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CONNECTICUT. 



For the year 1873, thirty -four life and cas- 

 ualty insurance companies are authorized to 

 transact business in Connecticut, their gross 

 asset* amounting, in the aggregate, to $264,- 

 893.070.80. 



The fire-insurance companies doing business 

 in the State at the beginning of 1873 num- 

 bered ninety -eight; of which twenty -seven 

 were Connecticut companies, sixty-three in- 

 corporated by other States, and eight foreign 



The gross premium receipts of these com- 

 panies, on risks written in Connecticut during 

 the year 1872, were $1,682,449.68 ; the losses 

 incurred within that period, $535,433.84; 

 showing the receipts to have been more than 

 three times as large as the losses. About the 

 same ratio was obtained in the previous year. 



The aggregate amount of risks written in 

 Connecticut during the year was $147,717,429. 



Of the companies chartered in other States 

 and allowed to do business in Connecticut, 

 twenty-eight were admitted in 1872, and the 

 number of those suspended or withdrawn, 

 during the same year, was seventeen. 



An account of the condition of the various 

 companies in operation at the time of the re- 

 port is given by the commissioner, a summary 

 of which is as follows : " The aggregate cash 

 capital, December 81, 1872, of the stock com- 

 panies transacting business in the State, was 

 $26,292.010, against $26,021,010 the year be- 

 fore. The gross assets of the American and 

 foreign companies were $70.831,292.17, against 

 $66,428,218.27 the year before. The gross lia- 

 bilities, exclusive of capital, are $39,468,425.19, 

 and inclusive of capital, $65,760.435.19, leav- 

 ing an aggregate net surplus of $6,017,846.86, 

 and surplus, as regards policy-holders, of $81,- 

 429,019.58, which amply guarantees all out- 

 standing risks under ordinary circumstances. 



' The aggregate premium income was $48,- 

 869,894.85; income from all other sources (ex- 

 cept assessments on stockholders), $4,768,- 

 831.52; total income, $53,633,526.87. The 

 aggregate loss payments were $41,652,817.81 ; 

 expenditures for all other purposes, $15,652,- 

 518.70; total expenditures, $57,304,829.51, an 

 excess of expenditures over income of $8,671,- 

 108.14, which represents the expense to net 

 surplus accumulations and capital stock (not 

 to speak of the loss of dividends) at which 

 the business has been conducted during the 

 year covered by the report. 



' The fire risks in force at the close of the 

 year are reported nt $4.029,021,651, against 

 $8,418,583,601, reported by companies ropr.- 

 cnted in the last report, nn increase of the 

 amount at risk of $610,438,050. The marine 

 an>l inland risks in force aggregated $36,480,- 

 761.15, against $41,422,402.78 reported at the 

 close of 1871, a decrease of $4,941,241 .on. 

 The flro riks written during 1872 are reported 

 at $4.698,696,851, against $8,486,466,748 re- 

 ported for the j.rr.-..ding rear, an increase of 

 $1.107,130,608. In the above summaries the 



business of the home mutuals is not included. 

 The gross cash assets of those companies ag- 

 gregate $620,694.39 ; premium notes and liens, 

 in various forms, subject to assessment, $4,- 

 893,629. The risks written during the year 

 aggregate $20,250,999. Cash premiums re- 

 ceived thereon, $151,078.68; average premium 

 rate, .74. Whole amount at risk as reported, 

 $13,446,098.52. Ten of these companies re- 

 port losses during the year aggregating $65,- 

 043.48." 



The expenditures for the public schools in 

 1872 amounted, in the aggregate, to $1,528,- 

 440.07; of which $1,127,717.67 was raised by 

 town and district taxation. The school-fund 

 contributed to this expense by paying $132,- 

 924, the per capita dividend at the usual rate 

 of one dollar for each child of school age in 

 the State. Thirteen thousand five hundred 

 and twelve children did not attend any school 

 during the year 1872. The number of chil- 

 dren between four and sixteen years of ago in 

 January, 1873, was 132,94:!. 



In the General Hospital for the Insane, at 

 Middlotown, there were 271 patients under 

 treatment, their daily average during the year 

 having been 264. The number of those admit- 

 ted within that period was 74, and of the dis- 

 charged, 65. The applications for admission 

 were 190. 



There were twenty deaths in the hospital 

 during the year, several patients having dii-d 

 almost immediately after their admission. 



Many among the male patients are made to 

 work on the farm connected with the hospital, 

 which labor is reported to prove beneficial to 

 them, and help to hasten the recovery of their 

 sanity. 



The receipts of this institution during tho 

 year amounted to $88,623.75; which was suf- 

 ficient to cover all its current expense.*, and 

 leave a surplus on hand of $1,811.82. 



Of the insane under treatment in the hospi- 

 tal last year, they being classified as tho law 

 provides, there were 217 pauper patients, 98 

 indigent patients, 12 private patients, ami '.* 

 insane convicts. 



In tho School for Imbeciles nt Lakeville 

 there were last year 61 pupils; which num- 

 ber, by tho beginning of May, 1873, had been 

 reduced to 50. Twenty among these v ere 

 State beneficiaries, 17 among them being 

 orphans. 



At tho Hartford Hospital, 281 males ami M) 

 females were admitted ; 436 patients were 

 under treatment. The daily average of pa- 

 tients was 69. There were 206 recoveries. 

 and 55 deaths. Nine patients, all males, died 

 of injuries received by accidents. The aver- 

 age stay of patients in the hospital was eight 

 ( eks, and the cost $6.70 a week. The receipts 

 were $3.81 a week each. 



Tho report intimates that tho hospital is 

 filling so fast that persons with no other in- 

 firmity but age must soon be excluded from it. 



The American Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, 



