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CONNECTICUT. 



The charitable institutions appear to con- 

 tinue under excellent management, and realize 



35 were beneficiaries of the State, which had 

 paid for them $4,113 since the last report, 



the object for which they were respectively they add that there were 10 pupils, for 



established. 



The Connecticut Hospital for the Insane, at 

 Middletown, is overcrowded ; and, for want of 



each of whom $3 only per week were re- 

 ceived : on which they aver " that the cost for 

 the support of every child is $5 per week ; 



a place in it, a considerable number of indi- and that no good reason exists why this work 



gent insane are detained in alinshouses or 



county jails. In order to provide room for 



them, a law was passed at the January session, 



1877, creating a board of trustees for the pur- at the end of the year 1877, was 266. For 



chase of certain lands and buildings at Mans- repairs and improvements in it, during the last 



should be carried on for towns or State at less 

 than cost." 



In the State Prison, the number of convicts, 



field, there to establish a branch hospital for 



PBABODT MUSEUM (TALE COLLEGE). 



the reception and treatment of the indigent 

 insane. The act appropriated $600,000 for 

 that purpose. The work for which these trus- 

 tees were appointed has not been performed, 

 for several reasons ; among others, they fear 

 the property intended to be purchased not to 

 present a clear title ; find the locality indicated 

 for the establishment of a hospital unhealthy ; 

 think also the appropriation inadequate. 



By an act passed at the last session, the 

 price of weekly board for State beneficiaries 

 in humane institutions, as the Insane Asylum 



two years, the sum of $40,000 has been ex- 

 pended. Its income for 

 the year 1877 amounted 

 to $25,056.56; the ex- 

 penses, to $28,078.68. 



Disorders of the grav- 

 vest kind have occurred 

 in the Connecticut Pen- 

 itentiary during the year 

 1877. It is thought that 

 the possibility of such 

 occurrences in it may 

 be ascribed either to the 

 fault of some among the 

 officers in charge ; or to 

 the inadequacy of the 

 force stationed there for 

 guard ; or to defective 

 laws regulating the pris- 

 on ; or, in part, to all of 

 these causes combined. 

 The introduction and 

 propagation of a va- 

 riety of species of fish, 



chiefly salmon and shad, in the waters of 

 Connecticut, is steadily progressing, and ap- 

 parently with satisfactory results. In differ- 

 ent localities, where no such fish had ever 

 been seen before, a few large salmon were 

 casually caught in 1876 (one of them weigh- 

 ing above 15 pounds), and exhibited at Hart- 

 ford or other cities as objects of curisoity. 

 Pursuant to the invitation of the United States 

 Commissioner on Fisheries, a convention of 

 the Commissioners of all the States in the 

 Union was held in October, 1876, on the Ex- 



at Middletown and the Soldier Hospitals at position grounds, at Philadelphia, when appro- 



_. 3 3 .L . A . p r j a te topics relating to the introduction, mul- 

 tiplication, and preservation of fishes for food 

 were freely discussed at length, and opinions 

 exchanged, each Commissioner also relating 

 his personal experiences. 



The status of the military force of Connect- 

 icut, on December 1, 1876, was as follows: 

 Number of officers, 157 ; of enlisted men, 

 2,408 forming a total of 2,565. The total 

 mustered on March 1, 1876, was 2,686. The 

 entire force of the National Guard of the State 

 composed one brigade, under the command of 

 a brigadier-general, and was divided into four 

 regiments of infantry and one section of light 

 artillery; the first and third regiments con- 

 sisting of eight companies, the second and 

 fourth of 10 companies, each. The whole 



Hartford and New Haven, was reduced to $4 

 from $5, as heretofore paid. With refer- 

 ence to the soldier-patients in the hospital 

 at Hartford, tabular statistics have been col- 

 lected from year to year, beginning with 

 1862 and ending with 1876, which show that 

 the actual cost of supporting them (not includ- 

 ing the cost of the building, nor the surgeons' 

 and physicians' services, which are generally 

 gratuitous) has been far in excess of the money 

 paid from the State Treasury for that purpose. 

 This seems to concur with the statement 

 made by the Directors of the State School for 

 Imbeciles, at Lakeville,-4or the eight months 

 ending December 31, 1876/^pparently before 

 the passage of the above-mentioned act. After 

 saying that among the 74 pupils in the school, 



