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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



NEW JERSEY. 



an early and unanimous passage. Suitable text- 

 books are now provided for school use. By 

 another legislative act, towns and districts were 

 authorized to adopt a provision to supply text- 

 books free for the use of their schools, and es- 

 tablish regulations therefor. The act has been 

 accepted by some cities and towns. The Nor- 

 mal School, in operation since 1870, graduated 

 twenty-one teachers in 1883. It has never been 

 more successfully conducted than in the past 

 year. Three hundred and forty-two graduates 

 of normal schools have been employed in 148 

 towns the past year. 



State Charities. At the Asylum for Insane 

 341 patients were admitted during the year ; 

 18 were discharged as recovered ; 41 were im- 

 proved, and 308 remained at date of report. 

 A new building for female patients was fin- 

 ished and occupied. It has roomy apartments, 

 affords accommodations for 30 patients, and is. 

 one of the best designed buildings in the coun- 

 try. About 300 persons are cared for by the 

 several counties, which have enlarged and im- 

 proved facilities for keeping their insane poor. 

 New Hampshire keeps, as its beneficiaries, in 

 institutions of other States, indigent persons 

 of other unfortunate classes, namely, 20 deaf 

 and dumb at the American Asylum, Hartford, 

 Conn. ; 2 at the Clarke Institute, Northamp- 

 ton, Mass. ; 2 at the Horace Mann School, Bos- 

 ton ; 10 at the Perkins Institution for the 

 Blind, South Boston ; and 3 at the Massachu- 

 setts School for the Feeble-minded. She pays 

 $175 per capita for the education of her deaf- 

 mutes. 



Industrial School. The twenty-sixth annual 

 report of the State Industrial School for the 

 Correction of Wayward Youth gives the num- 

 ber admitted since its organization as 1,164 ; 

 number the past year, 142. Most of the in- 

 mates learn to read and write quite well, and 

 solve simple problems in arithmetic correctly. 

 The boys are placed at some kind of employ- 

 ment some in the bakery and cook-room, 

 some at farming, teaming, gardening, shoemak- 

 ing, printing, and seating chairs, and the girls 

 are taught general house-work. 



State Prison. The whole number of convicts 

 is 140. Good order and good health among 

 them have marked the year. No escapes have 

 been made in fourteen years. Earnings re- 

 ported June, 1884, $16,807.36 ; disbursements, 

 $19,172.57 ; deficit, $2,365.21. By the failure 

 of the labor contractor, the inmates were idle 

 two months, or the prison would have been 

 self-supporting. A new tenement-house, sta- 

 ble, wood-shed, and front fence have recently 

 been built. 



Board of Health. The third annual report, 

 1884, gives a synopsis of experience resulting 

 from a close and constant labor in this field. 

 A valuable sanitary work is being accomplished, 

 which is manifest in all sections of the State. 

 Sanitary laws were passed in 1883 to regulate 

 the sale and inspection of milk ; drainage of 

 land ; teaching physiology and hygiene in the 



common schools; penalty in" certain cases of 

 nuisance; relating to sidewalks and sewers; 

 coasting in the public streets ; better registra- 

 tion of births, marriages, and deaths ; and pro- 

 viding for the support of minor children. 

 These aid the board in inculcating such meas- 

 ures of careful living as will insure greater 

 health and longevity to the people. Much at- 

 tention has been given to the subject of im- 

 pure drinking-water from polluted wells, and 

 to the inspection of public and charitable in- 

 stitutions. Imperfect returns made to the sec- 

 retary, to March 31, 1883, give the number of 

 births in the State as 6,150 ; marriages, 3,495 

 couples; deaths, 5,421. 



Longevity. By the census of 1880, it is 

 shown that of the persons in the State eighty 

 to eighty-four years old, both inclusive, there 

 were males, 1,340; females, 1,777; eighty- 

 five to eighty-nine years males, 475 ; females, 

 725 ; ninety to ninety-four years males, 112; 

 females, 192 ; ninety-five to ninety-nine years 

 males, 16 ; females, 46 ; one hundred years 

 and upward males, 4 ; females, 7 ; total, 

 eighty years and upward, 4,694. This total 

 shows that one person in every 73 '9 reaches 

 and passes fourscore years. Of the native 

 white males, the average is one in every 80'8; 

 of native white females, one in every 58-4. In 

 comparison, the average in Vermont is one in 

 81-4 of the population: Maine, one in 89'5; 

 Connecticut, one in HO'l ; Massachusetts, one 

 in 131-8 ; Rhode Island, one in 134-6 ; New 

 York, one in 161-5 ; Pennsylvania, one in 206*5 ; 

 New Jersey, one in 208-0. 



By the census of 1880, the total of births 

 given was 6,141 ; total deaths, of all ages 

 males, 2,769 ; females, 2,815 ; total, 5,584 ; ex- 

 cess of births over deaths, 557. 



NEW JERSEY. State Government. Th e follow- 

 ing were the State officers during the ye* 

 Governor, Leon Abbett, Democrat; Seer 

 tary of State, Henry C. Kelsey ; Treasurer, 

 George M. Wright; Comptroller, Edward J. 

 Anderson; Attorney-General, John P. Stock- 

 ton; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Ellis P. Apgar ; Chancellor, Theodore Runyon ; 

 Vice-Chancellors, Abraham V. Van Fleet and 

 John T. Bird; Chief-Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, Mercer Beasley; Associate Justices, 

 Manning M. Knapp, Edward W. Scudder, Ben- 

 net Vansyckel, David A. Depue, Alfred Reed, 

 Jonathan Dixon, Joel Parker, William J. Magie. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature met on 

 January 8, and adjourned at the end of April. 

 The following are among the acts passed : 



A civil-rights bill ; giving electric light and power 

 companies power to erect poles, etc., on public roads, 

 also to lay pipes under-ground ; concerning incorpo- 

 rated towns and certain officers thereof^ denning their 

 powers ; requiring election officers of primary elections 

 to take oath that they have carried out the act relative 

 to bribery, etc. ; to authorize the burial of the bodies 

 of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor, or ma- 

 rine, who shall hereafter die without leaving means 

 sufficient to defray funeral expenses ; for the preser- 

 vation of the health of female employe's employed in 

 manufacturing, mechanical, and mercantile establish- 



