786 



UNITED STATES CENSUS. 



* Exclusive of prisons, almshouses, hospitals for the insane, and schools for the deaf, the blind, and the feeble- 

 minded. 



t Includes all persons of negro descent. 



negroes, 658. The number of insane admitted to 

 public, institutions from 1881 to 1889, inclusive, was 

 190,458 ; males, 104,748 ; females, 84,485. The num- 

 ber treated was 227,461. The total expenditures 

 for the same time were $100,258,606 ; current, $76,- 

 599.259; building, $18,520,547: unspecified, $5,138,- 

 800. The number of insane admitted to private in- 

 stitutions from 1881 to 1889. inclusive, was 13,833 ; 

 males, 6,894 ; females, 6,939. Of the 74,028 insane 



in institutions on June 1, 1890, the information as 

 to whether they could read or write was not given 

 for 8,963. Of "the remaining 65.065, 51,362, or 789 

 per 1,000. could both read and write : 1,684, or 26 

 per 1,000, could read but could not write; and 11,- 

 833, or 182 per 1,000, could neither read not write. 



Feeble-minded. The total number of feeble- 

 minded whites. 1890, was 84,997 ; negroes. 10,574 ; 

 Chinese, Japanese, and civilized Indians, 38. The 



