Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31
The Public schools.

Annual Report Of the superfntendent-i | Review Of the Year-SuggestfOnsH for the |
 Future The New Normal Training
 SchoOl-San1tary Care In the Schools
 Industrial Education in the Schools
 The Kindergarten and Special High
 School Glass.
 The annual report submitted to the Board of Education last evening by Superintendent Dutton is given in substance below: To the Board of Education of the New Haven
 City School District:
 Gentlemen My second annual report for the year ending August 31st, 1883, is respect fully submitted.
 have endeavor0d to review briefly the | work accomplished during the past year and on the strength of better knowledge of the condition of our schools, and aided by sug- oestions received while inspecting schools abroad, have called your attention to such 1 defects as seem to need legislation. 1 glance at the statistics which follow will indicate slight falling of in the percentage | of attendance as compared with that of last year. This is readily accounted for in the ] unusual amount of contagious disease which prevailed among pupils during the winter. SUMMARY OF STATISTICS FOR 1ss2-sS. l The population of the New Haven City School District, which comprises the entire city, according to the United States census of 1880, was.. 1888
 the city .......................... 1.4s4
 Total population of the city and town s2ss2 PROPERTY VALUATION FOR 1882 (APPRoxIMATEl. | Assessed valuation of real and personal
 property of the town and city. szsss5 ssa
 East District. s52s,755
 Total assessed valuation of the city... $44ses,s77 The rate of District taxation for all school l purposes was .OoS or mills on the dollar .ooS l purposes was mill on the doHar....... .0O1 Amount of city and town tax, IT miHs... .017 Total taxation for all purposes, 20 mills on I a dollar .O2 RATIO OF CHILDREN TO POPULATION.
 The number of persons between the ages of 1 4 and 16 years, enumerated in January,
 lsfs fs.Tss:s Ts:;; .iaes issi 1ssss sss 1 The ratio of the number of children between
 land 16 years to the the whole population of
 the Sd.y ts Tas rao 1sso a s s s.s o t
 present population of the city may be
 timated thus: The number of children. | enumerated in the school district, multi
 RSd o Py the 5 gn Bs gys ssi Ropp l 162, ,s0XA 416 I'll, ,s92. Add for WestviIle
 and South End, 1880. and the estimated
 population of the whole town is..-..-.... 73,ss2 SCHOOL BUILDINGS. | Number of school houses occupied and | owned by the district. 29 Number of school houses occupied and
 rented by the district ict-..-......-......... s l Number of orphan asylums where schools
 NaSbsr a5s eSe Of school houses occupied by the l district S6 Number of school rooms occupied. ....... 2tT Increase 14 Number of seats. ...............,......... 1os75 Increase .-.......,.. 6S3 TEACHERS.
 Number of male teachers now employed in | the day schools, including teachers in | music and drawing, one each ..-....... IS 1 Number of female teachers. 243 ] Number of teachers employed in the day l schools, including drawing and music
 teachers 261 increase | Number of male teachers employed in the | evening schools for young men, ......-... IA | Total number of teachers employed in the
 day and evening schools ................. T4 | NUMBER PUPILS.
 Whole number registered during the year. 19,6ss Average number registered (belonging) dur s,6Ss
 ing the year. - Increase 246
 Average number in daily attendance. 9.o41
 Increase 120