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CHARITIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



The State Institution for the Education of the 

 Deaf and Blind on March 1, 1899, had 114 in- 

 mates. 



There is no institution in the State, either pub- 

 lic or private, for feeble-minded children. Statis- 

 tics show a*population of 250 such. 



The insane in the State Hospital, March 1, 

 1899, numbered 473; at Dr. Work's sanatorium at 

 Pueblo, March 1, 1899, 56: in the county hospital, 

 Denver, 15: none in county poor farms or jails. 



Connecticut. From the official report for the 

 year ending Sept. 30, 1898, it is ascertained 

 that the following appropriations were granted 

 by the Legislature: Blind. 1 institution, $52,000; 

 deaf and dumb, 1 institution, $40.000: insane, 3 

 institutions, $297,000; hospitals, 14 institutions, 

 $117,000; almshouses, 8 institutions, $129,000. 



A temporary home is provided in each of the 

 8 counties for* the shelter of dependent and neg- 

 lected children between the ages of four and 

 eighteen until suitable family homes can be found 

 for them. The average number of inmates in the 

 county homes is (580. 



The sick and injured poor are cared for in a 

 number of city hospitals at the expense of the 

 towns that send them and of the State, which 

 furnishes appropriations for most of these hos- 

 pitals. Fitch's Home for Soldiers, at Noroton, 

 has an average number of 470 inmates. 



The State has about 70 blind beneficiaries, of 

 whom 20 are supported at the Perkins Institu- 

 tion, South Boston, and about 50 at the Institute 

 and Industrial Home" for the Blind in Hartford. 



The State supported during the past year 108 

 deaf pupils, of whom 74 were at the American 

 School for the Deaf, at Hartford, and 34 at the 

 Mystic Oral School. 



Feeble-minded children are cared for and in- 

 structed at State expense at the Connecticut 

 School for Imbeciles, Lakeville. Average num- 

 ber, 170. 



The Connecticut Hospital for the Insane, at 

 Middletown, has an average of about 1,900 in- 

 mates, but is considerably overcrowded. The 

 Retreat for the Insane at Hartford has an aver- 

 age of 150 patients. The number of insane per- 

 sons in the State is increasing gradually, but it 

 has not yet been shown that the increase is out 

 of proportion to the increase in population. 



Bridgeport Hospital is a general hospital. 

 Total receipts, $28,792; total expenditures, $28,- 

 598; number of beds, 90; daily average number 

 of beds occupied, 05; number of in-patients, 819; 



number of out-patients, ; cost per in-patient 



per day, $1.21. 



New Haven Hospital is also a general hospital. 

 Total receipts, $55,327; total expenditures, $57,- 

 145; number of beds, 165; daily average number 

 of beds occupied, 118; number of in-patients, 

 1,154; number of out-patients, ; cost per in- 

 patient per day, $1.33. 



Delaware. The last Legislature made the fol- 

 lowing appropriations: Society for the Preven- 

 tion of Cruelty to Children, $1,800: Babies' Hos- 

 pital, $500; State Insane Hospital, $92,000. 



The average of poor in poorhouses is about 350 

 adults and 10 children (temporarily) in the three 

 county almshouses. The aged poor in homes 

 average 72. 



The various homes and orphanages provide for 

 all the destitute children of the State. All are 

 private charities, aided by small appropriations 

 from the legislature and the Levy Court. 



Sick and injured are provided* for in county 

 almshouses and in theDelaware and Homoeopathic 

 Hospitals. Patients attended in hospitals, 500; 

 dispensary cases, 3,000. 



There are no institutions for blind and deaf- 

 mutes. Appropriations from the Legislature per- 

 mit three from each county to enter schools else- 

 where. 



Appropriations from the Legislature permit five 

 from each county to enter the Feeble-minded 

 School at Elwyn, Pa. 



The State Hospital for the Insane has 165 men 

 and 120 women patients. The new building 

 erected last year has proved a valuable addition 

 and aid in caring for and in the proper treatment 

 of cases. The bacteriological department intro- 

 duced by legislative enactment this last year is 

 considered of marked importance. 



District of Columbia. The bill to create a 

 board of charities for the District of Columbia, 

 which was carried over from a previous session 

 of Congress, was crowded out, and failed to re- 

 ceive final consideration. The Fifty-sixth Con- 

 gress will be asked to consider it. A bill to cre- 

 ate a municipal hospital was introduced, but 

 could not be given an advanced position, and 

 consequently failed to receive consideration. Five 

 sectarian child-caring institutions were dropped 

 from the list of assisted institutions. A heavy 

 deficiency in current appropriations for care of 

 dependent children under official guardianship 

 was met by adequate appropriation. An appro- 

 priation of $65,000 was secured for new buildings 

 for an official institution long neglected. 



Poor in almshouse, 229; dependent children, 

 824; in hospitals, 339; blind, 21; deaf-mutes, 36; 

 feeble-minded, 47 ; insane, 964. 



Two important charitable organizations have 

 recently been established in the District one, a 

 private voluntary corporation, having for its ob- 

 ject the better care of the adult blind; the other, 

 a semipublic corporation, formed, at the solicita- 

 tion of the local government, for the purpose of 

 receiving such contributions as citizens may make 

 for the relief of the poor in their own homes, and 

 such income from invested funds as has hereto- 

 fore usually been distributed to the poor by the 

 metropolitan police. This corporation, known as 

 the Citizens' Relief Committee, is the result of 

 several years of careful work for the reformation 

 of the troublesome matter of outdoor relief, and 

 it is believed that it will furnish an agency for 

 the distribution of such relief wholly trustworthy, 

 and having for its particular duty the giving of 

 outdoor relief. 



Florida. It is reported in the statement of 

 the Superintendent of Public Instruction issued 

 this year that $10,000 was appropriated for 1898 

 in aid of the Deaf and Blind Institute. This 

 establishment, according to the last report, pro- 

 vided for 33 deaf and 9 blind white pupils and 18 

 deaf and 2 blind negro pupils. The superin- 

 tendent of the Florida Asylum for the Insane, in 

 his last report, says that the State appropriation 

 granted for 1899 was $70,000. An equal amount 

 has also been set aside for 1900. The expenses 

 of the institution for the year ending Dec. 31, 

 1898, were $56,850.55. The" nominal capacity is, 

 650. 



Georgia. No official statements procurable. It 

 is learned from unofficial sources that the State 

 Lunatic Asylum, Milledgeville, has a nominal ca- 

 pacity of 2.400; daily average number, 2,247. 



Idaho. The State appropriations for charities 

 for the two years ending January, 1901, is re- 

 ported as $102.000. Of this total, $12,000 was set 

 apart for blind, dumb, and deaf. The appropria- 

 tion for insane patients amounted to $80,000. 

 The sum of $10,000 for the Soldiers' Home is in- 

 cluded in the total amount given. The latest 

 available report from this State shows that a 



