including the value of home and farm products consumed, $4.34; excluding this value, $3.85. The receipts for the year ending September 30, 1909, were: From cash balance at the close of the previous year, $314.09; from special appropriations, $5,522.34; from deficiency appropriations, $5,000; from general appropriations, $98,300.63; from the sale of farm and garden produce, $816.10; from counties, towns and cities, $9,515.66; from individuals for the support of inmates, $2,009.29; from sources not classified, $142.60; total, $121,620.71. The ordinary expenditures for the year were: For salaries of officers, $7,246.43; for wages and labor, $36,194.34; for provisions, $24,243.14; for household stores, $3,609.26; for clothing, $4,351.21; for fuel and light, $16,230.89; for hospital and medical supplies, $828.52; for transportation and traveling expenses, $139.99; for shop, farm and garden supplies, $7,200.27; for ordinary repairs, $228.24; for expenses of managers, $95.79; for remittance to State Treasurer, $12,483.65; for all other ordinary expenses, $3,230.47; total, $116,082.20. There was also expended for extraordinary repairs and other extraordinary expenses, $5,522.34; making the total expenditures for the year, $121,604.54. There was no indebtedness and the assets were: Balance in cash, $16.17; due from counties, towns and cities, $1,150.52; due from individuals, $100.13; a total of $1,266.82. Of the expenditures for maintenance during the year, 41.9 per cent. was for salaries, wages and labor, 23.4 per cent. for provisions, 3.5 per cent. for household stores, 4.2 per cent. for clothing, 15.7 per cent. for fuel and light, .8 of 1 per cent. for hospital and medical supplies, .1 of 1 per cent. for transportation and traveling expenses, 7 per cent. for shop, farm and garden supplies, .2 of 1 per cent. for ordinary repairs, and 3.2 per cent. for all other expenses, including a small outlay for expenses of managers. Chapter 432, Laws of 1909 (Appropriation Bill), appropriated for maintenance, $90,000. Chapter 433, Laws of 1909 (Supply Bill), appropriated from refund moneys, for maintenance, $14,000; and for deficiency in maintenance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1909, $5,000. Chapter 461, Laws of 1909 (Special Appropriation Bill), appropriated for new school desks, typewriters, new beds and other furniture, $2,000; and for repairs and equipment, $3,000. The maintenance appropriations amounted to $109,000, and the special appropriations to $5,000, making the total available, $114,000. Of the appropriations shown above, $600.95 was for developing, extending and maintaining industries; the remaining portion was expended in amounts as follows: For new floors, $459.15; for new steel ceiling, $143.40; for a new heating boiler at Fairmount cottage, $231.27; for exterior painting to the main building and north wing, $700; for a new cement floor in the new stable and an aerator room in connection therewith at the Fairmount farm, $1,028.67; for reconstruction of fire alarm system throughout the building, $247.83; for new plumbing improvements in the boys' building and in the Superintendent's residence, $1,130.70; for a new refrigerator in the girls' building and one also at the hospital, $289.05; for a new range at the Superintendent's residence, $80, and for general miscellaneous repairs and equipment, $459.52. This institution has for many years been practically completed for its maximum population of 550, although it requires occasional changes in equipment and the annual repairs which are necessary to keep it in good condition. The general program for the care of the feeble-minded wards of the State should provide for an early reclassification of the pupils of the Syracuse State School for Feeble-Minded Children by the removal of the boys and the conversion of this institution into a school for feeble-minded girls. The grounds are too limited to afford ample separated playgrounds for both sexes and the boys should be taken to the Rome State Custodial Asylum as soon as suitable school buildings have been erected for their accommodation. When this is done, the board of managers at Syracuse can assign the dormitories now occupied by boys to young girls of the feeble-minded class who cannot at present be received into the school because there is no room. The separation of the sexes will work to the advantage of both, for as this institution is located in a city with its many temptations to boys, removal to the Rome Asylum will conduce to their safety and promote the welfare of the girls. The plan recommended also contemplates the removal of the men now on the Fairmount farm to the Rome State Custodial Asylum and the transfer of all the older girls and women to the State Custodial Asylum at Newark, as soon as buildings are ready for their reception at that institution. The appropriations made by the Legislature in recent years have been principally for repairs, especially for the plumbing which had defects. Appropriations are now requested to protect the institution lands from intrusion and to complete the fence. Some people regard the institution gardens and farms as open property from which they are entitled to take such fruits and vegetables as they may desire, and each year serious loss has been sustained from the depredations of such persons and therefore a strong fence should be provided, especially on the north and the west sides of the grounds, to protect the gardens and to keep children from wandering away. Other general repairs are needed for this institution and the fire department of the city of Syracuse has recently pronounced the present electric wiring of the building defective, dangerous and not in accordance with the requirements of the city; for this reason and because it imperils the children and property, provision should be made to remedy the defects immediately. The State Board of Charities recommends the following appropriations, or so much thereof as may be necessary: For an iron boundary fence... $2,000 For repairs and equipment, including reservoir... 6,000 13,000 STATE CUSTODIAL ASYLUM FOR FEEBLE-MINDED WOMEN, NEWARK, WAYNE COUNTY. Established 1878. This asylum has capacity for 788 inmates. The number of inmates October 1, 1908, was 692, and 125 were admitted during the year, making the total number under care 817. During the year 11 were discharged and 11 died, leaving the number present September 30, 1909, 795. The average number of inmates was 755, and the average weekly cost of support, including the value of home and farm products consumed, $2.52; excluding this value, $2.35. The receipts during the year ending September 30, 1909, were: From cash balance at the close of the previous year, $1,252.39; from special appropriations, $33,419.08; from general appropriations, $92,000; from all other sources, $88.07; total, $126,759.54. The ordinary expenditures for the year were: For salaries of officers and employees, $37,964.62; for provisions, $27,479.44; for household stores, $3,742.62; for clothing, $4,109.20; for fuel and light, $12,369.54; for hospital and medical supplies, $961.64; for transportation of inmates, $35.59; for shop, farm and garden supplies, $2,621.01; for ordinary repairs, $599.86; for expenses of managers and officers, $264.21; for remittance to State Treasurer, $88.07; for all other ordinary expenses, $2,215.86; total ordinary expenditures, $92,451.30. The extraordinary expenditures were $33,419.08; of which $15,669.74 was for buildings and improvements, $11,869.16. for extraordinary repairs, and $5,880.18 for all other extraordinary expenses, making the total expenditures for the year, $125,870.38, and leaving as balance in cash at the close of the fiscal year, $889.16. Of the expenditures for maintenance during the year, 41.1 per cent. was for salaries, wages and labor, 29.7 per cent. for provisions, 4.1 per cent. for household stores, 4.5 per cent. for clothing, 13.4 per cent. for fuel and light, 1 per cent. for hospital and medical supplies, 2.8 per cent. for shop, farm and garden supplies, .6 of 1 per cent. for ordinary repairs, .3 of 1 per cent. for expenses of managers and officers, and 2.5 per cent. for all other ordinary expenses, including a small outlay for transportation of inmates. Chapter 432, Laws of 1909 (Appropriation Bill), appropriated for maintenance and for other necessary expenses, $90,000. Chapter 433, Laws of 1909 (Supply Bill), reappropriated unexpended balances as follows: For repairs to boilers, $12.59; for finishing attic of cottage D, $1,200; for repairs, $274.87; and for sewage disposal plant, $131.77. Chapter 461, Laws of 1909 (Special Appropriation Bill), appropriated for grading and seeding grounds, repairing roads and constructing new roadway gutters, $1,000; for additional appropriation for finishing attic D, $1,800; for new electric pump, $1,000; for repairs to, and increasing the capacity of, the sewage disposal plant, $3,200; for repairs and equipment, $3,500; and for fire escapes, $600. The maintenance appropriation was $90,000, the reappropriations amounted to $1,619.23, and the special appropriations to $11,100, making the total available, $102,719.23. Since the last annual report of this Board was presented to the Legislature the administration of the Newark State Custodial Asylum has been reorganized. The membership of a majority of the board of managers has changed, a medical superintendent has been appointed and is now in charge, and rules and regulations have been adopted which will tend to strengthen the administration and make it more efficient than heretofore. The great importance of this institution is due to the fact that it affords protection to feeble-minded women, and at the same time by their segregation protects society from an increase of the mentally defective, which occurred when the women committed. to this asylum were left in their homes or were sent to the ordinary almshouses. The policy of the State is humane in the highest degree, and at the same time serves to control the growth of the pauper and criminal classes, and is, therefore, both practical and economical. If all the feeble-minded could be placed under custodial care the number of dependents upon public care would diminish rapidly. It is from the progeny of the mentally defective that the great army of dependents and criminals is constantly recruited; hence the State, for its own welfare, must not |