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CHARITIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Bureau for Dependent Children, the object of 

 which is to provide homes in families for desti- 

 tute Catholic children. The State Charities Aid 

 Association has also extended the work already 

 carried on by several of its county committees 

 in placing children in families, and now has two 

 agents whose time is devoted almost wholly to 

 this work. The Children's Aid Society has also 

 undertaken the placing out of children in New 

 York State to a larger extent than formerly. 



The Training School in Practical Philanthropy, 

 conducted by the Charity Organization Society 

 during the summer of 1898, was extremely suc- 

 cessful. An interesting account of the school is 

 given in the Review of Reviews for February, 

 18'.)9. A similar school will be conducted during 

 the summer of 181)1). 



In Buffalo, through the active efforts of the 

 Charity Organization Society, the city appropria- 

 tion for outdoor relief has been reduced from 

 $118,585 to $85,900. 



There has been a steady and satisfactory de- 

 velopment of the system of State care and main- 

 tenance of the insane. The appropriation for 

 the support of the insane, as fixed by the Legis- 

 lature of 1899, is $4,795,100, as compared with 

 $4.5)02.201.37 in 1898. A second homoeopathic 

 hospital for the insane has been opened during 

 the year, with accommodations for 300 patients. 

 Additional accommodations for about 1,200 pa- 

 tients have been provided during the year, and 

 buildings to accommodate 2,200 patients are now 

 in course of erection at Central Islip. When all 

 the buildings now in course of construction are 

 finished, the overcrowding, which was extremely 

 serious when the New York and Kings County 

 asylums became a part of the State system, will 

 be relieved. 



The census of charitable institutions in the 

 State of New York on Oct. 1, 1898, as detailed 

 below, is given at the close of the report of Homer 

 Folks, State corresponding secretary, from which 

 the above statements are taken. As compared 

 with Oct. 1, 1897, there is an increase of 2,357 

 inmates of charitable institutions, and of 703 in 

 hospitals for the insane. 



The number of aged and friendless persons 

 cared for by the State is reported as 6,627 ; alms- 

 house inmates, 11,788; blind, 723; deaf, 1,721; 

 dependent children, 31,090; disabled soldiers and 

 sailors, 1,354; epileptics in almshouses, 193; epi- 

 leptics in Craig colony, 322; hospital patients, 

 9,622; idiotic and feeble-minded in State institu- 

 tions, 1,288; insane in private asylums, 855; in- 

 sane in State hospitals, 21,531. 



The insane asylums and hospitals include : State 

 Emigrant Insane Asylum, Ward's island: nomi- 

 nal capacity, ; daily average number, ; 



Binghamton State Hospital: nominal capacity, 

 1,300; daily average number, 1,249; Blooming- 

 dale, White Plains: nominal capacity, 375; daily 

 average number, 318; Buffalo State Hospital for 

 the Insane: nominal capacity, 1,631; daily aver- 

 age number, 1,519; Hudson River State Hospital, 

 Poughkeepsie: nominal capacity, 1,970; daily 

 average number, 1,813; Long Island Home (Lim- 

 ited), Amity ville: nominal capacity, 114; daily 

 average number, 95; Long Island State Hospital: 

 nominal capacity, 2,075; daily average number, 



; Manhattan State Hospital: nominal ca- 

 pacity, 5,619; daily average number, 6,713; Mat- 

 teawan State Hospital, Fishkill-on-the-Hudson: 

 nominal capacity, 550; daily average number, 

 662 ; Middletown State Homreopathic Hospital : 

 nominal capacity, 1,068; daily average number, 

 18; Rochester State Hospital: nominal ca- 

 pacity, 462; daily average number, 553; Sanford 



Hall, Flushing: nominal capacity, 36; daily aver- 

 age number, 29; Utica State Hospital: nominal 

 capacity, 1,133; daily average number, 1,014; 

 Willard State Hospital: nominal capacity, 2,270; 

 daily average number, 2,256. 



Buffalo General Hospital reports as follows: 

 Total receipts, $56,401; total expenditures, $61,- 

 713; number of beds, 154; daily average number 

 of beds occupied, 127; number of in-patients, 

 2,087; number of out-patients, 0000; cost per in- 

 patient per day, $1.30. 



Other general hospitals are: The Presbyterian 

 Hospital, New York city. Total receipts, $82,- 

 736; total expenditures, $167,323; number of beds, 

 330; daily average number of beds occupied, 178; 

 number of in-patients, 3,048; out-patients, 20,105; 

 cost per in-patient per day, $2.48. 



. Roosevelt Hospital, New York city. Total re- 

 ceipts, $139,957; total expenditures, $163,469; 

 number of beds, 223; daily average number of 

 beds occupied, 161; number of in-patients, 3,134; 

 number of out-patients, 25,738 ; cost per in-patient 

 per day, $1.95. 



St. Luke's Hospital, New York city. Total re- 

 ceipts, $143,837; total expenditures, $165,399; 

 number of beds, 300; daily average number of 

 beds occupied, 225; number of in-patients, 2,656; 

 number of out-patients, 3,741 ; cost per in-patient 

 per day, $1.77. 



North Carolina. According to the State re- 

 ports, the appropriation for two years, 1897-'98, 

 under the heading of deaf, dumb, and blind was 

 $227,500. For two insane asylums the appropria- 

 tion given was $190,900. 



The principal changes made by the General 

 Assembly of 1899 pertain to the insane. The 

 whole body of the statutes as passed and amended 

 in various years was codified, rearranged, sim- 

 plified in the direction of less publicity in cases 

 of inquisition for insanity, and all the institu- 

 tions for the insane given one law instead of 

 operating, as heretofore, under different acts. 



Provision was made for the first time in this 

 State for the licensing of private institutions for 

 the insane; also for private homes for the feeble- 

 minded, epileptics, inebriates, etc. License is to 

 be issued by the Board of Public Charities, such 

 institutions to be operated under rules and regu- 

 lations of said board ; to render reports Jan. 1 and 

 July 1 of each year to the Board of Public Chari- 

 ties; and to be subject to its frequent inspections. 

 License revokable before the Superior Court of 

 Wake County (in which the capital is situated), 

 for willful violation or neglect of said rules. 



The Board of Charities now has inspecting and 

 supervising power over all county institutions 

 for said classes or municipal asylums, and also 

 retains former privileges in regard to all State 

 charitable institutions. 



The institutions for the insane, deaf, blind, or- 

 phans, and veterans are all providing for an in- 

 crease in numbers, are doing better work, and 

 are more fully appreciated than ever before. The 

 percentage of cures upon admissions has reached 

 about 60 per cent, in the asylums for the white 

 race. New buildings for schoolroom purposes, 

 costing $25,000 each, have been erected for the 

 deaf-mutes and the blind at Morganton and 

 Raleigh, and large improvements have been made 

 to the Colored Deaf-mute and Blind Institution. 



For dormitories $5,000 additional was voted to 

 the Deaf-mute School at Raleigh, and $5,000 addi- 

 tional for improvements to the Soldiers' Home, 

 and an increase of its annual appropriation from 

 $8,500 to $10,000. 



The Oxford Orphan Asylum contains: White, 

 214; colored, 134 (separate institutions).. 



