TOTAL ADULTS. TABLE VI. Population of the Town Almshouses on March 31, 1895, '96 and '97. COUNTIES. CHILDREN. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1895. 1896. 1897. SANE. INSANE. IDIOTIC. POPULATION OF THE TOWN ALMSHOUSES. THE STATE AND TOWN POOR SINCE 1863. TABLE VII. - Number of the State Poor and of the City and Town Poor remaining in the Institutions at the Close of Each Official Year from 1863. NOTE. The figures for the State Primary School exclude children committed by the courts to the custody of this Board; for the State Almshouse and State Farm they exclude cases of town settlement. The totals for State Poor, and the general total, include for Rains. ford Island Hospital (abolished in 1866), 144 in 1863, 35 in 1864, 121 in 1865, and 23 in 1866. 4,583 2,648 9,445 135 170 4,713 2,774 9,923 142 132 130 134 73 138 125 69 116 96 47 92 120 AVERAGE NUMBER OF IN-DOOR POOR SINCE 1863. TABLE VIII. Average Number of the State, and the City and Town Poor in the Institutions Each Year from 1863. For 9 months, equal to 65 for the year. NOTE. The figures for the State Primary School exclude children committed by the courts; those for the State Almshouse and the State Farm represent only the State Poor, the insane at those institutions who have settlements being counted among the "Towns' Poor in Hospitals and Asylums." The totals for State Poor, and therefore the general totals, include for Rainsford Island Hospital, 116 in 1863, 88 in 1864, 68 in 1865, 101 in 1866, and 1 in 1867. TABLE IX.-General Statistics of State, City and Town Paupers for Nineteen Years. *This applies to all the inmates at Monson and Bridgewater, also to the poor and neglected children in a special "Home," in Boston. ↑ None of the inmates at Monson and Bridgewater are here included, being given under the previous heading. Approximate. NOTE. The "State Poor Partially Supported" are included in the "Whole Number Partially Supported" of the city and town poor, in which also there are many duplications. Among the "State Poor Partially Supported" there are also many duplications in the number given for 1879. Among the "State Poor Fully Supported out of Almshouses" are included the children of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum, for whom the State pays. The cost of supervision by the State authorities is not included in this table; but the town almshouse expenses include, in part at least, the cost of general supervision. |