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MICHIGAN. 



Changing the fiscal year from July 1st to Sep- 

 tember 30th, to make it correspond with the 

 fiscal year of the State and its other institu- 

 tions, the receipts were for fifteen months (in- 

 cluding balance of $28,710.49, July 1, 1879), 

 $296,163.66; the expenditures, $277,096.42; 

 balance on hand, September 30, 1880, $19,- 

 067.24. The expenditures include $39,022.88 

 on account of the new museum building, and 

 $19,898.01 on account of the central steam- 

 heating building and apparatus. The receipts 

 from students were $76,707.93; and from in- 

 terest on endowment fund, $51,451.78. The 

 payments for salaries of officers, professors, 

 and employees aggregated $124,777.92. 



The seventh annual report of the State Pub- 

 lic School for Dependent Children, located at 

 Coldwater, is a flattering statement of the 

 work that institution is doing for a class of 

 children which in former years found a home 

 in the poor-houses of the several counties, or 

 had not even that apology for a home. The 

 tables accompanying the Superintendent's re- 

 port show : Number received during the year, 

 108 (114 boys and 54 girls); indentured, 216; 

 returned to counties from which they were 

 sent to the school, 31 ; died, 1 ; number re- 

 maining in the school September 30, 1880, 292. 

 The average attendance during the year was 

 285f ; supported, clothed, educated, cared for 

 when sick, etc., at a total cost for the year of 

 $34,966.78, or $122.33 per capita. The inven- 

 tory of real and personal property aggregates 

 $187,228.18. The school is wholly dependent 

 for support upon the biennial appropriations 

 made by the Legislature, and is yearly proving 

 itself more and more deserving increased boun- 

 ties from the State. 



The State Reform School, to which only boys 

 are admitted, closed its twenty-fourth year 

 September 30th. The statistics following are 

 gathered from the report of the superintend- 

 ent: Inmates of school September 30, 1879, 

 307; received during year, 177; released, 168; 

 in school September 30, 1880, 216. These are 

 classified: White, 183 ; colored, 31 ; Indians, 2. 

 They were committed for the following of- 

 fenses: Grand larceny, 7; burglary, 10; as- 

 sault and battery, 15; larceny, 115; attempt 

 to murder, 1 ; vagrancy and disorderly, 29. 

 One hundred and twenty-five were natives of 

 Michigan; 93 had white American-born par- 

 ents, and 14 colored parents of American birth. 

 Twenty-six had no father, 37 no mother, and 

 11 had'lost both parents. Sixty-nine had been 

 in jail one or more times before being com- 

 mitted to the school. One hundred and twelve 

 were of Protestant parentage, 44 of Catholic, 

 and 21 could not give the religious connection 

 or preferences of parents. Exclusive of cost 

 of alterations, repairs, etc., the cost of the 

 school, including salaries of officers, teachers, 

 other employees, food, clothing, and all expenses 

 of boys, was $29,873.78, or $96 per capita. 

 The prison system has been entirely abolished, 

 and neither walls, nor cells, nor grated win- 



dows, nor degrading punishments are parts of 

 the machinery of discipline. 



The biennial report of the Board of Trustees 

 of the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb 

 shows an aggregate attendance during the two 

 years of 358, with an attendance September 

 30, 1880, of 243. This number is six in excess 

 of the number of pupils September 30, 1879, 

 notwithstanding the transfer of 38 blind pu- 

 pils to the new school for the blind, now tem- 

 porarily located at Lansing. The graduates 

 for the year ending September 30, 1880, num- 

 bered 16 deaf-mutes and 5 blind. The trustees 

 commend the administration of the new princi- 

 pal, Thomas Maclntire, Ph. D., who came to the 

 charge of the institution at the beginning of 

 the fiscal year. The total expenses of the year 

 were $46,354.34, and the earnings of the sev- 

 eral industries, $4,618.98. 



The reports of the two Insane Asylums also 

 cover a period of two years. During that pe- 

 riod, in the Michigan Asylum, at Kalamazoo, 

 935 patients received treatment ; 278 were 

 discharged 69 recovered, 121 improved, 33 

 unimproved, and 55 by death leaving under 

 treatment, September 30th, 657 patients. Since 

 the opening of this institution, 3,164 patients 

 have been treated, and, as the statistics of so 

 long a period may be professionally important, 

 the following table is appended : 



During the same period the Eastern Asylum 

 at Pontiac received 363 patients and treated 

 669. The number discharged from the insti- 

 tution was : Eecovered, 54 ; improved, 79 ; un- 

 improved, 40 ; died, 51 ; not insane, 2. Re- 

 maining under treatment September 30, 1880: 

 Males, 231 ; females, 212 ; total, 443. The med- 

 ical superintendent says that the number of 

 recovered seems small, but claims as the reason 

 the extreme care which has been exercised in 



