residents and a deficiency appropriation of $5,000 was made by the Legislature of 1909. Almost $12,000 was required for maintenance, leaving $13,000, which was used for the removal of 1,153 nonresidents and aliens. More removals could properly have been made had the appropriation been larger. The appropriation for next year should be $30,000. The report of the Superintendent of State and Alien Poor is attached and attention is called to the tables showing the age, religion and cause of removal of nonresidents and aliens removed from the State. It is significant that over half the removals are of persons between the ages of sixteen and thirty-five years, or at the period of greatest industrial efficiency. However, the causes for removal are not mainly economic. Twenty-four persons were removed because of industrial inefficiency and thirty-four for lack of work. This is a small number compared with 570 removed on account of illness. Two hundred twenty-three cases of tuberculosis were removed. Among the social causes of dependence are several which point to unfortunate conditions in American life. Thirty women became dependent and were removed because of the desertion of their husbands. As many more women were removed for pregnancy due to immoral life, and fourteen common prostitutes were deported. Fifty young men and boys who were roaming about the country by stealing rides on freights were returned to their parents, and fifty other men who were physically disabled because of industrial accidents or as the result of debauches, were removed from the State. The number of venereal cases is always large. Forty-five persons removed were afflicted with syphilis in an active form. As many others had gonorrhoea. Of all persons removed 687 were taken from institutions in New York City, and 479 of these were aliens. About one-third of these aliens had been improperly admitted to the country. The other two-thirds were persons of sound health and apparent industrial efficiency, who within about five years of their arrival in New York City have succumbed to conditions of ill health, immorality or in some cases lack of work, which rendered them permanently dependent. These aliens are not so much at fault, as the overcrowded New York tenements, the sweat shops, the white slave trade, and social conditions which make it easy for men to desert their families. Most of the 223 cases of tuberculosis were those of New York City aliens. There is evidently need of more care in safeguarding the health and morality of the young aliens who come so hopefully to our shores. Respectfully submitted, DENNIS MCCARTHY, Committee. ALBANY, December 31, 1909. REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STATE AND ALIEN POOR, To the State Board of Charities: The Superintendent of State and Alien Poor is appointed by the State Board of Charities, under chapter 55 of the Consolidated Laws, which requires him to visit, either in person or by representative, each State almshouse at least once every three months, and to examine into the condition and needs of all State poor persons. It is his further duty to provide when practicable for the return to their legal residence of all aliens and nonresidents committed as poor persons to public charitable institutions. He has complied with the requirements of the law during the past fiscal year, and made the investigations and inspections regularly. The State Board of Charities, through its Department of State and Alien Poor, has returned, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1909, 1,153 persons to their homes in other states or countries when such removal at public expense was necessary. this number, 576 were residents of other states, and 577 were aliens. Of STATISTICS STATE POOR. During the fiscal year ending September 30, 1909, the total number of State poor provided for pursuant to the provisions of chapter 55 of the Consolidated Laws was 632 as against 729 during the previous fiscal year, a decrease of 97. The changes during the year, as compared with the preceding year, were as follows: |