The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-03-01
LOCAL. MATTERS.

k5IcDMoSD's CHlRrTy. The following ex.
tracts from the annual report OF the Super
sintendent Of Putiic Charities, Richmond.
ya, for the fiscal year ending JANUARY 81,
1870, will be OF interest s.'.; ~
Amount appropriated this year by the
City Council on account OF charity, S45,T7O,
as follows: Almshouse. $2S,S2G: eity hos
.pftal, $500; college dispensary, $3.50; out
door poor, $4,000; Pinel hospital (esti-
'mated), $4,000; orphan asylums, 50, 200.
Number or persons provided for during
the year in the departments under the con-
troll of the Committee for the Relief OF the
Poor: Aimshouse, 500 persons; outdoor
poor, (rations and fuelL 2,06S families, 5,4G7
persons; number OF prescriptions, Z, ,2O9
persons; number Of accident ambulance,
2l2 (of this number Al were brought to the
almshouse); number Of interments, 213.
Total, 1909.
Inmates admitted, discharged, and died,
during the year: In almshouse January 81,
1878, 2S9; admitted during the year, $40 (of
this number % were born in the aimshouse);
discharged, 39s TOT this number II eIoped
and children were placed in the orphan
asylums); died, 127. In almshouse January
3D. 1879, 2s9. 80 ,,s r - IG
Amount appropriated for the year, $685.
800; receipts, 81 ,320; expended, $780, .06 !;
the cost per capita per year, S103.25.
The amount paid for subsistence was
SS,5l3.17; average number OF inmates, 259.
Cost TO feed each inmate-per year, .S32 .a7.
The department Of Outdoor Poor" is
charged with the distribution OF rations,
fuel, medicine, aud burial OF the INDECENT
outside Of almshouse. The accident ambn-
lance is attached to this department..
iofo Cor no
receipts, S2i 60; expended, S1O.0S4.13.
Prescriptions compounded, $3.50; cof-
fins furnished, 1863; burialS furnished, 213.
Rations issued: Wheat, 1908 bushels;
bacon, LIT pounds (extra); bread, $500
pounds (eXtra); potatoes, Irish, 20 bushels
(extra). ISSUED to the sufferers by The
fresh in January.) Three hundred and
ninetv-eight persons received this extra ra-
tion, with fuel. Cost Of and distributing
the same, S324.55. -
Fuel issued: Wood, S51 cords; coke,
$500 bushels. Twenty-three and three
quarter CORDS OF wood and 325 bushels of
coke were issued to the sufferers by the
fresh in January. ... ........
Marshall Ward: Number Of persons (out-
door poor) assisted. in this ward-rations
and fuel-Whites, 1873 familie>-417 per-
sons; colored, 273 iamiies-49S persons !;
total, 406 families-915 persons; 20 white
families and ZIG colored families, consisting
OF 81 white and 341 celored persons, re-
side in Rockets, and received the extra
ration on account Of the fresh in January.
Jefferson Ward: Number Of persons (oul-
door poor) assisted in this ward-rations
and fuel-Whites, 224 familles-706 per-
sons; colored, Ill famllies-259 persons;
total, 335 iamiies-965 persons.
Madison Ward Number OF persons (out-
door poor assisted in this ward-rations
and fuel-Whites, 10S families-347 per-
sons; colored, rs families-139 persons !;
total, 1874 samilies-4S6 persons.
Monroe Ward: Number OF persons (out-
door poor assisted in this ward-ratons
andfuel-Whites, 1893 famiIies-561 persons !;
colored, 1873 families -291 persons; total,
331 families-S52 persons.
Clay Ward: Number Of persons (out-door
poor) assisted in this ward-rations and
fuel-Whites, 1S9 families-625 persons ;
colored, 1T families-444 persons; total,
366 famllies-1,069 persons.
Jackson Ward: Number OF persons tout
door poor assisted in this ward-rations
and fuel-Whites, 1877 families 1924 per-
sons; colored, 800 families-796 persons !;
total, 446 famiiies-1, 100 persons.