Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-14
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 The capital of the School fund is two million forty y-four thousand one hundred and ninety dollars and eighty-one cents t$2, ,044, 190. S1), and divides one dollar to each child of school age.
 The Normal School has graduated forty three pupils during the year;-the whole number in attendance from April 1, 1873 to April l, 1874 was two hundred and ten.
 The income of the fund held by the School Fund Commissioners, under the national land grant for the pfomotion of scientific education, amounting to eighty one hundred dollars (S81O0). is paid un- der the legislative acts heretofore passed, to the Sheffield Scientific School, and in consideration of il. thirty free scholar ships in that institution are ne nsv;n st besssss sss ssuued by Ine -eboo1 to +ha ,hs nm se-- IT. engaged by their' eonef sS aes r5 npfo7ide, in order to make the apportionment among the several counties more equal. I am gratifed to state that these scholarships are now in great demand. They have all been granted under the conditions of the statute, and result in giving to the educa- tional department of the state the advan- tages, to this limited extent, of a Poly technic School, the institution having justly acquired, in this respect, position second to none other in the country.
 CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
 The charities of the state form an im- portant item of our state expenditure. They have been dispensed during the year Tn the accustomed manner, and have relleved, as my opportunities of knowl- edge justify me in stating, much individ- ual suffering and family distress, which could not otherwise have been reached.
 The state aids, by pecuniary contribu- ton, upon the order of the Governor, every poor or indigent insane person in the state while under the treatment at the Middletown hospital. It gives like aid toward the training of all indigent imbe- clle children at the Lakeville school. and the education of the indigent blind at the institutions for that purpose in Massachu- sets. it pays the tuition of all the deaf and dumb children in the state, who de- sire instruction, at the American Asylum, to the extent of the legislative appropria- tion, and in special cases, at the Whipple School, and it defrays the hospital bills of all honorably discharged soldiers of the state during the late war, while under medical treatment at either of the hospit- als of New Haven or Hartford. Nearly nine hundred persons have received aid m these various ways from the state dur Ing the last yeac, at a total expense of nearly one hundred thousand dollars. Besides this, it has, the last year appro- priated nearly ninety thousand dollars for the support of soldiers children in different towns, and about tweqty-seven hundred dollars for the few paupers. whose support does not belong to any town. The appropriation for soldiers children IS necessarily decreasing.
 The Hospital for the Insane at Middle town is the only one of these institutions under the absolute control of the state. Its extensive and valuable buildings are owned by the state, and have been en- hrely paid for. Their completeness and admirable adaptation to the purposes of thelr construction, testify to the official fidelity of the Commissioners charged with that work. 4 new wing, capable of accommodating one hundred male pa hents. was completed for admission of pa- tlents Tn January last, and is rapidly fill ing up. The entire hospital has accom- modations for four hundred and fifty pa-
 
 nlnety-four patients now under treatment. It IS to be apprehended, therefore, that additional accommodations will, at no very distant day, be needed. This neces- slty, which certainly was not anticipated at such an early day, when the hospital was projected, was due in great measure to the chronic condition of that large number of patients who have been re- moved to the institution from the aims houses of the towns, where the treatment necessary to their cure could not have been had, and who cannot, therefore, be discharged to make room for new pa- tents. To this is also due the fact, that of the 394 patients now in the hospital, only 30 are regarded as curable. The purposes of the institution as State Hos pital have been very closely regarded in It's management. and of S96 patients ad- mltted slnce its beginning, 799 have been benehciaries of the state, Its financial management the last year has also been satisfactory, showing an income of about ninety-two thousand dollars against an expenditure of about eighty-seven thou sand dollars. I commend to your atten- tion, for fuller particulars respecting this interesting and most important institu- ton, the Report of the Trustees. with the speciaiiy interesting report of Dr. Shaw, to whose able superintendence I take pleasure m bearing this testimony.
 2 At the School for Imbeciles at Lake vile, Tn Salisbury, there are now sixty four pupils, of which twenty-nine are state .benefciafies, and of these. twenty have lose one or both parents. By recent en-