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female teachers, with 1,999 male and 1,279 

 female students. The value of these buildings, 

 apparatus, and grounds, is $853,800. In these 

 are 2,550 students of New Hampshire ; pursu- 

 ing the higher branches of study, 2,192; the 

 ancient languages, 887; modern languages, 

 591. Volumes in these libraries, 26,456. The 

 high -schools in all the cities and principal 

 towns fit students for the colleges. 



Board of Health. The Secretary of the State 

 Board of Health reports to April 30, 1886, 

 treating upon typhoid fever, scarlet fever, 

 diphtheria, small-pox, and cholera; also upon 

 the sanitary and hygienic condition of school- 

 houses, places of public resort, summer ho- 

 tels, and railway-stations. The last Legisla- 

 ture enacted some laws tending to secure a 

 better sanitary administration than heretofore. 

 It invested the State Board of Health with in- 

 creased powers, so that it is now able to han- 

 dle promptly any complaint that may be pre- 

 sented, if applicable to the public health, in a 

 more satisfactory manner than formerly. The 

 laws of last session bearing upon this subject 

 are as follow : An act to render more efficient 

 the health laws of the State ; regulating the 

 sale of veal ; to regulate the sale and inspection 

 of milk ; to prohibit the use of barbed-wire 

 fences in certain cases; to prohibit the sale of 

 cigarettes, or tobacco in any of its forms, to 

 minors ; relating to the sale of imitation but- 

 ter ; to simplify the process for protecting cer- 

 tain water rights and the rights of riparian 

 proprietors; relating to the penalty in certain 

 cases of nuisance ; the better protection of life 

 and property; resolution establishing an epi- 

 demic fund. 



Fish and Game. The effort to restock the 

 lakes, ponds, and rivers of New Hampshire 

 with fish, and the forests with game, some 

 years since, seems to have attained excellent 

 success. Fish-hatching houses, established at 

 Plymouth and at Sunapee Lake, are reported 

 to be very successful. In 1885 there were 

 hatched and distributed to various waters of 

 the State, from the Plymouth station, 500,000 

 eggs of the Penobscot salmon ; 273,000 brook- 

 trout, 2,000,000 white-fish, 175,000 landlocked 

 salmon, and 20,000 Lake Superior trout. In 

 1876, 1,725,000 of these varieties of fish were 

 for distribution from the State hatcheries. 

 The large number of young fish planted in the 

 inland waters of the State, it is presumed, will 

 result in a great increase of mature fish very 

 soon. Lamprey-eels have ascended the Mer- 

 rimack river above the Amoskeag fishway at 

 Manchester. A law for the protection of all 

 varieties of fish is in force. Shad-fry have 

 been placed in the Merrimack River below 

 Hooksett. Penobscot salmon-eggs have been 

 placed in the upper Merrimack waters ; 600,000 

 white-fish eggs in Lake Winnipesaukee ; land- 

 locked salmon in Squam, Sunapee, and New- 

 found Lakes, since 1878. The mature fish are 

 reported to be quite plentiful. Some have 

 been taken weighing from six to twenty pounds. 



Thirty thousand Lock Leven trout- eggs have 

 been received from Scotland, for Sunapee Lake. 

 Newfound Lake, near Bristol, is said to afford 

 the finest fishing in New England. A new 

 spawning-bed has been discovered in Lake 

 Sunapee, and an entirely new species of trout, 

 weighing from two to ten pounds. They are 

 found only in extremely deep water. Dr. Bean, 

 Curator of the National Museum, Washington, 

 D. 0., pronounces this -to be a gigantic type of 

 the Oquossa species ; that no other specimens 

 of the size have been known to exist south 

 of Labrador, and in a few lakes north of St. 

 Lawrence river. A law enacted in 1885, pro- 

 hibiting the exportation of game from the 

 State, has been of value in preventing game 

 from being snared for the benefit of city game- 

 dealers. By a more stringent enforcement of 

 the law, deer are increasing in the northerly 

 and easterly parts of the State. Arrests and 

 convictions have been made, by the commis- 

 sion, for snaring partridges, killing deer, and 

 catching fish in the closed season, and for the 

 possession of short lobsters. 



Asylum for the Insane. The forty-fourth an- 

 nual report, giving statistics to March 31, 1886, 

 states the number of patients of that date as 

 322 137 men and 185 women. The number 

 admitted during the year was 138 78 men 

 and 60 women ; making the whole number 

 during the year 460 215 men and 245 women. 

 Those discharged in the year were 109, of 

 whom 62 were men and 47 women. Thirty- 

 four persons have died 16 men and 18 women. 

 The daily average of the year has been 322 

 the highest average in the asylum's history. 

 Of this number 139 were males and 182 fe- 

 males. New diversions have been introduced, 

 namely, that styled " camping-out parties," for 

 men, under the charge of a supervisor one 

 party having spent a week at York Beach, 

 Maine. Daily camping parties are a less ex- 

 pensive but very desirable way of accomplish- 

 ing the same purpose. Another is the intro- 

 duction of a cheerful workshop. The farm 

 has been a source of income to the institution. 

 Its products appear to the value of $8,305.57, 

 largely the product of milk, which entirely 

 supplies the needs of the asylum. The receipts 

 of the asylum for the year were $88,668 ; the 

 disbursements, $85,124. The number in the 

 asylum, supported by counties, was 41 ; by 

 towns and cities, 24; by the State, 13. The 

 greater part of the inmates are novfr private, 

 sustained by friends, or from their own re- 

 sources. The great mass of the insane of the 

 State supported at public expense are to be 

 found at the county almshouses; the exact 

 number can not be stated with accuracy, but 

 it exceeds the whole number at present in the 

 asylum probably 600. 



Charities. New Hampshire pays for the edu- 

 cation of its deaf, dumb, and blind, in institu- 

 tions out of the State for its deaf and dumb, 

 $4,123.87; for its blind, $3,300; idiotic and 

 feeble-minded youth, $168.75; Granite State 



