CHARITIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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Deaf and dumb children are placed in institu- 

 tions of other States. There are 25 now pro- 

 vided for. 



Insane and feeble-minded in State Asylum, 

 431; in county almshouses, 522; in Massachu- 

 setts School for Feeble-minded, 4; total, 957. 



New Jersey. The sum of $41,000 has been 

 appropriated for the necessary cottages for the 

 State Village for Epileptics and the administra- 

 tion of the work. The sum of $15,000 was ap- 

 propriated the previous year for the purchase 

 of land. 



An act has been passed creating a State Board 

 of Children's Guardians, being a nonpartisan 

 board of seven persons, of whom two are women, 

 who are appointed by the Governor and serve 

 without compensation. All children who are or 

 become public charges are the wards of this 

 board. The children are to be placed in families 



vania, $8,881; blind children, placed in New York 

 and Pennsylvania institutions, $13,355; imbeciles, 

 placed in Connecticut school, $394; deaf-mute 

 children, in New Jersey School for Deaf-mutes, 

 $40,09(5; insane, at State Hospital, Morris Plains 

 $323,080; at State Hospital, Trenton, $252,359; 

 county almshouses, $204,714; Home for Disabled 

 Soldiers, $20,500. The total number of defectives 

 is shown to be 5,290, maintained at a cost of 

 $702,820. The total number of dependents is 

 given as 9,139, maintained at a cost of $509,853. 



New Mexico. No official statement procur- 

 able. It is learned from unofficial sources that 

 the number of destitute children in the Territory 

 is about 200; sick and injured in hospitals, about 

 125; deaf-mutes, about 50; insane, 75. 



New York. The past year has been notice- 

 able for the number and importance of the bills 

 introduced in the Legislature relating to chari- 



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STATE CUSTODIAL ASYLUM (MAIN BUILDINGS), NEWARK, NEW YORK. 



of the faith of their parents, with or without the 

 payment of board. The expense of the mainte- 

 nance falls upon the counties, and the expense 

 of the administration upon the State. 



It is estimated that there are nearly 2,000 poor 

 in poorhouses in the State. 



Destitute children are kept in almshouses and 

 boarded in institutions, etc. They number about 

 500. (There are also about 3,000 children in pri- 

 vate institutions.) 



The State maintains no hospitals. The coun- 

 ties maintain their sick poor in the almshouses 

 when necessary. The city hospitals are supported 

 mainly by voluntary subscriptions, with a small 

 ity appropriation in some cases. 



The number of blind in the State institutions 

 is 43 ; deaf-mutes, 141 ; feeble-minded women and 

 children, 307; insane, 3,755. It is estimated by 

 the managers of the Epileptic Village that there 

 are about 2,000 epileptics in the State. 



From the latest available detailed report of 

 New Jersey State charities, it is learned that 

 the following expenditures were made for State 

 institutions during a recent year: Institution at 

 Vineland for feeble-minded women and girls, $20,- 

 000; feeble-minded children, placed in Pennsyl- 



ties. Among the more important bills which 

 passed both houses are the following: 



A bill conferring upon the city of New York 

 authority to make appropriations to private 

 charitable institutions, and to increase or de- 

 crease the amounts which have been fixed by 

 the Legislature in the past to be appropriated 

 annually to specified institutions. This law con- 

 fers practically unlimited " home rule " upon this 

 city in this particular, and will put. an end to 

 the constant legislation authorizing the cfty to 

 appropriate specific amounts to particular insti- 

 tutions. 



A law repealing the special law under which 

 Montgomery County has cared for its poor by the 

 contract system. This plan had given rise to 

 great abuses in that county, and was forbidden 

 by law in all other portions of the State. 



A bill providing that officers and employees 

 of State charitable institutions shall be classified 

 into grades, and their salaries and wages fixed by 

 the president of the State Board of Charities and 

 the Comptroller, -subject to the approval in writ- 

 ing of the Governor. 



A bill requiring plans for all new State insti- 

 tutions and all alterations and additions to ex- 



