

MASSACHUSETTS. 



461 



Exempting from taxation domestic fowls not ex- 

 ,H'c.ling $15 in value. 



To provide for taking the decennial census of the 

 t loinmonwealth. 



Authorizing the Metropolitan Park Commission to 

 construct roadways and boulevards. 



To punish deception in the sale of silver and silver- 

 ware-. 



Revising and consolidating the statutes relative to 

 savings banks. 



Authorizing instruction in cooking in the public 

 schools. 



Authorizing the State Bureau of Statistics to in- 

 vestigate the relation of the liquor traffic to crime, 

 pauperism, and insanity. 



Providing a new law for the regulation of frater- 

 nal beneficiary organizations. 



Regulating the storage of petroleum and its prod- 

 ucts. 



To prohibit the marriage of any male under 

 eighteen years and any female under sixteen years, 

 except by order of the judge of the Probate Court. 



Establishing the office of State Fire Marshal. 



Providing for the licensing of plumbers and the 

 supervision of their business. 



Requiring cities of 20,000 inhabitants or more to 

 nuiiiitain as a part of their high-school system the 

 teaching of manual training. 



Regulating the use of bicycles on public streets. 



Consolidating and codifying the law relating to 

 contagious diseases among domestic animals. 



Amending and codifying the insurance law. 



To provide for the appointment of steam-railroad 

 inspectors. 



Education. The following public-school 

 statistics cover the school year 1893-'94: Num- 

 ber of children between five and fifteen years, 

 400,825 ; number of all ages in the schools dur- 

 ing the year, 400,609 ; average attendance, 299,- 

 009; teachers employed men, 1,009; women, 

 10.705 ; average monthly wages of male teachers, 

 $129.41 ; female, teachers, $47.91 ; number of 

 public schools, 7,833 ; average length of school 

 year in months, 8-75. During the year 255 high 

 schools were maintained, with 30,540 pupils in 

 attendance, an increase of 8 schools and 1,958 

 pupils. Evening schools to the number of 285 

 were supported in 55 cities and towns. The 

 number of teachers employed therein was 1,194; 

 the total number of pupils enrolled, 32,919 ; and 

 the average attendance, 17,420. The whole 

 amount of money raised by taxation for the sup- 

 port of public schools, including only wages of 

 teachers, fuel, and care of fires and schoolrooms, 

 was $6,652,305.59, an increase of $370,164.39 for 

 the year. The amount expended for new school- 

 houses was $1,432,542.85. The expenditures for 

 schools, exclusive of the sum paid for repairing 

 and erecting schoolhouses, was $7,800,254.31. 

 The total expenditures, including repairs and 

 new schoolhouses, aggregated $9,968,227.24. 



The Industrial School for Girls, at Lancaster, 

 on Sept 30, contained 124 pupils ; the Lyman 

 School for Boys, 234; and. the Primary School 

 at Monson (at which neglected and dependent 

 children and those convicted of light offenses 

 are cared for), 127, of whom 99 were boys, 22 

 girls, and 6 women. 



Charities. The following is a summarized 

 statement of the condition of the State chari- 

 table institutions: Danvers Lunatic Hospital, 

 patients on Oct. 1, 1893, 869: admitted during 

 the year ensuing, 335 ; discharged, 298 ; remain- 

 ing Sept, 30, 1894, 906; total expenses, $161,- 



784.63. Northampton Lunatic Hospital, patients 

 on Oct. 1. 1893, 480 ; admitted, 172 ; discharged, 

 148; remaining Sept. 30, 1894, 504; total ex- 

 penses, $102,168.89. Westborough Insane Hospi- 

 tal, patients on Oct. 1, 1893, 514; admitted, 304; 

 discharged, 245 ; remaining Sept. 30, 1894, 573 ; 

 total expenses, $103,501.47. Taunton Lunatic 

 Hospital, patients on Oct. 1, 1893, 751 ; admit- 

 ted, 370; discharged, 336; remaining Sept. 30, 

 1894, 785; total expenses, $138,706.51. Wor- 

 cester Lunatic Hospital, patients on Oct. 1, 1893, 

 886 ; admitted, 581 : discharged, 543 ; remaining 

 Sept. 30, 1894, 924 ; total expenses, $169,718.49. 

 Worcester Insane Asylum, patients on Oct. 1, 



1893, 454; admitted, 61; discharged, 52; re- 

 maining Sept. 30, 1894, 463 ; total expenses, $75,- 

 760.66. State Almshouse at Tewksbury, insane 

 department, patients on Oct. 1, 1893, 463; ad- 

 mitted, 69 ; discharged, 72 ; remaining Sept. 30. 



1894, 460 ; almshouse department proper, in- 

 mates on Oct. 1, 1893, 542 ; admitted, 3,575 ; dis- 

 charged, 3,538; remaining Sept. 30, 1894, 579. 

 State Farm at Bridgewater, inmates on Oct. 1, 

 1893, 757; admitted, 1,413; discharged, 1,270; 

 remaining Sept. 30, 1894, 900. Massachusetts 

 School for the Feeble-minded at Waltham, pupils 

 on Sept. 30, 1893, 420 ; admitted during the year, 

 53 ; discharged. 36 ; remaining Sept. 30, 1894, 

 437 ; expenses, $86,614.63. 



Prisons. The number of convicts at the 

 State Prison on Oct. 1, 1893, was 646 ; during 

 the year following 167 convicts were admitted 

 and 147 discharged, leaving 666 remaining on 

 Sept. 30, 1894. The net cost of supporting the 

 prison during the year was $139,330.57, a de- 

 crease of $14,893.55 from the previous year. The 

 result of employing prisoners on industries upon 

 the State account was a gain of $16,197.72 for 

 the year, against a loss of $17,202.02 for 1893. 

 The' total cost of the institution to the State was 

 therefore $123,132.85. At the State Reformatory 

 in Concord there were 987 prisoners on Oct. 1, 

 1893 ; 904 were received during the year ensuing, 

 and 844 were discharged, leaving 1,047 remaining 

 on Sept. 30, 1894. The current expenses of the 

 institution were $195,277.01, from which should 

 be deducted $41,480.58, the profit made upon the 

 labor of prisoners, leaving $153,796.43 as the net 

 cost of the year. The Reformatory Prison for 

 Women contained 312 inmates on Oct. 1, 1893 ; 

 312 were received during the year following, arid 

 301 discharged, leaving 323 remaining on Sept. 

 30, 1894. The expenditures for the year were 

 $55,368.09, and the receipts from labor of pris- 

 oners and other sources $16,733.25, making the 

 net cost of the reformatory $38,634.84. 



In all the penal institutions in the State there 

 were 7,035 prisoners on Oct. 1, 1893 ; 35,747 pris- 

 oners were committed during the year following, 

 and 35,405 discharged, leaving 7,377 remaining 

 on Sept. 30, 1894. 



Sayings Banks. During the year ending 

 Oct. 31, 1894, 1,044,649 deposits, amounting to 

 $74.946,570.01, were made in the 185 savings 

 banks; $15,770,963.89 in dividends were placed 

 to the credit of depositors; during the same 

 period there were 968,577 withdrawals, amount- 

 ing to $74,124,697.33; leaving the aggregate 

 amount at the credit of depositors on that day 

 of $416,778,017.53, represented by 1,247,090 ac- 

 counts, an average of $334.20 to each account. 



