The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-26
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
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THE Citizens ASSOCIATION OF PENNSYLVANIA
FIRST ANNUAL REPoRT.-The FIRST annual
report OF the Citizens Association Of Pennsyl-
vania is before u.s. and from it we extract the
tt11lIowlng summary of the operations during
The present officers Of the Association con-
sist OF the following well l-known gentlemen
PRESIDENT, Joseph Parrish. NJ. D.; Vice. Presi-
dents, John M. MaliS and Jay Cooke: Secretary,
Joshua Woolston; Directors, John A. Wright,
Samuel Parrish, Wistar Morris, George Mil.
1iken, Archibald Campbell. Caspar Morris, M.
d., Henry Lewis, ana I. It. TaslSer, Jr.
BY the provisions of its charter, the Assoeia-
tion is empowered to purchase lands and erect
buildings for accommodating those addicted
to the use of intoxicating. drinks; TO inquire
into the causes of pauperism, vagrancy and
crime, and their statistics; and To do whatever
may seem practicable and needful for the pre-
is devoted chiefly to the first OF the objects
enumerated above. The different classes of
tnebriates are ennmerate1. and the causes from
which intemperance springs are fully and can
didly discussed.
the objects of the association into effect they
have purchased n farm OF one hundred and
seven acres, located in Darby township. Della
ware county. The location is easy of access to
the city by both steam and horse cars, and
being completely surrounded by forest trees,
enjoys that privacy which Is so essential in
all reformatory institutions 1t is intended, in
the erection of the necessary buildings. to
depart from the beaten track, and instead of
congregating large numbers OF incorporate
persons under the same roof and at the same
houses which will contain families OF from
The best internal and external arrangements
of these cottages, together with the proper rela-
tions OF the inmates to each other, are dis
cussed. in the report in an exhaustive manner.
Under the sub jeCt of dependent and criminal
classes" the report presents the following in-
teresting calculations based principally upon
the records OF Massachusetts, as those of Penn
sylvania are too meagre and uncertain to be
reliable:-
Tue proportion of the insane is one to every
four hundred and twenty-one Inhabitants
which would give to Pennsylvania an aggre-
gate Of S7l6 of these unfortunates OF these
about two thousand are inmates of the different
public and private hospitals; one thousand or
more are cared for in the county poor-houses;
outside of the State; and the remainder, many
of whom are unknown to the census-takers or
their friends.
The proportion OF idiots to the population is
mate includes only those who are born ldiotic,
or become so in early childhood. This would
give total of 36l5 for the State, Of whom but
few hundred at the most are cared for in public
institutions, the great bulk of them remaining
in their homes.
same proportion as idiots. The institutions
provided for their care contain Of the former
class one hundred and eghty-One, and of the
latter one hundred and twenty-six.
The ratio of paupersm in observation-disclosures
to three hundred and siXty-hve-would give to
Pennsylvania an aggregate of lO,O53. Phfadel-
phia alone has at the present time more than
1000 of these in her Almshouses.
During the past fourteen years the number of
persons committed to Jail in Massachusetts was
one in two hundred and twenty-nine. In 1865,
there was one in 9SA committed to the State
Prison, while in Pennsylvania, during the same
year, the proportion was one in S293. Accepting
the Massachusetts basis which is seen TO be
below the real state of the case in ourown State,
Pennsylvania would have had criminal popu-
lation, during the past year. of 16023, exclusive
of the large number who are never brought to
justice
With regard to the number of vagrants there
can be no accurate estimate, but there were at
least thirty thousand of them prowling over
the State during the past year.
The proportion OF drunkardS is set down at
one in seventy four, which would give to Penn
sylvania 49,55 of this class.
Such is the immense field within which the
Association is to labor in the cause OF morality
and hRppiness
statistics from which we extract the follow
ing:- ,-,. . ,,,