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epileptics, males, 217; females, 200. Number 

 of idiotic, males, 256; females, 223. Total 

 current expenses of infirmaries, exclusive of 

 farm products, for the year, $484,817.54. To- 

 tal value of farm products for the year, $157,- 

 781.60. The auditors of seventy-four counties 

 report amount expended for out-door relief 

 during the year ending September 1, 1878, 

 $221,078.49 ; of this sum paid for physicians' 

 fees, $37,844.39; per diem and expenses of 

 township trustees, in connection with poor 

 relief, $1,268.51 ; for supplies, food, clothing, 

 fuel, etc., $102,409.21. The sheriffs of seventy- 

 nine counties report : Total number of prison- 

 ers for the year ending June 30, 1878, 7,719 ; 

 number sentenced to jail, 1,727; number held 

 for trial, 3,881 ; number detained as witnesses, 

 92; number insane, 263; epileptic, 64; num- 

 ber under sixteen years of age, 326 ; number 

 of prisoners in jail January 1, 1878, 504; num- 

 ber of prisoners in jail June 30, 1878, 509; 

 total cost of keeping prisoners, for the year, 

 $76,662.91 ; number of escapes during the year, 

 74. Statistics of operations of the State insti- 

 tutions are as follows : Average number of in- 

 mates: Athens Asylum, 571 ; Cleveland Asy- 

 lum, 581 ; Dayton Asylum, 492 ; Longview, 

 660; Toledo, total for year, 137; Columbus, 

 total for year, 1,226. Institutions at Colum- 

 bus: Deaf and Dumb, 437 inmates, $94,224.73 

 current expenses. Blind, 156 inmates, $42,- 

 094.15 current expenses. Imbeciles, $78,470- 

 .27 current expenses. Penitentiary, average of 

 inmates, 1,669; current expenses, $201,113.84. 

 Current expenses of asylums for the insane : 

 Athens, $103,331.75; Cleveland, $95,764.12; 

 Columbus, $199,091; Dayton, $87,000; Long- 

 view, $90,127.64; Toledo, $18,200. Per capita 

 of expenses in asylums for the insane : Athens 

 (reorganized), $180.97 ; Cleveland, $157.62 ; 

 Columbus (reorganized), about $200 ; Dayton 

 (reorganized), $176.80 ; Lagrange, $137.12 ; 

 Toledo (reorganized), $182. Cleveland is the 

 only State asylum retained under the former 

 Superintendent, and shows much the lowest 

 per capita expense, $157.62, or about three 

 dollars a week. Reform school for boys 521 

 inmates, $54,280.54 current expenses. 



The State Commissioner of Common Schools 

 reports there were 1,018,789 white youth in 

 the schools in 1878, an increase of 14,644 over 

 the year 1877. The number of colored youth 

 of school age was 23,174, an increase over 1877 

 of 71. There are 10,769 township districts and 

 657 city, village, and special districts. There 

 were 481 school-houses erected in 1878, a de- 

 crease of nine over the year before. There are 

 now in the State 11,979 school-houses, valued 

 at $21,329,864. There are employed in the 

 schools 23,391 teachers, of whom 12,292 are 

 women and 11,099 men. There is an increase 

 in the number of teachers of 1878 over 1877 of 

 388. The percentage of daily attendance on 

 enrollment in the State in 1878 was 64-16. 



The total number of volumes now in the 

 State Library is 46,002, making it the largest 



State Library in the United States, that of 

 New York alone excepted. The new State of 

 California, however, is rapidly gaining on 

 Ohio, and at the present rate will overtake 

 her. Over 30,000 persons have visited the li- 

 brary during the year. 



The report for 1878 of the Bureau of Labor 

 Statistics says the labors of the Bureau during 

 the year have, as during the previous year, 

 been devoted principally to ascertaining the 

 actual condition of the wage-laborers through- 

 out the State. The Commissioner proceeds to 

 say that there are a large number of idle men 

 in the State, men able to work and anxious to 

 secure employment. This is made evident by 

 the returns of employers to the Bureau. In 

 nearly every industry a majority of the estab- 

 lishments in operation in 1872-73 report in 

 1878 a decrease of employees as compared 

 with the years first named. Of the number 

 reported as employed, a large proportion have 

 not employment fifty weeks in the year. From 

 the returns received, which gave the weeks em- 

 ployed, it has been ascertained that out of 22,- 

 600 employees 11,442 were employed fifty or 

 more weeks, the balance having employment as 

 follows : 1,563, 48 to 49 weeks ; 823, 46 to 47 ; 

 868, 44 to 45; 1,360, 42 to 43 ; 1,330, 40 to 41 ; 

 313, 38 to 39; 519, 36 to 37; 1,953, 30 to 35; 

 2,479, less than 80. No strikes of any magni- 

 tude occurred during the year, but the Com- 

 missioner does not think this state of affairs 

 due to the acquiescence of workmen in the 

 present condition of affairs, but rather to the 

 inability of the discontented to maintain 

 strikes. 



The Adjutant - General's report exhibits a 

 marked improvement in the tone and condi- 

 tion of the military service of the State. The 

 report shows the present aggregate active 

 force, incompletely uniformed, armed, and 

 equipped, to be 8,503 men, against the grand 

 aggregate shown by the report of 1877 to be 

 8,737. The present system contemplates an 

 army of 20,000 soldiers, equal in number to 

 the militia force of the State of New York, 

 which is the largest and most complete in the 

 Union, while Ohio has but little more than 

 half the population from which to subsist. It 

 is suggested by the Adjutant -General that the 

 numerical strength of the State troops should 

 not exceed 10,000 men rank and file; that this 

 number, properly clothed, armed, and equipped, 

 would be equal to any emergency likely to 

 arise. 



On the 1st of December, 1877, the lessees 

 of the public works of the State abandoned 

 their contract of lease, and for eleven days the 

 works were without responsible supervision. 

 By an arrangement between the lessees and 

 the Board of Public Works, a suit was com- 

 menced in the Superior Court of Montgomery 

 County (decided adversely to the State), to 

 determine certain legal questions connected 

 with the abandonment of the lease. Under 

 this arrangement, the public works were taken 



