Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-07-07


able body, tho Trustees asked you for Levy
of Twelve Hundred Dollars ($l20O), for the
support oil the Alms-house, confidently be-
levinQ at that time, that that sum would be
sufficient to ray the current expenses OF the
House but burihens unforeseen and unavoid-
able, have been thrown on the Trustees, which
have made that levy insufficient TO meet the
Just demands upon the Institution. Amongst
those demands the Trustees would represent
that they were obliged 10 pay for the erection
OF
Three different Cells for the safe keep
ing of the insane, $1,000
Lumber for Fencing, 5000
Wagon and Harness, 10000
Two pair Of Mufs or Insane parsons, $500
Aid to John Paul, by order of Con-
missioEers. 1000
Estimated loss in deficiency of last
years crop of wheat and potatoes, 10000
Increase oil paupsr,sm in the House,
since last report, equal TO rs per cent. 10000
Making besides several smaller
items the sum Of S7l3O0
Owing to these unsnticputed expenses, the
Trustees are obliged to repre.ent 10 the Coun ty
Commissioners that there is now due and UNI
paid by the Institution, the sum of six hun
drcd sixty-three dollars and eighty-six cents
ninety-eight cents (s2.98), paid by Mr.. Buch-
anan, Treasurer Of the Trustees, over and a.
bove The amount placed in his hands for dis
bursement, as will fully appear by his vouch-
ers herewith filed.
The personal property in the House and on
the Farm, belonging to the County, as will
fully appear by the Inventory OF the same,
hereto annexed amounting TO eighteen HIM.
bred and fortythree doliars and twenty-five
cents (Sl,s43.25.)
During the year just ended, there were ad-
mitted into the House, 50 paupers-and dis
charged during the same period i there
are in the House at this time Al. During the
year there were II deaths and births, In the
House. During the same period 2l4 meals
were given to transient paupers.
For the year ending June 1853, the num-
her of paupers supported in the House, ave-
ragged small fraction over 25--fUr the year
just closed the average number was over 81.
for the year ending June, 1857, the number
was IS. In November, 1853, when The County
look possession OF the present A Inns. house
there were in the House only eight paupers.
Thus il will be seen that the increaee Of
those supported in the House, during last year
has been equal to 20 per cent. greater than
those supported during the year Immediately
preceding, and nearly double that of the year
ending June, 1857.
There are now in the Alms-house fo,.r dit
ereat persons--two male and two female, la
boring under insanity of mind. Two of these
were supported by special levy, Tor some years,
in the Lunatic Asylum, at Baltimore, under
the humane hope thar they could be restored
to their reason, by careful medical aid, but all
hopes for their restoration having given way,
they have been brought back, and are now in
our Alms-house.
OF the number receiving aims from the
County, outside of the House, the Trustees
have no means of nscer;Gining, rs that class OF
paupers are entirely under the b, neficpnt care
of the County Commissioners. But there is
no doubt, that outdoor pensioners have in
creased in proportionate ratio with those re-
ceiving the fostering pr election of the Aims
house It is truly melancholy to reflect upon
the rapid increase of paupcrism in this county,
within the last few years; the philanthropic
mind is at loss to divine the true cause as it
is certainly not attributable to the increase of
population in the county. A fear is enter
tanned that, if strict inquiry was made into
the condition and past history of each pauper,
their present condition would be trnceabe to
the sad and runous sin Of intemperance.
The Trustees have taken great care to form
q reliable estimate of the sum that will be ne
ccssary 10 pay existing debts against the In
stitution, and what will be necessary to NEE,
all Just and reasonable demands Tor the sap
port of the House and for the pay ment Of the
Stewards and Trustees salaries, for the ensu-
ing year, and they cannot resist the conviction
that ii will require every cent of three thous-
and FIVE hundred dollars.
The Trustees Deei not represent to the
County Commissioners, that the present Aims
house Is by no means spacious enough for the
proper and comforidbie accommodation of the
Stewards family and the paupers, because
these facts have been so frequently urged upon
the attention Of former Boards Of County
Commissioners, by different Grand Jures of
the County, and is 30 apparent to every OF
servant citizen that visits the House. They
will leave this subject entirely in the hands of
those who alone have the power to apply the
corrective and remedy the evil complained
Of
In concluding this report, the Trustees
would be doing violence to their own feelings
and sense of justice, we're they to withhold the
expression of their most unqualified approba-
ton Of the very attentive and efficient manner
in which CHAs. A. ScoTT, the Steward Of the
A lms-house and DR.. PATRICK A. HEALEy, the
Physician TO the game, have discharged the
highly sponsible and important duties de-
yolving on them respectively.
JOHN FOLCK,
JOHN N. BUCHANAN,
JOHN COULEHAN,
Juy Z, ls55--a. Trustees.