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tures, $28,852; number of beds, 75; daily average 

 number of beds occupied, 57 ; number of in- 

 patients, 737; cost per in-patient per day, $1.11. 



The Western Pennsylvania Hospital is also a 

 general hospital. Total receipts, $107,402; total 

 expenditures, $95,470; number of beds, 218; daily 

 average number of beds occupied, 150; number 

 of in-patients, 2,689; cost per in-patient per day, 

 $1.77. 



Rhode Island. The State appropriations for 

 charitable institutions for the year ending De- 

 cember, 1898, amounted to $235,000. This amount 

 was divided up as follows: Deaf and dumb, $19,- 

 000; dependent children, $20,000; workhouse, 

 almshouse, and Hospital for Insane, $169,029.31; 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 

 $2,500; Soldiers' Home, $18,000. 



An act of the Legislature recently provided 

 that inmates of the State Hospital for the In- 

 sane or of the Butler Hospital may be paroled 

 for sixty days. 



The first workingmen's loan association in this 

 State began operations in Providence, Feb. 1, 1898, 

 with a paid-up capital of $25,000. On April 1, 

 1899, the association declared a dividend of 2 per 

 cent. In October, 1898, the Rhode Island Penny 

 Provident Society began work in Providence. In 

 that city has just been completed an adequate 

 and suitably equipped building, with wood yard 

 attached, for the care of tramps. The city has 

 also opened, in connection with the public-school 

 system, two more schools for feeble-minded chil- 

 dren, making four schools in all. These schools 

 are intended to accommodate about 15 pupils 

 each, and are not available for bad cases. 



In Newport the Woman's Newport League 

 House and Day Nursery has been started, which, 

 in addition to the usual work of a day nursery, 

 seeks to provide a temporary home for women 

 and girls. 



On April 25 of this year a conference of the 

 representatives of the different charitable asso- 

 ciations throughout the State was held. No per- 

 manent organization has yet been effected, but a 

 committee was appointed to arrange for a con- 

 ference next year. It is not improbable that a 

 regular State conference will be the outcome. 



The poor are provided for in the State Alms- 

 house: men, 147; women, 160; boys, 31; girls, 

 23; total, 361. City and town almshouses, 312 

 {approximate) ; total for class, 673. 



Destitute children are cared for in the State 

 Home and School: in the school, 137; in families, 

 155 (approximate); total, 392 (approximate). 



There is no special State institution for sick 

 and injured. The figures for private hospitals are 

 not at hand. 



There is no institution in the State for the care 

 of the blind. Dec. 31, 1898, the State was sup- 

 porting 25 blind in institutions outside the State. 



Deaf-mutes (58) are cared for in the Rhode 

 Island Institute for the Deaf. 



There is no institution in the State for the 

 care of feeble-minded children. There are 23 

 feeble-minded children in the State Almshouse, 

 included in the figures given above. On Dec. 31, 

 1898, the State was supporting 19 feeble-minded 

 in institutions outside the State. 



The insane aVe provided for in the State Hos- 

 pital for Insane: men, 352; women, 363; total, 

 715. Butler Hospital: men, 90; women, 102; 

 total, 292. Total for class, 1,007. There are also 

 about 100 insane in the State Almshouse, included 

 in the figures for that institution. 



Rhode Island Hospital is a general hospital. 

 Total receipts, $81,772; total expenditures, $81,- 

 772; number of beds, 200; daily average number 



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

 2,583; number of out-patients, 6,603; cost per in- 

 patient per day, $1.39. 



South Carolina. According to the latest 

 available report, the South Carolina State Hos- 

 pital for the Insane has over 900 inmates. A 

 substantial three-story brick structure has been 

 erected, and is now in use for colored male in- 

 mates. The South Carolina Institution for the 

 Deaf and Blind, at Cedar Spring, has 120 deaf 

 and 59 blind pupils, with an average attendance 

 of 142. In this institution special attention is 

 paid to the teaching of articulation and lip read- 

 ing. The experiment of teaching deaf and blind 

 children in the same class has been successfully 

 made in this school. It is believed that up to 

 the time of its introduction in this State it had 

 never before been attempted in any part of the 

 country. 



In the city of Charleston there has been started 

 a Hospital for Colored Persons and a Training 

 School for Nurses. All the staff consists of col- 

 ored persons. All of the church and benevolent 

 societies co-operate with the Associated Charities 

 in this State. 



South Dakota. The Legislature which con- 

 vened last winter made an appropriation for the 

 erection of a school for feeble-minded. As no 

 provision was made for its maintenance, it will 

 not be available for two years. It also made a 

 small appropriation for an asylum for the blind. 

 These are now cared for in Iowa. It rejected 

 several bills framed in the interest of children, 

 and also one intended to prevented chronic pau- 

 perism. 



Twenty years ago only one railroad reached 

 what is now the State, and the wave of emigra- 

 tion which settled the Territory and made the 

 Commonwealth what it is to-day began in 1881. 

 Yet the State has to-day a large modern brick 

 hospital for the insane, costing more than half 

 a million dollars, and a school for deaf-mutes 

 housed in four granite buildings. Each of these 

 institutions possesses a large and fertile farm, 

 where the inmates not only are taught skill in 

 agriculture and the raising of live stock, but pro- 

 duce their own food. Each is managed by a 

 trained corps of managers, employing the most 

 modern system which the thought and skill of 

 the time have evolved. 



There are now 300 men and 171 women in the 

 insane asylum, and 48 children in the deaf-mute 

 school. During the five years ending in 1898 28 

 per cent, of those received into the insane asylum 

 were discharged cured. W T ith the exception of 

 the violent and the hopelessly demented, the in- 

 mates are all employed. The law is that the 

 number of insane patients confined in the State 

 outside of the hospital must not exceed 25. 



The School for Deaf-mutes is at Sioux Falls. 

 The work of the superintendent, himself a mute, 

 has been highly successful. A farm of 60 acres, 

 half belonging to the State, is connected with 

 the institution, and the pupils are taught farm- 

 ing. The State has no school for the blind, but 

 takes charge of the education of its blind citi- 

 zens. At present there are only three, and they 

 are being educated at the Iowa State School at 

 the expense of South Dakota. 



Tennessee. The sums expended by the State 

 in behalf of charitable institutions for the fiscal 

 year 1899-1900 included the following items: 

 Blind, $175 for each student and $15,000 for im- 

 provements; deaf and dumb, $165 for each stu- 

 dent and $5,500 for improvements; insane, $205,- 

 525, with 1,425 patients in three institutions; 

 Ladies' Confederate Soldiers' Home, $90 for each 



