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MASSACHUSETTS. 



1868. 1869. 



Assessors' aggregates of real 



and personaf property $1,220,305,939 $1,341,169,403 



Savings-banks deposits 94,838,336 112,119,016 



Taxable excess of corporations 92,326,758 95,167,745 



Total... . . .$1,407,471,033 $1,548,456,164 



Increase in 1869 140,985,134 



The principal items of the Tax Commis- 

 sioner's report are the following : 



Amount of tax assessed on general list $1,477,003 



Amount assessed on oil companies, etc lo,yii 



Total $1,492,914 



Taxes of 1869 paid 

 Taxes of former years paid 

 Remaining unpaid of taxes of former years. 

 1868. 



Value of real estate and machi- 



Excess'on which a tax was' laid. 92^326,758 

 Whole number of corporations taxable.. .. 



On general list 



Oil companies, etc 



Made returns 



Authorized increase of corporate capital by 



special act 

 r ndei 



Under general laws 



Reductions 



Net increase 



56,708 

 1869. 



$193,742,799 



100,801,756 

 95,167,725 

 1,261 

 1,084 

 1797 

 103 



$96,610,000 

 6,804,365 

 1,278,000 



$75,136,365 



The State Reform School is doing a noble 

 work in the redemption of boys from the 

 paths of vice, and fitting them for lives of use- 

 fulness. The report of the superintendent 

 shows the number of boys in the school, Sep- 

 tember 30, 1868, to have been 321 ; number 

 received during the year, 167 ; whole number, 

 in school during the year, 488. There were 

 apprenticed, released, discharged, etc., 193, 

 leaving in school, September 30, 1869, 295. 

 The total receipts of the school were $75,- 

 364.73; the expenses were $56,901.59. 



The Massachusetts School for Idiotic and 

 Feeble-minded Youths is too small for the de- 

 mands upon it. The whole number of in- 

 mates at the close of the last year was 85. 

 Since then 23 have been admitted, 17 have 

 been discharged, four have died, and the present 

 number is 87. The whole number treated has 

 been 108. Seventeen have been discharged, 

 and, among these, four are already known as 

 doing so well that they can earn their liveli- 

 hood. The new wing has been entirely com- 

 pleted during the year, and proves to be very 

 convenient and advantageous in all respects. 

 The superintendent of the State Almshouse at 

 Tewksbury reports the whole number sup- 

 ported during the year to have been 2,140 

 The actual average weekly number supported 

 is 710, at a gross cost of $78,331.19 which is 

 $2.12 for the support of each one of the 710 

 persons, per week. It must be understood 

 that this amount covers the entire cash expen- 

 diture for all purposes for the year. 



The report of the Inspector of the State 

 Almshouse and Primary School at Monson 

 shows that at the time of the last report the 

 number of inmates of the institution was 137; 

 admitted during the year, 756 total, 893. 

 The number of children actually attending 

 school at the present time is 285, of whom 226 



are boys and 59 girls. The average age of 

 pupils has been nine years, and the average 

 days of attendance for each has been 130. 

 The superintendent of the institution says : 

 " Dividing the actual amount drawn from the 

 treasury of the Commonwealth, $45,663.11, 

 by the average number of inmates, 500, gives 

 an annual cost of $91.32, and a weekly cost of 

 $1.75 for each inmate." 



Dividing the current expenses, minus the 

 increase of the personal assets, $3,379.35, we 

 have the annual cost, $84.56, and the weekly 

 cost, $1.62. If to the current expenses be 

 added the extraordinary expenses, $4,563.79, 

 and the balance of the special appropriation 

 expended, $3,047.77, the weekly cost will be 

 $2.05 against $3.34 for the last year, made on 

 the same basis. Whole number of deaths 

 since the opening of the institution : males, 

 523 ; females, 485 total, 1,008. 



The inspectors state that the whole number 

 of inmates of the State Almshouse and Work- 

 house at Bridgewater was unusually small dur- 

 ing the year. At the date of the report the 

 following was the condition of the institutions : 



Whole number in the almshouse 81 



Whole number in the workhouse 283 



By the superintendent's statement it is as- 

 certained that 



The total current expenses were $35,511 88 



Eeceipts from State Treasury 35,511 88 



" labor of inmates 4,97385 



" farm sales 726 23 



From the report of the superintendent of 

 the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester, it ap- 

 pears that 337 patients were admitted during 

 the year just closed, of whom 171 were males 

 and 166 were females. 



At the close of the previous year there 

 were 382 patients remaining in the hospital, 

 of whom 188 were males and 194 were females ; 

 so that there were 719 persons under treat- 

 ment in the course of the year, of whom 359 

 were males and 360 were females. 



The number of patients discharged was 343, 

 of whom 169 were males and 174 were females. 

 Of the 343 patients discharged, 149 were re- 

 stored to their usual health of body and mind, 

 136 were improved, many of them so much so 

 as to be able to return to their ordinary duties, 

 and 11 were discharged as not improved. 



The trustees state that on the 30th of Sep- 

 tember, 1868, the number of patients in the 

 State Lunatic Hospital, at Northampton, was 

 421. In the course of the official year 169 

 have been admitted; 163 have been dis- 

 charged; and 25 have died; leaving 402 in 

 the house at the present time. The largest 

 number on any day was 422 ; the smallest, 389 ; 

 and the daily average for the year, 405.- This 

 average is larger than in any foregoing year 

 except the next preceding. The superintend- 

 ent thus gives the condition of the patients 

 discharged: recovered, 49 ; improved, 51; un- 

 improved, 63 ; died, 25 total, 188. 



The statistical tables of the warden of the 

 State Prison show a steady increase in the 





