The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-26
CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.

President s. J. Fox's Report to the
 Mayor.
 In it's report to the mayor, just sub mitted, the department of charities and corrections, through Colonel s. J. Fox, it's president, recommends the looping off of a thirteen-acre piece of land from the town of Hamden and including it in the boundaries of New Haven. It is explained by President Fox that during the year the city has added to it's pos sessions a plot of land adjoining the present town farm, and yet in the southwest corner os Hamden, Colonel Fox therefore suggests that It might be advantageous to have the boundary line of Hamden changed at the next session of the legislature so as to include the land within New Haven limits.
 The report shows that while the aver age number of inmates maintained dur ing the year had been S56 against S27 the year before, that the cost per capita had been kept at the same figure, .$2.06 a week, under the supervision of Super intendent J. V. Rattlesdorfer.
 The amount expended for all purposes in the conduct of Springside home for the year was ss9.4S4.03, and cash re- ceiyed for board of inmates amounted to $S,56171. The deaths of the year were ninety as against seventy the year before. The net expense of care of insane in. institutions was $2O,l59.4S. The number receiving treatment at Middletown is I'll, and at the Lakeville School for In1beciles, nineteen. The ex- penditures for outside poor relief was $7,020.53. The number of cases aided was 1,597, and the average amount of help extended was $4.S9. In concluding his report Colonel Fox says:
 During the year the home buildings were painted at an expense of $950, and three hundded dollars was spent in concreting. These amounts, with the six hundred dollars paid for farm addi- ton, make up the total as reported in the special account. In addition to these extra expenses considerable re- novating and some new work has been done by the regular help at the home and farm as follows: Both hospital wards painted, halls in wards one to | painted; new ambulance shed and new smoke house built, repipng done in wards four and six, main kitchen, old mems dining room and mems hospital. 1 The cost for the care of the outside poor has increased $447.S5 during the past year. which was largely due to the numerous calls for fuel in November and December Although the expenses in this account appear to be increasing from year to year, We feel they are not out of proportion to the growth of the lefty, and the system of investigation (which we have alluded to in former reports is still carefully maintained.' 1 The products of Springside farm were as follows: 27S pounds of aspara- gus, ten and one-half bushels beans, lima thirty-nine bushels beans string; 3,5e0 pounds beef, forty-six and one- half bushels beets; 6,244 head cabbages; Itwenty-two bushels carrots; fourteen pounds chickens; fifty gallons cider; 5,410 ears corn; thirty-three bushels < Icucumbers; 7,296 eggs; four and one- half bushels grapes; twenty-six bushels greens, beet; 2l, 730 pounds hay; 452, ,34s pounds ice; forty-two pounds lard; fourteen bushels lettuce; 121,924 pounds milk; fifty-three bushels onions; twen- ty-four bushels parsnips; forty bushels peas; two bushels peppers; thirty eight pounds pie plant; 1,940 bushels potatoes; 9,S87 pounds pork; fourteen and three-quarter bushels squash; 3,76t pounds staw; ffty-six and three-foutt bushels tomatoes: forty-one and one quarter pounds turyeys; 207 bushels turnips.
 The statistics from Springside show that 333 men, 163 women and thirty lchildren were admitted to the home dur ing the year, and that of ninety deaths fifty four were men, thirty-four womer and two children. The number sent tt insane asylums was sixteen, clever men and five women. The highes number in the home at any time was 379 and the lowest, 295. The average age of male inmates was flfty-thret years and eight months and of womer was f1fty-seven years and five months
 The percentage of the inmates was al
 as follows:
 Canadian, 6; English, 1T; German, 29 Irish, 211: Italian, $; Polish, 5; Scotch
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