CLASSIFIED RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES. TABLE V.-County Summary of Classified Receipts and Expenses on Pauper Account in 1899-1900- Concluded. Worcester, $165,658 $13,545 $26,684 $25,605 $231,492 $64,536 $101,881 $129,593 $296,010 $527,502 $2,467,681 $182,795 $8,580 $191,375 $2,659,056 * Mostly credits for work on the highways. †This covers the cost of new almshouses at Medway, Newton and Somerville. Other expenses, regarded as extraordinary, being paid from the general pauper appropriations, are included among current expenses in the pauper returns. § Largely for persons at the insane hospitals supported by friends at the town rate. YEARS. TABLE VI. - Pauperism of the Cities and Towns. Numbers and Cost, 1880-1900. * Not a daily average, but the mean of the numbers at midsummer and midwinter. † Down to 1893 this includes considerable sums expended for improvements at the almshouses. Support and Relief. Net Cost of Pauper THE PAUPER ABSTRACT. THE STATE AND TOWN POOR SINCE 1863. TABLE VII.-State Poor and City and Town Poor remaining in *Excluding town cases. Includes 323 at Rainsford Island between 1863 and 1866, and at the Massachusetts Hos- || Medfield Insane Asylum since 1896. THE PAUPER ABSTRACT. TABLE VIII. - Average Number of the State, and the City and Town Poor in the Institutions Each Year from 1863. Total Average of State, *Excluding town cases. § For 34 weeks. 1899, 1,242 219 1,138 376 209 72 200 Includes Rainsford Island Hospital to 1867, and the Hospital for Epileptics from 1898. 171 94 3,787 5,090 4,165 98 3,860 4,948 4,294 13,042 13,102 Excluding court cases. For 9 months. Medfield Asylum from 1896. PARTIAL SUPPORT † TOTAL VAGRANCY. TABLE IX. - Total Net Annual Cost of all Paupers in Massachusetts — State and Town - 1878-1900. NET ANNUAL COST OF ALL PAUPERS. 63.3 668,954 22,708 1880, 568,322 408,122 3 53.0 120,046 1,096,490 8,617 61.5 $632,747 $2 14 $330,290 $3 46.3 $150,709 $931,776 8,307 $0 53.8 $748,950 23,049 $0 62.5 $0 53.9 $84,869 $1,680,726 $0 97.1 $52,219 262,461 1878 585,516 1 96 390,038 3 63.6 137,542 1,113,096 8,583 38.0 1 98 56.6 88,261 1,870,311 1 06.3 40,151 194,848 1879 638,199 18,387 66.7 36.3 85,821 1,820,510 1 02.1 21,096 155,939 1880 * About three-fifths of these expenses are for support in private families, the rest at various public and private institutions. NOTE. In computing the cost to each inhabitant of the State the census figures are used for the census years; for the intermediate years the approximate |