Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1878 — New York Charities. [ARTICLE]

New York Charities.

It appears from the official report that during the past year the people of New York State have paid, in whole or in part, for the keeping of 43,095 persons in the various public charitable institutions. Of these 2,174 were insane, 356 blind, 922 deaf and dumb, 230 idiots, 61 inebriates. The house of refuge had 1,347 inmates; the county poor houses, 6,841; the city almshouses, 9,203 : the orphan asylums and reformatories, 15,990”; the homes for the aged, 3,907 ; the hospitals, 2,064. In addition, outdoor relief was given to a great number, the overseers of the poor alone relieving 114,893 persons, while the dispensaries give medical relief to 254,497. The statistics show an increase of insanity, which is doubtless to be referred in part to the hard times.