OF THE

State Board of Charities

FOR THE YEAR 1902.

IN THREE VOLUMES

WITH STATISTICAL APPENDIX ΤΟ VOLUME ONE BOUND SEPARATELY.

VOLUME ONE

WITH STATISTICAL APPENDIX BOUND SEPARATELY.

TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE JANUARY 26, 1903.

ALBANY:

THE ARGUS COMPANY, PRINTERS

1903

No. 2.

IN SENATE,

JANUARY 26, 1903.

THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES.

STATE OF NEW YORK:

OFFICE OF THE STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES,

THE CAPITOL, ALBANY, January 26, 1903.

To the Hon. FRANK W. HIGGINS,

Lieutenant-Governor and President of the Senate:

SIR. By direction of the Board, I have the honor herewith to transmit to the Legislature the thirty-sixth annual report of the State Board of Charities.

Yours very respectfully,

WILLIAM R. STEWART,

President.

STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES

MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE Governor, BY AND WITH THE ADVICE AND Consent of THE SENATE.

CONTENTS.

Membership of the Board.

Memorial-Hon. Peter Walrath.

Minute relating to the resignation of Hon. Edward H. Litchfield from the Board.

Attendance at meetings..

Election of officers...

Standing committees of the Board..

Field of work covered by the State Board of Charities.

Requirements of the State Constitution..

Requirements of the State Charities Law.

Requirements of the Poor Law.....

Requirements of the Membership Corporations Law..

Requirements of the Placing Out Law..

How this work is carried on..

Placing out of children..

Educational work of the institutions.

Committee on Education.....

Appropriations to the Board by the Legislature of 1902:

Appropriation bill..

Supply bill....

Appropriations desired from the Legislature of 1903.

Charitable legislation, 1902..

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

epileptic...

Feeble-minded children.

Feeble-minded women.

Idiots....

Epileptics..

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Rules of the Board governing the reception and retention at public expense of the inmates

of institutions wholly or partly under private control.

Statistics of indoor relief:

Table of, showing number of persons remaining in institutions receiving public money,

at the close of the five fiscal years from 1898 to 1902, inclusive.....

Statistics of outdoor relief:

Table of, in cities, for the fiscal years 1900, 1901, 1902:

A. Showing the number of poor persons receiving temporary relief with the per-

centage of population thus relieved...

B. Showing the expenditures for such relief with the per capita expense.

Number and classification of beneficiaries in institutions subject to the visitation and

inspection of the Board, October 1, 1902...

State institutions.

Private institutions receiving State appropriations.

Summary of recommendations for legislation..

Appropriations made in 1902 and recommended for 1903.

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, 1902..

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

and inspection of the State Board of Charities October 1, 1902, arranged with refer-

ence to the representation from the several counties of the State.

State Industrial School, Rochester..

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