agement largely free from the semi-mechanical administration which a central board of control, having many institutions and diverse interests to care for, is able to give to each. Besides helping to keep the institutions out of the undesirable routine liable to follow the administration of a central board of paid officials, it keeps their management in closer touch with the people. This is not simply a commercial question. These institutions deal with men, women and children, and are the embodiment of the loftiest philanthropic sentiment of the State. Their work should not be carried on in a mechanical way. Philanthropic service and business ability combined in the management of these institutions should produce the best results. Competent boards of managers can always be obtained, and their powers can be properly regulated by the Legislature. SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LEGISLATION. The Board desires to renew the following recommendations for legislation contained in its report to the Legislature of 1901: 1. That all the special appropriations for the State institutions within the jurisdiction of the Board be included in one bill, with such provisions as will insure in every instance the most careful and economical expenditure of the moneys appropriated, in exact accordance with the intentions of the Legislature. 2. That the present site of the State Industrial School in the city of Rochester be sold, and a less costly site purchased in the country, to which the School can be removed. 3. That the House of Refuge on Randall's Island be also removed to the country, and that the girls' department of the institution be discontinued, the older girls being sent to the new reformatory at Bedford, and the younger to the New York Juvenile Asylum and the New York Catholic Protectory, or like institutions. Also, that this institution be placed under the rules of the State Civil Service Commission. To which is added this year the recommendation that this be organized as a State institution as soon as practicable. 4. That legislation be enacted to prevent the continuance of the fourteen liquor saloons at the gates of the New York State Soldiers and Sailors' Home, at Bath, which are supported by the patronage of members of the Home, and are regarded as a source of demoralization to its discipline. To these recommendations the Board this year adds the following: 5. That authority be conferred whereby it may cause the transfer of inmates of State institutions under the Board's jurisdiction, particularly for the feeble-minded and the epileptic, to those wherein such inmates may be most appropriately cared for or dealt with. APPROPRIATIONS MADE IN 1901, AND RECOMMENDED FOR 1902. The following table shows the amounts appropriated for maintenance and for extraordinary expenses, respectively, by the Legislature of 1901 to the various State institutions subject to the Board's visitation and inspection, the amounts recommended by the Board for appropriations to such institutions by the Legislature of 1902, and the pages of this report wherein the condition and needs of the institutions are specifically set forth. These recommendations were agreed upon at a series of conferences between representatives of the State Comptroller, the State Architect and this Board, after careful inquiries had been made with relation to the needs of the various institutions. The National government pays $100 a year towards the support of each member of the Home, thereby refunding to the State a large amount of the maintenance appropriation. Daring the last fiscal year this amounted to the sum of $158,080.25. CLASSIFIED ORDINARY EXPENDITURES OF THE STATE INSTITUTIONS SUBJECT TO THE VISITATION AND INSPECTION OF THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1901. Expended for salaries of officers, wages and labor. 78,152 23 Average annual per capita expenditure for salaries, wages and 94 50 111 19 7,827 57 Average annual per capita expenditure for clothing.. 9 46 2,691 39 11 07 24,195 62 8,237 23 1,026 04 7.89 4,896 37 552 25 36 82 12,691 57 37,395 19 44 84 5,607 36 6 72 15 22 2,308 90 14,847 92 9,813 63 6,072 34 10,004 37 Average annual per capita expenditure for fuel and light.. Average annual per capita expenditure for hospital and medical supplies..... 1,406 49 333 62 258 43 109 13 705 14 19 06 14 71 575 69 1 70 1 37 1 99 7 27 85 Expended for shop, farm and garden supplies.. Average annual per capita expenditure for transportation and traveling expenses....... 2,624 29 1,646 81 499 45 68 02 818 87 1 70 43 72 1 40 99 Average annual per capita expenditure for shop, farm and garden supplies... 12 37 7 05 8 78 2,204 34 Average annual per capita expenditure for ordinary repairs. Expended for expenses of trustees or managers.. 2 67 407 41 1 68 490 00 416 70 3 77 711 35 384 75 480 34 27 76 538 89 9-36 10 53 3 94 9.95 Average annual per capita expenditure for expenses of trustees or managers.. 723 87 1 81 360 30 Exclusive of amount returned to State Treasurer in accordance with chapters 572 and 580, Laws of 1899. +Includes the value of home and farm products consumed. CLASSIFIED ORDINARY EXPENDITURES OF THE STATE INSTITUTIONS, ETC.-(Concluded). 1,596 *$212,530 50 133 16 2 551 100 129 121 13 $429 Expended for salaries of officers, wages and labor. $19,166 05 191 66 3 68 Average annual per capita expenditure for salaries, wages and 64,773 05 7,338 76 $24,039 76 186 35 3 57 11,530 95 $38,269 45 $6,433 70 $$1,080.967 34 316 27 6 06 494 90 1276 51 11 25 $5 88 23,922 27 1,868 44 $452,432 28 40 58 73 39 Expended for provisions. 89 39 197 70 143 73 $127 67 Average annual per capita expenditure for provisions. 76,636 85 4,615 98 3.186 76 7,027 01 1,344 93 $266,331 55 48 02 46 16 Expended for household stores. 24 701 58 07 103 46 $48 28 7,514 29 590 32 594 81 355 75 Average annual per capita expenditure for household stores. 210 10 $34,938 35 4.71 5 90 4 61 Expended for clothing......... 2 94 16 16 +7 61 21,549 90 623 04 1,254 77 501 88 13 50) 6 23 9 73 4 15 9 75 $67,291 68 410 89 2,510 73 4,177 04 3,483 22 399 50 $122,269 16 25 11 32 38 28 79 30 73 +34 24 579 05 53 48 175 58 452 21 $11,807 58 5 79 41 90 39 1 45 34 78 136 09 120 95 14 63 $7,034 08 5 07 13 94 11 59 2,062 09 98 41 289 64 9 18 41 36 1 07 1 29 98 2 24 771 55 673 57 304 80 34 236 16 15 88 1 22 626 35 + Institution opened to inmates December 1, 1900. * Exclusive of amount returned to State Treasurer in accordance with chapters 572 and 590, Laws of 1899. |