Location of Children placed in Families September 30, 1897. Location of Children at Board, September 30, 1897. Total, 1897. 1896. DATE. Disposal of Cases of Juvenile Offenders and Neglected Children - Concluded. Put on Probation. 22265 Discharged. Dismissed, Failed to Appear. Recommitted to Lyman School. Plummer Farm School, Salem. 4 14 § 2 appealed. Total. Number of Visits to Wards and Special Reports during the Official Infants, or Children Under Three Years of Age. The whole number of children under three years of age, in charge of the Department of Out-Door Poor, at the beginning of the official year, October 1, 1896, was 204; the number received during the year was 185; making the whole number supported during the year 389; and there remained at the close of the official year, September 30, 1897, 215. Of the 185 children received, 139 were committed to the custody of the Board by Overseers of the Poor ; 15 were committed by the Courts; 24 were taken under the law providing for the surrender of infants to the Board by |