OF THE

STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES

FOR THE YEAR 1901.

IN TWO VOLUMES,

WITH STATISTICAL APPENDIX TO VOLUME ONE BOUND SEPARATELY.

VOLUME ONE.

WITH STATISTICAL APPENDIX BOUND SEPARATELY.

TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE MARCH 17, 1902.

ALBANY

J. B. LYON COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS

No. 30.

IN SENATE,

MARCH 17, 1902.

THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES.

STATE OF NEW YORK:

OFFICE OF THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES,

THE CAPITOL, ALBANY, March 17, 1902.

To the Hon. TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF,

Lieutenant-Governor and President of the Senate:

Sir-By direction of the Board, I have the honor here with to transmit to the Legislature the thirty-fifth annual report of the

STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES

MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR, BY AND WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE.

Need of further provision by the State for the care of the feeble-minded, the

idiotic and the epileptic......

15

Changes in the rules of the Board governing the reception and retention of

inmates of institutions

18

24

25

Statistics of outdoor relief.

Table of, in cities for the year ending September 30, 1900..

Table of, in cities for the year ending September 30, 1901.

Desirability of collecting and tabulating in accessible form, scientific and other

data with relation to the inmates of the State institutions....

Number and classification of beneficiaries in institutions subject to the visitation

and inspection of the Board October 1, 1901........

State institutions

Private institutions receiving State appropriations..

Should the State Board of Charities manage and control the State charitable

and reformatory institutions?

Summary of recommendations for legislation..

Appropriations made in 1901 and recommended for 1902...

Classified 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.....

36

Table showing the number of inmates in the State institutions subject to

the visitation and inspection of the State Board of Charities October 1,

1901, arranged with reference to the representation from the several counties

of the State

State Industrial School, Rochester....................

House of Refuge for Women, Hudson..

38

39

42

Western House of Refuge for Women, Albion..

48

New York State Reformatory for Women, Bedford..

52

Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New

York, commonly called "The House of Refuge," Randall's Island.

Syracuse State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, Syracuse.

State Custodial Asylum for Feeble-Minded Women, Newark.

Rome State Custodial Asylum, Rome....