NEW JERSEY. 



637 



356. Of this number 58 were returned to rela- 

 tives arid friends ; 21 were put out to farmers ; 

 5 escaped ; 2 died; and 4 otherwise disposed 

 of; total, 90. The number remaining in the 

 institution on the 31st of October was 266. Of 

 the number committed during the year, 13 were 

 over the age fixed by the law, and 15 were for 

 minor offenses, such as vagrancy, truancy, and 

 incorrigibility. The financial statement shows 

 receipts (exclusive of balance on hand) amount- 

 ing to $50,722.07, of which $33,000 were from 

 the State; $15,492.16 from the labor of the 

 boys on various contracts; $1,978.82 from 

 produce, material, and stock sold ; and $251.09 

 from miscellaneous sources. The disbursements 

 were $56,392.24, of which $40,835.07 were for 

 salaries, provisions, labor, fuel, clothing, and 

 other expenses for the support of the institu- 

 tion; $11,459.67 for machinery, farm imple- 

 ments, boilers and boiler-house, pumps and fire 

 apparatus, furniture, repairs and improvements 

 to buildings, and labor and machinery at brick- 

 yard ; and $4,097.50 for new barns. The health 

 of the institution has been unusually good. The 

 farm has been worked at a profit of nearly $5,- 

 000. The brick-yard turned out 460,000 bricks 

 and 18,000 drain tiles. The shirt manufactory 

 and laundry, in which the labor of the boys is 

 hired out, produced an income of $15,492.16. 



The number of pupils in the Industrial School 

 for Girls at the beginning of the year was 41 ; 

 receive 1, 9; total, 50. Of this number 15 were 

 indentured, 5 discharged, and 5 were returned to 

 their relatives leaving 25 at the close of the 

 year. The payment made by the State was 

 $3,000, which, with other receipts, amounted 

 to $6,692.72. Of this amount, $6,200.40 was 

 expended, leaving a balance of $492.32. 



The amount raised by the two-mill tax for 

 public schools was $1,322,740, an increase of 

 $304,955.32 over that of last year; and the 

 number of pupils enrolled was 203,542, a de- 

 crease of 11,419 from that of the previous year. 



There were during the year 236 pupils in the 

 Normal School, and the last graduating class 

 numbered 50 persons, nearly all of whom found 

 immediate employment in schools throughout 

 the State. The amount paid by the State dur- 

 ing the last year on account of the institu- 

 tion was $16,056.24 $15,000 for support and 

 $1,056.24 for repairs. 



The care of the insane in the State is in- 

 trusted to the State institutions at Trenton and 

 Morristown, and to the county asylums in the 

 counties of Essex, Hudson, Burlington, Oamden, 

 Passaic, and Cumberland. For the support of 

 its insane the State pays $1 per week for each 

 county patient in the State and county asylums, 

 and $7 per week for each convict patient in the 

 State asylums. Each county pays $3 per week 

 for each patient sent from it. These two pay- 

 ments are the principal sources of revenue of 

 the State institutions. 



The report of the managers of the Trenton 

 asylum shows that there were at the beginning 

 of the present fiscal year 550 patients under 



treatment in that institution; 157 were ad- 

 mitted, making the total number under treat- 

 ment 707 ; 130 were discharged or died, leaving 

 577 at the close of the year, of whom 461 are 

 county, 36 State, and about 80 private patients. 

 This number is as large as can be properly cared 

 for and treated in the institution. The State 

 patients are such as have been, after the com- 

 mission of a crime, either declared innocent on 

 the ground of insanity, or have become insane 

 during the term of punishment. The man- 

 agers renew their protest against the confine- 

 ment of this class of patients in this asylum, 

 because of the want of room for their classifi- 

 cation, owing to the crowded condition of 

 the institution, and becaxise they are unable to 

 make proper provision for the double duty of 

 guarding them as prisoners and caring for them 

 as patients. Of the 59 patients of this class 

 which have been sent to the asylum, 7 have 

 escaped, 8 have died, and 8 have been dis- 

 charged as recovered, feigning insanity, etc. 

 The inventory shows property of the value of 

 $114,300, an increase of $5,314. There was 

 paid from the State Treasury for the support of 

 the institution during 1881 $44,084.26, of which 

 $22,721.56 was for county patients; $13,974.70 

 for insane convicts ; $7,200 for salaries, and 

 $188 for appraisement of property and fees of 

 experts in determining insanity. 



The Morristown asylum contained at the 

 beginning of the fiscal year 586 patients; 187 

 were admitted, making the total number under 

 treatment 773 ; of these 132 were discharged or 

 died, leaving in the institution at the close of 

 the year 641 patients, of whom 517 are county 

 patients and 124 private patients. The an- 

 nual inventory shows property of the value of 

 $99,473.14, an increase of $749.98 over 1880. 

 There was paid from the State Treasury to this 

 institution during 1881, $35,422.16, of which 

 $25,693.13 was for county patients, $9,450 for 

 salaries, and $279.03 for expenses of appraise- 

 ment and of the managers. 



Of the several county asylums no knowledge 

 is had except as to the number of patients for 

 whom the State is called upon to pay one dol- 

 lar per week under the act of April 4, 1873. 

 The amount paid to these institutions during 

 the year was $41,329.28, a part of which, how- 

 ever, was for previous years for which no bills 

 had been presented. The number of patients 

 in the several institutions, at the date of their 

 last bill presented to the Comptroller, was as 

 follows: Essex, 803; Hudson, 217; Burlington, 

 67 ; Camden, 74; Passaic, 31 ; Cumberland, 71 ; 

 a total of 763. How these patients are admit- 

 ted, how cared for and treated, and how dis- 

 charged, are matters about which the State 

 authorities have neither any knowledge nor 

 the means of securing any. 



The State provides for the care and instruc- 

 tion of its unfortunate classes in the institu- 

 tions of other States. The number of New 

 Jersey pupils upon the rolls of the several in- 

 stitutions, and the amounts which they were 



