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CHARITIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



children in the Institution for Feeble-minded 

 Youth, 1,050 inmates; insane in the institutions 

 for insane (State hospitals, *7), 6,947 inmates; 

 epileptics in the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics, 822 

 inmates. 



The insane asylums and hospitals include the 

 Athens State Hospital: nominal capacity, 813; 

 daily average number, 819; Cincinnati Sanatori- 

 um, College Hill: nominal capacity, 80; daily 

 average number, 78; Cleveland State Hospital: 

 nominal capacity, 950; daily average number, 

 1,090; Columbus State Hospital: nominal ca- 

 pacity, 1,350; daily average number, 1,217; Day- 

 ton State Hospital: nominal capacity, 800; daily 

 average number, 839; Longvievv Hospital, Car- 

 thage: nominal capacity, 1,000; daily average 

 number. 1,059; Toledo State Hospital: nominal 

 capacity, 1,190; daily average number, 1,276. 



Oklahoma. The Territory, outside of its col- 

 leges and university, has no public institutions 

 proper, the insane, blind, and deaf-mutes being 

 cared for by contract. The insane are sent to a 

 private asylum at Norman, owned and managed 

 by the Oklahoma Sanitarium Company. The 

 deaf-mutes are sent to an institution located at 

 Guthrie, and owned by private parties. There 

 are 220 insane in the asylum. The owners of the 

 asylum have added to their buildings and equip- 

 ments during the past year. A new hospital 

 has just been completed, and many cottages are 

 under way. Owing to the small appropriation, 

 only 25 deaf-mutes were cared for during the 

 year; but the Legislature more than doubled the 

 appropriation, and about 60 will be in the insti- 

 tute during the coming year. There are, all told, 

 90 deaf-mutes in the Territory. A special tax 

 for the education of the blind was levied by the 

 Legislature, and a contract has been made by 

 the Governor for their care and education, but 

 the institution is not yet opened. An orphan 

 asylum has been established at Oklahoma City 

 by private subscription, though the number of 

 orphans in the Territory are comparatively few, 

 and homes can readily be found for them. Hos- 

 pitals are about to be established at Guthrie and 

 Oklahoma City by Sisters of Mercy. The num- 

 ber of real paupers in the Territory is very small, 

 and not a single county has as yet felt the need 

 of a poorhouse. 



Oregon. The State appropriation for chari- 

 table institutions, according to the latest avail- 

 able State report, included the following items: 

 Blind, $7,625.58, with 28 pupils; deaf and dumb, 

 $25,000, with 54 pupils; insane, $346,000; non- 

 resident poor, $8,000. 



No legislation in the field of charities and cor- 

 ^ections was enacted at the last session of the 

 Legislature. A bill was introduced which would 

 have been a great advance from the former method 

 of control of the State Asylum for the Insane. By 

 it the management was vested in a board of 

 trustees, whose pay was not to exceed $100 each 

 per annum. Patients were protected by having the 

 privilege of sending weekly a sealed letter to the 

 trustees. The superintendent was required to re- 

 port to the trustees an estimate for supplies for 

 the succeeding six months, upon which bids were 

 to be received after advertisement. The official 

 title was to be hospital in place of asylum. The 

 provisions of the proposed law were otherwise 

 similar to the usual law for control of hospitals 

 for the insane. 



The aged and infirm (sane) poor are kept at 

 county poor farms in 15 counties. Contracts for 

 boarding paupers are let to individuals in 15 

 counties. 



The majority of dependent children are cared 



for by private charities. A few are in alms- 

 houses. Only one society receives State aid with- 

 out being under State supervision, and this places, 

 its inmates in homes as soon as possible. 



The sick and injured are cared for in hospitals, 

 none of which receive State aid. 



Blind dependents receive support and education 

 at the Oregon Institute for the Blind; deaf-mutes 

 are taken care of at the Oregon Deaf-mute School. 



The insane are provided for at the Oregon In- 

 sane Hospital, Salem. Number of inmates, 1,100. 



Pennsylvania. There have been during the 

 past year enlargements of the capacity of some 

 of the hospitals for the insane, but no important 

 new institutions have been established. 



The almshouse population of the State (68 

 counties) aggregates 11,000, nearly three fourths 

 of the inmates being the indigent aged. Other 

 classes have been to a great extent segregated 

 in special institutions. 



Destitute children are cared for in asylums 

 under private management or in families under 

 the placing-out plan, having been removed from 

 almshouses under the children's law of 1883. The 

 State still supports a school for soldiers' orphans. 



There are a few small State hospitals in the 

 mining regions. The number of hospitals under 

 private management, but receiving aid from the 

 State treasury, is very great; and the appropria- 

 tions toward these, uncertain in amount and de- 

 pending on the temper of each successive Legis- 

 lature, have become a heavy burden. 



The hospitals in Philadelphia did a notable 

 work last summer in providing for regular and 

 volunteer soldiers brought from the various 

 camps at the close of the Spanish-American War. 

 Scores of hospital trains were sent to these camps 

 to convey the patients to Philadelphia, and at 

 one time nearly 1,500 were under treatment. 



There are two educational institutions for blind 

 children, and two industrial homes for the adult 

 blind. 



There are four schools for deaf-mutes supported 

 by the State. Adults of this class are nearly all 

 self-supporting. 



Two State institutions provide for about 1,500 

 feeble-minded, and a number equally large re- 

 main under county or private care. 



A conservative estimate places the number of 

 insane in Pennsylvania at 9,000, giving a ratio 

 of 1 insane person to 715 sane persons in the 

 population. The six State hospitals being un- 

 able to provide for the increasing number of this 

 class, the policy of removing all the insane from 

 county institutions has been, at least temporarily, 

 given up, and many harmless chronics are per- 

 mitted to remain in county asylums. 



The insane asylums and hospitals include the 

 Cottage State Hospital, Blossburg; Lancaster 

 County Hospital and Insane Asylum: capacity, 

 200; State Hospital for the Insane, Danville: 

 nominal capacity, 800; daily average number, 

 1,051 ; State Hospital for the Insane of the South- 

 eastern District of Pennsylvania, Norristown: 

 nominal capacity, 650; daily average number, 

 1,014; State Hospital for the Insane, Warren: 

 nominal capacity, 700; daily average number, 

 1,032; Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the 

 Insane, Dixmont: nominal capacity, 600; daily 

 average number, 768; insane department, Block- 

 ley Almshouse; insane department, Philadelphia 

 Hospital: nominal capacity, 1,200; daily average 

 number, 1,300; department for the insane of the 

 Pennsylvania Hospital: nominal capacity, 500; 

 daily average number, 411. 



The Wilkesbarre City Hospital is a general 

 hospital. Total receipts, $25,461; total expendi- 



