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appropriated $12,000 for improved drainage and 

 water supply at the Institution for the Education 

 of the Deaf and Dumb. Within the past three 

 years $35,000 was granted for improvements at 

 the Soldiers' Orphans' Home. In addition to these 

 appropriations, the sum of $37,000 has been 

 granted for improvements at the Institution for 

 the Education of Idiotic and Imbecile Youth. 

 According to the latest available official report, 

 the number of inmates at the Topeka Insane 

 Asylum was 781; Osawatomie Insane Asylum, 

 1,026; Institution for Deaf and Dumb, 261; In- 

 stitution for the Blind, 98; Asylum for Idiotic 

 and Imbecile Youth, 132; Soldiers' Orphans' 

 Home, 175. 



A prepared statement of expenditures by the 

 State for these various institutions and for all 

 charitable and benevolent purposes during the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, shows the fol- 

 lowing totals: Blind Asylum, $19,998; Deaf and 

 Dumb Asylum, $42,430.22; Idiotic and Imbecile 

 Asylum, $52,614.82; two insane asylums, $314,- 

 686.09; Soldiers' Orphans' Home, $30,342.62; 

 State Soldiers' Home, $44,857.10; maintenance of 

 destitute insane, $223,130.40. 



Included in the totals for the two insane asy- 

 lums is $37,737.15 expended for new buildings and 

 permanent improvement, and also included in the 

 total for idiotic and imbecile asylum is $20,846.75 

 for buildings. The item for hospitals and homes 

 is an appropriation of $700 each to 16 different 

 private hospitals and homes in the State. The 

 item for maintenance of destitute insane is an 

 appropriation made by the last Legislature di- 

 rectly to the various counties for the care and 

 maintenance of insane persons cared for by the 

 counties because there was no room for them in 

 the State asylums. They were allowed 50 cents 

 per day per person so cared for, and the accounts 

 covered a period of from one to four years back. 



Kentucky. There were 317 inmates in the 

 almshouse on the first of the year; received dur- 

 ing year, 240; number at close of year, 323. 



During the year the Children's Free Hospital 

 cared for 117 afflicted children; received at City 

 Hospital during the year, 1,686 patients; remain- 

 ing at close of fiscal year, 136. 



The Kentucky Institute for the Blind received 

 during the year 112 pupils in the white depart- 

 ment; in the colored department, 24; total, 136. 

 This institution was extensively remodeled, 

 adapting it thoroughly for its special work. 



In the Institute for Feeble-minded Children an 

 increase was noted in the number of inmates over 

 the previous year. Twenty were admitted dur- 

 ing the year. At the close of the fiscal year there 

 were 134 inmates. 



The three insane asylums of the State showed 

 at the beginning of the year 2,650 patients. Ad- 

 missions during the year, 778; present at close of 

 fiscal year, 2,705. 



Louisiana. The State appropriations for 

 charitable institutions for the current fiscal year 

 include the following: Blind, $10,000 for one in- 

 stitution; deaf and dumb, $18,000 for one institu- 

 tion; insane, $100,000 for one institution; hos- 

 pitals, $108,000 for two institutions; Soldiers' 

 Home, $17,940; Lepers' Home, $7,000. 



Shakespeare Almshouse shelters 125 old people 

 of both sexes ; Faith Home for Aged Colored 

 Widows, 18; Dames Hospitalities, 29 paupers of 

 both sexes; Memorial Home for Young Women, 

 34; Touro Infirmary, 29. 



About 2,000 orphans are sheltered in sectarian 

 asylums. 



The Charity Hospital of New Orleans has a 

 daily average of 622 inmates. 



The State School for Deaf and Dumb in Baton 

 Rouge takes care of 90 inmates. 



The State Insane Asylum at Jackson contains 

 about 1,200 insane persons, both male and female. 



Maine. Very little legislation was enacted in 

 the last Legislature under the heading of chari- 

 ties and correction. Destitute children are well 

 cared for in the State. The sick and injured are 

 carefully provided for in the various city hos- 

 pitals. The Maine General Hospital is in a pros- 

 perous condition, as are the other hospitals of 

 the State, being supported in part by the State, 

 but receiving also liberal donations from time 

 to time. 



The blind are cared for out of State institu- 

 tions. Deaf-mutes are cared for in the main 

 School for Deaf-mutes, which is a most excellent 

 institution, situated in Portland, and supported 

 by the State. Feeble-minded children are cared 

 for in the Massachusetts School for Feeble- 

 minded. The insane asylum is receiving increased 

 attention every year by the Legislature and those 

 interested in the care of this class of unfortunates. 

 Its nominal capacity is 600; daily average num- 

 ber, 727. 



The total receipts of the Maine General Hos- 

 pital were, in 1898, $58,209; total expenditures, 

 $51,404; number of beds, 146; daily average num- 

 ber of beds occupied, 91 ; number of in-patients, 

 1,335; number of out-patients, ; cost per in- 

 patient per day, $1.49. 



Maryland. Interest in hospital provision is 

 growing in Maryland. The Railroad Young Men's 

 Christian Association Hospital, opened Nov. 28, 

 1898, is now in operation at Hagerstown. A 

 small charity hospital has been opened at Cam- 

 bridge, the State contributing $1,500. The sum 

 of $10,000 has also been given, with a comfort- 

 able house and 13 acres of ground, for the Hos- 

 pital for Consumptives, situated about 6 miles 

 from Baltimore. Provision has now been made 

 for 50 insane women at the Springfield Insane 

 Hospital, until recently used for male patients 

 only. The Henry Watson Children's Aid Society 

 takes special interest in wayward and dependent 

 children. 



Baltimore City Insane Hospital has a nominal 

 capacity of 450; daily average number, 425; Hos- 

 pital for the Insane, Catonsville: nominal ca- 

 pacity, 450; daily average number, 515; Mount 

 Hope Retreat, Baltimore: nominal capacity, 570; 



daily average number, ; Sheppard Asylum, 



Baltimore: nominal capacity, 150; daily average 

 number, 81. 



Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, is a gen- 

 eral hospital. Total receipts, $200,964; total ex- 

 penditures, $200,964; number of beds, 320; daily 

 average number of beds occupied, 241 ; number 

 of in-patients, 3,633; number of out-patients, 

 64,273; cost per in-patient per day, $1.55. 



Massachusetts. The State appropriations for 

 charitable institutions, 1898, include the follow- 

 ing: Blind, $30,000; deaf and deaf-mutes, $60,000; 

 insane, including dipsomaniacs and epileptics, 

 $416,492.32; feeble-minded, $48,000; indigent and 

 neglected children, $105,000; hospitals for con- 

 sumptives and eye and ear, $45,000; paupers, 

 $235,047.20; almshouses, $189,230. 



The Legislature of 1898 passed an act provid- 

 ing for the establishment of a State Board of In- 

 sanity, to which were transferred most of the 

 powers and duties relating to the insane, hitherto 

 belonging to the State Board of Lunacy and 

 Charity. The last-named board has become the 

 State Board of Charity, and has the supervision 

 of the State sane poor and the State minor wards, 

 together with all pauper statistical work, and the 



