NEW YORK (STATE). 



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There were 136 deaf and dumb pupils ap- 

 pointed by the department to the seven insti- 

 tutions to which the law authorizes appoint- 

 ments to be made, during the year. The total 

 number of State pupils instructed in such in- 

 stitutions during the whole or a part of the 

 year was 991, for which the State paid the 

 sum of $220,529.79. There were 32 pupils ap- 

 pointed to the New York Institution for the 

 Blind during the year. The whole number of 

 State pupils instructed in this institution in 

 the course of the year was 230, for which the 

 State paid the sum of $48,769.45. 



There are seven Indian reservations in the 

 State. The Indian children of school age num- 

 ber 1,711. There are 29 schools, employing 31 

 teachers. The whole number of pupils en- 

 rolled during the year was 1,061, and the aver- 

 age daily attendance was 493. During the last 

 fiscal year the maintenance of these schools cost 

 $9,122.33. New school-houses were erected up- 

 on the Onondaga Reservation, and at Red Bank 

 on the Allegany and Cattaraugus Reservation. 



Relative to the Indians of the State the su- 

 perintendent says: "The qualities which civ- 

 ilization has admired in the primitive Indian 

 are not found in such of his descendants as are 

 committed to our care. Supple sinews and 

 athletic vigor they know nothing of. Our res- 

 ervations very generally embrace lands as fer- 

 tile as any in the State, and yet these people 

 lack the energy to gain a respectable subsist- 

 ence. As would be the case among any other 

 people under like conditions, they are very 

 commonly devoid of moral sensibilities. There 

 is no law upon the reservations, and they are 

 subject to no authority. The system of reser- 

 vations should be abandoned. The lands should 

 be divided among the Indians and conveyed to 

 them, to be inalienable for a period of twenty 

 or twenty-five years. They should be made 

 citizens, and given the privileges and charged 

 with the obligations and responsibilities which 

 go with citizenship." 



The statistics of colleges for 1884-'85 show 

 45 institutions with 784 teachers, 11,072 stu- 

 dents and 1,571 graduates during the year. 

 The total value of property is $23,161,602,82, 

 and the yearly expense is $1,787,391.57. There 

 are 283 academies and academic departments 

 of union schools. 



Public Charities. The returns of the various 

 charitable, correctional, and other institutions 

 of the State, subject to the visitation of the 

 State Board of Charities, are given for the year 

 ending Sept. 30, 1886. The property held by 

 these institutions Oct. 1, 1886, was valued at 

 $52,138,192.45, as against $49,297,035.97, the 

 appraised value, Oct 1, 1885, as follows: By 

 the State, $10,681,397.02 ; by counties, $2,654,- 

 847.86; by cities, $4,348,500; by incorporated 

 benevolent associations, $34,453,447.57. Their 

 indebtedness at the same time was $3,161,994.- 

 81, thus making their net valuation $48,976,- 

 197.64. Contrasted with 1885, the valuation 

 shows an increase as follows: In the State in- 

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stitutions, $237,959.83 ; in the county institu- 

 tions, $60,584.38 ; in the incorporated benevo- 

 lent institutions, $2,543,112.27; total, $2,841,- 

 656.48. The valuation of the city institutions 

 was reported the same as Oct. 1, 1885. 



The total receipts of these institutions for 

 the year ending Sept. 30, 1886, were $13,362,- 

 659.61, as against $12,453,311.04, the receipts 

 for the last fiscal year, or an increase of $909,- 

 348.57. 



The entire expenditures of these institutions 

 for the year ending Sept. 30, 1886, footed up 

 $12,027,990.01, as against $11,538,739.86, an 

 increase of $489,250.15 over the expenditures 

 for the last fiscal year. 



The number of persons in the care of these 

 various institutions Oct. 1, 1886, was 63,335, 

 as against 60,394 Oct. 1, 1885, or an increase 

 of 2,941. The following is a classification of 

 the condition of these persons : Insane, 13,538 ; 

 idiotic and feeble-minded, 1,174 ; epileptic, 417 ; 

 blind, 679 ; deaf and dumb, 1,366 ; orphan and 

 dependent children, 20,949 ; juvenile delin- 

 quents and offenders, 4,436 ; adult reformato- 

 ry prisoners, 71 1 ; 'disabled soldiers and sail- 

 ors, 936; hospital patients, 3,384; adult, aged, 

 and infirm persons in incorporated homes and 

 asylums, 6,251; poor-house and almshouse- 

 inmates other than insane, idiotic and feeble- 

 minded, blind, deaf and dumb, and epileptic, 

 9,494. In addition to these in-door beneficia- 

 ries, the dispensaries extended medical and sur- 

 gical aid to 349,61 9 out-door patients during 

 the year, and 49,144 persons were temporarily 

 relieved at their homes by various city and 

 county officials, from the public funds, involv- 

 ing an expenditure of $627,267.12. 



The records show that the number of State 

 paupers committed to the custody of the board 

 in poor-houses and almshouses of the State, 

 under the act of 1873, to Oct. 1, 1886, a period 

 of thirteen years, has been 16,309, or an aver- 

 age of over 1,250 a year; and the number of 

 these removed by the board to their homes or 

 places of legal settlement in other States and 

 countries, from which they had drifted or been 

 sent into this State, has been 9,799. 



The whole number of lunatic and otherwise 

 infirm alien paupers removed by the Board 

 from the poor-houses, almshouses, and other 

 institutions of this State and sent to their 

 homes in different countries of Europe, under 

 the act of 1880, to Oct. 1, 1886, from which 

 they had been shipped to this country and un- 

 lawfully permitted to land, has been 623. 



The State hospitals for the acute insane are 

 at Utica, Poughkeepsie ,Middletown, and Buffa- 

 lo; the State asylums for the chronic insane 

 are the Willard and Binghamton. 



The State has founded two institutions for 

 the feeble-minded, both of which are main- 

 tained by annual appropriations viz., the New 

 York Asylum for Idiots at Syracuse, and the 

 State Custodian Asylum for Feeble-minded 

 Women at Newark. The former is devoted to 

 the education and training of teachable idiotic 



