Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-24
The State Charities.

The State Charities. The Boards Annual RsPorr--EnterestinK
 Facts and Figures on an Important
 Subject.
 The annual report of the State board of charities consisting of James Gallagher, chairman, Henry E. Burton, secretary. Har- low P. Harris, Mrs. Virginia T. Smith and Mrs. Francis Bacon, was submitted to the leg islat ure yesterday. During the year the poor houses of ssyenty-four towns were visited. The nuHber of paupers found in these insti tutions was I,121, of whom 535 were men l 419 women, children under 16 years of age, boys 95 and girls 72. The board state that the sexes are not generally separated in the poorhouses, except that they sleep in differ l ent rooms; but these, as 6 rule, in the same hall. Men, women and children usually eat | and spend their days together, and associate 1 together without supervision or restraint, other than the accident of numbers. Indeed, except in the poorhouses of Hartford and New Haven, and possibly, but to less ex- tent, in one or two other towns, there is no substantial and permanent separation of the sexes.
 l STATE EXPENDITURES FOB oHARIrAB1E FUR. | POSES.
 | The expenditures of the State for the fiscal 1 year ending November 30, 1882, for charita. ble purposes were, as follows:
 State Reform school Meridsn. .....-.-$ 4s 4s8 40 | Connecticut Industrial Achool for girls, Amefoan Isgun for the deaf and dumb. peFsisS asPfd Inatitntion for the blind Boston.
 Connecticut ss school for imbSciie;. Lake 000 - General Hospital society, New Haven ian- nusl approVriationl. 6,eoo % | Hartford hospital tannuM sppropria-
 connectiout mG1s hospital for the insane, Mid Retreat sI for the insane, Hartford .. 2,42s 12 Vermont asylum for the insane, Brattle-
 Butler % hospital for the insane. Providence. 1 R. .I.!.....-........- 2O4 25
 ;AaS:l6 So.1.. p:nv:;: HE zIs ss ss tfor insane pstients1. s1...-.....'...... 416 % l M5stic Bridge. ..............-...... 625 %
 psai {foT soldiers Ds..' . .- 1o4so 21
 sundry towns. @ e....- 7so6 7s
 State paupers. 4,711 IS Total, not including special uppropRia-
 TRe special appropriations paid during the fiscal year ending November 30, 1882, were: | To Connecticut hospital for the inEsne, for - = | appropriation of 1881 5000 % ] To Connecticut hospital far the insans, ap- propristion of 1882 for land. ..-..-...: 5000 Oo To Bridgeport hospital for appropriation Of . Al. | 1884, ....--.....---..-.---... euVUo UO Total paid for special appropriations sS.6oo % THE STATE ALAsHoUsE. | During the year 1883 ths number of pau | pers cared for at the State slmshoase at l Tariff vile was 234. For the fiscal year end 1 ing November 30, 1888, the sum paid the contractor Ens $5, ,023.84
 THE INSANE.
 ! The number of patients admitted at the ! Connecticut Hospital for the Insane at Middle town during the year ending Nevsmoer 3O, 1883, was 271, of the number 1855 being men and 136 women. The total number under treatment was 1,113. The numbeE discharg- I ed was IFS; men, IS; woRsn, 95. The number of deaths was 80; men, 43; women, ST. The average number 468 S9. The amount paid by the State for l board and treatment of patients and trus- tees expenses was $S2, ,2s7. 40
 ! There were seventy-t three insane persons provided for by the State during tho year, | outside of the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane. as follows: At Retreat for the In | sane, Hartford, 38; at Connecticut school ! for Innbeciles, 8; at Vermont Asylum for the
 Insane, 7; at Butler Hospital for the Insane Rhode Island, 4; al New Hampshire Asylum
 for the Insane, IS; at Danvsrs lunatic hos pital, Mass, 3.
 ;I THE REFORM SCHOOL.
 The number of boys received at the State
 Reform school during the year was 234; re
 maining in the school December l, 1883, 406 The sum paid by the State for board bills and 1 trustees expenses during the last fiscal yeal
 was $54, ,56S 79.
 THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOB GIRLS. The number of girls in the 1Hdustria
 school at MiddletoWn December l, 1882, wal ! 1S1; number received during the year 68 whole number cared for during the year 249 The number p'acsd out, dismissed and de , 1 ceased during the twelve months was 54
 leaving 195 in the institution December 1 1883. The sum paid by the State for board etc, of the girls during the last fiscal year was $31 ,544.2 25.
 THE SCHOOL FOR DdBECnEs.
 The whole number Of pupils connected
 with the Connecticut School for Imbsciles al r Lakeville during the year was 102, of whom
 sixty were benefciaries of the State. The whole number of pupils now there is ninety two, of which ffty-six State benefciaries
 The gum paid by the State for it's pupils there during the year 1883 was $7,270.5 53. THE BLIND. The provision made by the State for the blind is by way of an appropriation, under which they may be sen9 for care and in
 
 l Blind in Boston. There have been seventeen benefciariss of the State there during the last year, at an expense of $4, 075. There were fifteen bsnsfciaries there 8; |, the beginning of the year, and two were ad.
 ded in July.
 THE DEAF AND DUMB.
 In the American asylum in Hartford there
 were forty-nine State benefciaries at the be- ] ginning of the year, and six were added in
 June-a total of fifty five for the year, st an
 expense of $8, ,93S 96. In Whipple's home
 school, at Mystic Bridge, there were four
 State benefciaries ct the beginning of the l year and two were added in September-a 1 total of six for the year, at an expense of 1 $580 46. In the Clarke institution at North
 anpton, Mass, there was one State benef-
 ciary during the year, at an expense of &175. 1 fhe tetal number of deaf mutes iptructed St l the expense of the State during the fiscal year ending November 30, 1883, was sixty l two; and the total cost of such care and in-
 truction was $9, 9,694. 42.
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