GENERAL STATISTICS OF THE ASYLUM FROM ITS OPENING, JANUARY, 1843, TO DECEMBER 1, 1857. The whole number of patients received 5,065, of whom 41.10 per cent. have been restored, and 11.94 per cent. have died. Resident Officers. John P. Gray, M.D., Superintendent and Physician. Sarah A. Starr, Matron. Edmund A. Wetmore, Utica, Treasurer. STATISTICS OF THE POOR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, DATED The expense of support and relief of the above was as follows: Expenses connected with county poor-houses.. $896,708 41 Expense of administering temporary relief. 457,675 49 Total expense. $1,354,383 90 Of the persons relieved and supported during the year there were: Foreigners Lunatics MILITIA OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. By the annual Report of the Adjutant-General, we learn that the military force of this State comprises, in the aggregate, 16,434 officers and men, divided and subdivided into eight Divisions, twenty-eight Brigades, and ninety-seven Regiments. Of ordnance, arms, and equipment there are: Cannons, 4 nine-pounders, 98 six-pounders, and 21 howitzers; muskets, 12,031; rifles, 2,130; pistols, 3,163; swords and sabers, 4,228. During the last year there have been expended, under the direction of the Commander-in-Chief, $2,592 for drums, bugles, and colors; $3,600 for tents. Drums of maple shells are preferred to shells of brass. Twenty companies have been organized during the year, viz. : fourteen infantry, two rifle, and four artillery. The whole number of enrolled militia in the State, according to the returns to the President of the United States, is 350,000. The Report makes 268 pages, embracing á great variety of interesting information to men concerned in military affairs. The names of all the commissioned officers in the State are given, with the dates of their commissions, etc. NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. This important institution was founded in 1832, by an Agricultural State Convention assembled at Albany, and was incorporated the same year. In 1841 the Legislature appropriated $8,000 annually for five years, to be distributed among the agricultural societies, which has been continued to the present time. The first cattle show and fair was held the same year at Syracuse, under the auspices of this Society, and similar exhibitions have taken place under its direction every year since that time, in different parts of the State, with constantly increasing interest, utility, and importance. For several years the Society occupied rooms in the old State Hall, at Albany, but in 1855 a new and commodious building was erected for its use, containing a lecture-room, library, laboratory, exhibition rooms, etc. Officers for 1858. Benjamin P. Johnson, Albany, Corresponding Secretary. Samuel Cheever. Alonzo S. Upham. Professor Charles H. Porter, Chemist to the Society. Monthly meeting of the Executive Committee, first Thursday in each month. The Secretary's office is in the New State Building, corner of State and Lodge streets, Albany. The next Fair will take place at Syracuse October 5, 6, 7, and 8, 1858. COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. It appears from the Report, dated Feb. 8th, 1858, that the number of emigrants who arrived at the port of New York in 1857 was 183,773. Of this number 80,976 were from Germany, 57,119 from Ireland, and 28,622 from England. The character and condition of the emigrants during this and the preceding years are represented to be superior to former years, the number of feeble or diseased and wholly destitute persons received at the establishment on Ward's Island having been not more than half the number received in corresponding months prior to January, 1856. This result is attributed in part to more stringent legislation against the reception of the most worthless class sent by foreign authorities, to be thrown upon our shores for support, in order to relieve their own communities from the burden. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION. STATEMENT MADE TO THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1858, OF THE OBJECTS, CONDITION, ETC., OF THE COMMIS SIONERS OF EMIGRATION The Commissioners of Emigration, created by the Legislature of the State in 1847, provide for all emigrants arriving at this port from foreign ports, and from ports in the United States other than this State, for five years from the date of arrival. They support the Marine or Quarantine Hospitals, to which are sent, on arrival at this port, by the Health Officer, all cases of infectious or contagious diseases, and to which are returned from this city, under the direction of the Board of Health, all emigrants infected with any contagious or infectious disease, and the Emigrant Hospitals and Refuge on Ward's Island, to which are sent all emigrants suffering from any non-contagious disease, or requiring surgical treatment, and destitute emigrants unable to support themselves. The Commissioners are also required to reimburse to the several counties of the State all expenses incurred for all emigrants chargeable to the Commission, and on the fund under its control, on the presentation of proper vouchers. All expenses incurred by and for the Commissioners of Emigration are paid and reimbursed out of the fund called the "Commutation Fund," being made up of the two dollars per capita paid for each emigrant by the ship-owners and agents of the vessels bringing the passengers, and indirectly by the emigrants themselves, and within twentyfour hours after their landing here, as a "commutation" of the bonds required by the State. The Commissioners require to be very careful and vigilant in their disbursements, having, in case of a deficit in the fund, either to further mortgage the property held by them in trust for the State, or to appeal to the Legislature, as they did last year, for aid. The Commissioners find the number of recently arrived destitute emigrants very much reduced in proportion to the gross number arrived since the establishment of the Landing Depôt at Castle Garden, from previous years, although, however, the number now chargeable in the Emigrant Refuge, at Ward's Island, are much increased during the past few months, and over what they were at the same period of last year, and which increase may be in part attributable to the comparative increase in the number of emigrants arrived during the past year over the previous year, but chiefly to the great commercial prostration. The number of emigrants arrived during the past year, as shown from the books of the Commission, is 203,500 against 142,342 for the previous year, while the number of emigrants chargeable in the several institutions, under the charge of the Commissioners at present, is 2,085 against 1,537 for the previous year, showing an increase in the number of arrivals of some twenty per cent., and of the number chargeable of about twenty-five per cent. over the same period of the year 1856. The number chargeable in the institutions of the Commissioners is as follows: In Emigrant Hospital, Ward's Island... 1,041 926 --while, however, they have accommodations for nearly thrice this number, if necessary. The protection of the emigrant is commended to your care, in making such municipal laws and passing such ordinances as may aid the Commissioners of Emigration in shielding the stranger from fraud and imposition. ALMS-HOUSE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The Alms-House Department comprehends the following city institutions: Alms-House, Bellevue Hospital, Island, Alms-House, and Small-Pox Hospitals, City Prisons, Lunatic Asylum, Nursery Hospital (Randall's Island), City Cemetery (Ward's Island), Store Departments on Blackwell's and Randall's Islands, Work-House, Penitentiary, Colored Home, and Colored Orphan Asylum. 1. The Alms-House is situated on Blackwell's Island, and is under the superintendence of the Warden, Jonathan Stearns, from whose Report to the Governors, in January, 1858, the following facts are derived: The whole number of persons admitted during the year 1857 was 4,204; of whom there were natives, 875; from Ireland, 2,705; and from other foreign countries, 624. Remaining in the Alms-House January 1st, 1858, 1,561-to wit, 719 males, 842 females; 280 natives, 1,281 foreigners. Net expenses of the Alms-House in 1857, $61,360 96. 2. BELLEVUE HOSPITAL.-Medical Officers, Jan. 1st, 1858.-Consulting Physicians-John W. Francis, M.D., President of the Board, and Isaac Wood, M.D. Visiting Physicians-John T. Metcalf, M.D., Alonzo Clark, M.D., B. W. McCready, M.D., Isaac E. Taylor, M.D., George T. Elliot, M.D., B. F. Barker, M.D. Consulting Surgeons-Valentine Mott, M.D., Alex. H. Stevens, M.D. Visiting Surgeons-Jas. R. Wood, M.D., Willard Parker, M D., C. D. Smith, M.D., Lewis A. Sayre, M.D., John J. Crane, M.D., John A. Lidell, M.D., Stephen Smith, M.D. Together with four house physicians, two house surgeons, four assistant physicians, two assistant surgeons, and one apothecary. Warden, Timothy Daly. Whole number of patients during the year 1857 was 7,776, of whom 667 died. Children born during the same period, 353. Clinical instruction was given at the Hospital to large classes of medical students. 3. BLACKWELL'S ISLAND HOSPITALS, to wit, the Island, Alms-House, and Small Pox Hospitals Total number of admissions to the Island Hospital in 1857 was 2,810; total number of patients, 3,158 The statistics of these institutions are given with great fullness in the Report of the Resident Physician, William W. Sanger, M.D. 4. CITY PRISONS.-Total number of commitments to the four city prisons for the year 1857 was 27,845. 5. LUNATIC ASYLUMS.-Officers-M. II. Ranney, M.D., Resident Physician; C. W. Packard, M.D., and R. L. Parsons, M.D., Assistant Physicians; Zetus Searle, Chaplain; Mary Goodwin, Matron. 6 NURSERY DEPARTMENT ON RANDALL'S ISLAND.-The Report of Harmon Eldredge, the Warden, states the admissions in 1857 to have been 1,434 Discharges Deaths 151 7. PENITENTIARY ON BLACKWELL'S ISLAND.-Total number of prisoners received during the year 1857 was.. Do. discharged.. 3,058 The Report of the Warden, John Fitch, furnishes a great variety of statistical tables in reference to the inmates of the Penitentiary. 8. COLORED HOME.-Officers.-Mrs. Mary Ann Wells, First Directress; Mrs. S. J. Beebee, Second Directress; Mrs. J. B. Colgate, Treasurer; Mrs. N. E. Russell, Corresponding Secretary; Miss C. L. Westerlo, Recording Secretary. A Board of 21 Lady Managers; 11 Advisers; Chaplain; Steward; Matron; Teacher. Medical Department-James D. Fitch, Resident Physician; Dr. J. S. Brumley, Assistant Physician. Medical CouncilThree physicians and three surgeons, and two honorary members. Whole number of inmates in 1857.... Now remaining (Jan. 1st, 1858).. 897 313 9. COLORED ORPHANS.-Officers.-Hetty King, First Directress; Margaret Roosevelt, Second Directress; Anna H. Shotwell, Secretary; Sarah S. Murray, Assistant Secretary: Mary F. Stoughton, Treasurer. A Board of 25 Lady Managers; 10 Advisers. Physician-Dr. James McCune Smith. Wm. E. Davis, Superintendent; Susan C. Benedict, Matron; Jane McClelland, Assistant Matron; together with six female teachers. Whole number admitted in 1857. 50 225 10. WORK-HOUSE.-Joseph Keen, Superintendent; Samuel Reynolds, Deputy Superintendent; Charles W. Smith, Clerk; Nancy M. Jameson, Matron; together with a carpenter, shoemaker, engineer, and twelve keepers. 11. OUT-DOOR POOR, office, Rotunda, in the Park.-George Kellock, Jr., Superintendent; S. Parsons, Clerk. 12. CITY CEMETERY, Ward's Island.-W. O. Webb, Keeper. |