The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-05-23
Stute Charity Board |.

Following is in substance the annua
 report of the state corresponding secre
 tary of the state board of charities fol
 the past year:
 An effort is being made to establish { new state hospital for the insane, pre-
 sumably under the direction of homeo
 pathic physicians.
 The matter is under consideration o1
 abolishing the special state board of ed
 ucation of the blind, which, so far a!
 can be learned, is an institution peculiar
 to Connecticut.
 The only charitable institutions which
 have been opened since the last report
 are a general hospital in the city of New
 Britain, the Mount Carmel Home for Children near New Haven and smal,
 home for incurable children at Newing-
 ton. Plans are under consideration for
 the erection, at the Hospital for the In
 sane of large congregate dining room
 building, and at the American school for
 the deaf for new building for it's pure oral department.
 The state prison at Wethersfeld has new warden, MT. Albert W. Garvin, formerly of the state reformatory in In diana. A number of improvements are | being perfected under his direction, and | it is hoped to secure an appropria ton for the erection of new block of cells to relieve the constantly overcrowded con- dition of the prison The average num- Der of prisoners is five hundred and eighty-eight. The jails of the eight counties of the state contain an average of about eleven hundred inmates, short term men and men bound over for trial. Total number of criminals, eighteen hundred or two thousand to the million of population.
 The Connecticut school for boys at Meriden has a new superintendent, MT. c, M. Williams. Greater facilities for physical development and for training in the clements of trades are needed. Av- craze four hundred and fifty boys The Industrial School for Girls at Middle town has an average of two hundred and fifty inmates and is a model insti- tuition, with scientific cooking school dressmaking classes and departments of domestic work. Total insubordinates seven hundred. Ratio, three hundred and seventy-five to the million.
 Almshouses are maintained in eighty nine towns in the state, in which the de- pendent poor of all ages are cared for, except children between four and eight cen. Total number of inmates during the year. 2,27O, besides four hundred persons supported in private homes for a7e az q. To!al thirty-one hundred; and ratio 3,s75 to the million of population. The total number of persons assisted with outdoor relief in all of the towns of the state during the year is estimated at about 14,500. Charity organization soci- cities are conducted in six cities in the state, and work in harmony with the municipal authorities.
 A temporary home is provided in each of the eight counties for dependent and neglected children between the ages of four and eighteen, until suitable homes can be found for them. The average number of inmates in the county homes is six hundred and thirty.
 Private asylums and homes furnish accommodations for nine hundred and twenty three children, making total of 1850 in the institutions Ratio two thousand to the million.
 The sick and injured poor are cared for at a number of city hospitals at the expense of the towns that send them, and of the state which furnishes appro- priations for most of these hospitals. Fitch's Home fer Soldiers at Noroton has an average number of four hundred and seventy inmates.
 The state has about seventy blind ben ehciaries. of whom twenty are supported at the Perkins institution, South Boston, and about fifty at the Institute and h. dustral Home for the Blind, in Hart ford. Ratio eighty-five to the million.
 The state supported during the past year one hundred and three deaf pupils, of whom seventy-four were at the American school at Hartford, and thir- ty four at the Mystic Oral school. Ra tio one hundred and thirty-five to the million.
 Feeble minded children are cared for md instructed at state expense at the School for Imbeciles, Lake ,ille. Average number one hundred and seventy. Ratio two hundred and welve to the million.
 The Connecticut Hospital for the In- sane at Middletown has an average of lbout nineteen hundred inmates, but is ,onsidera bly, overcrowded. The retreat 'or the insane at Hartford has an aver lge of one hundred and fifty patients. Nine private sanitariums care for two undred and fifty patients, and there are lbout four hundred others, chiefly ! hronic cases, among the town poor Total twenty-seven hundred. Ratio 1875 to the million.
 The number of insane persons in the | tate is increasing gradually, but it has lot yet been shown that the increase is [ ut of proportion to the increase in pop Ilation.
 The cost to the state for delinnuent 1