P. Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, Report of Trustees of, Polls, Property and Taxes, Aggregates of, R. No. 27. 36 36 Railroad Corporations (and Railroad Commissioners), Reports of, . 35 S. School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth, Report of Trustees of, T. Taxes, Polls, Property, &c., Aggregates of, 36 THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE PERKINS INSTITUTION AND Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind. OCTOBER, 1870. BOSTON: WRIGHT & POTTER, STATE PRINTERS, PERKINS INSTITUTION AND MASSACHUSETTS ASYLUM FOR THE BLIND, } Hon. OLIVER WARNER, Secretary of State. BOSTON, Jan. 16th, 1871. SIR-I have the honor to submit to the Corporation and to the Legislature, the Report of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, for the year ending September 30th, 1870. Respectfully, SAML. G. HOWE. TRUSTEES' REPORT. PERKINS INSTITUTION AND MASSACHUSETTS ASYLUM FOR THe Blind, To the Corporation. GENTLEMEN :-The undersigned Trustees respectfully submit the following Report for the year ending September 30th, 1870. The objects of the Institution, and the methods by which they are carried out, have been too frequently set forth to need repetition here. The number of blind persons connected with the establishment as pupils, workmen or women, or as employés, at the date of the last report, was one hundred fifty-five; twenty-five have entered since; thirty have been discharged; so that the present number is one hundred fifty. There are no changes to report in regard to persons employed, or in the general condition of the Institution. The statistics of entrances, discharges and the internal condition of the establishment are reported to our Board by the Director, at stated periods. You are referred to them and to his special report for details.* The Trustees merely repeat, what has been stated in so many former reports, their entire satisfaction with the management and the internal condition of the establishment. The report of the Treasurer sets forth the receipts and expenditures of the year, both of which, owing to construction account, have been uncommonly large. An analysis is given which shows first, the ordinary receipts and expenditures; second, the amount paid for stock, and the amount received for sale of goods; third, the building account. See Appendix, Financial Statement, &c. |