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51.19;
11
Eighteenth.
10
47,613
5
16,713
Nineteenth
6.1, ~~ 4
51
91,000
35
Twentieth
35, Hi !!
52.2.5
Twenty-ti, t ..
47.0001
21,324
Twenty-s. . ond
Total.
456
726,3.55
43,351
591
3
Eighth
11
Ninth ..
-
155.224
10
Thirteenth.
1
Fifteenth
14
15.7.000
3
Seventeenth ..
19,23
69.011
13
Sixth
36,902
10,000 people .. .
milo ..
1.194
22 417
Third
1ª
:9.915
16
In the Battery Hospital.
APPENDIX.
JUNE, JULY, AUGUST, AND SEPTEMBER.
Of the 342 persons who died from cholera, in the months of June, July, August, and September, there were born in Ireland, 190; United States, 73; Germany, 30; England, 21 ; Scotland, 5; France, 4 ; Swe- den, 3; Canada, 2; China, 1; Italy, 1; Australia, 1; at sea, 1; not stated, 2.
The ages at which these 342 persons died were as follows :
Years.
Number of persons.
Years.
Number of perecIs.
10 to 15
3
45 to 50
52
15 to 20
13
50 to 55
25
20 to 25
39
55 to 60
24
25 to 30
47
60 to 65
16
30 to 35
50
65 to 70
12
35 to 40.
37
75 to 80.
40 to 45.
41
50 to 85.
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OCCUPATION OF THE DEAD.
Among the persons who died in the four months last alluded to, 83 are returned as "laborers," 65 as " domestics," 16 as "house- keepers," &c.
CHOLERA DEATHS IN THE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
The following statement gives the number of deaths from cholera in the public institutions of New York from July 7 to December 1, 1800: Ward's Island, 172; Workhouse, Blackwell's Island, 151 ; . 11ms- house, Blackwell's Island, 95; Charity Hospital, Blackwell's Island, 41 : New York City Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island, 74; Penitentiary, Blackwell's Island, 6; Randall's Island, 20; Bellevue Hospit 1, 76; New York Hospital, 3; City Prison, 2; Ca-tle Garden, 3; Fort Como- bus, New York Hospital, 2; Small-pox Hospital, Blackwell's le! ud. 9; Colored Home, 1; Nursery and Child's Hospital, S; Battery Hospital, 107; Red House Hospital, 32. Total, 752.
CHOLERA GROUPS.
From the list of streets in which fatal cholera cases occurred, we extract all numbering over five, as follows :
Baxter Street, 35; Broadway, 9; Cherry Street, 8 ; Franklin Street. 6; Greenwich Street, 10; Mott Street, 15; Mulberry Street, 67; Ninth Avenue, 7; Third Avenue, 10; Thomas Street, 6; Washington Street, 17; Water Street, 6; West Twenty-sixth Street, 9; West Forty- first Street, 7; West Fifty-fourth Street, 7; West Sixty-seventh Street, G.
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APPENDIX.
The total number of houses in which the deaths occurred at hotno and in the cholera hospital, was 440.
The number of houses in which only one death occurred, was 362.
The number of houses in which two deaths occurred, was 61.
The number of houses in which three deaths occurred, was 16.
The number of houses in which four or more deaths occurred, was 10.
SANITARY DEDUCTION.
The progressing demands and appliances of sanitary science went beyond such general and vague, though practical and just, conclusions. But it was not until the results of the more exactly defined experiences and researches in the epidemics of 1851, 1859 and 1865 in Europe had been logically analyzed and compared, that this most valuable of all conclusions was reached, namely : That the diarrheal excreta of the sick when impregnating the soil, the drinking water, or any kind of decomposing matter, especially that of privies, cesspools, sewers, drains, and the ground about dwelling houses, constitute the positive, the chief, and, for aught that is yet known, the only means for propagating and spreading Asiatic cholera.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
December 4th, 1864.
DEAR SIR: Enclosed I send you au extract from the forthcoming re- port of-the Board of Health, which will give some idea of the kind and amount of detailel labor which it has performed in the eight months since its organization. Yet, without far greater space than you can afford, you can give but a meagre idea of its great and varied labors and influences.
The extent to which it has coerced and stimulated the public schools and other institutional authorities of the district, to regard sanitary laws ; the efficient manner in which it has compelled offal an] garbage contractors to discharge their duties ; the powerful stimulant it has been to landlords to put their buildings in better order for poor tenants; the sappre-sion of cattle-driving in the day-time in th's city ; the great controlment of the slaughtering of animals in New York: the important fact that it has caused some of the largest abatt is to be built in the open country, some miles distant ; the better e re it has caused to be taken to prevent the spread of typhoid and ship fever ; above all, its effectual and energetic treatment of cholera; the noble exhausting and self-sacrificing labors of the commissions, during the hot summer months, worth so much as a public example, are not alluded to in the extract, nor, I think, have you any space for them.
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APPENDIX.
Considering the embarras-ments the Board has had to encounter, the suddenness with which the cholera came, the work done, I think its full record in its report will be one of which New York may be prond. Yours, very truly, D. B. EATON.
The first orders of the Board were issued on the 14th of March, between which date and the 1st of November, 31,077 orders were is sued, and were duly served by the Sanitary Police. Of these orders. 5,325 were under the first subdivision of Section 14, of Chapter 74, of the Session Laws of 1866, by the terms of which the party served is allowed three days in which to demand a " hearing" by the Board of the testimony which may be presented to show that the order should be revoked and not enforced. In cases where no hearing has been asked for, and the order has not been obeyed by the [ roper party, "final" orders in the original or an amended forin, to the number of 3,160, have been issued and forwarded to the Board of Metropolitan Police for execution. All other written orders, in number 22,592, have been is- sued under the second subdivision of Section 14, of Chapter 74, of the Session Laws of 1866, and are of a peremptory character, requiring that the nuisance be abated within five days, and, if not obeyed, directing the Board of Metropolitan Police to enforce the same without further notice. The following is a statement of the subjects of the orders above referred to, other than the "final" orders, and of the work performed in the execution of the same, either by the party upon whom the order was served, or by the Metropolitan Board of Police, or by the officers or agents of this Board.
We select the principal items of the work done by the Board from the full list of 180 classes of work :
Alleys cleaned. 381
Ashes, garbage, and rubbish removed ... 1.335
Areas cleaned ... 701
Basements cleaned. 230
whitewashed ...
66
Bone and offal boiling (busi-
ness of) discontinued 12
Cellars cleaned .. 3,067
connected with sew-
er 62
filled . 182
whitewashed. 653
Cesspools cleaned 656
connected with
sewer. 45
disinfected 50
66 emptied. 25
66 filled
111
Cesspools made .. 131
repaired . . .
25
Cisterns cleaned and emp- tied 771
disinfected
46 filled.
repaired 33
Cows removed (No. of or- ders) 110
Ditches cut ..
Drains cleaned.
6. made .
150
. (obstructions in) re- moved. repaired .. 135
Fat boiling (business of) dis- continued 51
Halls cleaned. 6. whitewashed 161
53
APPENDIX.
Hide curing and storing (bu-
siness of) discontinued ... Hydrants repaired ..
Hydrant-waste drained, &c. Leaders repaired. .
Lime burning (business of) discontinued. 6
Lots cleaned.
479
66 filled.
143
graded .
57
Manure removed.
991
vaults cleaned .. .. . 20
66
constructed ..
492
-
Sewers built. 23
cleaned. 157
Sewer connections cleane l . 150
Sewers repaire 1 .. 335
Sewer pipes (obstructions in) removed. 1.493
Sewer pipes repaired
Sidewalks repaired .. 130 sinks emptied sal cleaned .. 2,620 Slaughtering (business of) discontinued 35
2 Slaughter houses cleaned ... Soap boiling (business of) discontinued. 5
Spaces (vacant) cleaned. 162
disinfected 11
Stables cleaned . 657
Pigs removed (No. of orders)
381
Pipe (water, waste, and hydrant) obstructions re- moved. 40
Pipes (waste) cleaned. 149
repaired 427
(water)
245
Plastering removed and walls re-plastered. 47
Ponds filled.
42
Premises cleaned. . 2,581
disinfected and fu-
migrated .... . ..
194
Tauks constructed.
24
Varnish manufacturing (bu- siness of) dispontilmed ..
3
whitewa-led. 571 Vaults cleaned.
Privies disinfected .. 6.415
: emptied and cleaned 15,214
Privy houses removed. 31
.. repaired .. 195
seats repaired . . 44
sinks connected with
sewer. 2,056
' Privy sinks filled. 577
66 made. 2,055
Faults repaired 412
Privies built ... 4 Rags removed ..
Rag sorting and cleaning
(business of ) discontinued
6
Sausage case and git clean- ing (business of) di-con- tinted. 13
Sausage and tripe manuf.c- turing (business of) dis- continued. 11
6: (covers for) made .....
38
repaired ....
53
Market stalls removed .. ... Offal bolling (business of) discontinued.
1
Oil manufacturing (business of) discontinued .
1
Packing rancid butter (busi- ness of) discontinued .. ... Pickles manufacturing (bu- siness of) discontinued ... Piers cleaned. repaired .
GIE
Pigs' feet and tripe boiling (business of) discontinued Pig-pens cleaned. .
G
290
disinfected ..
334
Stagnant water removed ... Stairways cleaned. 66 repaired 30
17
Streets cleaned ..
(obstructions in) re- moved. .
Superphosphate lime man-
ufactoring business
discontinuel .
4
Swill boiling (business discontinued ..
Walls and ceilings repaire 1. Water closets cleaned .. ...
413 65
.. repaired .. .. .
and
urinals
constructedl.
45
Yards cleared ..
..
3.049
graded and repaired. 245
15
150 200
254
125
1
20
18
connectel with the sewer. 521
84
APPENDIX.
III. CRIME IN NEW YORK.
Naticity of those arrested, classified for the year ending Oct. 31st, 1865.
Nativity.
Num.
Nativity.
Num.
United States (white).
21,852 Sweden.
SF
(black) ..
1,184
Norway
31
Ireland.
32,867
Hungary
13
Germany
7,162 Wales.
England.
2,519 Mexico.
1
France.
639 Bermuda
Scotland.
901 Greece ..
2
Spain ..
57 Nova Scotia
41
Russia.
24 . Portugal
13
Prussia.
87 : Bohemia
5
Austria
18 Cuba ...
3.5
Canada.
409 ;South America
12
Holland
25 'Sandwich Islands
1
Italy.
189
China.
1
Poland.
139
Turkey
1
British Provinces
61
| Africa
1
East Indies
11
Sicily.
1
West Indies
20
Belgium ...
11
Total number of arrests.
68,873
Switzerland.
40
Recapitulation of Offences against the Person for the year ending Oc- tober 31st, 1865.
Offences against person.
Males.
Fem's. Total.
Offences against person
Males.
Fem's. To'n !.
Assault ...
106
14 :
120
Insanity
304
154
4SS
Assault and Battery
6,077
1,607
7,744
Interfering with po- licemen ....
178
14
192
Assault with intent
197
1
195
Insulting females in
600
the streets.
18
....
15
Indecent exposure of the person
116
3
119
Abandonment ..
253
5
258
Intoxication ..
11,452
4,936
16,415
Aiding prisoner to escape
5
1
6
Juvenilede inquents
15-1
1:9
Abduction
3
.. .
4
Miscellaneous
mis
demeanor:
80
3-4
114
Attachment
or
100
40
140
Maiming
14
....
14
Bastardy
141
...
141
Personating
police-
Biganıy.
11
5
19
men.
16
....
.7.)
Contempt of Court.
23
6
Runaway appre ti. ces ...
10
Carrying concealed Weapons.
58
1
59
Rescuing prisoners.
18
2
Disorderly conduct .
8,542
5.412
13,050
Rape ..
39
. .
Descritte ..
254
...
254
Escaped convicts ...
95
613
94
767
Sodomy
5
....
S
9 .;
Fugitives from jus- tice ....
5
1
6
Trespassing
9
....
15
206
Habitual drunkards
52
139
191
Truancy
975
835 !
1,510
Homicides in all de-
65
4
69
Witnesses
S
26
grees. ....
9
9
Intoxication and dis-
orderly conduct ...
4.866
2.445
7,011
Attempt at rape
40
...
40
Kidnapping
20
5
Libel ..
5
..
5
Abortion.
546
51
Assault on men.
police-
36
36
Denmark
43
: Bavaria.
·
·
·
·
.
.
410
2.05;
Suspicious persons ..
Seduction.
21
....
5
Fighting in streets ..
Threatening life
SS.
1-
.37,499 16,422 53,011
Offences against the person.
Vagrancy
1SS
21
99
1,61:
12
16
to kill
Assault, felonious ..
Accessory to murder
3
bench warrant ...
.
1
S5
APPENDIX.
Recapitulation of Offences against Property for the year ending Oc- tober 31st, 1865.
Offences against property
Males.
Fem's.
Total.
Offences against property
Males.
Fem's.
Total.
Arson ..
35
....
35
Obtaining goods by
Attempt to steal ..
236
9
245
false pretences ....
10S
23
131
Attempt at burglary
53
....
3
294
Government.
122
124
Constructive larceny
43
12
55
Picking pockets
255
275
Conspiracy.
6
6
Petit larceny.
3,350
1,860
5,240
Compounding ny .
2
2
Passing counterfeit
414
46
460
Forgery
151
3
154
Receiv'g stolen y'ds
166
51
217
Fraud ..
104
17
121
Robbery, first degree
109
6
115
Forfeited bail.
7
7
Rioting ..
10
10
Felony ...
2
Smnygling.
5
...
S
Gambling ...
249
3
252
Swindling
104
3
107
Highway Robbery.
199
6
205
Violations of corpo-
2,417
415
2.532
house ..
177
165
342
Sunday law .
183
20
203
Larceny upon
the
102
35
127
election law .. . .
30
...
30
Mutiny.
Malicious mischief ..
436
48
484
State law
75
1
76
11,265
3,697
14,962
Offences against property
.37,459
16,422
53,911
Offences against the person
48,75-
20,119
68,873
Total number of arrests.
HOUSE OF REFUGE.
The last report states that the whole number of children received into the House of Refuge since its opening in 1825, is 10,853.
That the number of children in the House on the 1st day of Jan-
718
uary, 1865, was.
That there have been received during the year 1865. 824
Making a total of. 1,542
That there have been indentured and discharged during the year .. 603
And there remain in the House on the 1st of January, 1866. 939
The Superintendent's statement thereto annexed contains all the par- ticulars required by the act referred to, as to the sources from which the innates of the House have been received, and the disposition that has been made of them, as well as many other facts and statistics of interest in the history of the institution during the past year.
The very large increase in the number of the children committed to the House, being nearly fifty per cent. on the number committed during 1864, and about seventy-five percent. on the average of three years preceding, is a fact calculated to excite inquiry.
felo-
Perjury
14
....
1-1
Embezzlement
42
...
42
money.
2
5
Grand larceny
1,675
916
2,621
Shoplifting
5
3
Horse stealing ...
6
6
ration ordinances.
Violations of the
Violations of the!
person ..
52
52
Violations of the
....
53
Offences against the
Burglary ..
291
Keeping disorderly
86
APPENDIX.
IV. PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION.
SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION FOR THE YEAR 1865.
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIO CHARITIES AND CORRECTION.
Isaac Bell, President, James B. Nicholson,
James Bowen, Owen W. Brennau.
The Institutions in charge of the Commissioners are the
City Prison in the City of New York,
Bellevue Hospital 66
Small Pox and Fever Hospitals, Blackwell's Island,
Island Hospital, 66
Penitentiary,
6 6
Alms Houses,
66
Lunatic Asylum,
66
Children's Nurseries, Randall's Island,
City Cemetery and Farm, Ward's Island.
The Colored Home and Colored Orphan Asylum in the city of New York are under the supervision of the Commissioners, though in direct charge of their respective Boards of Managers.
Detailed statements of the expenses for maintaining the several insti- tutions will be found in the tables accompanying this report, but they may be generally classific 1 as follows:
Provisions $814,196 20
Clothing, Beds, and Bedding
03,14$ 20
Medicines .. 38,055 07
105,031 77
Coal and Wood.
39,868 72
Erection of New Buildings
Repairs-Buildings 6,082 10
Salaries 139,073 81
29,809 38
Steamboat.
32,488 75
Donations to Out-Door Poor
Colored Orphan Asylum and Nursing Children 20,712 62
6,007 0S
Furniture.
Work House,
S7
APPENDIX.
Hardware, Steam and Gas Fixtures.
$15,198 60
Rents.
7,519 79
Lumber and Mason Work.
14,102 99
Plumbing, Paints, etc.
5,292 86
Leather and Shoes
10,670 81
Soap.
8.892 28
Stationery, Printing, and Advertising
10,640 77
Transportation of Prisoners and Paupers.
7,140 58
Miscellaneous
65,134 80
$9.12,243 42
CITY PRISONS.
The total number of prisoners who were committed to the city prisons during the past year was thirty-nine thousand six hundred and sixteen (39,616), being an increase over the previous year of eight thousand three hundred and eighty.three (8,383). The increase has been principally among the prisoners who were charged with high crimes.
NATIVITY OF THE PRISONERS COMMITTED DURING THE YEAR 1805.
MALES.
FEMALES.
TOTAL.
Ireland.
10,638
8,998
19.636
United States
S,111
4,199
12,310
Germany
3,195
1,210
4,105
England.
1,076
560
1,636
Scotland
369
171
540
Canada.
220
99
319
France
268
35
303
Italy
113
6
119
Prussia
49
. .
49
Poland
42
. .
42
Switzerland
20
1
30
Denmark
20
20
Wales
24
4
Cuba.
24
1
25
Spain.
20
20
Russia
14
1
15
Norway
8
. .
6
China
6
..
6
Greece
3
. .
3
Mexico
Total
24,320
15,257
39.616
.
24
Austria
1.4
. .
14
Portugal
6
. .
49
Sweden.
88
APPENDIX.
BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.
The number of Patients remaining in Hospital, January 1st, 1805, 613 The number of admissions for the year (including 590 births)
were. 6,425
The total number of patients treated during the year. .. 7,073
The number discharged, cured, and relieved for the year were .. . . 5,801 The number of deaths for the year were. 655
6,459
The number of Patients remaining in Hospital under treatment,
December 31st, 1865 614
NATIVITY OF THOSE ADMITTED,
INCLUDING BIRTHS.
BIRTHIS.
COUNTRY.
MEN.
WOMEN.
DOYS.
GIRLS.
BOYS.
GIRLS.
United States
676
601
21
15
297
293
1,903
Ireland
1,603
1,841
. .
. .
. .
3.447
England
147
126
. .
. .
. .
273
Scotland
61
43
. .
. .
. .
104
Germany
323
148
·
.
. .
471
France
41
11
. .
. .
. .
64
Wales
2
2
. .
. .
Belgium
3
1
.
.
. .
5
Prussia
6
1
. .
. .
..
. .
3
At Sea
1
. .
.
.
. .
1
Unknown Countries.
15
3
. .
. .
18
Other Countries. . .
51
18
..
.
Total.
2.977
2,822
21
15
097
6,425
TOTAL.
Canada.
+1)
21
. .
. .
Italy
5
. .
. .
7
Spain ..
69
52
89
APPENDIX.
ISLAND, FEVER, AND SMALL POX HOSPITALS.
During the year both Hospitals have been over-crowded with pa- tients, and the experience of the past will justify your Board iu making further provision for the care of Small Pox and Typhus Fever patients.
The Island Hospital, with its pavilion and tents, has received during the year 8,893 patients, the whole number treated in the same period being 9,877.
In February the number of fever cases under treatment at one time was 155; the whole number treated during the year was 1,830. A large item in the expenses of Island Hospital was caused by the erection of the building and maintenance of these tever patients.
There has been received and treated in Small Pox Hospital 1,116 patients, an increase of 397 over the number treated during 1864.
Of this number, 358 were emigrants, 48 United States soldiers, and 620 residents of New York city.
PENITENTIARY.
The health of the prisoners generally, for the past year, has been very good. The number of convicts is large compared with last year. On December, 1864, there were 280, and at the close of 1865, 596.
The following Table shows the Crimes committed by the Male and Fe- male Conricte received. J'rom Ist of January to 31st December, 1805, inclusive :
CRIMES.
MALES.
FEMALES.
TOTAL ..
Assault.
40
40
Assault and Battery
215
100
351
Assault with intent to steal.
190
23
219
Disorderly House
18
23
Grand Larceny
82
52
134
Grand Larceny, attelupt at.
105
173
Indecent Assault and Battery
15
15
Indecent Exposure of Person
13
13
Manslaughter, fourth degree.
Petit Larceny ..
398
260
63S
Forgery, fourth degree.
3
. .
3
Forgery, third degree.
1
. .
1
Illegal Voting.
S
. .
S
Total.
1,096
574
1.670
. .
. .
90
APPENDIX.
The following Table shows the Nativities of the Male and Female Con- victs received from 1st January to 31st December, 1865, inclusive :
NATIVITIES.
MALES.
FEMALES.
TOTAL.
United States
235
135
370
England
193
71
204
Ireland
353
240
595
Scotland
31
10
47
Canada
35
11
49
France.
38
5
13
Prussia
35
37
Germany
159
91
250
Spain .
15
. .
15
Total
1,090
574
1,670
WORK HOUSE.
Census for the Year.
MALES.
FEMALES.
TVLOL
Number on hand December 31st. 1864.
217
1.016 7,013
1,203
Number received during the year.
4,100
11,113
Total
4,317
8,029
12,316
MALES.
FEMALES.
Number discharged.
3,091
6.835
Number eloped from this and other Institutions.
197
295
3,917
7.170
11,057
Number died at this and other Institutions
39
40
Number remaining on Register
400
859
1,259
And of this number there are transferred to other departments, at work, sick, etc.
97
390
487
Leaving in building.
303
469
The daily average number of inmates for the year was 772327, showing a decrease of 11132; since the previous year.
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APPENDIX.
ALMS HOUSE. The following is a comparative Statement of Admissions during the last ten years.
NATIVES.
FOREIGNERS.
TOTAL.
There were admitted in 1856
723
2,636
3.359
66
1857
$75
3,320
4,204
1858
794
3,096
3,590
1859
718
3,013
3,731
66
1860
985
3,144
1,199
1861
1,537
3,255
4,792
1862.
1,199
1,992
3,191
1863
1,201
1,612
2,843
66
1864
1,262
1,801
3,153
1865
1,378
2,212
3.590
CHILDREN'S NURSERIES, RANDALL'S ISLAND.
ADULTS.
CHILDREN.
TOTAL.
Remaining December 31st, 1864, .
156
979
Admitted, 1865.
143
823 1,5 14
1,687
299
2,367
2,666
Discharged
122
1,463
1,585
177
90
1,081
Elopements.
. .
177
896
1,073
Died.
4
113
117
Remaining December 31st, 1865 ..
173
783
950
CHILDREN TAKEN FOR INDENTURE.
160
Boys
97
Girls
257
CHILDREN RETURNED TO RELATIVES.
775
Boys
431
Girls
1,206
1,403
.
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S
S
92
APPENDIX.
NURSERY HOSPITAL.
Number of patients remaining January 1st, 1865
admitted during the year. 1,5-2
treated 1,710
discharged “ 1,121
died 6
113
remaining January 1st, 1866. 212
Included in the above summary of deaths are seventeen idiots, who were treated and who died in the Asylum. The whole number of deaths in the Hospital during the year is 96.
The percentage of mortality on the number treated is 5,16. The average weekly census has been 212gg.
COLORED ORPIIAN ASYLUM.
STATISTICS.
Admitted since the opening of the Institution 1,384
Number of children at date of last report.
209
Admitted : boys 39
girls 35
74
253
Present number of boys.
119
girls 103
Indentured
34
Returned to friends.
10
Sent to Rhode Island to school, by Mrs. Stokes
Left without permission.
1
Sent to the House of Refuge 3
11
Deaths
.
253
COLORED HOME.
There have been received during the year (including those on hand at last report) 516 inmates, of which. number 299 have been discharged, or have died, leaving at present 217 in the Institution.
1
93
APPENDIX.
LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The number of patients at the beginning of the year was 759. There were admitted during the year 525, making a total of 1,251. Of these, 127, or ten per cent., died, and 421 were discharged, leaving 736 at present in the Asylum.
Of those discharged, 142 were unimproved, 83 were improved, 192 had fully recovered, and 4 were improper su! jects.
Of those admitted, 37 had attempted suicide previous to admission. Of these attempts, 11 had been by jumping from heights, 8 by drown- ing, 9 by cutting and stabbing, and the remainder by other means. A number of others were supposed to have suicidal propensities, although no attempt was known to have been made. Only two serious attempts at suicide were made at the Asylum-one by hanging and one by drowning. These occurred in cases shortly after adinission, and were, unfortunately, both successful.
Of those admitted, 133 were native-born, and 362 were foreign. Of the foreign-born, 235 were from Ireland, 95 from Germany, 28 from England, and the rest from other countries : 280 Catholics, 224 Prot- estants, and 21 Jews.
OUT-DOOR POOR.
SUPERINTENDENT OF OUT-DOOR POOR.
NEW YORK, December 31st, 1865.
To the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction:
GENTLEMEN :- The Superintendent of Out-Door Poor respectfully presents the accompanying statistics for the year ending December 31si, 1865, and by which it will appear that 3,743 adults and 7,462 children have been relieved by donations in money, and 15,481 adults and 25,372 children with fuel.
The total amount of cash disbursed by me for all purposes of the De- partment from 1st January to 31st December, 1865, was $102,753 24. A comparison with the years 1863 and 1864 is herewith presented :
1863.
JS61.
1565.
Donations, including Twelfth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-second Ward+
$33.0,3 (0)
Children's Nurein ;...
3.14) 35
3 456 00
:70 75
Transportation of Paupers and Children
2 2/0 15
2.15 1:
Salaries ...
11,5:5 52
1.159 63
Coal, and Wood, and Cartage for 1965, including Twelfth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-second Ward -..
25,375 01
35.5.34 15
41,:09 23
Expenses of Offlee, extra compensation, 1885, $1.975 ; stables, feed, horses, stationery, fuel, coffins, etc ..
9.049 5%
3 102 13
10.533 23
$54 913 60
2100.122 47 $102 7 3 24
Less cash receipts
2.902 23
5.195 (a)
$32,911 13
$ 39 5 17
88.724 24
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APPENDIX.
V. EDUCATION.
RECAPITULATION of the Average Attendance and Whole Number Taught, for the year ending December 31, 1865.
SCHOOLS.
AVEC.A.C
Grammar Schools and Primary Departments
85.911
Primary Schools
15.25
66.1 5
Colored Schools
2112
Evening Schools.
11,4-7
Free Academy.
....
Normal School.
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