Coal pocket (capacity for sixty days, 2,100 tons)..

$15,000 00

NEW YORK STATE WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS HOME, OXFORD, CHENANGO COUNTY.

Established 1894.

The Home has capacity for 200 inmates. The numbber of inmates present October 1, 1908, was 178 and 120 were admitted during the year, making the total number under care 298. During the year 29 died and 82 were discharged, leaving September 30, 1909, 187 inmates, of whom 41 were men and 146 women. The average number for the year was 185, and the average weekly cost of support, including the value of home and farm products consumed, $4.08; excluding this value, $3.76.

The receipts for the year ending September 30, 1909, were: From cash on hand at the beginning of the year, $686.70; from special appropriations, $27,807.10; from general appropriations, $35,700; from sale of farm and garden produce, $195.39; and from all other sources, $10.38; total, $64,399.57.

The ordinary expenditures during the year were: For salaries of officers, $2,500; for wages and labor, $13,960.34; for provisions, $8,793.80; for household stores, $805.16; for clothing, $133.05; for fuel and light, $5,470.53; for hospital and medical supplies, $632.30; for shop, farm and garden supplies, $2,001.72; for expenses of managers, $867.41; for remittance to State Treasurer, $205.77; for all other ordinary expenses, $1,009.68; total, $36,379.76.

The extraordinary expenditures are reported as $27,807.10, of which $25,225.62 was for buildings and improvements, $1,343.31 for extraordinary repairs and $1,238.17 for all other extraordi

nary expenses, making the total ordinary and extraordinary expenditures for the year, $64,186.86, and leaving as balance in cash, at the close of the fiscal year, $212.71.

Of the expenditures for maintenance, 45.5 per cent. was for salaries, wages and labor, 24.3 per cent. for provisions, 2.2 per cent. for household stores, .4 of 1 per cent. for clothing, 15.1 per cent. for fuel and light, 1.8 per cent. for hospital and medical supplies, 5.5 per cent. for shop, farm and garden supplies, 2.4 per cent. for expenses of managers, and 2.8 per cent. for all other ordinary expenses.

Chapter 432, Laws of 1909 (Appropriation Bill), appropriated for maintenance, $38,000.

Chapter 433, Laws of 1909 (Supply Bill), reappropriated for conduits, pipes, etc., $269.62.

Chapter 461, Laws of 1909 (Special Appropriation Bill), appropriated for care of lawns, roads and trees, $1,000; for constructing masonry conduit and resetting pipes in same, $1,000; for equipment, including new hospital building, $6,000; for increasing the water supply, $5,000; and for repairs and equipment, $1,600.

Chapter 194, Laws of 1909 (Special Act), appropriated for completing the hospital, $3,000.

The maintenance appropriation was $38,000, the reappropriation, $269.62, and the special appropriations amounted to $17,600, making the total available, $55,869.62.

The aged men and women who are members of this Home all belong to the very feeble class; in fact, the institution is an infirmary and the daily rounds of the physicians and nurses include visits to almost every room in the building. Some of the men seem vigorous and apparently able to labor, but after working for a short time they are compelled to rest. Many who appear robust are under treatment for chronic diseases and the strongest of the members are advanced in years and incapable of steady work.

The erection of the new hospital has given an opportunity to remove the more helpless members from rooms to the open wards. The new arrangement will enable the nurses and attendants to give more constant care to the bedridden than was possible heretofore.

The Woman's Relief Corps Home was originally established to provide a home for veterans accompanied by their wives and also for the mothers and widows of veterans and for army nurses. A rule of the institution requires the removal of veterans to the Home at Bath when their wives die in this institution, and all resident male members now there are with their wives. This rule has proved satisfactory, although from time to time modifications have been proposed; it is better to enforce its provisions than to open this Home too widely. Removal to the Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Bath entails no hardship, as that institution is well equipped for the care of the aged veterans who make it their home.

It is necessary to enlarge the new hospital, as the appropriation was not sufficient to provide all that is required. Besides the addition proposed, the grounds in the front and rear of the new building should be graded and some new roadway made. The grounds of the institution are gradually being transformed into a park; trees, flowers, grass and walks make them attractive, and provision should be continued for their maintenance. A new dynamo is required in the power plant to furnish sufficient light for the buildings and grounds; the old dynamo has given out and it is necessary to replace it by one of greater power and more modern design.

To provide for improvements for this institution, the State Board of Charities recommends the following appropriations, or so much thereof as may be necessary:

For an addition to the new hospital....

For grading in front and rear of the new hospital..

$25,000

3,000

NEW YORK STATE

STATE

SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND,

BATAVIA, GENESEE COUNTY.

Established 1865.

This school has capacity for 136 pupils. The number present October 1, 1908, was 124 and 51 pupils were received during the year, making the total number under care and training, 175. During the year 45 were discharged and 1 died, leaving 129 pupils in the institution September 30, 1909. The average number during the year was 102 and the average weekly cost of support including the value of home and farm products consumed, $8.52; excluding this value, $8.31.

The receipts for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1909, were as follows: Cash balance from preceding year, $294.11; from special appropriations, $10,306.94; from deficiency appropriations, $1,000; from general appropriations, $42,635.36; from counties, towns and cities, $859.01; from all other sources, $526.63; total, $55,622.05.

The ordinary expenditures were: For salaries of officers, wages and labor, $26,824.17; for provisions, $7,426.18; for household stores, $548.22; for clothing, $716.01; for fuel and light, $4,158.90; for hospital and medical supplies, $175.27; for transportation and traveling expenses, $108.13; for shop, farm and garden supplies, $1,293.60; for expenses of trustees, $747.20; for remittance to State Treasurer, $1,385.64; for all other ordinary expenses, $1,899.71; total ordinary expenditures, $45,283.03.

The total extraordinary expenditures were $10,306.94 for improvements, making the aggregate expenditures, $55,589.97. The only asset, September 30, 1909, was the balance in cash, $32.08.

Of the expenditures for maintenance during the year 61.1 per cent. was for salaries, wages and labor, 16.9 per cent. for provisions, 1.3 per cent. for household stores, 1.6 per cent. for clothing, 9.5 per cent. for fuel and light, .4 of 1 per cent. for hospital and medical supplies, .2 of 1 per cent. for transportation and traveling expenses, 3 per cent. for shop, farm and garden supplies, 1.7 per cent. for expenses of trustees, and 4.3 per cent. for all other ordinary expenses.

Chapter 432, Laws of 1909 (Appropriation Bill), appropriated for maintenance and instruction of inmates, $44,000.

Chapter 433, Laws of 1909 (Supply Bill), appropriated from refund moneys, for maintenance, $2,000; for deficiency in maintenance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1909, $1,000; also reappropriated unexpended balances as follows: For repairs to sewers, $371.96; for repairs and equipment, $135.34; and for laundry equipment, $229.77.

Chapter 461, Laws of 1909 (Special Appropriation Bill), appropriated for an icehouse, $2,600; for a barn, $3,000; for steel ceilings, $1,500; for books and apparatus, $500; and for repairs and equipment, including one piano, not to cost more than $450, $2,000.

The maintenance appropriations amounted to $47,000, the reappropriations to $737.07, the special appropriations to $9,600, making the total available, $57,337.07.

The State School for the Blind for a number of years has lacked facilities for the separation of the younger pupils from those in the advanced classes. The kindergarten classes are located in one of the wings of the main building, but have insufficient room. The dormitories used by the youngest children are near those occupied by older pupils, and it is difficult for the attendants to keep them under careful supervision, especially at night. The older pupils also have suffered from this enforced association with the children of the kindergarten, for the dormitorics assigned to the older boys and girls have been overcrowded with no way of extending them to secure better sanitary conditions. The crowded condition has been aggravated greatly in recent years, especially upon the boys' side, and now not only are extra beds in these dormitories, but even the corridors are used for sleeping rooms, which jeopardizes the health and safety of the pupils and, in case of a fire, may result in loss of life.

To better these conditions, the State Board of Charities has recommended heretofore the erection of a kindergarten building, which will permit the reclassification of all the pupils in the school. The small children when placed in a special building will be under the constant supervision of attendants, and live in dormitories equipped with special reference to the needs of the young. The kindergarten class rooms can then be so arranged that the general work of instruction and care of the younger chil