MICHIGAN. 



GENERAL. treatment September 30, 1879, 390 ; average 



Whole number of school districts 6,243 number under treatment, 8484 ; average cost 



Whole number of children between five and ^^v t a, A AK s 



twenty years 486,933 per week per patient, $4.05. 



Whole nnmber of children attending public The number of insane in the two asylums at 



Pe'Xeofattendance::::::::::::::::::::: TS ? e ? l . f th fiscal vear was 9 . 71 ? numb <* 



Whole number of teachers employed 18,616 treated during the year, 1,207 ; estimated num- 



Totai wages of teachers . . $1,880,945 24 ber of insane in the State, 1,700. 



Average wages of male teachers per month $8869 rpi , ,. .. f , ~ I 



Average wages of female teachers per month. . $*3 48 ine Statistics lor the nscal year of the Insti- 



Whoie numberof schooihouses 6,325 tution for the Deaf and the Blind at Flint are* 



Whole number of sittings in schoolhouses 441,2al NYimhftr r>f -nnnila 9*1 1 Q>7 nl Qa " 



Estimated value of school property $9,011,45400 ^ umo er Ol pupils, 251137 males and 114 



Whole number of volumes in libraries 254,188 females, 204 deaf-mutes and 47 blind; gradu- 



FINANCIAL. ? ted 1:l > a11 deaf-mutes. Number of instructor? 

 Amount of moneys brought over from preceding in educational department, 1 3 ; in industrial de- 

 year $729,744 96 partment, 9. Printing is taught to the deaf-mute 



Kec ^ ed ^Srry J -s^ooifun-d\\\\\\\\\-:: g$l g F lsa ^ boys cabinet-making and shoe-mak- 



" from non-resident scholars 34,48794 in g to tne deai-mute boys, basket- and broom- 



from district taxes 2,049,755 29 making to the blind boys, and sewing, knitting, 



from all other source, _806,406_81 fl?( j ^ ^ t? J th ' dea f. mute g and gg 



Total resources for the year $3,843,790 86 girls, who are also instructed in domestic work. 



Amount paid male teachers . $712,594 79 The f indu8tri 'es are carried on similar to school- 



" " female teachers 1,160,86526 work, to teach the pupils trades and not as a 



SS&Siaai::: Kill fil j ancial in f y estment ' J^ * he / ar Dearlv 



" " for all other purposes 497157649 sell-supporting (except the printing-office and 



Carried over to succeeding school year 779,151 93 the blind industries). Pupils in the industries 



Total expenditures, including amount car- ~ alternate with school-work, three hours in each 



ried over $3,843,79086 daily, m two divisions. The younger pupils 



Bonded indebtedness of the districts I'l^TsO ^S^ 7 ?*?!%? f S^ 001 ' 1 *' Value of 



Total indebtedness of the districts i^66!o4i 53 buildings, $375,000; volumes in library, 1,000. 



Amount due the districts 279,416 02 Disbursements of the year : Current expenses, 



The following statistics given by Dr. George $ 44 5046.68 ; special purposes, $4,528.89. Earn- 



C. Palmer, Superintendent of the Michigan 1D S 8 ( includm g those from industries, farm, 



Asylum for the Insane, are for the fiscal year g arden , etc.), $3,130.70. The institution is an 



closing September 80, 1879 : educational one, and in no sense an asylum. 



Number of patients under treatment October 1, 1878. . . . 49T 3 The State Public School for Dependent Chil- 



" received during the year 220 dren, located at Coldwater,. is designed "to 



^m^r^^gfA e ^ nS .' he . yeM ''-. 186 P rovide for a11 * he dependent children of the 



Number remaining in asylum September 80, '1879.'.'.'.'.'.'.' 681 State, whether in or out of the county poor- 



houses, who are sound in body and mind, over 



Those discharged are classified as follows: three and under twelve years of age ; to main- 

 Recovered, 40 ; improved, 72 ; unimproved, 3 ; tain and educate them while temporarily in 

 died, 21. The cost per week per capita was the school, and as soon as satisfactory homes 

 $4.58. The institution will accommodate 550 are found to place them there, under contracts 

 patients. The number under treatment at the securing good treatment as members of the 

 end of the fiscal year was 31 more than could family, and an elementary education, thus fit- 

 be comfortably provided for. ting them for good citizenship." The accom- 



Dr. Henry M. Hurd, Medical Superintendent modations are for 300 children, with their 



of the Eastern Michigan Asylum, reports as homes in separate cottages, accommodating 



follows : The asylum was authorized in 1873 from 25 to 30 each, and " presided over by 



by act of the Legislature, located at Pontiac cultivated women, who care for the children as 



in 1874, and the construction of its buildings mothers of a smaller family." In the table be- 



commenced in 1875. It was completed for the low the second column gives the statistics for 



admission of patients and formally opened the fiscal year closing September 30, 1879, and 



August 1, 1878, since which time 549 patients the third from May 25, 1874, to that date: 



have been admitted. The cost of the asylum ~~ 



buildings, grounds, furniture, fixtures, etc., has PARTICULARS. ws^re. Total. 



been $467,000. The capacity of the institution NQmber in school October j, 1878 814 



18 400. Statistics for the fiscal year : " received during year 106 



. 1 " indentured during year 135 



PApTiriTTT 4T?a iw.u P,.I. TW.I " returned to counties 18 Cl 



PARTICULARS. Male. Female. Total. absconded 



Patients October 1.1878 160 146 806 " lnt 'to' Reform' Bchool 



Patients admitted during year 103 81 184 



Whole number of patients treated 263 227 490 , , . ,, nn *9 



Discharged, recovered 14 8 22 Average number during the year, 3 05f; cost 



improved 23 19 42 o f their maintenance, $34,035.27, or $111.34 



unimproved 5 T 12 ., 



died." i 8 24 per capita. 



~ The twenty-third annual report of the State 



Total discharged, 100; remaining under Reform School at Lansing shows: Number 



