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 NEW YOEK (CITY) 397 they receive practice and instruction to fit them for service in the merchant marine or navy. The following table is taken from the latest annual report of the department (for 1871) : houses, and institutions of various kinds. The organized local charitable societies and institu- tions receive and disburse about $2,500,000 a year. The New York association for impro- ving the condition of the poor was organized in 1843. Its operations embrace the entire island of Manhattan, which is divided into 371 districts, for each of which a visitor is appointed, these being assisted by an advisory committee of five for each ward. Belief is granted only through the visitor of the district. Articles of food and clothing only are given, and efforts are made to encourage in the recipients industry and virtuous habits. In 1874 the number of families relieved was 24,091, comprising 89,845 persons, at a cost of $96,431. The whole num- ber of families relieved from the organiza- tion of the association was 226,446, comprising 952,868 persons, at a cost of $1,468,071. The children's aid society (office in E. 4th street) was formed in 1853, to " improve the condition ff t.liA nrrr anrl rJacfifiTra ^Tiilrl-iwn rvf fl-m ni-fir " INSTITUTIONS. Number of inmates during the year. INSTITUTIONS. i Number of inmates during; the year. Bellevue hospital. . . Eeception hospital (City Hall park). . Charity hospital Smallpox hospital. . Typhus fever hospt'l Incurable hospital. . Epileptic and para- lytic hospital Lunatic asylum Nursery hospital. . . Patients treated at home by depart- ment physicians. . Patients treated at bureau for out- door sick 7,514 1.905 5,999 2,526 252 1T7 297 2,023 617 5,645 17,717 3,716 149 Nursery Infant hospital Soldiers 1 retreat. . . Inebriate asylum. . Idiot asylum 2,965 2,213 855 1,718 181 19,157 681 942 115 61,466 21,182 2,868 48,058 Believed by super- intendent of out- door poor Nautical school ... . Industrial school.. . Idiot school City prisons .... Workhouse Penitentiary Free labor bureau (employment ob- tained for) Total... Blind asylum... 195.488 The number receiving medical treatment in hospitals or otherwise was 44,672 ; number of poor relieved in almshouse, asylums, or otherwise, 30,954; number in schools, 1,738; in prisons and reformatories, 75,016. The number of bodies received at the morgue was 214, of which 127 were recognized ; num- ber of interments in the city cemetery, 3,502. The current expenses of the various institu- tions amounted to $1,063,990, viz.: charita- ble, $820,788; correctional, $243,202. The amount expended in relief to outdoor poor was $42,776 50 in money and about $22,500 in coal. The number of inmates in the various institutions on Nov. 15, 1874, was as follows : INSTITUTIONS. No. of inmates INSTITUTIONS. No. of inmates City prison 431 Blind asylum 86 Second district prison. Third district prison. . Fourth district prison. Fifth district prison... Bellevue hospital Eeception hospital (park) 82 81 76 14 695 81 Workhouse Lunatic asylum Epileptic and paralytic Inebriate asylum Soldiers 1 retreat 1,954 1,215 114 8 246 834 Eeception hospital Nursery. . . 629 (99th street) 16 Nursery hospital* 452 Charity hospital 870 Infant hospital 461 Smallpox hospital Typhus fever hospital. 93 6 i Industrial school Nautical school. 271 249 Penitentiary '917 Convalescent hospital. 298 Almshouse 959 Incurable hospital 115 Total 11198 Besides the city institutions, there are numer- ous important and well directed charities man- aged by associations or corporations, some of which receive aid from the city or state. Among them are 21 associations for the relief of the poor ; 25 hospitals, of which 15 have commo- dious buildings; 30 dispensaries, furnishing medicine and medical aid ; 13 orphan asylums ; more than 50 daily industrial schools, with an average attendance of from 7,000 to 10,000; and more than 100 asylums, homes, lodging particularly the newsboys, bootblacks, and othr er street children. It has established lodging houses, furnished with reading rooms, music, and meals, and industrial schools, in which the children are instructed in the rudiments of learning and in useful occupations. The home- less, after some instruction, are provided with good situations in the west. There are five lodging houses, of which the most noteworthy are the newsboys' lodging house on the corner of Duane and New Chambers streets, and the girls' lodging house in St. Mark's place. The number of industrial schools supported in 1874 was 34 (21 day and 13 night schools) ; number of pupils enrolled, 10,288 (5,335 boys and 4,953 girls); average attendance, 3,556. The number provided with homes and employment in that year was 3,985 ; entire number since the or- ganization of the society, 36,363. The Ameri- can female guardian society and home for the friendless furnishes a temporary asylum for friendless children and destitute young women. The aim of the society is to procure homes for the children, who seldom remain many months in the institution. It supports 11 industrial schools in various parts of the city, with an average attendance of about 1,200 children, and expends annuaUy about $70,000 in carry- ing on its operations. The home is a three- story brick building on E. 30th street, with accommodations for about 150 inmates, erected in 1848. In 29th street, immediately opposite the home and connected with it by a bridge, is a four-story brick edifice in the Romanesque style, erected in 1856, containing the chapel, the school for the inmates of the home, an in-r dustrial school, and the offices of the society. The society itself was organized more than 40 years ago. The society for the reformation of juvenile delinquents was incorporated in 1824. The house of refuge under its control is situ- ated on the S. portion of Randall's island, and has 30 acres of land connected with it. The buildings are of brick in the Italian style, the
 * Including idiot asylum.