NEW YORK. 



613 



$1,162,537.58. The number of co-operative 

 insurance companies transacting business in 

 the State on the 1st day of January was 115, 

 having 325,524 certificates in force, of which 

 90,219 were written during the year 1881. 

 Within the last-mentioned year 28,274 certifi- 

 cates terminated, and losses to the amount of 

 $4,742,090 were paid by this class of insurance 

 organizations. During the year 1882 there was 

 organized under the general insurance laws of 

 the State one mutual fire-insurance company, 

 with a paid-up cash contribution of $200,000, 

 and one plate-glass insurance company, with a 

 paid-up capital of $100,000. Eight fire-insur- 

 ance companies, four organized in other States 

 and four foreign companies, were during the 

 year admitted to transact business in the State, 

 with total assets amounting to $3,220,464.36, 

 and liabilities, including capital stock, amount- 

 ing to $1,554,788.42. Thirteen fire, two life, 

 and two marine insurance companies, have 

 ceased to do business in this State during the 

 year. 



On the 1st day of July, 1882, the amount of 

 securities, for the protection of policy-holders 

 insured by the various insurance companies 

 transacting business in the State, held on de- 

 posit in the Insurance Department, as required 

 by law, was $13,594,749.30, classified as fol- 

 lows: 



New York State life-insurance companies $2,852,097 36 



New York casualty-insurance companies 201,509 95 



New York fire-insurance companies 1,653,000 00 



Fire-insurance companies of other States 20,100 00 



Foreign insurance companies 8,868,041 99 



Total $13,594,749 30 



The value of the property held by the va- 

 rious charitable institutions, on the 30th day of 

 September, was $41,103,809.54, of which $33,- 

 501,605.36 was real estate, and $7,602,304.18 

 personal property. The receipts of these in- 

 stitutions during the last fiscal year were $10,- 

 186,810.91, derived from the following sources : 



State of New York $719,302 40 



Cities and counties 4,236,130 00 



Paying inmates 871,017 13 



Invested funds 397,074 90 



Donations 1,283,876 59 



Loans 855,943 00 



Labor of inmates 68,747 05 



All other sources 2,760,620 84 



Total $10,186,810 91 



The expenditures during the same period 

 were as follow : 



State institutions $1,482,819 84 



County and city institutions 2,340,806 55 



Incorporated benevolent institutions 5.891,439 23 



The number of State paupers in the various institu- 

 tions September 30, 1881, was 164 



Committed during the year ending September 30, 1882. 1,392 



Total. 



During the same period the number of deaths 

 Discharged'.'.'. '.'.'.'.'.'. 1,350 



1,556 



43 



Under care October 1, 1882. . . 



1,388 

 ~163 



Of the number reported as discharged, 778 

 were furnished transportation to their homes 



in other States and countries, or to their places 

 of legal settlement. 



Forty-eight lunatic, idiotic, crippled, blind, 

 and otherwise disabled alien paupers, were 

 sent back to the countries whence they came 

 by the State Board of Charities during the 

 year. 



The number of insane in the various insti- 

 tutions on the 30th day of September was 

 10,443, distributed as follows : 



In State institutions 8,105 



In county poor-houses and asylums 1,995 



In city almshouses and city asylums 4,739 



In private asylums 503 



In the Asylum for Insane Convicts at Auburn 141 



Total 10,483 



Of the insane in the State institutions, 2,022 

 were confined in the Willard and Bingham- 

 ton Asylums, they being entirely of the chronic 

 class. The number of insane persons in the 

 several institutions, as given above, is 384 in 

 excess of that reported at the close of the pre- 

 vious year. 



The earnings and expenditures of the sev- 

 eral State- Prisons during the year ending Sep- 

 tember 30th were as follow : 



AUBURN. 



Earnings $120,234 16 



Expenses 122,926 48 



Deficiency $2,692 27 



CLINTON. 



Earnings $60,361 59 



Expenses 99,606 47 



Deficiency $39,244 88 



SING BING. 



Earnings $241,321 98 



Expenses 198,127 20 



Surplus $48,194 73 



The total earnings of the three prisons were 

 $6,257.58 in excess of their expenses. On the 

 30th day of September the number of convicts 

 confined in Sing Sing Prison was 1,526, while 

 Auburn contained 912, and Clinton 499. The 

 Asylum for Insane convicts at Auburn contained 

 141 inmates, of which nine were women. 



The public-school statistics for the year end- 

 ing September 30th are as follow : 



Total receipts, including balance on hand Octo- 

 ber 1, 1881 $1 2,543,446 34 



Total expenditures 11,181,986 55 



Amount paid for teachers 1 wages 7,986,383 96 



Amount paid for school-houses, repairs, furni- 

 ture, etc 1,525,578 26 



Estimated value of school-houses and sites. . . 30,333,641 00 

 Number of teachers employed for the legal term 



of school 



Number of teachers employed during any por- 

 tion of the year 



Number of children attending public schools 1,041,089 



Number of persons attending normal schools 6,156 



Number of volumes in school-district libraries 705,812 



Number of persons in the State between the ages 

 of five and twenty-one years 1,681,113 



The number of children attending public 

 schools during the last fiscal year was 19,807 

 in excess of the number reported the year 

 previous. 



The number of immigrants landed at Castle 

 Garden during the year was about 460,000, 

 being the largest number landed in any year 



