 1903.
There has been drawn from the State Treasu-
ry Sal, III, and there remain on hand articles
valued at $2l, $50.
AhiishouSe at lionSon. like the other
State Almshouses comprised a larger number
OF paupers last Autumn and Winter than ever
before, reaching nearly eleven hundred. The
number of inmates at the beginning of the
year was 638; admitted and born since, 23O0
discharged, lndentured, deserted, and died.
during the year, 1878 remaining, 565 There
isa greater demand for children for indenture
than the institution can meet The applicants
are mostly farmers, who desire children whose
services can be made Immediately available.
The reports received of children thus bound
out are generally favorable 1t is thought that
an appropriation of $4,000 will be sufficient
to defray the expenses of the coming year.
The farm has produced $3474.
Ahen Passengers. number of passen-
which urriVa1 of f1a l.
ing the past year, according to the report of
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