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$31,611.70; total yearly receipts, $3,275,112.23; to- 

 tal yearly expenditures, $3,113,687.57; funded 

 debt, less civil list funds in the treasury, $1,091,- 

 402.10 The expenditures include $468,000 paid for 

 State bonds redeemed and canceled. 



The grand list of the State for October, 1901, is 

 given as $649,571,791, a decrease of $44,628,371 

 from the amount of the preceding year. This de- 

 crease, which is only apparent, is owing to a 

 change in the law regarding the assessment of 

 stock of banks, national banking associations, 

 trusts, insurance, investment, and bridge compa- 

 nies. 



The expenses of the Constitutional Convention 



ere $24,362.81. 



Among other items in the general expense ac- 



iunt are the following: Salaries and expenses 

 executive offices, $39,314; judicial expenses, 

 $401,324.99; board of prisoners in county jails, 

 $100,977; State Capitol and grounds, $64,407; com- 

 mon schools, $483,623; State normal schools, $57,- 

 864; State Prison, $55,876; Connecticut School for 

 Boys, $61,123; Connecticut Industrial School for 

 Girls, $44,676; State paupers, $8,388; humane in- 

 stitutions, $469,490; sick and wounded soldiers, 

 $94,600; National Guard, $148,884; Highway 

 Commission, $129,428; interest on State bonds, 

 $65,360; State bonds purchased, $468,000. 



Education. The number of illiterates in the 

 State, according to the census table of 1900, was 

 42,973. 



The number enrolled in the public schools in 

 901 was 155,228, an increase of 3,963. The aver- 



;e number of days the schools were in session 



as 189.01; the number of schools, 1,532; value 



school property, $10,837,695.27 ; average month- 

 y wages of male teachers, $88.68; of female, 

 $44.40. The total revenue for public schools was 

 $2,969,396.54. The attendance at the New Brit- 

 ain Normal School was 251; at Willimantic, 110. 



At the 166 parochial and private schools 31,190 

 pupils were registered, of whom 3,368 were over 

 sixteen years of age; the average attendance was 

 23,475, and the number of teachers 867. 



The enrolment at Yale in 1902 was 2,725, not 

 including the summer school of forestry or the en- 

 rolment in the regular teachers' courses. 



Charities and Corrections. The report of the 

 State Board of Charities for the fiscal year 1902 

 has the following items: The institutions visited 

 are 90 in number, and include the State Prison, 

 11 county jails, the reform and industrial schools, 

 14 institutions for the insane, including private 

 sanitaria, schools for the feeble-minded, the deaf 

 and the blind, 18 hospitals, the 8 county tem- 

 porary homes for children, and 30 private homes 

 and asylums for children and old people. Besides 

 these there are reports and statistics of the care 

 of the town poor in all the 168 towns in the State, 

 if which 90 maintain almshouses. 



The expense to the State for the maintenance 



d supervision of these institutions was $660,- 

 73; in 1901 it was $681,034. 



The amount expended by the State for building 

 rations was $193,100, compared with $142,000 

 1901. 



The average number of inmates at the State 



ospital for the Insane was 2,192. Twelve pri- 



ate sanatoria for mental and nervous diseases 

 .re visited by the board, and a diversity of condi- 

 'ons is found in their equipment and general man- 



ement. The number of insane persons under 



straint in the State is estimated at 3,000, being 



istributed as follows: State hospital, 2,200; 



artford Retreat, 160; private asylums, 290; in 



iwn almshouses, 350. 



The School for Imbeciles, at Lakeville, is car- 



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ing for the largest number of inmates in its his- 

 tory. 



At the Industrial School for the Blind increased 

 activity in the working departments is reported, 

 the number of blind residents being 30. The kin- 

 dergarten for blind children gives evidence of com- 

 fort and good order. 



The records of the county temporary homes for 

 dependent and neglected children show 348 chil- 

 dren committed to their care during the year. 

 The number of children placed in family homes 

 was 306, and the number remaining in the county 

 homes on Sept. 30 was 742. 



The report of the directors of the prison gives 

 the average daily census of convicts as 500, against 

 490 for the year preceding. The mortality rate, 

 9.94 to the 1,000, was smaller than the ratio for 

 the State at large, and the lowest for a long pe- 

 riod. 



The earnings from convict labor, surpassing 

 those of any previous year, aggregated $53,878. 

 During the past eight years the revenues from this 

 source have steadily expanded. Supplementary 

 revenues of $3,191 from other sources increased 

 the total income of the prison to $57,069, which 

 was more than 75 per cent, of the total cost of 

 maintenance. 



Militia. The strength of the National Guard 

 is 2,961 officers and men. The net gain in the year 

 is 16. In the past year 2 companies of coast artil- 

 lery have been organized. The military enrolment 

 of the State, January, 1902, showed 112,761 men 

 enrolled, 108,784 liable to military duty in case of 

 war, 28,662 exempt for legal causes, and 84,099 

 liable to pay a military commutation tax of $2 

 each a year. The disbursements of the several 

 military departments of the State were $138,- 

 114.81. 



Railroads. The gross earnings of the steam 

 railroads in the year ending June 30, 1902, were 

 $45,125,648.70, compared with $41,761,906.26 for 

 the previous year. The passenger revenue was 

 $18,275,183.82 and the freight revenue $22,088,944.- 

 40, the balance being the revenue from other 

 sources. The gross' earnings per mile run were 

 $1.99. The operating expenses of the year were 

 $32,627,503.35, being an increase of $3,234,327.70 

 over that of the previous year, almost equaling 

 the increase in earnings. The operating expenses 

 per mile run were $1.44. 



Of the 421 injuries to passengers, employees, 

 trespassers, and others. 125 were fatal, only 1 to 

 a passenger. The amount of taxes paid was 

 $2,480,526.12, which is $15,104.77 in excess of the 

 amount paid for the previous year. The amount 

 of taxes paid to the State was $984,918.37. The 

 entire amount paid for taxes is about 5 per cent, 

 of the gross earnings. The length of main line 

 and branches in Connecticut is 1,013.35 miles, the 

 length of the second track 248.55 miles, and the 

 length of the third and fourth tracks 84.88 miles. 

 There are also 489.90 miles of sidings. 



When the street-railway companies began to 

 report to the commissioners, seven years ago, 

 there were 317 miles of street tracks; there are now 

 517. The capital stock was then $8.604.240. com- 

 pared with $23,571,248 now. The earnings were 

 then $2,232,051.37; they were this year $3,937,- 

 771.46. The amount of taxes paid then was $76,- 

 522.34 ; the amount paid now is $244,768.88. 



Banks. The deposits in the 90 savings-banks 

 Oct. 1, 1902, amounted to $203.522,225.98, an in- 

 crease in a year of $10,273.316.75. The whole 

 number of depositors is 444.407, an increase of 

 18,819. The average amount due each depositor 

 is $457.96, an increase of $3.89 for each depositor. 

 The total assets amount to $214,892,897.49, a gain 



