PART FOURTH. FINANCES AND POPULATION. PART FOURTH. FINANCES AND PRESENT NUMBER OF By law the Board is required to make certain estimates directly, and to give its opinion on the sufficiency of certain other estimates, during the month of December in each year. These estimates are quite various, but fall into two main classes, (1) special or out-door appropriations, and (2) regular in-door appropriations; the former including the sums paid for board, for reimbursement, for private charities, for removals, etc., and the latter including the expenditures at those establishments which the State supports directly from its treasury. Estimates for Special Appropriations for 1883. These were duly sent to the Secretary of State by the Board under the law of 1880, and are as follows: For the support of State paupers in lunatic hospitals, support of the sick State poor, burial of State paupers, support of infants in the Infant Asylum, support of other foundlings, $118,000 00 27,000 00 7,000 00 13,000 00 9,000 00 16,000 00 12,600 00 2,000 00 5,000 00 10,000 00 500 00 $220,100 00 The appropriations and deficiencies under these heads for 1882 amount to about $223,000. Probably the sum now TABLE OF ESTIMATES FOR 1883. estimated for 1883 will prove more than sufficient in the aggregate; for there was a surplus in the estimate for the support of State paupers in lunatic hospitals last year of about $10,000, and though the surplus may be less in 1883 it is likely to be considerable. No estimate was made by the Board for the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Estimates for In-Door Appropriations. These include the whole expense of the State Almshouse, State Workhouse, and State Primary School, for their current cost in the coming year; all but a small portion of the current expenditure at the State Reform School and the State Industrial School (the fraction being paid from the income of funds); and the outlay for other than ordinary expenses at the State lunatic hospitals. The following are the estimates sent in by the State establishments in December, 1882, with the Board's own estimate added in each case: TABLE OF ESTIMATES FOR 1883. FOR THE TEWKSBURY STATE ALMSHOUSE. (Trustees' Estimate.) Salaries, wages, and labor, $20,000 00 7,290 73 43,598 69 11,190 51 12,920 07 $95,000 00 This Board recommended the appropriation of $90,000, of which $20,000 should be paid for salaries, wages, and labor. TABLE OF ESTIMATES FOR 1883. STATE PRIMARY SCHOOL AT MONSON. (Trustees' Estimale.) STATE WORKHOUSE AT BRIDGEWATER. (Trustees' Estimate.) Salaries, wages, and labor, Groceries and provisions, Fuel, Clothing, Repairs and improvements, Other ordinary expenses, Total, . $11,000 00 14,000 00 4,000 00 3,000 00 3,000 00 5,000 00 $40,000 00 This Board recommended the appropriation of $40,000 without specifying how it may be divided; its intention being to increase the number at Bridgewater by transfer. STATE REFORM SCHOOL. (Trustees' Estimate.) This Board recommended the appropriation of $30,000 without specifying how it may be divided; referring the legislature to the recommendation, concerning this school. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS. (Trustees' Estimate.) ESTIMATES FOR EXTRAORDINARY EXPENSES. This Board recommended the appropriation of $17,000, but believes that a smaller sum will be needed if the school is removed from Lancaster. No estimates having been submitted by the Trustees of the State lunatic hospitals, for extraordinary expenditures in 1883, the Board has made no recommendation on that subject. Certain suggestions with regard to such expenditures appear in the printed reports of the hospitals at Taunton and at Danvers, but these have not been considered by the Board, because it is uncertain whether the Trustees will ask for the amounts there named, for the objects there specified. The estimates for ordinary expenditure at the five establishments named above, as sent in by their Trustees, make an aggregate of $244,600. The recommendations of the Board reduce this aggregate to $229,000, but we would here express the opinion that the changes recommended at Westborough and Lancaster might make an expenditure of $220,000 sufficient. The Idiot School Trustees ask for an appropriation of $20,000, which the Board approved, — but would refer the legislature to the recommendation concerning this School on a subsequent page. If this were acted upon, the State appropriation could be reduced one half. In order to show the population of each establishment at the date when these estimates were made, we present here the figures on the 1st of January, 1883, with the average number for the calendar year 1883 TABLE E.- POPULATION OF THE STATE ESTABLISHMENTS. At the Tewksbury State Almshouse, 994 (average for 1882, 894). POPULATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENTS JAN. 1, 1883. At the Monson State Primary School, 455 (average for 1882, 438). Pupils (included above), Men, 427 326 . 101 At the Bridgewater State Workhouse, 335 (average for 1882, 242). At the Worcester Lunatic Hospital, 697 (average for 1892, 666). At the Taunton Lunatic Hospital, 588 (average for 1882, 571). State patients, Town patients, Private patients, State patients, Town patients, Private patients, At the Northampton Lunatic Hospital, 461 (average for 1882, 461). At the Danvers Lunatic Hospital, 643 (average for 1882, 644). At the Worcester Chronic Asylum, 395 (average for 1882, 382). . 234 . 227 308 . 335 204 . 191 At the Westborough State Reform School (average for 1882, 113). Boys, At the Lancaster State Industrial School (average for 1882, 55). Girls, At the Massachusetts School for Idiots, South Boston, 141 (average for 1882, 134). Males, Females, 86 55 The aggregate of these averages is 4,600. The total number Jan. 1' 1883, was 4,897. |