NEW YORK. 



579 



Jn State institutions 4 00 



In city and county institutions ' ' '. ' 15JQO 



In incorporated benevolent institutions '. 24*200 



Total. 



44,700 



The total number of insane persons in the 

 several State and local asylums, poor-houses, 

 and private asylums, for the years stated, was 

 as follows : 



October 1, 1880 9543 



October 1, 1879 ' g'oiS 



October 1,1 878. . ' g'771 



October 1, 1877 .'".'.'!!!.'.'.'.'!.' 7*921 



The average annual increase of insane for 

 the four years was 400 persons. The Buffalo 

 asylum, which has been so far completed as to 

 accommodate 300 patients, cost about $1,250,- 

 000, or more than $4,000 for each inmate. 



The average number of prisoners in the Clin- 

 ton, Auburn, and Sing Sing Prisons for the last 

 three years is as follows : 



1878-'79 .. 8379 



1879-'80.... 



ISSO-'Sl. 



2,970 



The earnings and expenditures of the sev- 

 eral State Prisons for the fiscal year ending 

 September 30, 1880, were as follows: 



SING SING. 



Earnings $217,028 69 



Expenses 184,277 69 



Surplus $82,751 00 



AUBURN. 



Earnings $114,925 00 



Expenses 130,103 75 



Deficiency $15,133 75 



CLINTON. 



Earnings $54.952 46 



Expenses 90,606 69 



Deficiency 35,654 23 



Total deficiency 



There were about 500 inmates at the Elmira 

 Reformatory during the year. The cost of 

 maintenance was $81,338, while the earnings 

 amounted to $62,657, leaving a deficiency of 

 $18,681. 



The organized militia or " National Guard " 

 of the State comprises six divisions, eleven bri- 

 gades, twenty-one regiments, five battalions, 

 and thirty-six separate companies of infantry, 

 eight troops of cavalry, and ten batteries of 

 artillery; in all, 18,102 officers and enlisted men. 



The number of passengers arriving at the 

 port of New York from foreign ports during 

 the year was 372,880. Of these, 327,371 were 

 aliens, and 320,607 were steerage-passengers. 

 The increase of arrivals over 1879 was 186,- 

 611. Of the total immigrant arrivals, 112,119 

 went to the Western States and 63,368 to the 

 Eastern States, while 137,561 remained in New 

 York State. The Southern States drew but 

 6,497, and Canada 1,627. The distribution of 

 immigrants in some other States was as fol- 

 lows: Illinois, 32,641 ; Wisconsin, 9,847 ; Ohio, 

 13,869; Iowa, 7,649; Minnesota, 12,640; Ne- 



braska, 4,237; Michigan, 11,303; Kansas, 3,- 

 546. The monthly arrivals of immigrants for 

 the year were as follows : January, 5,677 Feb- 

 ruary, 7,904; March, 21,094; April, 45,578; 

 May, 55,084; June, 42,027; July, 25,382; Au- 

 gust, 25,321 ; September, 26,942 ; October, 30,- 

 702; November, 18,904; December, 15,992. 

 Their nationalities were as follows: 



Germany 104,264 I Hungary. . . . ,672 



Ireland 



It costs the State about $200,000 a year to 

 attend to the needs of arriving immigrants. The 

 Board of Commissioners aid them in reaching 

 their destination and in obtaining employment 

 and care for the sick and temporarily helpless 

 at the institutions on Ward's Island, where 

 3,933 persons were received during the year. 

 There were remaining on the 1st of December 

 337 sick inmates in the hospital, 115 insane 

 in the asylum, 85 cripples and 42 children at 

 the Refuge. The Castle Garden Labor Bureau 

 found employment for 39,942 applicants during 

 the year. The Board of Commissioners has 

 incurred a debt of $353,575.88 in consequence 

 of insufficient appropriations. The United 

 States Government has been persistently urged 

 for several years to relieve the State of the 

 expense of caring for immigrants whose desti- 

 nation is the country at large rather than New 

 York. 



According to the Federal census, the State 

 has 5,082,844 inhabitants, but the table of pop- 

 ulation by counties and classification has not 

 been completed in time for insertion here. 

 The cities of the State having more than 20,- 

 000 inhabitants are the following : New York, 

 1,206,590; Brooklyn, 566,689; Buffalo, 155,- 

 137; Albany, 90,903; Rochester, 89,747; Trov, 

 56,747; Syracuse, 51,791 ; Utica, 33,913; Wa- 

 tervliet, 22,220 ; Auburn, 21,924 ; Oswego, 

 21,117; Elmira, 20,541; Poughkeepsie, 20,207. 

 According to a report of the Census Bureau, 

 prepared by Robert Porter, the total valuation 

 of property in the State is $2,679,139,133, of 

 which $2,326,669,813 is for real estate, and 

 $352,469,320 for personal property. The same 

 authority gives the aggregate of the bonded 

 debt of counties as $11,601,675.09 ; floating 

 debt of counties, $786,634.71 ; bonded debt 

 of cities of 7,500 inhabitants and more, $208,- 

 787,710.33 ; floating debt of the same, $7,076,- 

 868.59 ; bonded debt of cities, villages, etc., of 

 less than 7,500 inhabitants, $1,781,950.95; float- 

 ing debt of the same, $29.771.55 ; bonded debt 

 of towns, $18,601,930.93 ; floating debt of 

 towns, $100,576.72; grand total of local in- 

 debtedness exclusive of school districts, $248,- 

 766,118.87. The amount of taxation is pre- 

 sented as follows: State, $4,940,600.18 ; coun- 

 ty, $6,204,517.24; cities of 7,500 inhabitants 



