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BOARD OF
STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS OF RHODE ISLAND.
chairman:
JAMB8 F. MoOUSKBR.
seobktabt:
JAME8 R. READ.
MSMBERS OP THB BOARD, WITH POeT OFFIOB ADDRBSSBt:
JOHN J. WATSON, Jr.. Jamestown....^ .....Term expires Feb. 1, m».
WALTER A. READ. Pbovidkncb Term expires Feb. 1, mi.
PHILIPPE BOUCHER, WooKgocKET Term expires Feb. 1,1910.
JAMBB F. McOUSKBR. PoHTiAO Term expires Feb. 1,1900.
GBOROK R. LAWTON, Tiverton .Term expires Feb. 1, 1009.
ROBERT F. RODMAN. Ai.lenton_ ^ ^ Term expires Feb. 1, 1008.
HARRY H. ftHEPARD. BRISTOL Term expires Feb. 1. lOlS.
HORACE F. HORTON, Providence ^.: ^ „Term expires Feb. 1. lOlS.
WILLIAM. P. GROSS. Providence „ „. Term expires Feb. 1. IWB
Agent of State Chariiieswid Carreetkmt:
WALTER R. WIGHTMAN. Providence.
• "V' '- • J »n . •
ExectUive CommUU: ' . ^ '
JAMES F. MoOUSKBR, PHILIPPE BOUOHBR. ROBERT F. RODMAN.
SuperUUendeni State Hospital for Ineanet
ARTHUR H. HARRINGTON.
Warden of the State Priton:
ANDRE W J. WILOOX.
Deputy Superintendent, Soekanoetet Sohoolfor Bout:
EZEKIBL B. GARDNER.
Deputy Superintendent, Worlthouse and Haute af Correction:
TIMOTHY P. DODGE.
Deputy Superintendent, Atmthoute:
ASA L. MAY.
Deputy Superintendent, Oaklawn School for Girlt:
OLARA F. FORBUSH.
Deputy Warden, State Priton:
8. EDMUND SLOOUM.
Deputy Superintendent, State Hotpitalfar the Intisne:
GEORGE E. SIMPSON. M. D.
Resident Fhytieian, State Inttitutiant:
HENRY A.JONES. M. D.
Atsistant Pftytieian at the State Hospital for Intane:
EDGAR I. HANSOOM. M. D.
Internes, State Institutions:
JOHN W. SHAW, M. D.. THOMAS MOURNINGTON. M. D..
CLIFFORD HOWLAND. M. D.. GEO. ANDBRTON, M. D.
Pharmaeist:
EVERETT F. CORLISS.
ReUffious Instructor, State Institutions:
CHARLES H. EWER.
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CONTENTS
RfiPOBT OF THE BOARD: PAGE.
' ■ Almshouse .*. .^ 20
Bristol County Jail, report of „ 51
Construction— Additional cottage— Oakawn School for Girls . 12
Installation of Mechanical Drafts _ 12
Improvements at the Bockanosset Hohool for Boys 18
Improvements at the State Hospital for the Insane^ 18
Road building and other Improvements 18
Purchase of Land ^ 18
Crops raised at Hospital for the Insane ^ 29
Crops raised at State Farm.„ „ 17
Crops raised at Prison 88
Crops raised at Sockanosset School 41
Crops raised at Oaklawn School ^ 46
Estimate of expenditures for lfl07 59
Finances — 68
Hospita> for the Insane 32
Kent County Jail, report of 60
Newport County Jail, report of ~ 48
Oaklawn School for Girls ^ 44
Prison and Providence County Jail ^ 81
Reappointment of membera and change of ofBcers 9
Sockanosset School for Boys 84
Washington County Jail, report of ^ 49
Workhouse and House of Oorre?tiQu „ 16 j^
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Meetings of the Board _ «1
Statement of approprtations. etc ^ - ^ ^ 61
Statement of money collected ^ „ —. 68
Statement of salaries 66
Convicts In State Prison..^ _ ^ 118
Report of the Agent of State Obarlties and Corrections 180
Report of the Jailer of the Providence County Jail „ ^ 106
Report of the Physician of the State Institutions^ „ 186
Report of the Probation OfBcers 146
Report of the Religious lustructor ^ ^ ^. 182
Report of the Executive Committee* performing the duties of Superintendent
temporarily (See page 10.) ISl
Report of the Warden of the State Prison - 100
Statistics of the Workhouse and House of Correction 01
A.ppendlx— Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly passed at the January
Session, 1906. relating to the Board of State Charities and Correc-
tions, etc ^ ^...^ 168
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THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
^oard of State Charities and Corrections.
Tjq M# Jifonorabie S^nerai jfssemdiy of the Siaie of Sfhotio Saianti
€Mi its ^anuaiy Session, /SOS,
The Board of State Charities and Corrections respectfully
present their report for the year ending December 81, 1907, as
required by Chapter 291, Section 11, of the General Laws of
Rhode Island.
Mr. Harry H. Shepard, of Bristol, was elected member of the
Board by the Senate, at the January Session, 1907, for an
additional term ending Feb. 1, 1918.
Mr. Horace F. Horton, of Cranston, was elected by the
Senate, at the January Session, 1907, to succeed Mr. Thimias
W. Waterman, his time having expired.
Col. R. H. I. Goddard resigned his position on the Board,
June 21, 1907, and Mr. William P. Cross, of Barrington, was
appointed by His Excellency, Governor James H. Higgins, July
13, 1907, to fill the vacancy ad interim.*
* Mr, 8. WiUard Thayer, of Pawtucket. was elected at the January Session. 10O8,
%o tacoe^d Mr, Ohms.
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10 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
Mr. Charles H. Peckham, Secretary of the Board since May,
1892, died July 21, 1907, and Mr. James K. Read was
appointed Mr. Peckham's successor, Aug. 2, 1907.
Mr. James H. Eastman, Superintendent of tlie State Work-
house and House of Correction, and of the State Almshouse,
Superintendent of the Sockanosset School for Boys, and Super-
intendent of the Oaklawn Scliool for Girls, died August 22,
1907. No appointments have been made to fill tlie offices held
by Mr. Eastman, the duties of which have been performed by a
committee of the Board, appointed ad interim by the Board,
September 20, 1907, consisting of Messrs. McCusker, Boucher
and Rodman.
April 5, 1907, Dr. Frederick B. Jewett resigned the position
of Superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane, to take
effect June J50, 1907. On June 3, 1907, Dr. Artliur H.
Harrington was appointed to tliis position. Dr. Harrington is a
graduate of Brown University, Providence R. I., and of the
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa. After finishing
his medical course, he spent two years in further study and
hospital work, and was then appointed assistant physician
at tlie Danvers Insane Hospital, which position he held for
ten years. He then became resiient physician at the State
Farm, Bridgewater, Mass. In 1898, Dr. Harrington was made
Superintendent of the Danvers Insane Hospital, Danvers,
Mass., and held this position until 1903, wlien lie was elected
Superintendent of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, of
New York City, resigning said office to become Superintendent
of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Howard, R. I. The
Board believe that in Dr. Harrington they have an able and
efficient Superintendent.
Mr. E. E. Gardner was appointed Deputy Superintendent of
the Sockanosset School for Boys, January 1, 1907.
The following minutes are from the records of tlie Board,
having been adopted soon after the incidents referred to, re-
spectively :
''The letter of Col. R. H. I. Goddard notifying the Board
that he has tendered to His Excellency, the Governor, his re-
signation as a member of the Board of State Charities and
Corrections has been received by his associate members on the
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 11
Board with a feeling of deep regret. Since 1898 Col. God-
dard has served the State with great fidelity, displaying rare dip-
lomacy and tact in all the varied matters upon which the Board
has been called upon to act. We, each and every one of us,
feel that the State has lost a valued servant: that the Board
has lost a wise counsellor. In recognition of his services, it is
UDanimously voted to spread this resolution upon the records
of the Board, and that the Secretary be directed to forward an
engrossed copy of the same to Col. Qoddard."
'"In memory of Charles H. Peckham, late Secretary of tlie
Board of State Charities and Corrections.''
"Charles Henry Peckham, Secretary of the Board of State
Charities and Corrections, departed this life on Sunday, July
21, 1907, at Higgins Beach, Maine, in the 75th year of his age."
''Mr. Peckhan, during his long and useful life, served his
native town of Scituate in the Legislature of the State many
years with credit. He also rendered valuable service to tlie
industrial and agricultural interests of the State by reason
of his connection with the State Agricultural Fair Association
for many years. Probably, however, the most useful years of
his life were those devoted to the service of the State as
member and Secretary of this Board, having been a member of
the Board from 1887 to 1900 and Secretary from 1892 to the
date of his death. As Secretary, he gave to the State con-
scientious and valuable service, performing his duties with in-
telligence and with the greatest fidelity; and, in just recogni-
tion of the sterling qualities of which he was possessed, and in
appreciation of the faithful service he performed for so many
years, this Board here makes record of its sincere friendship
for the man and its deep respect for the officer."*
^'Resolved. That the foregoing minute be spread upon the
records of this Board, and that a copy suitably engrossed be
sent to the family of the deceased."
""In the year 1884 Mr. James H. Eastman commenced his
work at the State Institutions at Howard, and from that period
• Mr. OhnrlesH. Peckham was appointed member of the Board by His Excellency,
Governor JohD W. Davis, November, 1887. He resigned his membership In May, 1hs»2.
and was at that time appointed Secretary of the Board. As Secretary of the Board,
be wa8,bj law, member of the Board ex-offlclo until May 4, 1(N)0. when this feature
Of the law was annulled.
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12 8TATE CHARITIES AND C0BBB0TI0N8.
until the time of his 'death has served the State with signal
ability in the various offices he has been called upon to fill.
As a result of his labor, the departments over which he has
been in charge have reached a high degree of efficiency and
are recognized throughout the country as models in their line.
In appreciation of his faithful and valued services, the Board
direct- that this testimonial be spread upon the records of the
Board; and an engrossed copy of same be sent to Mrs. East-
man."
CONSTRUCTION.
ADDITIONAL COTTAGE FOR THE OAELAWN BOHOOL FOR QIRLB.
A full description of this building was given in the report
of the Board for 1906. Briefly, it is 79 ft. 6 in. long by 84 ft.
6 in. wide, with a rear extension 84 ft. by 24 ft., and the walls
are of brick and the trimmings of granite. It has a basement,
two main stories and an upper story lighted by dormer and
gable windows. Besides the necessary service rooms, it con-
tains twenty-six bed-rooms for girls, each room measuring 8 ft.
by 12ft. 4 in. The purpose of the building is to classify the
girls as well as to provide additional accommodation for the
Scl)ool. Messrs. Martin and Hall, the architects of the build-
ing, report as follows regarding the work accomplished in 1907,
the foundation and basement walls having been built in 1906.
''The construction of the new Cottage at theOaklawn School
for Girls has proceeded slowly throughout the year ; at the
present time (December 31, 1907) the building is well along
toward completion ; the plastering is finished and the carpenters
are putting in place the wood trim and the floors. Painters
will soon be at work and the building can be made ready
for occupancy early in the spring."
Mechanics from the Workhouse and House of Correction in-
stalled the steam heating plant. The plumbing and wiring
for electric lights, bells, annunciators, etc. were done by
mechanics and inmates of the same institution.
INSTALLATION OF MECHANICAL DRAFTS.
Three Mechanical Drafts have been installed by the Burke
Engineering Company, one at the Hospital for the Insane,, one
at the Sockanosset School for Boys and one at the Almshouse,
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BSPOBT OV THB BOARD. 18*
The Boiler House at the last named institution has been en-
larged by moving the north-east wall twenty-three feet, add-
ing, so much to the floor space of the building. This not only
accommodates the mechanical draft but will afford room for two
additional boilers should they be needed in the future. The
four original boi'ers were retubed during the year. The pur- ^
pose of the mechanical drafts is to provide a means for the con-
sumption of a smaller and cheaper kind of coal than it has been
customary to use.
I11PR0V£MEKTS AT THJE 80CKANO8SET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
A brooder-house, 16 by 20 feet, near the hennery, and a
potting house by way of addition to the green-house, 10 by 14
feet, were constructed wholly by some of the boys of the
School.
IKPROVEMKNTS AT THE STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSAKE.
Besides the mechanical draft mentioned above, the only
construction work the past year at the Hospital for the Insane
was the building of a section of tunnel for steam-mains and
other piping.
ROAD BUILDING AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.
The rebuilding of Brayton Avenue along the south side of
the Oaklawn School grounds and the road leading from the
avenue to the buildings of the School and spoken of in the re-
port of last year as having been commenced, was finished dur-
ing the year. The Avenue is 2818 feet in length; the
central portion of it, 15 feet in width, is underlaid with large
stone covered with broken stone and gravel well rolled.
A pond, 270 feet long, 100 feet wide and 6 feet deep, was ex-
cavated the past year upon land recently purchased near the
Pawtuxet River. Its purpose is to add to the means of
providing ice for the Institutions.
PURCHASE OF LAND.
Three areas of land, aggregating thirty-two acres, were pur-
chased in 1907 for $4,500.
One of the areas, bought of Walter E. Stafford and measur-
ing twenty-flve acres, lies between the Pontiac Branch Rail-
road and the Pawtuxet River, and with an adjoining area of
six acres bought of Jonathan King extends the land of the In-
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STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
stitutions to the southward along the Pawtuxet River a
considerable distance.
The other piece of land, bought of Julina Potter, con-
tains about one acre with a dwelling house. It fronts on
Pontiac Avenue nearly opposite the Prison and Jail.
The following table shows the size and cost of all the areas
of land purchased for the State Institutions in Oranston ;
1869 Howard Farm, with buildings ^ 280.56 acres |22,500 00
1869 Brayton Farm, with buildiugs 117.46 *' 7,000 00
1870 Burlingame purchase, for water works .... 19.70 '' 2,500 00
1871 Pardon Williams' purchase 3.50 '' 800 00
1877 Thomas Grace purchase 11.36 '* 1,600 00
1880 Job Wilbur purchase, for Oaklawn School 8.78 '' 1,200 00
1882 Pardon Williams' purchase, with buildings 68.48 '' 6,600 00
1886 Jenison purchase, for sewerage 12.08 '' 3,961 79
1886 Latham purchase 8.39 '' 1,862 44
1887 Hamill purchase 7.80 '' 1,467 92
1891 Slade purchase, with buildings 7.39 *' 6,000 00
1894 Frank L. Budlong purchase 97 '* 145 60
1894 Christopher N. Wescott purchase .33 *\ 50 70
1896 Charles E. Stone purchase 20.80 '' 2,000 00
1897 Frank Silva purchase 88.80 *' 10,000 00
1902 Stafford purchase 8.00 '' 800 00
1903 Frank F. Olney purchase ^.... 60.00 '' 2,808 76
1903 Jonathan King purchase 24 '* 460 00
1907 Walter E. Stafford purchase 26.00 *' 1,600 00
1907 Jonathan King purchase 6.00 '' 600 00
1907 Julina Potter 1.00 '' 2,400 00
741.11 acres 76.032 11
SALE OF LAND.
1886 To E. A. Jenison 2.42 *' 792 70
738.69
74,239 41
Average cost per acre $100.60.
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REPORT OP THE BOARD. 15
STATE WORKHOUSE AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
Sup^rinientieni.' (Duties of Superintendent performed temporarily by
an Executive Committee of tlie Board; See paj^e 10.)
7>^puiy Superiniertii^ni.' Mr. Timothy P. Doclgc.
patron.' Mrs. Mary E. Wood.
The total number of persons comniitted to the Workhouse
and House of Correction in 1907 was 697. This number is less
by 113 than tlie number committed in 1906. The decrease was
due, in part, to the fact that non-support cases can now be
committed to the Providence County Jail, an act having been
passed by the last General Assembly making this possible.
Of the 597 persons committed in 1907, 232, or a little less
than forty per-cent., were common drunkards, about the same
percentage of this class of offenders as in 1906. The number
of deaths was six, four less than in 1906.
The Executive Committee reports as follows to the Board :
^The discipline of the institution has been maintained at its
usual high standard. The majority of the inmates are disposed
to obey the rules. Only those viciously disposed get into
trouble."
•'Several entertainments were given at the institution by
outside parties for the benefit of the inmates. Catholic and
Protestant services were held every Sunday. Mr. Frederick
Bowman, of Providence, a lay reader from the Brotherhood of
St. Andrew, held religious services Saturday afternoons and
the first Sunday in every month. The Sisters of Charity have
visited the women inmates twice every month during the year. "
^'Everything has been done for the general welfare and up-
lifting of these unfortunate people, that was possible with the
inadequate facilities furnished us. We have tried to make
better men and women of them. Many have left us with the
firm determination to break away from their old associates and
environments and to live better lives. We know some have
succeeded ; others have fallen an easy prey to their abnormal
appetites and passions and were soon again traveling the road
that leads to the Workhouse. We think that after taking into
consideration our liberal probation laws, and other means of
reformation used in behalf of these people before they are sent
to us, we have reason to feel encouraged. The men of this
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16 STATB CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
institution were employed during the year as usual in farming
and in a variety of ways for the Institutions. The following are
some of the items of their work reported to us:"
''A gang of painters was kept busy painting, papering and
kalsomining at the Almshouse, the Superintendent's house, the
Workhouse and House of Correction and at the Sockanosset and
Oaklawn Schools. The farm wagons, carriages, farming-tools
and implements have been painted as occasion required."
'^ About three acres of land on the Allen lot, so-called, near
the Pawtuxet River, has been cleared of trees, stumps and
stones and is now in good condition for tillage."
''During the year, J360 cars of coal were unloaded at the Prison
siding with the assistance of the Jail forces. Three hundred
and sixty-seven tons of coal were hauled from Warwick and one
hundred and forty tons from Providence."
''A large crop of ice was cut and stored, the labor of cutting
having been done by Workhouse and House of Correction
labor."
''A new ice pond has been made by excavation near the
Pawtuxet River on land recently purchased of Mr. Jonathan
King and Mr. Walter E. Stafford. The pond is 270 feet long,
by 100 feet wide and five feet deep. The soil here is wet and
601 days' labor were required for this work."
''The farm forces hauled fi-om the rail-road station at Oaklawn
the structural material for the new building of the Oaklawn
School and gravel from the gravel bank of the institutions for
construction and grading for the same. A new main-pipe for
the water supply of the building was laid by men of the Work-
house and House of Correction."
"Owing to a cold, backward spring, and a long continued
drought in the summer, the crops were not up to the usual
standard, except the potatoes and late cabbages, which yielded
a large crop of fine quality. Two hundred and fifty-five tons
of hay of excellent quality were harvested. The second crop
of hay, owing to the drought, was very light."
"The farm stock has been generally healthy. Four cows and
four oxen were slaughtered for l)eef during the year; two of the
cows were condemned by the physician as tubercular and were
destroyed. The swine were free from cholera. Several
hundred dollars worth of pigs were sold and a good deal of fresh
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and salt pork was provided for the families and inmates."
The crops raised on the State
58 bush.
523 lbs.
b}4 bush.
25>ibush.
115 bush.
Apples „
Asparagus
Beans, lima
Beans, shell
Beans, string
Beef, fresh 4884
Beets, table 244 bush
Beets, manorle 3207 bush
Blackberries 284 qts.
Butter 968K lbs.
lbs.
CabbaRe
20350
hd8.
Carrots ^
120
bush.
Cauliflower
99
hds.
Cherries
1
bush.
Com, field, shelled
251
bush.
Com, sweet, ears
1178
doz.
Com, fodder
24
tons.
Corn, pop
4
bush.
Cucumbers
1286
doz.
Currants _
213
qts.
Dandelions
210
bush.
Emra
516|
240
doz.
Gooseberries
qts.
Grapes
n
bush.
Green oat fodder....
S21U tons.
Green alfalfa and
Rrass
mU tons.
Hay, first crop 255 tons.
Farm were as follows :
Hay, second crop.. 31 y J tons.
Lard 935 lbs.
Lettuce 735 hds.
Melons, musk 2168
Melons, water„ 875
Milk 21829}^ gals.
Onions „ 175 bush.
Parsnips 125 bush.
Pears 13ijj bush.
Peas 81 bush.
Peppers }4 bush.
Pickles, cucumber 3 bbls.
Pork, fresh 17565 lbs.
Pork, salt 42 bbls.
Potatoes 4871 bush.
Poultry 39U^ lbs.
Radishes „ 230 doz.
Rareripes 1067 doz.
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Rye straw
Rye
Sausage meat
Spinach
Strawberries 2522
Squash
Tomatoes Ill bush.
Turnips 757 bush.
191
qts.
1165
lbs.
mi
tons.
53
bush
408
lbs.
210
bush
2522
qts.
900
lbs.
The statistics of the Workhouse and House of Correction
for 1907 are as follows :
Men. Women. Total.
Number of inmates Dec. 31, 1906 221 59 270
" committed during the year 444 138 582
'* committed for wilfully escaping 10 0 10
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Men.
Number transferred from Reform School 0
" committed for fines and costs 4
'* discharged during the year 464 140.
** escaped during the year 18
'' died during the year 6
'' . transferred to Reform School 0
''■ remaining Dec. 31, 1907 181
Women,
Total.
1
1
0
4
140
... 604
0
... 18
0
6
1
1
57
... 238
The average numbers taken from the montlily reports up to
1885, and since then from the daily record, have been:
In
Men.
Women.
Total.
1872 _
108
48
62
156
1873
146
208
1874
189
69
208
1876
159
64
223
1876
166
m
232
1877
146
56
202
1878
...^ 146
74
^ 220
1879
125
66
191
1880
137
58
195
1881
149
58
207
1882
154
59
213
1883
155
59
214
1884
179
54
233
1885
165
60
225
1886
las
36
169
1887
116
40
156
1888
160
55
215
1889
178.6
57.5
236
1890
161.6
66.5
227
1891
187
53
240
1892
178
68
247
1893
179
60
239
1894
178
73
251
1896
172
69
241
1896
183
77
260
1897 ^
194
77
271
1898
196
89
285
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Men.
Women.
Total.
1899
^. 189
73
62
„ 262
1900....
„ 188
250
1901
196
67
262
1902
180
70
250
1906. .
188.
64
252
1904
216
64
279
1906
207
62
269
1906...
217
63
280
1907
181
56
237
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STATE ALMSHOUSE.
Svp9riniend9ni: (Duties of Superintendent performed temporarily by
an Executive Committee of the Board. See page 10.)
7)9puiy fSup^rinienti^Hif Mr. Asa L. May.
The Executive Committee reports as follows to the Board :
''We submit herewith the report of the Almshouse for the
year 1907. The number of inmates decreased, during the
year, from 508 at the beginning to 484 at the close. The
average number was five less in 1907 than in 1906."
''The number of persons admitted (897) was 17 larger than in
1906. The number of births was three less than in
1906. The number of deaths was 28 larger than in 1906. (192
in 1906: 220 in 1907)."
"The conditions at the Almshouse remained practically the
same throughout the year as existed at the close of 1906. The
Institution is still overcrowded."
"Friends contributed during the year, as in years past, by
visits, religious instruction, entertainments, etc., much to the
pleasure of the inmates, for which we are truly grateful. In
the summer a day's outing at Fields' Point was given to all
of the inmates who were able and wished to be present."
ifen. Womm. Boys. Girls, Total.
Number of inmates Dec. 31, 1906.... 215 281 34 28 606
'' admitted during the year 239 127 18 18 897
" born during the year 9 6 15
Number discharged during the year 116 66 16 19 216
'' died during the year 128 81 9 2 290
remaining Dec. 31, 1907...-« 211 211 86 26 484
The average numbers taken from the monthly reports up to 1885,
and since then from the daily records, have been :— -
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total.
In 1875.., - 46 65 17 14 182
1876 66 66 13 12 146
1877 60 66 10 9 144
1878 . 67 71 14 9 161
1879 ^ 68 77 16 9 169
1880 71 71 18 7 167
1881 70 68 19 7 164
:, ^. 85 73 19 13 190
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Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total.
1888.....
90
73
23
14
200
1884
,... 85
69
28
18
195
1886
71
24
15
200
1886.....
95
66
14
10
185
1887 ..
88
76
75
20
11
17
23
201
1888......
102
211
1888 ...
10ft.fi
87.2
94
11.5
11.8
23
20.2
281.2
1890.....
.... .. ... 100.7
226.7
1891 .....
. 100.6
104
10
15.8
229.9
1892..
Oft
113
128
10
15
15
17
S84
1898.....
106
266
1891....
107
131
17
21
276
1895
_ „. 124
137
144
22
29
18
22
801
1898......
820
1897
.„ „ 134
149
24
28
880
1898......
.... 150
160
81
25
366
1899
: 164
174
30
22
880
1900
180
175
32
14
401
1901
^ 186
178
192.3
35
31.7
18
22.9
417
1902
.. 187.4
484.8
1908
193.1
195.1
35.7
25.11 449
1904.
210
205.6
34.5
26.5
476.6
1906
228
217
35
27
507
1906
225
223
38
26
512
1907
214
228
37
28
507
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22 8TATB CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
Sup9rtni9nd9nit Dr. Arthur H. Harrington.
7>9puty Sttp&rini&ndenif Dr. George E. Simpson.
The Board submits in its entirety the following admirable
report of Dr. Harrington regarding the condition and needs of
Rhode Island's Hospital for the Insane, as he sees them after a
long experience in hospitals for the insane in Massachusetts and
five months administration here.
It is the desire of the Board and of Dr. Harrington to make
our institution the equal of any elsewhere and Dr. Harrington
points the way to this end.
We earnestly call the attention of the General Assembly to
his report and trust that means will be generously provided
for the purposes indicated in it.
Dr. G. Alder Blumer kindly permits us to use the following
extract from the last annual report of the Butler Hospital, of
which he has charge :
*'And here it is pertinent to attempt to dispel the popular
error that the State Hospital at Howard is primarily a place of
safe detention and not, what in fact it is, a hospital for mental
diseases with medical functions and obligations not differing
from those of Butler Hospital in essence, although its opera-
tions may be otherwise conducted and its results otherwise
achieved. The people of Rhode Island, and especially the med-
ical profession, should not cease to keep this important func-
tion of a State Ho.^pital prominently before those who
hold the key to the public treasury, to tlie end that its door
may swing wide open when appropriations are required for a
class of sufferers whose necessities make so strong an appeal to
the human heart. Be it ever remembered that no State was
ever impoverished by making adequate provision — and nothing
short of the best is adequate — for its dependent or partially
dependent sick. The institution at Howard has secured the
services of a well-known alienist and trained administrator who
is bending to his task with energy and a brave spirit; but what
Dr. Harrington needs more than anything else in these
first days of his superintendency is the vigorous backing
of an enlightened, thoroughly aroused, public opinion, ex-
pressing itself in an insistent demand for everything that
shall enable the State Hospital to hold high its head as in all
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respects the peer of any institution of its kind in our country."
Some of the wants of the Hospital for the Insane referred to
by Dr. Harrington have been made known by the Board in
previous reports, especially the urgent need of an administra-
tion building. See report for 1902 and subsequent reports.
Ci M* ^oarei of Siaic Chariiics and Corrocitons*
Gentlemen : — I herewith present my report for the year
ended December 31, 1907.
As I entered upon my duties as Superintendent of the State
Hospital for the Insane on August 1., my administration
covers the latter five months of the year just ended.
(lENBRAL STATISTICS.
Men, Women, Total.
Number of patients Jan. 1, 1907 .. 527 479 1006
'* admitted during ttie year 285 155 390
'• returned from parole 91 80 171
*' escaped inmates returned 15 2 17
Total number of cases during tlie
year 868 716 1584
Number . discharged during the
year 27 13 40
paroled during the year 196 166 862
** escaped during the year 17 2 19
died during the year 92 79 171
Total number leavingthe Hospital 332 260 592
Number remaining Dec. 31, 1907 ... 536 456 992
The number of patients admitted during the year 1907, was
390; this does not include tliose returned having been previ-
ously paroled or having escaped and is the largest number
admitted in any one year since the establishment of the
Hospital.
The number of patients present in the Hospital at the close
of 1907, viz., 992, was 14 less than at the close of 1906.
The largest number of patients present on any one day in
1907 was 1013, January 16th, and tlie smallest 964, November
17th. The daily average number of patients in 1907 was 990,
which was smaller by 16 than the daily average number in
1906.
The number of deaths, 171, was eight more than in 1906.
Between July 20th, of the past summer and October 15th,
twenty cases of typhoid fever developed at the Hospital.
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24 STATE CHARITIES AND COBRECTIONS.
Eighteen of the cases were inmates and two were employees.
The State Board of Health was called in consultation. An ex-
amination failed to disclose any pollution of our water, and,
pending further investigation, no additional cases of typhoid
appeared.
With this exception the general conditions of health among
the eleven hundred patients and employees has been good.
The only construction work, the past year, has been the
building of a section of tunnel for steam mains and other
piping.
A forced draft system has been installed in connection with
the steam boiler plant and is now in operation. This provides
a means for the consumption of a cheaper grade of coal than
it has been customary to use.
The average yield of farm crops is below that of last year,
due to the exceptionally dry season. Potatoes, however, one
of the crops upon which we are largely dependent, yielded far
better than anticipated, and we shall probably have suflBcient
to carry us over to next season. At the end of this report is a
list showing the amounts of the various products of the farm.
STATE CARE OF THE INSANE.
State care of the Insane when it attains to the plane of the
standard of to-day consists in providing all means for custody
and treatment which experience has proved to be necessary,
expedient and curative for certain persons, whose manifesta-
tions of disease have been such that it becomes necessary and
wise to commit them by legal process to a special institution
supported by the State.
These means should be provided with a due regard for econ-
omy, at the same lime bearing in mind what constitutes a true
and a false economy in the care of the insane. For a measure
may not show its value at tlie moment, but when gauged upon
the broad grounds of humanity may mean life and health and
happiness to the individual; it may be the means of restoring
a citizen to the ranks of the bread-winner, and may in the end
prove itself a saving to the State.
The primary unit in a system of State Care of the Insane is
the State Hospital. Among the collateral and cooperative
means by which a certain proportion of the dependent insane
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may be provided for or kept under observation with advantage
to themselves and with a saving to the State are the Colony
System and the Family Oare System.
The State Hospital, physically, should comprise a central
plant which for a number of reasons, one of which is economy,
should provide for several hundred patients, and should consist
of buildings of fire-proof construction, so planned and grouped
as to admit of a proper classification of patients and each build-
ing should be specifically adapted for the needs of each class.
The State of Rhode Island has already made a beginning in
the right direction, for during the administration of the late Dr.
George F. Keene the congregate dining-room was built. This
seats 800 patients and compares favorably with any congregate
dining-room in any of the hospitals for the insane in the country.
A service building was erected containing kitchens, bakery
and cold storage rooms. A central steam plant was also built
with a capacity for furnishing light and heat to a large group of
buildings, such as this hospital will comprise when the plans
that have been suggested are carried out.
The character of these new structures conforms to the re-
quirements of present day hospital construction for the insane.
The work, however, has paused here, and we have nothing
which is worthy the name of an administration building. We
have no quarters for nurses and attendants, except in such close
proximity to the wards that their rest is often broken by the
turbulence of patients. Moreover, we have not sufficient ac-
commodations for all the nurses and attendants which the ser-
vice requires.
The first and second Assistant Physicians have their private
quarters outside of the immediate hospital premises because of
the lack of accommodations for them within the hospital. This
is a condition which is directly opposed to a proper system of
hospital organization.
The Superintendent of the Hospital is not provided with con-
venient or comfortable living quarters.
The number of patients which we are requiried to care for is
already taxing the limits of the institution. A reference to
the figures below, showing the growth of the institution from
year to year, will indicate the necessity for prompt attention on
the part of the State towards providing for the future, for with
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26 REPORT OF THE BOARD.
the growth of the State in population there will cornea relative
increase in the number of the insane.
In order to perfect and maintain an organization which can
properly carry on the work of caring for a thousand insane,
which can give the best chance of recovery to tlie acute cases,
which can guard against accidents and unfortunate occurrences,
and which canafibrd the most comfort to the chronic cases, the
physical plant and its equipment must be provided. Without
these requisites the administration is placed in a false position,
for the public looks for the best results whatever the conditions
may be.
A comprehensive view of the work which should be continued
at the State Hospital is implied in the foregoing, and the im-
mediate needs of the Hospital to which I think the State should
turn its attention at once are: — An administration building,
a nurses' home, additional quarters for male attendants, a
house for the Superintendent and separate provisions for
insane criminals.
Our buildings are entirely unsuited in construction for the
custody of the insane criminals, many of whom are dangerous
and are constantly contriving methods of escape. It is an in-
justice, also, to the non-criminal and innocent persons to be
placed under an unnecessary surveillance in order that a few
persons of the class of which I speak may be prevented from
making their escape or committrng dangerous acts. I, there-
fore, think that sej)arate buildings or wards should be provided
and maintained in connection with one of the penal institutions
for the purpose of caring for the insane criminals of tlie State.
This department should not be located upon the grounds of the
State Hospital.
PAROLES.
In the annual report of your Board for the year 1906, Walter
R. Wightman, Agent of State Charities and Corrections, made
the recommendation that the duration of temporary leaves of
absence of patients from the State Hospital, which are granted
under conditions prescribed by the Public Laws, should be
extended from sixty days to six months.
I heartly concur in this recommendation. Sixty days is, in my
experience in most instances, too short a time for a '^trial vis-
it." If at the end of the sixty days the patient is discharged and
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BBPORT OF THB BOARD. 27
shortly afterwards it is found necessary to return the patient,
a reexamination and another order of commitment from the
Court must be obtained in order to place the patient in the
Hospital again.
During the period when the parole is in force, the patient is
still under the authority of your Board and can be returned at
any moment without any formality. The knowledge of this
fact often acts in a salutary manner upon the mind of the pa-
tient and is in many instances a restraining influence.
While it is obviously necessary to set some time limit upon
the parole, yet I think it should be made as long a time in the
State of Rhode Island as experience elsewhere has approved.
In Massachusetts this time limit has been extended from sixty
days to six months, and I understand that the advantages de-
rived from this change have exceeded expectation.
FAMILY CARE SYSTEM.
I have referred above to the Family Oare System as one of
the collateral and cooperative measures entering into a system
of State Oare of the Insane. In your report of last year, your
Agent, Mr. Wightman, renewed a former recommendation '*for
a la\^ permitting the Board of State Charities and Corrections
to board out th6 insane of the quiet chronic class in private
families."
I will say that I have had some experience with this system
in the State of Massachusetts, having had under my charge a
number of patients who from time to time I recommended
as suitable cases for family care. As far as the patients so
placed were concerned, I have seen this system act most favor-
ably in the majority of instances with which I have been ac-
quainted.
Released from the artificial restraint of the hospital they
have appreciated the more natural, simple and free life of the
home ; and I have occasionally known a patient to pass entire-
ly from public support, as the result of being placed in a fam-
ily and, finally, to obtain self-supporting employment.
A'S far as the State is concerned, there is an advantage, for
every patient so placed makes room in the hospital for some one
actually requiring hospital care. If such a system were adopt-
ed in this State and in time from fifty to one hundred patients
were boarded out, the State would have saved the expenditure
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28 8TATK 0HARITIB8 AND 00RRBCTI0N8.
for the hospital construction which that number of patients
would require.
Very soon the State will be forced to provide for additional
numbers, and this system offers an outlet which will aid to some
extent in preventing the crowding of the State Hospital.
I hope to see this system adopted by the State of Rhode Is-
land at this session of the legislature.
The yearly averaj^e numbers taken from the monthly reports up to
1885, and since then from the daily record are as follows:
In 1872...
1878....
1874....
1875....
1876....
1877....
1878....
1879....
1880..
1881....
1882....
1888....
1884
1886
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891.....
1892....,
1898
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1900..
Min, WotH0n,
Toua.
70. 78...
148
78. 84
162
84 82
166
86 84
170
101 87..„
188
110 94 «
204
118 108..
216
128.... 115
288
114 127
241
128 148
266
141 162
286
147 148
295
168 154
812
179...... 170.
349
196.. 201
896
210.. 226
436
221 242
468
281 264
496
284 6-6 272 8-4
6077-12
246 282
627
262 292.
664
281 292
678
298 297..
686
811 810
621
320 882
662
884 368.
682
362 363
716
349. 369.
718
886.... 874
740
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99
Mm.
Wimen.
Total.
1901
878
874...
.... 752
1902^
_. 895.6
...... 405.9
.. 801.6
1908 „..
425.7
414.6
.. 840.8
1904
.- 469
508
436
467
....„ 488
895
1905. ..^_
.... 960
1906.....
^ 517
.... 10U5
1907
586
456
.... 992
In closing this report I desire to express to you my apprecia-
tion of the spirit which pervades your Board, as I perceive your
desire and readiness to adopt, as far as possible, my suggestions
having to do with the improvement of conditions at the State
Hospital. At the present time these improvements are calling
imperatively for accomplishment, and generosity at this time
towards the State Hospital and the unfortunate wards of the
State will in the end prove to be a measure of economy.
I desire to commend to your Board the Assistant Physicians
and officers whom I have found here and who have given me
their valuable aid and support during my first months of in-
cumbency of this office.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR H. HARRINGTON, M. D.
SUPBRHn^ENDENT.
January 1, 1908.
The products of the farm of the State Hospital for the Insane
in 1907, were as follows:
Apples - 28K
Asparagus 580
Beans, green 147
Beans, lima 28>^
Beans, shell 6
Beef- 5941
Beet greens 88
Beets, mangle 29>j^
Beets, table...., 896
Blackberries 1178
Cabbage 18870
Calf skins-.. ^.... 11
bush.
bun.
bush.
bash.
bush.
lbs.
bush.
tons.
bash.
qts.
hds.
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Corn, ears
Corn, fodder dry....
Corn, fodder green
Corn, green
Cucumbers
Cucumber pickles..
Dandelion greens
Eggs
Hay, first crop
206 bush.
60 hds.
2518 bun.
164 bush.
54 tons.
65 tons.
4563 ears.
179 bush.
26 bbls.
406 bush.
890}^ doz.
eS}i tons.
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STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIOKS.
Hay, second crop... 9
Hides 13
Hungarian millets 8
Lettuce 1987
Melons, musk 1448
Melons, water 576
Milk 66693
Oat fodder 59
Onions 342
Parsnips 98
Pears 3
Peas, dry 17
Peas, K^een 89>^
Pork 6770
Potatoes 3690
Poultry 108
tons.
tons,
hds.
qts.
tons.
bush.
bush.
bush.
bush.
bush.
lbs.
bush.
lbs.
Quinces
Radishes
Rareripes
Rhubarb
Rye
Rye straw
Sage
Spinach
Squash, summer....
Strawberries
Tomatoes, green
Tomatoes, ripe
Turnips, flat
Turnips, ruta baga....
Veal
380
4206
4633
196
14
66
1860
6462
86
410
108
669
708
bush,
bun.
lbs.
bush.
tons.
lbs.
bush.
lbs.
qts.
bush.
bush.
bush.
bush.
lbs.
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REPORT OP THE BOARD. 81
STATE PRISON AND PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL.
ii/ar€fen. Mr. Andrew J. Wilcox.
7>9j9uiy fi/artfen. Mr. S. Edmund Slocum.
The Warden makes the following report for the year 1907:
''In 1907, thirty-seven persons were committed to the Prison;
thirty-six were discharged and one died. To the Jail were
committed 1860 persons ; 1782 were discharged or transferred
and two died. The average number in the two institutions,
together, during the year was 480."
''Over two hundred of the men were employed remunera-
tively in the manufacture of shirts and upon wire work. The
remainder found occupation in farming, gardening and breaking
stone and in various other ways about the Prison and Jail.
Our object is to keep all employed, as we believe that nothing
is more beneficial, mentally and physically, to persons under
confinement than employment of some kind."
"The discipline during the past year was maintained at its
usual high standard."
"The necessity for a new Jail to relieve our crowded
condition and for other reasons, that were stated in my last
report, still exists."
"The general health of the inmates during the year has been
good."
"The Library has been kept in good order as usual and now
numbers about 4200 volumes. The books are rebound from
time to time, as required, by an inmate assigned to this work.
If we could have a few volumes of modern works added to our
library, they would be very acceptable. We have among the
men confined at these institutions many who have trades, some
who have partly a trade and others of a mechanical bent of
mind, and I believe that it would be very beneficial to have in
the Warden's oflSce works of instruction in the different trades
and in mechanics, so that such men as the Warden considers
would be benefited thereby might read them in their leisure
time, and thus be better prepared to become useful members
of society and to earn a livelihood upon their discharge from
these institutions."
"While the quality of the crops raised upon the farm the
past season was good, yet owing to the extreme drought during
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82 BTATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
the summer, the quantity was much smaller than usual. The
crops raised amount in value to $8,000.00."
The Board approve especially the portion of the Warden's
report in which he speaks of the great need of an enlargement
of the institutions under his oare. They ask that reference he
made to their reports for many years past, which set forth,
most urgently, the necessity for additional accommodations.
The statistics of the Prison for the year 1907 are as follows :
Males, Females. Totals.
Number in Prison, January 1, 1907 119 0 119
** committed durinj? the year 37 0 37
'* discharged during the year 32 0 32
** pardoned during the year 4 0 4
*' died during the year 1 0 1
in Prison, January 1,1908 119 0 119
The statistics of the Providence County Jail for the year 1907
are as follows :
Males. Females. Total.
Number in Jail, January 1, 1907 267 16 283
committed during the year 1719 131 1850
*' discharged during the year 1622 117 1739
** transferred to Sockanosset
School 10 0 10
to Oaklawn School... 0 1 1
** escaped during the year 2 0 2
'* sentenced to State Prison 28 0 28
** transferred to State Hospital 0 2_ 2
died 1 1 2
in Jail, January 1, 1908 323 26 349
State Prison men only :
In Prison, January 1, 1907 119 Jan. 1, 1908 119
Committed in 1906 4o
Average number in 1906 123
Maximum number in 1906 146
Minimum number iu 1906 109
Providence County Jail men only ;
In Jail, January 1, 1907 267
In 1907
37
In 1907
116
In 1907
120
In 1907
104
Jan. 1, 1908
323
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88
Committed in 1906 :
By the State 1166
By the City of Providence 22
By other cities and towns ^ 226
By United States and debtors.... 83
Total 1496
Average number in 1906 260
Maximum number in 1906 296
Minimum number in 1906 268
In
1907.
In
1907.
In
1907.
In
1907.
Total..
In 1907..
In 1907..
In 1907..
1279
18
826
96
1719
298
366
260
The Warden reports the following crops raised ;
Asparagus ^
Beans, shell
Beans, string
Beef.
Beet greens
Beets, long red
Beets, turnip
Blackberries ....*.
Cabbage „„
Carrots «.
Chicken
Corn, sweet
Cucumbers
Currants
Ducks
Eggs, ducks'
Eggs, guineas'
Eggs, bens'
Eggs, turkeys'
Fodder, beets
green
Fodder, cabbage
leaves —
Fodder, corn green
Fodder, oat
Fowls „
322
27K
32>^
703
42
3661
281
10
91,430
719
704Ji
737
93Ji
80ft
6ft
2144
7ft
lbs.
bush.
bush.
lbs.
bush.
bush.
bush.
qts.
lbs.
bush.
lbs.
doz.
doz.
qts.
lbs.
doz.
doz.
doz.
doz.
6 tons
18 tons.
• 27 tons.
10 tons.
129>^ lbs.
Hay
Lettuce
Mangel-wurtzles....
Melons, musk
Milk
Onions
Parsnips
Pears, green
Pork
Potatoes
Pumpkins
Badishes
Rareripes
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Spinach
Squash, winter
Strawberries -
Straw, rye
Tomatoes
Tomatoes, green...
Turkey „ _
Turnips, French
and ruta baga....
Turnips, round
Veal
3} tons.
62 doz.
36>ij' tons.
l}4 doz.
27,866 qts.
87 bush.
200 bush.
24)^ bush.
9626 lbs.
1096 bush.
146 lbs.
98 doz.
386 doz.
16 qts.
232 lbs.
211 bush.
6236 lbs.
242 qts.
40 tons.
116K bush.
169 bush.
33 lbs.
147 bush.
96 bush.
1064 lbs.
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SOCKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
Super/nieneieni/ (Duties of Superintendent performed by an Execu-
tive Committee. See page 10.)
0epufy iSuper/nieneieni/ Mr. Ezekiel E. Gardner.
The number of boys at the Sockanosset School increased dur-
ing the year 1907 from 838 at the beginning to 877 at the close.
The daily average number was 861, which was two more than
in 1906.
The number of commitments was 506, which was 109 more
than in any previous year.
In their report for 1904, the Board spoke as follows regard-
ing the need of additional accommodations at the Sockanosset
School.
''At this institution the accommodations are far from ad-
equate, as has been stated in the reports of the Board for some
years past. There are five cottages having a capacity of fifty
boys each. At least two additional cottages are imperatively
needed for the proper care and instruction of these wards of
the State. The school-rooms in tlie cottages have become full
to overflowing. In the dormitories, beds have been placed
near together and space for additional beds thus gained, but
this has been done to the prejudice of the discipline and com-
fort of the boys and possibly of their health."
Since the above was written, the average number of boys
has increased from 844 in 1904 to 861 in 1907. On January 1,
1905, there were 381 boys in the school; on January 1, 1908,
there were 377.
Instead of renewing their request for means to build two
additional cottages, the Board now believe the better course
would be to build one cottage and an eight-room school-house
large enough to accommodate all of the boys. The present
school-rooms, one in each cottage, wouhl, with one additional
cottage, provide the needed additional sleeping accommoda-
tions.
The larger number of school-rooms lliat would be i^rovided
in a separate school-house would also enable the managemejit
to grade the schools, which cannot now be properly done.
The following is from a report of the Executive Committee :
"The method of instruction that has obtained in our trades'
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school has been modified somewhat during the past year,
making the effect more that of an industrial training school
than formerly. This has been brought about by the reduction
of the average periods of detention due to various causes."
**There is not a doubt that it would be profitable to the boy
to remain in an industrial department of the school for a
longer time than it usually takes to earn his parole, but we
feel that we have obtained encouraging results even under
existing conditions."
**We experience no difficulty whatsoever in getting places
for the boys from our industrial departments in the best shops
and manufacturing concerns of the State, and we think we may
safely say that practically all of the boys released the past
year, who were in our industrial departments, are working at
their trades in the outside world."
*'While pursuing their trades' instruction here, the boys
also attend one session of day-school."
**We believe that our corps of instructors and teachers are
fully up to the standard established in previous years."
**The movement in the population of the School during the
past year was as follows :
Committed for minority 218 boys
'* two years 59 ''
*' three years 6 ''
'' *' one hundred and sixteen days 1 *'
to await trial 272 ''
Returned to the School from the Prov. County Jail
by theBoard of State Charities and Corrections 10 '*
566 ''
Number released 527 '*
**We believe there are few institutions of like character
where so many have come and gone during the year. Our ex-
perience teaches us that it would be better for the boys if all
sentences to the Sockanosset School were for minority, unless
sooner released by the Board."
AFTER CARE.
'*We believe that we have made marked improvements as
regards the after-care of the boys during the past year. Our
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86 STATE GflARITIES AVD GOBRB0TIDN8«
instructors and officers have been employed at times in this
work with good effect, not only by way of encouragement
to the boy, who thus feels that there is somebody interested in
him, observing him as a representative of the School,
but, further, by giving the officers and instructors to understand
that they, too, are expected to be in some measure respon-
sible for the welfare of those who have left us. Moreover, the
officers and instructors are thus brought in contact with the
shop-owners with whom boys have been placed, and also in
touch with their parents and guardians. Considering the
great number of boys who pass out of the School upon
probation, we doubt not that a very small percentage of them
relapse, and in most cases the relapse is easily traceable to de-
fective home influence and control. We do all in our power to
encourage a boy after he has left us, by way of visiting him
whenever it is found necessary to do so, and in every case do
our best to keep him in the outside world, never bringing him
back to the School until other means have been exhausted.''
SCHOOL OP LETTERS.
*'The methods employed in the school of letters remain
about the same as in previous years, and no radical change
was made in text books the past year, those in use being up
to a very late date. We would advise changing our arithme-
tics at an early period and using those that we have now for
supplementary work only, as we do not feel that we can ob-
tain good results, from an examination standpoint, from those in
use, but deem them excellent for supplementary work."
*'We have received no additional books in our library dur-
ing the past year, with the exception of the usual bound
volumes of magazines, etc."
MILITARY AND BAND.
44n
'The Sockanosset Battalion has been kept up to the usual
standard of discipline. Captain Malachy Kelley, who was con-
nected with the militia of the State for many years, has con-
tinued to serve as military instructor during the year, as form-
erly."
*'The military feature is one of importance, as it is an ex-
cellent aid to both discipline and physical improvement, but
we feel that we could receive even greater benefit from it if
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BEPOBT OF THE BOARD. 87
we could have our military instructor a resident of the in-
stitution and in constant service here. The Sockanosset
School Oadet Band, of which we are justly proud, has not in
any sense retrograded during the past year. There are some
forty-five boys under instruction at different periods of the
day, giving only a small part of their time to this practice.
The full complement of the playing band is about twenty-
five pieces. On account of the frequent changes, due to the
discharge of cadets, it is quite a task to keep our band in good
condition, but it is successfully accomplished through the re-
markable work of our instructor in this department. The
services of the band are, as formerly, in constant demand, but
they are allowed to play elsewhere only on very rare occasions.
They probably have been away half a dozen times during the
past year. The compensation received (in all cases voluntarily
given) has been used to keep the band supplied with standard
music. We are in need of several new instruments and would
recommend that $800 be asked for for this purpose. The old
instruments may be used for beginners in their practice."
CHRISTMAg^
*'The Christmas observances of this year, while hardly equal
to those of the five previous years, were seemingly much enjoy-
ed by all. For the past few years, we have been the recipients
of a substantia] cash gift from a member of the Board, to be
used in the purchase of a Christmas present for each and every
boy. This year we were without that gift and resorted to a
former practice of allowing each boy two printed postal cards
to be sent by him to his friends or relatives, in which he solic-
ited some Christmas remembrance. The responses were gen-
erous and about two hundred and fifty boys were supplied with
presents from home. Our Christmas entertainment was fur-
nished by home talent, and much credit is deserved by the
teachers in preparing a very pleasing evening's entertainment
on Christmas night, after which the presents were handed to
the boys from a large tree set up for the purpose."
A VISIT TO Keith's theatre.
**An invitation was extended to the boys to visit Keith's
Theatre and accepted Dec. 24th. Five cars were chartered to
convey them with their officers and teachers to and from Prov*
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38 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
idence. The expenses of transportation were defrayed from
the surplus of a fund held over from last year, which had been
contributed by a member of the board. There were three hun-
dred and seventy-two boys in the party, only two having been
left at home on account of sickness. There was not a sem-
blance of chance for criticism of the deportment of our boys dur-
ing the outing, and we can justly say that we were proud of
them. The proprietor of the theatre is deserving of sincere
thanks for his generosity and kindness to us and the resident
manager and attendants for their courtesy and kindness."
HEALTH.
''The health of the boys during the year was very good
with the exception of a scarlet fever epidemic, which kept us
in quarantine for several months. Fortunately it had no un-
happy results as regards the boys. Words cannot express our
sorrow, however, at the fatal termination of the disease in the
case of our instructor of blacksmithing, James H. Lewis, who
died June 19th after an illness of three days. He was a faithful
man in every sense and one who had the respect of all his as-
sociates here."
CARPENTER SHOP.
"The value of the repairs done in this shop during 1907 is
estimated at $1747.20 Beside this, we constructed a brooder
house, 16 X 20 ft. near the hennery, and a potting house, as an
addition to our green-house, 10 x 14 ft. Both of these build-
ings were constructed entirely by boys' labor. We also made
two articles of office-furniture for the Board of State Charities
and Corrections and several pieces of mission-furniture for the
institutions."
MACHINE SHOP.
''The repair work done here during the year is estimated at
$1725.85 in value. This does not include work upon two new-
lathes and a special lathe now under construction. This shop
is busy most of the time upon repairs for the several institu-
tions as well as for our own. We hope to construct a spiral
drilling machine and to make a systematic overhauling of all
the machines in the shop during the coming year."
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. W
PRINTING DEPARTMENT.
''A careful estimate of the value of the work done in this
shop during the past year amounts to about $2,500, which in-
cludes, as in previous years, all printing for the St^te Insti-
tutions in Cranston, and the oilices of the Board and the Agent
of State Charities and Corrections in Providence. Here, too,
is printed the report of the Board to the General Assembly,
and our little paper, the Howard Times."
snoE snop.
''Work estimated at $1845.45 in value was done in this de-
partment during the year, including all our own shoe repair
work and also the greater part of the repairs of the State
Hospital for the In.^ane. Considerable can be done by way
of improvement in this department by installing a more
modern line of machines and stands, such as are commonly
used in shops at the present day, which could be done at very
little expense."
MASON WORK.
''Work done here, estimated at $1103.10 in value, does not
include any new work. The boys from this department built
the brick partitions in the new building at the Oaklawn School
and also did all of the mason work in connection with the in-
stallation of the Mechanical Draft at the State Hospital for
the Insane and at this Institution ; also, the foundation for the
new brooder-house, and that of the potting-house above
mentioned."
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
"Work estimated at $1893.45 in value was done in this shop
during the past year. During the instruction period of our
Mr. Lewis, who died in June, a general instruction along the
line of tool forging was used. Under our Mr. Chambers, who
succeeded to the position made vacant by the death of Mr. Lewis,
we have added horse-shoeing and general jobbing instruction
to that of the previous form of instruction. We have two boys
who have done all of the horse and ox-shoeing of this institu-
tion and two others who do all of the wagon ironing and re-
pairing of wagons which was previously done at the Workhouse
and House of Correction for this institution. We feel that
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40 STATE CHABITIE6 Aim CORRECTIONS.
this class of boys has done exceedingly well during the past
year.''
SEWING ROOM.
* 'Everything worn by the inmates of this institution, with
the exception of under-flannels, is made in this department,
and all the mending of clothing and bedding is also done here;
so it can be readily imagined of what real benefit this
department is to the institution."
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41
FARM AND OARDEN.
The following table shows the quantities of farm and garden
produce raised at the School by the larger boys :
Apples, hand picked 97 bbls.
Apples, windfalls 101 bush.
Asparagus 290 lbs.
Beans, Lima 6>^ bush.
Beans, shell ^ 2 bush.
Beans, string 12 bush.
Beef 1285 lbs.
Beets, bunches 31 doz.
Beets, cattle 1247K bush.
Beets, green llJi bush.
Beets, table 301?i bush.
Cabbage 3469 hds.
Carrots 104)^ bush.
Cauliflower 229 hds.
Celery ^ 3818 bun.
Corn, fodder 8 tons.
Corn, pop 11 bush.
Corn, sweet 606 doz.
Cucumbers 49K bush.
Dandelions 41 bush.
Eggs ^ 2767 doz.
Grapes 4 bush.
Hay...^ 28 tons
Lettuce 12>^ bush.
Melons, musk ^.. 1859
Melons, water 468
Milk 80967^
Oat fodder — 6
Onions 69)^ bush.
Pears ...„ 18 bush.
Peas, green..'. 54>^ bush.
Pork 8692
Potatoes 1430
Poultry 629
Pumpkins 488
Radishes 2
Rareripes 307
Raspberries 22h
Rhubarb 311
qts.
tons
lbs.
bush.
lbs.
busli.
doz.
qts.
Ib8.
Spinach 46>i bubh.
Squashes 186 bush.
Strawberries 882 qts.
Straw, rye 10>^ tons.
Tomatoes, ripe 76Ji bush.
Turnips 65Ji bush.
Vinegar 10 bbls.
THE SCHOOL OF TRADES.
The daily numbers receiving instruction in trades, as well
as the totals for the year, are as follows :
Daily Average,
Printing Department 12...
Blacksmith
Machine
Carpenter
Mason
Shoe
do....
do....
do....
do....
do....
17..
14..
11..
6..
16..
WhoU Number
During the Year,
20
20
Engineering do 7..
TaUoriuK do ., 28..
The statistics of the year are as follows :
Number in the School, January 1, 1907..
Number committed by Courts ^..
22
12
27
12
29
600
888
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42 8TATB CHABITIEB AND COBBECTIOKB.
Number admitted by Board of State Charities a Corrections
(Sec. 7, Chapter 290, General Laws of R. I.) 6
Number returned or retaken, having escaped ^.... 9
Number returned from places, surrendered by bail, etc. — 41
Number transferred from Jail by Board of S. C. a C 10 666
904
Number discharged ~ 478
Number escaped - 20
Number returned to Jail — -^ 9
Number released on bail 24
Number sent to Jail on alternative sentence ^ 1 627
Number remaining January 1, 1908 ~ — 377
The offences for which boys were committed from the Oourts
were: Assault, 8; carrying concealed weapons, 8; defacing
building, 5; destroyingproperty, 6; disorderly conduct on the
street, 6 ; embezzlement, 8 ; robbery, 2 ; shop breaking, 24 ; theft,
69 ; theft from the person, 1 ; truancy, 81 ; vagrancy, 20 ; 272 were
committed to await trial.
The average numbers in the School were:
In 1883, approximately 153
In 1884, approxiiuateiy ~ 171
In 1885, from daily record — 166
In 1886, from daily record ^ ^ ^ 179
In 1887, from daily record 203
In 1888, from daily record 200
In 1889, from daily record - « - ~. 204
In 1890, from daily record ., ~ 211
In 1891. from daily record ^ 171
In 1892, from daily record 192
In 1893, from daily record « 280
In 1894, from daily record. 247
In 1895, from daily record ^ 249
In 1896, from daily record « 271
In 1897, from daily record 301
In 1898, from daily record 850
In 1899, from daily record — 352
In 1900, from daily record — ^ 336
In 1901, from daily record ». 366
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In 1902, from daily record „ ^ 362
In 1903, from daily record 868
In 1904, from daily record 344
In 1906, from daily record 340
In 1906, from daily record 359
In 1907, from daily record ^ 361
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44 STATS CflARtTISS AMD COBKSGTIOKS.
OAKLAWN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
JuperinUndenif (Duties of Superintendent performed temporarily by
an Executive Committee of the Board. See page 10)
7>e^Mfy JuperinUndeni: Mrs. Clara F. Forbush.
The statistics of the year are as follows:
Remaining in the School January 1, 1907 43
Committed by the Courts during the year 8
Admitted by the Board of State Charities and Corrections 6
Returned from places 3
Transferred from Workhouse and House of Correction 1
Committed awaiting trial 5
Transferred from Providence County Jail 1
Returned, having escaped 2
Remanded by the Courts 1 27
70
Discharged on probation to go home^ 6
Discharged on probation to live in families 14
Removed to Workhouse and House of Correction. 1
Removed to State Almshouse I
Released for trial 5
Released on writ of Habeas Corpus (to Court as witness) 1
Escaped 2
Discharged on expiration of sentence 1 30
Remaining in the School January 1, 1908 40
Average number in 1882 (six months) 22
*' 1883 31
*' 1884 39
'' 1885 (daily average) 36
'' 1886 '' '' 25
'* "' '' 1887 '' '' 30
'' 1888 ** '' „ 34
'' 1889 '' "• 37.6
^* '' '' 1890 '' '' 33
*M891 *' '* 28.7
'' 1892 "• '' 29.9
'* 1893 *' '' 21.9
'' 1894 '' '' 26.3
'' '' '' 1895 ** ** 26.6
'' '' '' 1896 '' '' 34.2
'' 1897 '' '' 40.4
'' 1898 ** '' 51.4
** 1899 '' '' 64
'' 1900 '' '' ^ 44
'' 1901 '' ** 46
*' 1902 '* '* 49.1
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REPORT OF THE BOARD.
45
Average number in 1903 (daily average) 46.6
** ** 1904 ** ** . 46.6
*' 1905
'' 1906
'' 1907
46
49 ,
44
Eight girls were sentenced to the Oaklawn School by the
Courts in 1907. This number is six less than in 1906. The
number remaining is three less than one year ago. The average
number was forty-four.
One was sentenced for vagrancy ; one for disorderly conduct ;
five for theft and one for truancy; five were committed
awaiting trial; six were admitted by the Board; one
was stransferred by the Board from the Providence County Jail ;
one was transferred by the Board from the State Workhouse
and House of Correction ; one was remanded by the Court;
three were returned from places; two were returned, having
escaped.
The ages at the time of sentence or admission or
transferred from other institutions were ; one, eleven years ;
one, twelve years ; one, thirteen years ; three, fourteen years ;
two, fifteen years; five, sixteen years; three, seventeen years.
Farm Produce raised at the Oaklawn School for Girls during
IWfl.
Apples }4 bush.
Asparagus — 18^ lbs.
Beans (string) 29>^ bueh.
Beets 14K bush .
Blackberries 41 qts.
Cabbage^ 418 hds.
Carrots. ^ lOK bush.
Cauliflower „.... 146 hds.
Celery 469 bun.
Chicken 128?i lbs.
Corn (sweet) 131 doz.
Cucumbers 12>^ bush.
Dandelions 87K bush.
Eggs 654Ji doz.
Gooseberries 50K qts.
Grapes 1 bush.
Lettuce 306
Melons (musk) 84
Melons (water) 121
Onions 1
Pears }4
Peas 12K
Quince )4
Radishes 119>^
Raspberries 41
Rhubarb 63>^
Spinach 14
Strawberries ..„ 140)^
Sunflower seed 2
Tomatoes 27><^
Turnips 15>i
hds.
bush.
bush.
bush.
bush.
doz.
qts.
lbs.
bush.
qts.
bush.
bush.
bush.
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46 8TATE CHARITIES AND C0RRECTI0N8.
The Executive Committee report as follows to the Board :
"The girls have been employed, in the forenoon, in the
different departments, namely, — laundry, kitchen, sewing-
room, chambers and garden.
There are three girls detailed to have care of the garden and
the chickens through the season. In the afternoon, every girl
is in school three hours, and we are safe in saying that greater
progress has been made in the school work since the division of
the school two years ago, much more time being given to each
pupil than formerly.
Each girl has a flower-bed of her own to care for and disposes
of the flowers as she pleases. The seeds and plants for these
flower-beds are provided by a lady of Providence, who is much
interested in the girls.
The discipline of the School has been maintained at its usual
high standard and the health of the girls has been excellent.
All have attended religious services at the State Hospital for
the Insane every Sunday, when the weather was suitable. The
Chaplains, both Protestant and Catholic, have held services at
regular intervals, as in years past, and the Sisters of Mercy have
visited the girls once in two weeks, as has been their custom
for many years. Their work has been very helpful.
The annual clam-bake was given on the grounds of the School
on Aug. 29th. A number of guests, including members of
the Board of State Charities and Corrections and of the Ladies'
Advisory Board, with friends interested in the School, were
present.
The usual Thanksgiving entertainment was given by the
girls, also the Christmas entertainment followed by a Christmas
tree. Each girl received a gift from the lady who provides the
seeds and plants for the flower-beds.
The Thimble Club of Providence, as in years past, also sent
gifts to each girl.
Two girls ran away Dec. 7th. They were soon apprehended
and returned to the School, having been at liberty but about
two hours.
In connection with their running away, the following, as re-
lated by the girls upon their return to the School, may be of
interest. It seems that they had planned to run away some
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BBPOBT OF THB BOARD. 47
time previously, but there was to be an entertainment on
Thanksgiving and both had prominent parts ; so they decided
to postpone their departure until after the entertainment, as
they did not wish to disappoint the teachers who had worked
so hard for its success. The entertainment was given and was
a great success and was said to have been the best ever given
at the School. Mr. James F. McOusker, Chairman of the
Board, was so much pleased with it that he made arrangements
to have it repeated on the afternoon of Dec. 7th. The two
girls, upon learning this, were very much disappointed, but
after talking the matter over, decided that it would not be right
to disappoint Mr. McOusker, so they decided to remain over
the date set. The entertainment was repeated with quite a
number of guests present, and as successfully as before.
At its close, after all the guests had departed, the two girls
went up stairs, climbed out of a window to the roof of the porch
and slid down the grape vine to the ground and to freedom.
The alarm was given and they were soon apprehended and re-
turned to the School, as above stated."
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48
STATE CHABITIBfl AKD CORRECTIOKS.
NEWPORT COUNTY JAIL.
Urn iA0 ^marti m/Siai^ CAariiies amd Cmrrmeiimms*
I have the honor to hand you herewith a report of the
commitments and disposals of cases at the Newport County
Jail for the year 1907.
JTen,
Remaining in Jail, January 1, 1907 1
Committed during the year 264
Discharged during the year..
265
261
Kemaining in Jail, January 1, 1908..
Offencen,
Assault
Arson
Breaking and entering
Bigamy
Being a common drunkard
Being an idle person
Being a lewd and wanton
person
Bastardy ^
Carrying a concealed weapon
Debt
Defacing a building
Drunkenness
Embezzlement
Evading payment of fare. .
Having carnal knowledge
Larceny
Non-support of family
Obtaining [food unlawfully..
Obtaining money on false
pretence
Obtaining money by false
token
Revelling
Sleeping out
Selling short lobsters
Selling without license
Uttering
Using profane language
Vagrancy
Confined as insane
Confined for safe-keeping
Kemaining in Jail, Jan. 1,
1907 „
Women,
0
18
18
18
0
foto/.
1
282
283
279
41
3
6
5
9
9
11
3
3
2
2
113
1
1
4
40
2
1
2
11
2
Vq,
Disposal of Cases.
Discharged, fine A costs re-
mitted „
Discharged, fine and costs
paid „ ^
Discharged, sentences served
and costs paid
Discharged, sentence served
and costs remitted
Discharged, sentenced served
and fine remitted
Discharged fine paid
Released on bail
Released by writ of Habeas
Corpus 62
Released by order plaintiif' s
Attorney 2
Removed to Providence
County Jail
Sentenced to Workhouse and
House of Correction
Sent to State Asylum for
the Insane 1
Sentenced to Reform School . 6
93
19
9
I
1
12
65
12
2
1
2
280
1
I
282
I
283
Remaining in Jail, Jan. 1,
1908
279
4
283
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN J. WATSON, Jr.
Jambstown, R. I., January 1, 1908.
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WASHINGTON COUNTY JAIL.
Zf0 M# SB0artl m/Siai0 CAmr/iUs anti Cmrrmoiiensi
I inspected the Washington C!ounty Jail during the year,
and found everything in good condition.
The statistics of the Jail for 1907, furnished by the Jailer, are
as follows :
Men. Women. Total
BemaiDing in Jail, January 1, 1907
Committed during the year
Discharged during the year
Remaining in Jail, January 1, 1906..
1
0
1
88
3
91
89
3
92
89
3
92
0
0
Offences, No.
Assault _ 4
Assault with dangerous
weai>on 2
Breaking and entering in
the night time 6
Beinga common drunkard... 2
Bastardy ^ 1
Being a fugitive from Justice 4
Carrying concealed weapons 8
Drunkenness 26
Embezzlement 2
Evading railroad fare 2
Jjarceny — 12
Liquor, illegal keeping of .... 5
Threats 2
Track walking 5
Vagrancy 5
Disposal of Cases.
Committed to Providence
County Jail
Committ»)d to Reform School
Committed to State Hospital
for the Insane
Released by order of Dis-
trict Court
Released on bail
Released on writ of Habeas
Corpus .,
Civil prisoners discharged..
Died
Remaining in Jail Jan. 1,
1908
0
No.
4
8
3
8
67
87
Committed on civil suit
Insane persons committed..
Remaining in Jail January 1,
1907
85
4
2
91
1
92
92
Allbnton, R, I., January, 1908.
Respectfully submitted,
ROBERT F. RODMAN.
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50 STATE CHARITIES AUTD C0RRE0TI0N8.
KENT COUNTY JAIL.
C# M<r ^oard of Siato CAarii/os anti Corr00itmn9f
I have visited the Kent County Jail, according to the re-
quirements of the law, and found everything satisfactory.
I would suggest agaifi, as I have in several reports of past
years, the purchase, by the State, of a strip of land now owned
by the Electric Light Company. One side of the Jail is very
dark because the sheds of said company stand so close to it.
The statistics for the year, as furnished by the Jailer, are
as follows :
Men, Women, Toial.
Remaining in Jail, January 1, 1907 4 0 4
Committed during the year 104 8 112
Discharged during the year..
108
101
Remaining in Jail, January 1, 1908..
Offences,
Adultery
Assault
Assault with dangerous
weapon -
Breaking and entering
Cruelty
Carnal knowledge of a girl
under 16 :
Drunkenness
Larceny
Murder
Manslaughter ^
No visible means of support
Neglect to send children to
school - -^
Non-support of family
Threats ^
Vagrancy ^
116
108
8
Held as witness in murder
case
Civil commi tmen ts
4
16
4
14
2
1
38
15
1
1
2
2
2
1
2
105
Disposal of Cases. No.
Committed to State Prison 6
Committed to Providence
County Jail 6
Discharged, fine and costs
paid 7
Discharged, fine and costs re-
mitted 4
Died in jail of alcoholism 1
Released on probation 4
Released on bail 13
Released on writ of Habeas
Corpus 68
106
Remaining in Jail, Jan. 1, 1906 8
lie
3
4
112
4
116
Respectfully submitted
JAMES F. McCUSKER.
PoNTiAC, R. I., January 1908.
Remaining in Jail, Jan. 1,
1907
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REPORT OF THB BOARD. 51
BRISTOL COUNTY JAIL.
Many repairs are needed on the Bristol County Jail, and it
would seem, as a matter of economy, that they should be made
at once ; if postponed much longer, it will mean additional ex-
pense. I would suggest that some action be taken in the
premises. The statistics for the year 1907, as furnished by the
jailer, are as follows :
Men. Women,
Remaining in Jail, January 1, 1907 0 0
Committed during the year 1907 157 4
Discharged during the year 15tf 4
Remaining: in Jail, January. 1, 1908 1 0
Total.
0
161
160
1
No.
Attempt to commit rape...
Abandoning wife and chil-
dren
Attempt to commit larceny
from the person
Assault
Assault with intent to kill. ..
Assault with dangerous
weapon
Bastardy
Being a common drunkard
Being a lewd and wanton
person
Cruelty to animals
Carry ins: a concealed weapon
Disorderly person
Destroying property of
another
No. Disposal of Cases.
7 Completing sentence in Bristol
Jail ^ 3
1 Discharged on bail 4
Discharged by Town of Bristol 41
2 Discharged by plaintiflf 1
36 Non-payment of board. ^ 1
2 Released on writ of Habeas
Corpus 1 10
4
1
4
2
1
1
1
1
Remaining in Jail Jan. 1, 1908
160
1
161
Drunkenness 42
Discharging an air-gun 1
Entering a dwelling house
in night time 3
Evading payment of fare 1
Illegal selling of intoxicat-
ing liquors 3
Larceny from the person 7
Larceny 5
Murder 2
Non-support of wife 2
Revelling „ 7
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BRISTOL COUNTY J All,,— Continued,
Threatening to kill 2
Vagrancy 8
146
Committed for safe-keeping 13
Civil commitments 2
161
Respectfully submitted,
HARRY H. SHEPARD.
Bristol, R. I.. January, 1908.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. BH
FINANCES.
RK80URCEB.
AppropiiatiOD for Malnteoance of Btate Institutions. 1907 1900,000 00
Appropriation for Purchase of Land, April 1007, I 4,000 00
Balance of Appropriation for Purchase of Land, available. Jan-
uary 1. 1907. „ 2.358 18 «,868 13
Balance of Appropriation for Construction, at State Hospital for
Insane, avalhible, January 1,1907 988 91
Balance of Appropriation for Building, state Institutions, avail-
able, January 1, 1907 98,672 70
Balance of Appropriation for Industrial Training, at Sockanosset
School, available, January 1, 1907 „ 403 62
Appropriation for Repairs and Improvements, at State Instl-
tu tlons, April 1907 10,000 00
Sncomo o/Siaio ^^spHai /or iAo yinsano/
From board of Inmates 20,331 07
sale of produce 613 10
sale of Junk _. 227 13
sale of sundries 172 95 21,347 86
Sncctno o/Siai^ ^armt
From board of Inmates 7,610 64
sale of produce „ 1,672 59
sale of Junk „ 2f)8 90
sale of sundries 78 67
labor 37 l*^ 9,552 72
ffncom^ o/ Prison anti ^aii {/nciuti/nff 6///s tiuo /or iaSor
and 6oarti, 7>oaom6or 3/, /SO 7)/
From labor of Inmates _ 20,437 10
board of Inmates 4,454 01
Jail fees and bonds 421 fiO
sale of produce 1,152 89
sale of Junk 8«« 71
sale of souvenirs „ 417 77
sale of sundries „ 7 45
sale of crushed stone 780 78
rent ^ 368 00
Interest „ 27 3:t 28,486 04
Smoomo o/ SooAanossoi SoAoo//
From Printing department „ 123 00
labor in shops ^ 65 00
sale of produce „ 248 21
" sale of Junk 89 96
sale of sundries. _ 20 38
" board 299 00 885 65
Sneonto o/ OaAiawn SoAooii
From sale of sundries ^.. 2 25 2 25
Interest 28 98
Indebtedness of sundry parties to Prison and Jail, January 1, 1907 2,947 10
Due from credits 60 04
Ooal on hand, undivided, January 1, 1907 2,076, 04
$481,677 84
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100 81
2.505 atf
133 47
iJOSST)
4,500 00
1.600 00
117 62
e7 49
54 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
EXPENDITURES.
Cottage No. 9, Oaklawn School, (pre viousljt 11.827 80:
total $20,096 87) $18,709 07
Shed, at State Prison, (previously $1,215 26:
total $1,384 70) 109 45
Conduit, at State Hospital for Insane, (previously
$876 51: total $686 76) 161 25
Alteration of Quarantine Hospital, at State Farm.
(previously $2,486 68; total $2,587 4») ^
Alteration of Boiler House. State Farm
Repairing Boiler House, Sockanosset School
Brooder House. Sockanosset School
I^and.. „ «
Installation of Mechanical Draft, at State Institutions
Poultry House. State Farm _ _ . __
Repairs on Ohaplain^s house e7 49 $^.178 87
Curr^ni ojtp^nsos o/3iai0 Jffpspiiai /mr tAo y^sano/
Subsistence :
Meat „ $9,078 :«
Fish.^ : 1.158 8«i
Butter ^ 2,3(M 44
Butterinw _ ^ 2.074 22
Cheese (i65 16
Tea ^ l,lt» 57
Coffee « 387 80
Sugar ^ » 2,204 80
Molasses _ 278 99
Soap ^ „ 1,038 99
Tobacco _ 627 80
Flour ^ 5,290 40
Crackers „ 209 97
Beans ^ _ 855 93
Meal 300 30
Rolled Oats 143 91
Sundries 0,S3:J 99 35,269 08
Farm expenses :
Manure 1,148 S3
Fertilizer 317 00
Ashes 183 98
Grain 3.a51 45
Seeds „ 372 85
Sundries «. _ 229 37 5,632 48
Farm stock and tools :
Stock 935 00
Farm tools, etc - 200 25
Sundries „ 140 33 1,281 58
Salaries 37.976 02
Medical supplies 1,090 40
Clothing and bedding 7.237 35
Furniture „ „ 4,154 65
Fuel« „ ^ 15.504 45
Repairs and improvements ^. 3,127 81
Lights _ 2^880 80
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65
POStOffO - ^
Btationery
Bookfl, periodicals, etc ^ ,
Telephones, elect rtc and fire apparatus..
Expenses returning escaped Inmates
Transportation of Inmates ,
Miscellaneous
Add amount charged by State Farm
Add amount charged by Bockanosset Bchool..
% 160 00
286 60
97 60
2H0 17
44 41
. 800
740 88
116.637 94
892 96
90 S5 $117,681 16
Subsistence:
Heat.... .
17,199 00
Msh -
Butter .
Bntterine ...
Oheese
Tea. : ..>
821 42
908 77
1.166 06
408 70
985 80
Ck>ffee
234 4<1
Sugar...
Molasses ., —
Soap...
Tobacco
Flour
1,445 64
273 36
589 76
626 98
6,613 10
Orackers „ „..
208 04
Beans
Meal
RoUed oats
Sundries
466 23
318 18
112 15
4.155 84
20,416 94
Farm expenses :
Manure. „.„. . . .„...
1,542 86
666 00
4,884 54
FertlUzer
Orairi ^..
Seeds «
692 77
Sundries „
462 97
8.239 14
Farm stock and tools, etc:
Stock...
Farm tools, etc
820 00
468 59
Sundries.
286 09
1,W9 68
Salaries
Medical supplies
83,434 13
8.042 91
Olothing and bedding _..
Furniture
5,446 43
1.630 40
Fuel .. .
8,129 82
Repairs and improvements
Lights „
Postage.....
Stationery
Books, periodicals, etc.
3,286 82
1.669 84
110 00
19175
44 80
Telepihones, electric and fire apparatus
288 40
Expenses returning escaped inmates
87 41
Transportation of inmates
62 80
Mlioellaneous
438 09
96,612 86
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8TATS CHARITIES AKD CORRECTIONS.
Add amount charffed by Sockanosset School
Deduct amount oharsed to the following Initltutlons :
Bute HospiUl for Iniane ^ _ $ 893 M
State Prison 1315 »
Bockanotset School ^ 6.746 W
Oaklawn School 2.«28 »
Curr^ni mjipmnsms of Siai0 Prison f
Subsistence :
Meat 7.542 08
Fish „ 880 M
Butter 776 10
Oheese „ 18B 04
Tea 48 96
Ooffee „ „ 144 06
Sugar _ 278 64
Molasses » 676 61
Soap 221 11
Tobacco 887 65
Flour 8.S79 10
Orackers 15 72
Beans 888 70
Meal 724 12
Rolled oats 129 60
flundrles 2,789 14
Farm expenses :
Manure - 1.416 69
Fertilizer 667 00
Grain _ 3.420 09
8eed8„ 858 88
Hay 730 16
Hundrles
Farm stock and tools:
Stock „ 66 00
Farm tools, etc., ^ 384 01
Sundries 206 26
Salaries „
Medical supplies
Clothing and bedding
Furniture
Fuel ^
Repairs and Improvements
Lights
Postage ^
Stationery ^
Books, periodicals, etc ^
Telephones, electric and flre apparatus ^
Transportation of inmates
Discharge money to inmates
Miscellaneous « „
Add amount charged by State Farm
20 40
98.688 26
11.078 62 182.454.74
18.906 68
889 82 6.877 IS
584 27
27.024 61
686 07
2.885 01
964 68
8.9noo
8,796 99
1,290 84
168 00
179 64
101 07
602 44
86 76
166 00
816 76
68,977 26
1316 28
70,792 68
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67
Subitftence:
Meat ^ I8.796W
^ 660 M
^ 77» 10
„ 810 06
^ „ »in
_ 210 W
171 74
780 75
„ 90S 89
^ ^^ 6S8 10
_ Ifi6 00
!ZIZ!ZIZ.!!I!Z"!H!!" 16881
«. 890 02
^ 26 68
_ 80 86
PUh^
Batter
Butterine .
Oheese
Tea.
Ooffee
Susar
Molasses.
Soap
Floor
Orackers.
Beans
Meal
Rolled oats
Sundries
2300 OS 811.070 21
Farm expenses:
Manure......
FertUlxer..
Qraln
Seeds
Hay
Sundries ...
779 06
204 00
1,888 92
170 70
242 17
216 70
8.006 08
Farm stock and tools:
Stock „...
Farm tools, etc
Sundries
Salaries
Medical supplies
OlothiniT and beddlns
Furniture
Fuel
Repairs and improyements „...
Lights.^
Postage :
Stationery _
*Books, periodicals, etc
Telephones, electric and fire apparatus..
Expenses returning escaped inmates
Transportation of inmates
Printing supplies
Miscellaneous
747 60
241 86
189 72
Add amount charged by State Farm..
U28 57
20.100 11
600 69
8.966 80
1.926 92
4.892 86
2.602 98
1.119 29
184 00
889 67
196 02
286 68
109 90
70 29
616 80
760 18
67,196 41
6.740 99
02, 940 40
Deduct amount charged to State Farm
Deduct amount charged to State Hospital for Insane
90 40
90 26
110 06 $02.829 76
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STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
Curreni expenses of Oakiawn fSohooi.
Subsistence
Salaries
Farm expenses, tools, etc
Medical supplies
Clothing and bedding
Furniture
Fuel
Repairs
Lights
Postage
Stationery ,
Hooks, periodicals, etc
Telephones ,
Transportation of Inmates....
Expenses returning escapes..
Miscellaneous
Add amount charged by State Farm..
$ 13480
2.500 68
27 ee
25 00
3S9 87
74 88
837 61
996
49 18
20 00
11 66
42 49
75 00
170
10 00
2153
4.14185
2.623 29
$6.764 64
Expenses of ihe SSoard,
Travelling expenses:
James F.- McOusker $35 00
Walter A. Read 10 00
Robert F. Rodman 49 25
rhilippe Boucher 50 00
JIarry H. Shepard 50 00
Horace F. Horton 40 00
(ieorge R. I^wton 25 00
John J.WataonJr 12 55 $27180
Expenses of Jai^ies F. McCusker to Montreal 45 00
Expenses of Waiter A. Read and James F. McOusker to
Dunvers. Ma,ss 6 86
Fxponses of James F. McOusker to National Conference
of (Charities and Corrections, Minneapolis, Minn. ... 140 00
Expenses of Philippe Boucher to same 140 00
Expenses of Horace F. Horton to same 140 00
Expenses of Andrew J. Wilcox to National Prison
Oongre-ss, Chicago. Illinois. 100 00 843 66
OlUce expenses:
Postage, stationery, etc 599 06
Salaries of Secretary and Clerks 5,755 88 6,854 94
Expenses of removing paupers from ihe Siaie*
Salaries of Agent and Clerks
Sundry expenses
Expenses of SProbaiion Work,
Salaries of Officers
Sundry expenses «
8,346 00
2,389 86
8.900 00
0)6 86
7.198 60
5,686 86
4.406 88
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REPORT OF TttB BOARD. 59
Dr.
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Oon-
structlon. at State Hospital for Insane $ 968 01
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Purchase
of Land _ 1.868 18
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Industrial
Training, at Sockanosset School ^ 1»1 tf7
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Building.
at State Institutions 79,960 04
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Repuliti
and Improvements, at State Institutions 5,7r)H i^
Coal on hand, undivided 1«,072 KJ
Due from sundry parties for lalx>r and board at State
Prison. December 81,1907 2,282 W
Due on credits ^ _ J22 48
Due on Union Trust Oo 1,741 OH
l(K>.8Ua WJ
Due sundry parties December 81. 1907 10.142 49 106.751 47
$481. (jn 84
2)ai/y atf0raye number of inmaies.
State Hospital for Insane 902
State Farm , 74*
State Prison and Jail 4iJ()
Sockanosset School „ 861
Oaklawn School 44
2,371
Gross cost of the Institutions $840,462 81
Gross cost per year for one inmate 132 42
Gross cost per week for one Inmate 2 56
Net cost of all the Institutions 2^0,291 w
Net cost per year for one inmate 109 02
Net cost per week for one inmate 2 lo
ESTIMATE OP EXPENDITURES.
It is estimated that the Board will require for the main-
tenance of the expected number of inmates in tlie Institutions
the coming year and for necessary repairs, the sum of $320,
000.00, in addition to their receipts.
The estimate in detail is as follows :
For deficiency 1907 S 10,000 00
Per the support of the Hospital for the Insane 100.000 00
For the support of the Workhouse and Almshouse 82.500 00
For the support of the Prison and Jail 42,000 00
For the support of the Sockanosset School 60,500 00
For the support of the Oaklawn School ^ 7,500 00
For the expenses of the Board of State Oharitios and Corrections includiiiK
salaries of Secretary and Clerks „ 7,500 00
For expenses of removal of paupers including salaries of Agent and Clerks
and probation work ,„ _in^Joo oo
ta20,UU) 00
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do BTATB 0HAKITIE8 AHD C0EEB0TI0N8.
The sums named for the several Institutions are the esti-
mated expenditures less the estimated incomes.
Respectfully submitted by the Board of State Charities and
Corrections.
JAMB8 F. MOOUBKBR.
ROBBRT P. BODMAN,
WALTER A. RBAD,
PHILIPPB BOUOHBR.
HORAOB F. HORTON.
HARRY H. BHBPARD,
QBOROB R. LAWTOK,
JOHN J. WAT80N. JB.
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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
Cr# iA^ ^0mr^ mfSiuim CAmriti00 mnd CmrrmmiUns/
The Secretary respectfully presents the following report:
The regular semi-monthly meetings of the Board have been
held alternately at the Institutions and at their office in
Providence. Three special meetings were held during 1907.
^Am/^ ysimmti Simi^ ZTrmmsury in m000mni mfiiA S^mtir^ mf Siai^ CAmrHim*
mntt Cmrrm0iimm*f
Appropriation for maintenance of State Institutions:
Dr. O.
To spproprUtlon made for IWT ^..^ ^...^ 1800,000 00
TO money paJd into the Treasury In 1M7 69,175 88
By payaents upon the order of the Board . tU0,175 88
88B0,17S88 »IW,m 88
Appropriation for Oonstruction at State Hospital for Insane:
Dr, Cr
To balance available January 1, 1907— „ fM8 W
By balance undrawn December 81, 1907 IMS 91
1988 91 8988 91
Appropriation for Purchase of Land at State Institutions :
Dr. Cr
To balance available January 1, 1907 I24K8 18
To appropriation made April 1907, 4,000 00
By payments upon the order of the Board |4,fiOO 00
By balance undrawn December 81, 1907 ~ lt868 18
16,868 18 86,868 18
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Appropriation for Industrial Training, at Sockanosset School :
Dr. Cr.
To balance avnllablo January 1, 1907 $408 62
By payments upon the order of the Board $208 86
By balance undrawn December 31, 1907 * IW 67
mS 62 1408 52
Appropriation for Building at State Institutions :
Dr. Cr.
To Imlance available January 1, JiJ07 |P8,«72 70
By payments upon the order of the Board $18,722 66
By balance undrawn Deeeijjbcr 31. JU07. ^....~ 79,060 04
198.672 70 1981.672 70
Appropriation for Kepairj^ and- Improvements at State
Institutions :
, ,. Dr. Cr
To appropriation made April, 1907 TIO.OOO 00
By payments upon the order of the Boeud : $4,246 77
By balance undrawn IH^combor 31, 1007 5 768 28
$10,000 00 $10,000 00
Statk Auditor's Office, ^
Providence, R. I., January 1, 1908. )
This is to certify that the books of this department verify
the foregoing statements of accounts with expenditures.
. CHARLES 0. GRAY,
State Auditor.
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REPORT OF THK BOARD.
STATEMENT OF MONEY COLLECTED.
The sums collected and paid into the General Treasury are
in detail as follows :
1907.
Jan. 31 From W. R. Wlghtman, r-ollected for board of Insane Jl.Wr m
81 ** W, R. Wlghtman, collected for board at Almshouse W2 ;w
81 " W. R. Wlghtman. collected for Interest 1 kk
81 •• A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison „ 2.««4 58
81 ** J. H. Eastman, collected at Htate Farm „ :J*H itt
81 ** F. B. Jewett, collected at Htate lioHpital for Insane .%{ l(»
81 '* K. E.Gardner, collected at Hockanosset Hohool - :il 75
Feb. 38 ** J. H. Eastman, collected at Htate Fai*m h7 28
28 " W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board of Insane 1.2N7 in
28 •* W. R. Wlghtman, collected for lK>ard at Almshouse »12 61
28 *• W. R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest 2 (12
28 " E. E Gardner, collected at Hockanosset KchooL 4151
28 " A. J. Wilcox, colle<*ted at 8tate Prison r>J7 37
28 ** F. B. Jewett, collected at State Hospital for Insane 75 5«
Mar. 31 *' W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board of Insane l,4:r> 51
81 " W. R. Wlghtman, collected for lx>ard at Almshouse 324 01
81 " W. R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest 2 2h
31 ** E. E. Gardner, collected at Hockanosset School 3S («i
81 " A.J.Wilcox, collected at Btate Prison 4.117 S2
31 ** J. H. Eastman, collected at Htate Farm 2:i5 (>'>
•81 '* F. B. Jewett, collected at Btate Hospital for Insane 2(>l 57
April 29 " A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison l.siJ5 55
80 " J. H. Eastman, collected at Htate Farm 2H5 4»
80 •* E. E.Gardner, colleted at Hockanosset Hchool 112 :m
80 " F. B. Jewett, collected at Btate Hospital for Insane 170 17
30 " W.R. Wlghtman, collected for board of Insane 1.57SMi>
80 " W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board at Almshouse 1,312 lo
30 " W. R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest 1 hs
May 81 " F. B. Jewett, collected at Htate Hospital for Insane 257 ;«)
81 " E. E.Gardner, collected at Hockanosset Hchool 421 7ii
31 " J. H. Eastman, collected at State Farm im 52
81 " O. F. Forbush, collected at Oaklawn School 2 25
81 -" A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison wil 71
81 " W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board of Insane.. 1,2(V5 27
31 " W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board at Almshouse 171 W
31 *' W. R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest 8 10
Jane 80 " W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board of Insane , 1,127 07
80 *' W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board at Almshouse 133 ."iO
80 *• W. R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest 1 73
80 " J. H. Eastman, collected at Btate Farm 255 7H
80 '• A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2,005 37
80 " E. E, Gardner, collected at Hockanosset School 27 15
80 *• F. B. Jewett, collected at State Hospital for Insane^ 39 00
July 22 " J. H.Eastman, collected at State Farm 00 00
81 " W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board of Insane 3.11)8 35
81 " W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board at Almshouse 2,542 45
81 ** W.R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest 1 M»
81 *' J.H.Eastman, collected at Htate Farm 115 92
81 *• A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2,;V)y 3(»
81 '* E. E. Gardner, collected at Hockanosset Hchool 2s 25
Aug. 81 . " T. P. Dodge, collected at Htate Farm vi 21
81 •* E. E. Gardner, collected at Hockanosset Hchool 2155
81 •• A. J Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2, 150 Oi»
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Aug. 81 From A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital (or Insane 20 85
81 '* W, R« Wlghtman. collected for board of Insane 1301 08
81 '* W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board at Almshouse 00 87
Sept. 80 " E. E. Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School 10 85
90 " A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane S8 85
80 " T. P. Dodge, collected at State Farm....' 80 88
80 " W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board of Insane - 1.604 68
80 " W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board at Almshouse 148 78
80 " W. R. Wlghtman. collected for Interest « W
80 •• A. J. Wilcox, coUected at State Prison - J.llO 74
Oct. 80 " W.R.Wlghtman, collected for board of Insane 2,008 00
80 " W. R. Wlghtman collected for board at Almshouse 1,088 00
80 •• W.R. Wlghtman. collected for Interest 1 flO
80 " A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane A7 H4
80 •• T. P. Dodge, collected at State Farm 28 86
80 " K. E. Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School 24 42
80 " A.J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison «2I «»
Nov. 80 " W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board of Insane 1.078 87
30 " W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board at Almshouse 882 82
80 " W.R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest 117
80 " A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane A2 87
80 " E. E. Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School 84 45
80 •• T. P. Dodge, collected at State Farm «8 80
80 •• A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 3,121 24
Dec. 4 *' T. P. Dodge, collected at State Farm..^ 22 00
5 " T. P. Dodge, collected at State Fami_ fiO 00
18 *• T. P. Dodge, collected at State Farm 00 68
81 ** W. R. Wlghtman, coUected for board of Insane 1,678 78
81 " W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board at Almshouse 105 87
81 •* W.R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest 2 8ft
81 " T. P. Dodge, collected at State Farm „ «nr 58
81 •' E. B. Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School 31 60
81 ** A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 4,288 05
81 ' A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane 24 05
$50,175 88
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REPORT OF THE BOARD.
66
SALARIES.
The names and salaries of persons appointed or employed by
the Board of State Charities and Correction's, during 1907,
(Chapter 291, Section 11, of the General Laws of Rhode Island,)
are as follows :
All are furnished with board, lodging and washing, excepting
those against whose name an asterisk is placed.
STATE INSTITUTIONS, ETC.
Kernes.
Offices,
Rate.
Time.
Amotnt.
James H. Eastman
Supt. Workhouse. H.
of 0., A. H.. S. 8. A
Oakhiwn School
BuDt. A Housekeeper
8. Hospital for Insane
Per year.
$ 8.600 00
2,000 00
8 months
$3,400 00
Fred B. Jewett & wife
e months.^
1.000 00
Fred B. Jewett.^ „..
Consulting physician
600 00
e months
240 02
Arthur H. Harrington
H. Hospital for Insane
2,000 00
5 months
838 88
Arthur H. Harrington
Consulting Physician
1000 00
5 months
416 67
Andrew J. Wilcox
Warden, Prison d Jail
Deputy A 1st. Asst.
Physician State Hos-
pital for Insane
2500 00
1200 00
1 year
2,500 00
George E. eimpsQp
6 months
600 00
do. do
do. do.
1300 00
« months
640 08
Edgar I. Hanscom
2nd. Asst. Physician
State Hospital for
Insane
800 00
900 00
1800 00
10 months -
666 60
do. do
do. do.
Resident Physician
2 months
ICO 00
Henry A. Jones „
1 year
1.800 00
John M. McLeod
Interne State Hospi-
tal for Insane
Per month
25 00
25 00
1 mo. 1« days
1 mo. 21 days
30 29
Ohas. F. Montgomery^
do. do
4104
Thomas Mourninghan
do. do
25 00
25 00
25 00
25 00
25 00
35 00
6 mos, 17 days...
1 month
180 17
John W. Shaw
do. do
26 00
"Patrick J. McKenzle...-
do. do
do. do
do. do
8 months.^
75 00
OUfford Howland
4 months
100 00
George Anderton „.
5 months „.
135 00
George A. Miller
do. Almshouse.
8 mos 4 days..
78 83
Patrick J. McKenzie
do. . do.
25 00
1 mo. 11 days...
88 87
Ohas. F. Montgomery^
• do. do. ...
25 00
5 mos. 16 days...
187 00
John W.Shaw ^
do. do.
25 00
1 month
25 00
Thomas Mourninghan
do. do.
25 00
1 month
25 00
Richard T.Galviu
do. do.
25 00
7 months
175 00
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STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS,
STATE INSTITUTIONS, inTO .—Continued.
Names,
Offlees.
Sate.
Time,
AmourU.
CllfTord Ilowland
i
Interne, Almshouse...
Religious Instructor...
.'catholic Clergyman..
See. Bd. of 8. O. A C...
do. do. do.
Clerk Bd. of 8. 0. A C.
.1 do. do. do.
do. do. do.
do. do. do.
Vffent 8. C. A C
Per month
2500
Per year.
1.800 00
1,800 00
1 3,000 00
2,500 00
1 1.800 00
Per month
1 62 50
62 50
Per week
110 00
1 Per year.
' 2,500 00
Per month.
1 6250
Per day.
200
iPer month.
100 00
100 00
75 00
^00
5 months
125 00
Charles H, Ewer
1 year
1.800 00
Matthew Ilarklns*
Charles H .Pockham*..
James R. Read*
1 year
7 months
5 months
1,800 00
1.750 0(\
1.041 61
do. do
7 months
i.oeooo
Kmlly M. Nichols*
Carrie E. Oatley*
Harriet E. Nichols*
1 year
750 00
1 year
750 00
41 3-7week8
414 27
tWalter R.W'lRhtnian'
1 year
2,600 00
Ijouise H. Purkls*
Clerk Agent 8. C. A C.
. .\.sst. Clerk do. do...
ProlMitlon Officer
1
do. do.
1 year
750 00
Agnes S. Purkls*
William J. Wallace*,..
Margaret 11. Dennehy'
Thomas B. Maymon*..
George L. Smith*
48 days
1 year
1 year
06 00
1.200 00
1.200 00
' do. do.
1 year
000 00
do. do
1 year
600 00
t
tThis amount Includes all assistance In removal of paupers.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR TWB INSANE.
67
Names.
Offices,
R(Ue.
Time.
Amount,
Helen R. Putnam
Huporvlsor, female St.
Hospital for Insane.
do. do.
Assistant flupvV St.
Hospital for Insane.
do. do.
do. do.
do. do.
do. do.
do. do.
Oioik do.
Sub. Clork
Per month.
60 00
60 00
7 months
860 00
do. do.
4 mos. 24 days...
288 00
Mabelle H. ftlayton
SSOO
?7 00
12^
8 months
75 00
do. do. ^...
Martha Scott
4 months —
8 months
110 00
67 50
do. do
35 00
80 00
86 00
86 00
Per week
800
Per month
8000
i&(X>
25 00
25 00
10 00
Per day
100
Per Sunday
200
Per month
26 00
20 00
21 00
>28 00
20 00
25 00
20 00
20 00
25 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
22 00
20 00
25 00
20 00
20 00
2100
6 months
125 00
do. do „
4 months
120 00
Mary A. Sampson
8 months
106 00
Estelle L. Brown..
Annie Cash
6 mos. 16 days...
2 weeks, 4 days..
6 mos. 1^ days
8 mos. 27 days...
6 mos. 20 days...
11 mos. 10 days...
1 mo. 1^ days..
9 days
16 Sundays
102 50
20 57
RuthO. Swift
Marlon L. Bottomley...
Clerk
OfBce Girl
168 50
08 24
Grace Farrell...
Clara W. Harry
Irene Collins ,
Kthel L. Thornton
May Johnson
do. do
Musician „
do
Pianoist
Organist
Laundry Matron
r^lUndreSA
141 67
290 88
16 60
900
82 OU
Badie O.Greer
6 months .....
1 mo. 4 days
1 month
2 months
125 00
Alice Herman
22 68
do. do
do
21 00
do. do ;.....
do.
46 00
Elizabeth Pierce
do
do
6 months
100 00
do. do „
7 months
176 00
Cella Brown
do
1 mos. 16 days...
U0^ days
80 67
Josephine MarcotLx
do
Sewing Matron^
do. do „
10 00
Mary P. Dwelley
Kate J. Huthmaker
8 mos. 2^ days
1 mo. 18 days...
14 days „«...
07 98
28 13
Katherlne lAffey
do. do.
9 12
Snaan Thurber
• do. do
1 mo. 12 days...
8 months
1 mo. 18 days...
8 months
4 mos. 8(^ days
1 mo. 28 days
1 month
27 74
do. do. .
do. do „
66 00
Abby J. Perry
do. do.
29 05
Anna McLachlan
do. do „
76 00
Phyllis A. Liloyd
Dres8maker„
100 20
Annie Smith
do
88 06
do. do
do
21 00
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68 STATE CHABITIB8 AKB COBRECTIOHB.
STATE HOSPITAL FOB THE INSANE.— C5»l/mil«f.
Names,
Minnie A. Reardon...,
do. do.
do. do.
Lucy Ck>m8tock
Annie B. Simpson
Sarah Fraser ,
Phoebe O. WUIiams..
do. do.
Dolores Dnimmond..
do. do.
Stella B. Hanscom...
Olivette O.Wheelan..
do. do.
Margaret Gourley
Evelyn McKay
Mary A. Sampson
do. do
Oarrle Mureh
do. do ^...,
Oora A. Bowman
Ella Thompson
Bessie Farrell
Florence Healey
Grace B. Daggett
Sara B. Jordan....
Edith O. Sylvester
do. do
do. do
Catherine J. Reld
do. do
Hattle M.Bali
do do ,
do. do
do. do. -
Bertha 0. Archibald
Bertha Mini er
QffleeM,
I
BaU,
Dressmaker
do
do
Kitchen Matron.^.
do. do
Housekeeper '
Oook— Doctor's House
do. do.
do. do.
do. do.
Sub Oook I
Cook. Hosp. kitchen...
do. do.
do. do.
do. do.
Housekeeper at Farm
do. do.
I
Night Supv^r—female '
do. do. do. I
Ass*t do. do.
Attendant
do
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
Per month.
$ 9000
22 00
S5 00
26 00
25 00
20 00
26 00
28 00
Per week
800
Per day
160
1 60
Per month
26 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
22 00
26 00
27 60
22 60
22 60
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
22 60
26 00
27 00
22 60
26 00
20 00
22 60
26 00
27 00
20 00;
20 Oo!
71m§,
1 mo. 14>i days.
1 month ..^
1 month
6 moB. 27 daysw.
26 days
4 mos. IS days...
8 months
8 mos . 19 days,
8 weeks S% days
8 days
8 days
8 days
1 mo. 8 days
2 mos 1^ days.
1 mo. IH days..
7 mos. 24H days
1 month
8 months
6 mos. 11 days...
4 months
6 mos. 2 days
1 mo. 4 days
28>i days
8 mos. 16 days...
8 mo s. 7 days...
8 months
6 months
4 months
8 months
4 mos. 28 days...
1 month
2 months
6 months
2 mos. 26H days
1 month
1 mo, 2 days
t 20 07
22 00
26 00
146 77
90 97
88 89
200 00
100 89
96 69
460
460
242
2194
61 29
90 69
166 80
92 00
76 00
147 68
90 00
114 00
29 86
16 78
70 00
64 67
^60
126 00
108 00
67 60
119 16
20 00
46 00
160 00
77 21
20 00
2188
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REPORT OF THE BOARD.
8TATB HOBPITAL FOR THE IJfSAtiJi.—Coniinued.
69
i^
OMem.
Rate, Timi.
Amtmnt.
Berthft I. Vock. ^
Attendant „
Per month. 1
$ 2S 00; 3 mo8. iif days...
76 42
KfmO. PubUcover
do
do....
do
SO 00
23 60
25 00
8 months
80 00
do. do.
6 months
112 00
do. do. ...
2 months
60 00
do. do. -
do
28 OOl 1 mo. 19 days..,..
44 80
Agoea B. Bolivar
do
22 60
8 months.....
87 00
do. do
do
26 00
6 months
moo
do, do. .
do.
27 00
28 00
20 00
90 00
20 00
8 months
8100
do. do. J
V do
do
1 month
28 00
lUy K. Stone
0 months ..
1 mo. 8 days
2 mos. « days
180 00
Jennie A. Aldrlch .
do...
25 71
Myrtle Harrison
do
48ffr
GladTB Wmiame.....
do
20 00
0 mo. i}i days...
182 90
Anna L. Benner
do....,
20 00
17 days „
low
Annie H^tfleld
do
20 00 241^; days
18 98
Minnie E. Bartlett.
do
2000
i}4 days
290
Myrtle A. Mann
do
20 00
1 mo. 29j^'day8..
89 06
Grace Seldse
do
20 00
28 00
20 00
20 00
23 60
26 00
28 00
20 00
6 mos. 28 days...
4 months
114 84
do. do. ..
do
92 00
Era S. MoIiOUan .....
do...
do
do ..
do
8 months
00 00
Mary A. Soott
8 months
00 00
do. do.
6 months
112 00
do. do
2 months
60 00
do. do. «— -
do ;
2 months
60 00
Vlnlfred Loomls
do...,
8 mos. 5 days...
188 88
Annie F. Wellman
do „
20 00
2 days
1 29
Martha Bteyenson.
do
do ..-
do.„.
20 00
20 00
20 00
22 6a
24 00
20 00
6 days
4 29
MoUle Tmtner.
2« days
16 99
Flora H. HoPhaU ^..
5 months
100 00
do. do.
do..,.
6 months _..
2 months
102 84
do. do. ..^.
do ,. «..
do
48 00
Edith H.Gray^
8 mos. 14 days...
09 88
Eleanor Hereer —
do..„
20 00
8 mos. 1(^ days
60 77
Mary Kent
do.„.
20 00
24 days „.
16 48
Eathryn Goolart .. ...
do ,
90 00
4 mos. 28)^ days
90 47
JenmeGoold
. ^ .. ..
do
20 00
2 mos. 0 days...
45 81
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70 STATE CHARITIB8 AND CORRSCTIOKS.
8TATB HOSPITAL FOB THE INSANE.— Co»fc>W«(l.
Nam$s.
OJI0M.
RaU. . Time.
Amount.
Hattle Bailey
Attendant »
Per month.
1 20 00| 2 mos. 18H days
51 29
Bessie MoOlure^
do
20 00 6 mos. 6 days.....
20 00 5 months...'. '
106 3S
Belle B. HamlU
do
100 00
Josie B. Jacques..
do
20 00 10 days
6 45
Oella MacKenzle.
do
20 0012>^days
8 17
Maud Eccles
do
20 00 6 mos. S}i days..
22 OO; 2 months „..
28 OO' 2 months
102 20
do da
do
44 00
do do
do
do
40 00
Bessie Wilson
20 00 3 mod. 26 days.. J
! 1
22 50j 4 months
77 88
do. do.
do
W 00
do. do, ..
25 00 S months ;
75 00
do. do.
do
28 00 1 month i
28 00
Florence Beckner...
do
20 OOj 8 mos. 14 days
20 00 8 mos 28 days |
09 83
Pearl Brldkes.
do
78 67
Marguerite Irvine
do
20 00! 2 mos. 4 days >
43 90
Minnie Bhaw..
do r.
•
20 00 5 months 1
100 00
do. do* .._ '.
do
22 50 2 mos 23)^ days... 1
1
26 00; 2 mos. 20 day8...|
28 00 1 month 1
62 00
do. do.
do
7167
do. do.
do
a< 00
Etta 0. Hamm..
20 00 lmo.l8>^ days...
33 21
Tiiicv M. Rehm
do
20 00 24 days
15 78
Mary M. Hoffenrelch...
do „
20 Oo' 8 months
160 00
do. do.
do
23 00 lmo.28 days 1
43 77
Delia A. Johnson
do
1
20 00 8 mos 28 days j
74 20
Kdlth A. Bliss
do ..,
do i
20 oo' 1 mo. 18 days ]
20 00 IS}<2 days \
28 89
Agnes L. Ware
12 09
Annie L. Btudebaker...
ao '
20 00 lmo.l2H days...
28 33
Gertrude A. Ix)verlng..
do i
20 00 8 mos, 17 days...
71 12
do. do.
do '
22 00 20 days
14 52
Marie King _
do
20 00 8 mos. 30?^ days
77 69
Isabella S. Burnett
do
20 00 4 mos. 26 days...
90 78
do. do
do
28 00 3 months '
09 00
Agnes 0. Russell..
do
20 00 4 mos 26 days ,
90 78
do. do
do —
22 00 1 month „..;
22 00
do. do. .....
do
23 00 1 month i
28 00
do. do. m.
do
£5 00 25>5 days.. i
SO 50
' 1
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 71
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE insA^E.— Continued.
Namet,
(met.
Sate.
Time.
Pranoes Brett
Elisabeth Troy
Emma O^Sulllvan
Mttoii J. Beaiu
Besde M.Lowe-
Annie Honter
Gertrude Caret
Agne3 LaFlour^.
do. do.
do. do.
Alma O. UnderhlU
Frances Knight
Mabel P. Jones-
LHUan Jones- -.
Edith B. Densmore
Mary Troy
Marjorle McKlnnon...
NelUe Massey
Margaret Barbour
do. do
do. do
EUxabeth Nolan „.
Sadie Hanlon-
Margaret Moller
do. do.
do. do.
Alma Helnemann
Edith K. Johnson „
do. do
do. do.
Allison M. Downey —
Ethel M. Moody
Ethel M. Kyle
Minnie Prestwich
Margaret Flacke.
Margaret Robs , . ..
Attendant......
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do...
do
do
do
do
do..:.
do
do
do
do
do
do......
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do....
do
do
do.....
do..^
Per month.!
20 0()| 4 mos. 21 doys...
20 00.11 days
20 00 24 days _
20 00 2 mos. 28 days...
20 00 10^ days I
20 00 2 mos. IS days...!
20 00 15 days _
20 00, 2 mos. 17 days...
21 00 1 month !
!
23 00 2 months i
I
20 00 1 mo4 14 days
20 00 1 mo. 20} a days..
25 00 28 days
20 00 1 mo. 73 a days...
20 00 2 mos. Hi J days
20 00
I
3 mos. 9 days...
)
20 00 2 mos. 7*2 days
25 00 4 mos. 28 day-...
20 00 5 mos. 15 days...
23 00 2 months
25 00 1 month _
20 00 14 mos. 7 days...
20 001 1 mo. 20 days...-
20 00 2 mos. 4; a days..
22 00 2 months
25 00 1 month
20 OOi 3 mos. 11 days...
20 00 3 mos. 29 days...
22 00 1 month
28 OOi 2 mos. 28 days...
I
20 00 1 mo. 17Ja days..
I
20 00,2»>iJ days
20 00 1 mo. 11 days
20 Oo'-il days
I
20 00; 1 mo. 13 days
20 00 2 mos. IS days_..
S8 40
7.12
15 78
50 97
10 06
51 5©
10 00
50 97
2100
46 00
29 01
88 28
22 68
24 21
42 20
0600
44 19
118 55
110 00
46 00
25 00
81 04
33 10
42 28
41 00
25 00
67 33
79 84
22 00
46 00
81 12
19 20
27 01
13 69
2S04
51 62
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72 STATB CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THH INQA^K,— Continued.
Name$,
QfUets.
RaU.
1
Time,
Amowit.
Evelyn Earle^
Attendant
iPer month.
' 20 00
1 mo. 28 days
84 80
Irene Oollins^
do
do
•JO 00 I mo. 1»>4 days..
t!O0o'2«J4 days
88 00
Josephine Thomas
17 10
do. do.
do
' 22 00
I mo. 8 days
27 «
Marie Brooks^
do
do
20 OO! 1 mo. 7 days
! 20 ool 2 mos. U% days..
24 17
Myri Noblet
54 05
Jalia B. Joslyn
do
20 00
1 mo. 9 days
20 00
do. do.
do
do
' 22 00
30 00
2 months
44 00
Olive Joslyn
1 mo. 9 days
20 00
do. do. -
Jeisle B. Altken '
do
22 00
2 months
44 00
do
do
30 00
20 00
8 months
00 00
PAnnle Ashley
14 days
927
Margaret A. Oaine
do
' 20 0o;i7j^ days^
1129
Florence Fernald
do
20'00
1 mo. 25K days..
87 71
Angle L. Sanliorn „.
do
1 20 00
1 month
80 00
do. do.
do
...J 26 00
t
2 mos. IdM days
00 89
Alice L. Knowlton
do
1 20 00
28 days
18 00
do. do
Flora B.Roys
do
23 00
2 months
40 00
""
do
1 20 00
1 mo. IG days
8007
Borah A. Burt
do
20 00
20 00
1 mo. 6 days
2 mos. b% days..
28 87
Anna B. Spencer„
48 65
Npllle OoUina
do
do
do
20 00
22 00
1 2.> 00
29 days
19 88
do. do. .
1 month
22 00
do. do. ...-
Annie Moore
2 months
50 00
do
1 20 00
1 mo. 20 days-...
82 90
Blanche Morton
do
' 20 00
2 months ^
40 00
Avis Hltchen
do
do
20 CO
30 CO
1 mo. 26>^ days..
15?^ days
40 07
JiiHa T)f*4mond
10 00
do do.
do
do
do
21 00
i 28 00
20 00
1 month „
2100
do. do. „
1 month ^
28 days
38 00
Rose Hebert
18 07
Ella McKav
do
i 20 00
5^ day
84
Gertrude H. Blxby
Arlle Mclntlre
do
' 20 00
11 days -
788
do
1 20 CO
1 rao. 8 days
25 88
Olara Dowe
do „.
do „.
20 CO
„....! 20.C0
14? i days -
uVi days
9 01
Dora E. Noblet
10 05
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KEPOBT OV THB BOABB.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE iNBAifK.— Continued.
78
Names,
Offtou,
Rate,
Time,
Amount,
t
Dora E. Noblet Attendant.
do. do I do
Lilly Crawford^ ( do.
Flora B. Hutcblns.
do. do
Florence WUlls
Marirar»)t O. Bowman..
do. do.
do. do.
Bertha K. Cooler
Gertrude Vermilion^..
Jennie NaM„
Ethel M. Charlton.
Emily Bums
do. do. „
Annie Carr..
do. do. -
Isabella H. Ewart
Alice McCleUan
Sadie O. Brtcffs. ^..
Edjthe M. Herman
Helen Clyde
Marlon Clyde
Adelaide Macfiirland.
Stella Hanscom
do. do
Emma Clark...
Wlllard Putnam..
do. do. «
William H. FoUet
Charles H. Getty-
dc. do
do. do. »
WilUam H.Oarr-
Harry K. Butterfleld^
Herbert R. Elmer.
J
Per month.
2100
1 month..
I
do „....
do
do „
do
do
do
do _....
do
do „....
do
do „
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do..
do
Special Nurse
do. do. „
do. do
Supervisor, male
do. do
Asst. Supervisor
do do
do do
do do
Musician
Engineer^
lat. A8i*t. Engineer...
28 00 1 month..
20 00
20 00
28 00
20 00
20 00
2100
28 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
28 00
1 mo. 10 days.
28 days
2 months
1 mo. 8 days..
laj^days
1 month _.
1 month
2 mos. 1^ days
2H days
2 mos. 26 days..
2 mos. f^ days
754 days
2 months
20 0018>^days
28 00 2 months..
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
Per day
1 00
Per week
10 00
12 00
Per month
66 00
00 00
46 00
80 00
85 00
87 00
80 00
76 00
80 00
19 days
27 days
10 days
27 days
2» days
20 days
4>i days
26 days
i wks. 0 days...
2 wks. 0 days..
7 months
4 mtis. 24 days.
1 year
5 months
8 mos. 20 days
8 months
1 year
11 mos. 26 days...'
1 month j
21 00
28 00
26 46
14 84
48 00
28 48
10 66
21 00
28 00
54 68
161
66 77
40 «7
4 84
46 00
11 04
4«00
12 28
17 42
12 26
17 42
14 10
12 00
800
26 00
48 67
84 20
885 00
288 00
640 00
160 00
127 68
111 00
860 00
800 00
80 00
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74 BTATB CHARinSS AND 00BRE0TI0N8.
STATE HOSPITAL FOB THE 1N3JLNB.- -Cmtmued.
NameM,
Qffien,
AOf.
Tim.
AmomU.
Herbert R. Elmef.
1st. AAS*t Engineer
2nd. do do
do. do
do. do
do. do
do. do
do. do.
Day Fireman
do. do
Per month
85 OC
25 OO
Per day
IOC
Per month
25 00
80 00
80 00
85 00
25 00
25 00
25 00
80 00
85 00
25 00
27 60
80 00
85 00
40 00
45 00
85 00
40 00
46 00
60 00
85 00
40 00
85 00
40 00
45 00
. 6000
60 00
22 60
25 00
80 00
80 00
8200
85 00
nSTOO
11 months
885 00
Ix>ul8 De Parture
25 days
22 88
Thos. F. Bandland
1 day «
1 00
Martin E. Neary-
18 days ^
2 mos. S% days
1 mo. 19 days.....
2 months . ..
14 62
John B. Nalsmith
Justin P. Lanff
68 60
52 51
do. do '. _
70 00
John Allen
2 mos. lOH days
1 mo. ^ days...
4 mos. 25 days...
2 months
88 81
John Agnew . .
27 78
Alexander McDonald...
do. do
190 15
do. do.
do. do
80 00
do. do.
do. do
24 days
27 10
Wm. A. Gllesmann
Night Fireman
1 month
4 months
25 00
do. do
do. do
110 00
do. do
do. do
4 months „..
8 months.^
120 00
do. do
do. do
105 00
Frank D. Bhaw_
Storekeeper
Baker ^
do
do
do ^...
do
11 mos. If^ days
8 mos. 24>^ days
8 mos. 8 days.....
1 mo. 2IW days..
1 mo. 2 days
2 mos. 1 day..
1 month
464 99
Lewis F. Beamans
171 75
Robert Brown
108 60
do. do. ' „
Patrick Fitzgerald.
Henry Zwaagstra ..
79 88
48 00
101 01
Hubert Q. Oomstock
Oook
85 00
do. do.
David Massey
do
do „
do
4 mos. 27 days...
1 mo. 8 days
1 month ..
1 month
1 mo. 15 days —
2^days..„
1 month
194 84
44 06
do. do.
40 00
do. do.
do
do
do
Porter
46 00
do. do. -
70 80
John McDonald
88 29
Arthur E. Oilman
22 60
do. do
Barber
do „ -
4 months.^
1 mo. 12^ days...
10 months
2 months
100 00
do. do.
42 10
Wm. E. Underwood
do. do. —
800 00
84 00
EllottO. BroAdwell.....
do. do.
Painter
do
0 months
8 months...... .„
815 00
111 00
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REPORT Of THE BOARD. 75
STATE HOSPITAL FOB THB IS s AVIS, —Continued.
QfTteu,
RaU.
Timt.
Anumnt.
iTory Marr.^
do. do
Melne Oooma..^ —
Ashford H. BampsoD..
do. do.
George B. Qoodspeed...
Harry McPhalL
do. do. ^
do. do. -
Wm. E. McLellan
do. do. „
do. do. ^
Wendell A. Phillip* ...
do. do.
William R. Bresee
do, do. -
SilaiM.Gould-
James D. Wilson-
Michael Tlemey
Thomas Robinson
Patrick Oashman
Thomas Walsh —
do. do
Thomas Greer
OUnton H. Thompson.
Stephen L. Murch
do. do
Josiah Bowman „..
Phillip McDermott
do. do
do. do
do. do
John A. Farrell^
Leiris A.Trutner-
Ehner W. Daffgett
Oarpenter
do
do
Boss Farmer-
do
Gang Officer
do
do _
do
Teamster
do
do
Barn Officer
do
do
do
Gardener
do
do -....
do ^
do
do
do
Laundry Bupv'r..
Night Bupv'r
Attendant _,
do
do
do
do
do ^
do
do
do
do
Per month
80 00
S6 00
* 8000
60 00
56 00
85 00
85 00
27 60
80 00
80 00
88 00
86 00
57 60
80 00
80 00
85 00
35 00
80 00
86 00
86 00
80 00
80 00
85 00
27 60
80 00
26 00
27 60
26 00
27 60
80 00
88 00
85 00
20 00
20 00
8 months
7 mos. 10 days..
14H days
6 months „.
7 months
11 mos. 19 days..
4 months
1 month
0 mos. OH days^
8 mos. 20 days...
1 month
2 months
6 months
8 mos. 24 days...
1 mo. 16 days
1 month „
2 mos, 10^ days
9ti^A days
1 mo. 28 days
7>^day8
I day
1 mo. 4 days |
8 months |
6 months
6 mos. 80 days....
8 months
6 mos. U days....
4 months
6 months
8 months
8 months..
1 month..
1 mo. "6 days-
20 days
20 00 8 mos. 16 days-..
00 00
2«8 00
10 87
250 00
885 00
407 17
100 00
27 60
196 97
260 28
88 00
70 00
137 60
114 00
44 62
86 00
81 S6
80 40
00 97
8 47
97
88 87
106 00
187 60
158 00
76 00
147 58
100 00
187 60
90 00
99 00
86 00
26 71
10 99
70 00
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76 BTATB OHABinSS AND CORBBOTIDHB.
BTATE HOSPITAL KOR THB INBANB. — Continued.
Name*.
00^1001.
m.
Time,
Ajmema,
WiUiam H. Earle
Attendant
do
do....?.
do
Per month.
90 00
»00
2800
25 00
J7 00
26 00
27 60
80 00
20 00
22 60
25 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
80 00
80 00
86 00
20 00
22 60
27 60
80 00
600
26 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
22 60
2U00
28 00
26 00
2B00
27 60
80 00
88 00
27 60
80 00
26 days
It 18
do. do
2 days
21 47
Arthur B. King
4 mos. 6H days.
1 month
100 88
do. do.
26 00
do. do. „.
do
1 month
27 00
George H. Delaney
do
4 months
100 00
do. do
do
1 month
27 60
do. do
do
8 mos. 20 days...
1 month
8 months
1 mo. 14 days
1 mo. 8 days
16 days
119 00
Frank P. McBrlde
do
20 00
do. do
do
87 60
do. do
do...
86 87
George W. Sinclair
do
25 80
Lars Anderson
do
do
11 50
do. do.
8 months
84 00
do. do
do
6 months
160 00
Oornellus M.Oapron ..
do
do
do
do
do
do
Musician
Attendant
do
6 months
160 00
do. do. .....
Leo Hoffenrelch
0 mos. 20 days...
1 month
282 68
20 00
do. do.
2 months
45 00
do. do.
8 months
82 60
do. do
8 mos. 21 days...
4 mos, 28 days...
4 mos. ^ days.
28 days
117 10
Leo Hoffenrelch
24 62
Daniel Rogers
102 02
James Befton..
20 95
Richard Marshall
do
1 day
74
Ralph Ross.
U days
8 mos. 12 days...
24K days
8 10
FarQuer McRae
do
do
76 60
Otis G. Wooster... .
16 81
do. do
do
do
do
do „
do ^
do
1 month
28 00
do. do
2 months
60 00
do. do
4 months
112 00
Louis M. Olark.. ....
6 months
137 60
do. do. -
2 mos. 20 days.....
4 mouths...^.......
4 mos. 17 days
8 months ...
79 85
do. do. -
18:^00
John D. Campbell
196 70
do. do.
90 00
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REPORT OV i;fiE BOARD.
BTATB HOSPITAL FOB THE INSANE.— C:?lrfl»Med.
77
Xames.
1
Qineet.
Rate.
Time.
Amount.
John D. Oampbell
Attendant .....
Per month.
88 00
8 mos. 21 days
120 29
Jay G. Bellows
do.^ „
20 00
1 mo. 18H days...
88 21
Frederick J. Farrell
do.^
30 00
20 00
20 00
1 mo. 1 day ^
25^ days
SOW
Arthar Goulart..
do
1 67
Joseph E. Wilson
Ira 8. Austin-
do
28 days
16 88
do
do
30 00
20 00
1 mo, 6 days
8Hdays
24 29
Luther 0. Arnold
226
Wilson Proctor
do
do
do
20 00
28 00
28 00
1 mo. 4j^day8
6 days
2 mos. 26H days..
28 00
do. do. -
460
WllUam McArthur
66 32
Howard N. Freeman...
do
20 00
1 mo. 19 days
26 48
RoKwell K. WareL.
do
20 00
18K days
12 09
Charles E. Dudley
do
20 00
1 mo. 8 days
26 88
do. do
do
do
do
28 00
26 00
20 00
1 month
1 mo. 7 days„
2H days.*.
28 00
do. do
80 19
Fred L. Gates
1 61
Bosene Godbout..
do
20 00
8 mos. 4 days
68 08
George F. Hayes
do
20 00
ITVidays
1161
Israel Denlger
do
25 00
4 mos. 2(^ days..
116 58
do. do. - .
do
do
aooo
28 00
2 months
CO 00
Edward Hanley
Imo. 28dayK
40 78
John P. Davis
do
28 00
2(^days
16 72
Edmund F. McGrath...
do .,
20 00
1 mo. 21^^ days..
86 86
Henry Black
do
26 00
2 mos. 1M days...
52 09
John H. McOlellan
do
20 00
7H days
4 84
George F. Newell
do
20 00
1 mo. 6 days
24 82
George H. Sheldon
do. do
do
20 00
16 days
10 82
do
28 00
2 mos. 8 days
48 28
Charles K. Oralff
do
20 00
19 days
12 26
Nathan E. Clark..
do
20 00
20 00
20 00
2 mos. 16 days
18 days
49 76
Bernard McGrath
do
12 00
Harry Osborne..
do
sHdays
548
Oscar O. Hasen^
do
90 00
20 00
8 mos. 20 days
K^^days
78 88
Nlcol Weir
do
677
do. do
do-
28 00
I mo. 21 days
88 68
John F. Kane..
do. ~
22 GO
6 mos. 18K days..
158 91
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78 STATE CHABITIES AND C0RRECTI0H8.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE IVSAVB.-^Cotttmued.
Xames.
Oharles Masterman..
do. do.
Howard McDonald..
Alexander D. Campbell
Herdman McKay
Edward Barnes
Ernest W. Hingley.
John T. Charlton
do. do „..
John M. Lindsay
Francis Woods ,
William H.SllIoway...
do. do.
do. do
Ernest H. Timms
Robert L. Madden..
Charles E. Mlnkler
Fred G. Mann ^
do. do „..
do. do. .^
Fred J. Bean
do. do
do. do. ^
Nlshan Berberian
Albert Keene
Frank Blnsleton
Roy P. Noble
Joy E. Trott
Lewis E.Oreen
Wm. T. Buchanan
CUflTord Wood
George Harrison
Joshua Thomas
do. do
Martin J. Moller.
do. do. ^
Offices
Bolt.
Attendant .
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
' Per month
3800
SSOO
2000
I
28 00
28 00
I 20 00
2000
2000
28 00
20 00
20 00
Time.
Amount.
2mo9. 10 days
1 month -,
4 mo8. lOH days..
2 mos. 7 days
1 mo. l^^days '
2 mos. 21 days....!
8H days....,
Iday I
9j^days
«Hdays ,
2 mos. 7 days i
80 00: 4 mos. 26 days..
82 60: 8 months
86 00, 4 months
i
26 OOj 1 mo. isy^ days..
20 00|6M days
30 OOj 1 mo. ^ day.
20 00 8 mos. 26 days....
22 60l 1 month.^
26 00
88 00
26 00
36 00
20 00
28 00
2 mos. 20 days....
1 mo. 6 days-
1 month
1 mo. 18 days
2 mos. 24 days....
6 days
28 OOj II days
20 Oo' 1 mo. 28 days
20 00 1 mo 16 days
20 00 12 days „
20 00 2 mos. 14 days
20 001lHdays
20 00 2 mos. 6 days
23 00 1 mo. 26H days...
25 00, 8 days
28 00 4 mos. 4H days...
t
28 00| 1 month.
58 0»
25 00
96 12
61 07
28 08
62 90
040
05
728
1 01
44 10
144 19
97 60
140 00
4168
4 19
20 68
70 77
22 60
04 84
26 90
25 00
87 27
65 02
400
8 10
88 00
80 04
800
49 08
742
44 84
44 00
089
9160
28 00
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BEPORT or THB BOARD.
STATE HOSPITAL FOB THB INSANE.— Ca»<mtt«l.
79
Same9.
0(Jiee».
Bate.
Time.
Amount.
WllUamT.Row« Attendant..
For
do. do. -.
do. do. -
William Patten
Harry B.Jones -
Johnson Dunbam
J. Alton Stexenson
do. do.
do. do
do. do
Earl E.Oook....
Jesse E. Clark
Obarles E. Rlcbardson
do. do.
Arnold Hltchen
Victor Allen
Robert Brooks
Locke Mrott
do. do. — —
do. do. ^
John Henderson
Victor MUler
Joseph Ronnd
do. do. ^
do. do. ^
Walter E.Henry
Arthur P. Bonnin
Joseph Walsh
L. Edgar Thurber.
do. do «...
do. do
Marshall N. Belphla.....
do. do
do. do. —
do. do.
do. do. —
I
do.,
do.,
do.
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do..
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do-
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do..
month. I
28 00 1 mo. S9 days..
I
8 months..
25 00
SO 00 1 month..
28 00 14 days..
28 00 1 mo. 14H days..
I 00| I mo. IH days..
28 00 18 days..
25 OOl 1 month..
98 001 1 month..
I months
28 00
28 00 1 mo. 14 days..
28 00 1 mo. H day
28 00 1 mo. llH days. J
25 00,20 days ,
28 00* 1 mo. 26>^ days...
28 00 28 days '
28 00 18 days
29Hdays
1 month
1 month
30 days
1 mo. 6 days....
1 mo. 16 days..
1 month
1 month
28H days
28 00
25 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
26 00
28 00
28 00
28 00 24J4day8
28 00 2 moe. 12}^ days.
28 00 I mo. 12 days
28 00 1 month
80 00 2 months
20 00 2 mos. 25H days.
25 00 8 months
26 00 1 month
28 00' 1 month
88 00 2 months
44 51
75 00
80 00
10 89
88 76
24 26
097
25 00
26 00
28 00
88 78
28 88
88 82
16 67
45 82
21 10
18 70
21 89
25 00
28 00
16 88
26 71
86 60
26 00
28 00
19 80
18 16
54 89
81 90
28 00
60 00
41 67
76 00
26 00
28 00
66 00
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80 6TATB CHABITIE8 AKD C0RRECTI0K8.
8TATB HOSPITAL FOR THE IV HAViB.— Continued.
Xamfs.
Offices.
Bate.
I
Time.
AmouTft.
Frank H. Tusgy Attendant..
John Walsh do
Harry Courser..
Edward Dean...
do. do. ...
do. do. .^
do.,
do.
do.,
do..
David O. Judd do...
Harvey Macfarland..... do..
James Pearson^ I do..
do do I do..
Gerard Dicknians { do..
do. do I do..
do. do
Everett L. Washburn.
Horace Townsend
John Scott
Myron L. Thompson^..
Bherman L. Edwards..
do. do.
Sterling AverlU
do. do
do. do
Prank H. Clements
James Barclay
P. Everett Peiisloe
do. do
do. do.
do. do
Frank Donovan
Clinton Whltmore
Arthur B. Rowley
do. cio
Willis C. Spencer
do. do
John Smethurst
Per
month. I
» 001 1 mo. 1 day..
28 OO; 8 days..
I
23 00
23 00
26 00
28 00
S3 00
23 00
28 00
20 00
23 00
25 00
28 00
28 00
23 00
28 00
23 00
28 00
25 00
28 00
25 00
28 00
28 00
23 00
28 00
25 00
28 00
30 00
2>i days
29 days
2 months
1 month.^
8 mos. 5 days
55^ days
1 mo. llH days..
1 mo. 8 days
17>i days
1 month
1 month
8H days
llHdays |
1 mo. S^ days... |
18 days
1 mo. 10 days i
1 month — !
1 mo. 10 days
1 month
1 month .
28 days
2 mos . 4% days...
1 mo. 19 days
1 month..
1 month..
1 month
23 OOjll days
23 00 1 mo. 22 days..
I
"I
28 00 8C^ days
2S OOi 2 months
23 OOi 1 mo. Sl^A days....
25 00 1 month..
28 00 2lH days
23 OOJ 1 mo. 20>^ days..
28 78
8 18
1 93
22 28
50 00
28 00
72 88
4 22
83 82
32 71
12 98
25 00
28 OO
8 31
882
89 78
13 78
30 42
25 00
80 07
25 00
28 00
17 08
48 98
87 10
25 00
28 00
30 00
8 18
89 82
£2 68
68 00
27 08
25 00
15 93
40 75
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REPOKT OV THE BOARD.
STATE HOSPITAL FOB THE INSANE.— fOR^nUAl
81
Xames,
QfUcf.
I
Bate.
Time.
\AmovfU.
George Simmons (Attendant .
Per month,
do. do do..
An«e Romeos do..
William O. Sherman., do..
Walter Vernon.- do..
Wallace Oolllns ! do..
do..
do..
do..
do..
do..
do..
do..
do..
do..
do..
do.
do..
do.
do
do.
do.
do.
do
Wlllard c;oot>«r
do.
do
Charles Danford
do.
do
do.
do. .-
Alexander Ijaurle
Herbert
M. Donnell...
William H. Prestwich
John Conrad
John Spearman do..
Frank Mason do..
Thomas Hanna do..
Daniel Mullen do..
Harry McDonald do..
Harry Sutton do..
John Grant do..
Bert Marston ; do..
do. do do..
do. do do..
Frank M. Turner do..
Raymond G. Mclntyre do..
Fred Reynolds.-.. do..
William Kinney ' do..
do. do. „ ' do..
do. do do..
Daniel O'Hara
Wlnf red O. Gallup..
do.,
do..
I
dooo
1 month.....
80 00
8ft 00
1 month
85 00
23 00
18 days
18 GO
28 00
I mo. 6 days
27 08
28 00
1 mo. 8 days.
2808
28 00J 1 mo. 25 days
42 20
23 00
26 00
1 month..
25 00
1 month
98 00
27 oa
20 00
2 months
54 00
8 days ^
1 M
28 00
8 mos. I^ days-
85 17
28 00
1 mo. 8 days..
24 68
2ft 00
1 month
25 00
28 00
1 tnonth
28 00
I
28 00 10 days
7 42
28 00
1 mo. 6 days
27 50
25 00
21 days
15 09
28 00
1 mo. 4% days —
26 14
25 00
1 mo. 8>^ days —
27 01
28 00
I mo. 8 days
25 22
20 00
8>^days
226
28 00
213^ days
16 29
28 00 1(^ days.„
806
28 00: I mo. 8 days
28 20
28 OOj 1 mo. 24 days
40 81
28 00
1 mo. 9 days-
29 90
25 00
1 month...-
25 00
28 00
1 month-^
28 00
23 00
laydays
18 79
28 00
1 month
28 00
28 00
lmo.2H days
25 15
28 00
1 mo. W days
86 27
26 00
1 month
26 00
28 00
1 month
28 00
28 00
2 mos. 1^ days-
50 96
28 00
1 mo. 8 days
26 80
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82 STATE CHABITHS akd ookbbctionb.
STATB HOSPITAL FOB THB INSANE.— Con«f7U««(f.
Name$.
Offices.
EaU.
Time.
Amount.
Wlofred O. Gallup
Leon Vermilion
Louis A. Blanc he t
Adrian Ouret
James Troy^
William Ooffger
Ernest Q. Ellsworths.
do. do.
do. do.
Andrew Harper
Arthur Blanohard
Arthur Ck>llln8
John Marr
Gilbert Stancllffe
James Prowse ,
do." do. >
do. do. -~
Alonzo Wallace
Attendant..
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do ^
do
do
Per
month.
SS 00 1 mo. 10 days..
28 00 2M days...
» 00 16 days
28 00 U days
28 00
28 00
1 mo. U}^ days...
22 days
28 00 2lKdays..
25 00
28 00
28 00
1 month..
1 month..
11 days
28 00. 9 days..
28 00. 8 days..
23 00 24 days..
28 00 12Mdays..
28 00
28 00
1 mo. 10 days .
1 month
80 00 2 month..
28 00 25 days
88 00
185
12 27
10 78
84 00
15 77
10 09
26 00
28 00
8 41
008
228
17 81
927
80 42
28 00
00 00
18 65
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REPORT OV THS BOARD. 88
STATB WOBKHOUSB, HOUSE OP OORBBOTION AND ALMSHOUSE.
Namet.
Offlets.
Rat€,
TtMtf.
ilmoMU.
Timothj P.Dodge .Deputy Bupt. Work-
I house and H. of O....
Mary B. Wood i M atron. Female.
House of Oorrectlon
Hattle D. Brockhaose^JAsst. Matron do
Oarollne Kron ' do. do. do^
Mildred Lawrence , do. do. do
Ada J. Banker j do. do. do„
Joanna B.Farr !Hou8ekeeper~8upt^.
1 House
Ira B.Hlffglns..^ .Olerk
do. do I do _
Muriel Haslam Asilstant 01erk„
Olara B. Hayes Temporary As ^t Olerk
Dayld F. Prescott Overseer .
do. do
Francis A. Bunker
do. do
Oharles L. Payson
do. do
Hugh A. McKenzle — j
do. do. —
John M. Whitcomb
Nathaniel B. Doe '
Htanley Hlgglns i
do. do I
do. do i
I
Archie MacKenzie
I
John F, Rlggley '
Wlnfred O. Gallup
Leslie A, Payson „,..'
Rudolph Hogerhuls.....!
do. do !
Oscar Wentworth
Everett F. Corliss
Obesley T. Trowsdale...
Arthur O. Walker
Henry M. Whipple
William T. Douglas.^...
do-
do,
do.,
do.,
do.,
do.-
do..
do.,
do...
do.,
do.
do.,
do.,
do.
do.,
do..
do_.
do.,
do..
Per year.
$1.800 00
Per month
«0 0()
80 00
80 00
8000
S5 00
Pharmacist A Store-
keeper
Assistant Storekeeper
Engineer
Oarpenter
Plumber ^
80 00
70 00
76 00
80 00
80 00
00 00
06 00
46 00
60 00
46 00
60 00
80 00
86 00
46 00
46 00
80 00
86 00
40 00
80 00
80 00
80 00
80 00
80 00
86 00
86 00
70 00
40 00
00 00
66 00
eooo
1 year
1 year
1 year
1 year
11 mo9. S4 days...
11 mos. 11 days...
1 year
6 months
7 months
1 year —
1 mo. 16 days
5 months
10 months
3 months
10 months
2 months
9 mos, 87 days...
6 mo. SO days
3 months
1 year ...
10 mo8. 7 days....
1 month.
4 months „...
7 months
6 mos. 17 days...
4 mos. 10 days...
16 days
1 mo. J7 days
7 mos. 6 days.....
6 months
7 months
1 year
11 mos. 17 days...
11 mos. 80 days...
1 year
10 mos. 17 days...
I 1.300 00
73000
800 00
800 00
868 SB
884 17
800 00
8C0 00
636 00
800 00
46 48
130 00
660 00
80 00
600 00
90 00
406 00
soeoo
70 00
640 00
400 04
80 00
140 00
380 00
196 46
128 ft8
15 48
66 41
816 81
176 00
846 00
840 00
460 19
n8 06
600 00
080 96
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84 STATE CHARITIBS AlfD CORRBCTIONB.
STATE WORKHOUSE, HOUSE OF CORRECTION AND ALMSHOUSE.— Cim<W««rf.
Offices
Nami's.
E(Ue,
Time,
Amount.
Jumojs O'Neil
John F. Callory
Plumber's Helper
Blacksmith \
Fireman i
Per week
600
Per day.
250
Per month.
80 00
30 00
4 wks. 2 das
;309day8
2600
772 60
Kdward Kllbaiie
11 mos. 29 days...
11 mos. 30 days...
!
896 06
Edwin J. (^ollamore
do
1
86008
Bamiiol H. Wilson
Painter
•
65 00
1 year
1 78000
James B. Mathowson...
Overseer, Cook Room.
BO 00
1 year
' 60000
(iaiTltt Reltsma.
Baker
60 00' 1 venr
! 600 00
Michael Stokos . .
Kellef Baker.
Mason
50 00
50 00
14 days
' 28 38
Patrick Lapii>
7 mos. 16 days...
8T787
(Marence Konnoy
Tean^'^ter
40 00
40 00
45 00
1 year
! 480 00
Patrick F. Slilolds
outside AVatc
do
hman
do. ....
4 months
160 00
do. do
' 8 months
86000
Pliny W. LaiiKdell
In.slde
do
45 00 1 year
54000
Asa May and wife
Deputy & HouRok'r
Almshouhe
Per
1
year.'
.'200 00 1 year
1,200 00
Calvona T. Xorton
Matron, Aim
s house ..
Per month.'
50 00 11 mos. 27 days...
668 66
lilnda A.ruiinlnizhmn
Attendant, Almshouse
25 00| 3 mos. 17 days..
1 80 17
Harah J. I'arucs
do.
do.
do.
do.
20 00
23 00
6 days
4 00
Abble J. Clenients
iWdays
1 24 67
Lllla M. Trowsdale
do.
do.
i
25 00 11 mos. 4 days....
; 277 42
Mary M. Jamison
do.
do.
25 00 1 year
80000
P^len G. Johnson
do.
do.
25 00(11 mos. 25 days .
! 204 85
Ilattle L. "Walte
do.
do.
35 00 11 mos. 28 days .
410 07
JIattle Messer
do.
do.
25 00 lyear
800 00
Julia Coon
do.
do.
do.
do.
25 00
26 00
1 year
800 00
Ell/.aboth Jones
1 mo. 10 dflTfi -_
88 08
Lillian Dou^'Ias
do.
do.
25 00 3 mos. 20 days..
' 01 18
Jennie F. Slmonds
do.
do.
25 00 1 year
' 80000
Emma Bradstreet
do.
do.
25 00 lyear
800 00
Minnie M. Bain
do.
do.
25 00:i0mo8. lOdays....
25800
Maria Doe
do.
do.
25 00 1 mo. 26 days....
44 44
Elsie A. Pitcher
' do.
do.
20 00 1 mo. 8 days
21 87
Annie M. Bnrbank
do.
do.
25 00 1 mo. 17 days....
62 00
j
Cora Bowman
' do.
do.
i
25 OOi 3 months
75 00
Tjaura A. James ...
do.
do.
do.
do.
25 00 1 mo. 22 days....
20 00 2 mos. 16 days....
' 42 74
Grace Bi'ad'^treet . .
60 67
1
1
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 85
STATE WORKHOUSEj HOUSE OF CORRECTION AND ALMSHOUSE.— fOTlftni/erf.
Name$.
Office*.
Rate.
Time
Amount.
Grace Bradstreet -...
Hargaretta Snow
Lela HlffglnB -
Ida E. Averell
do. do. ._
Wlnrletta B. Rolerson
Charles A. Norton_
Bfark A. Rolerson
Albert B. Franklin
William H. Popham-...
do. do.
James R. Burns ..„
Arthur A. Blanchard...
John M. Simpson
do. do.
Noe Larivlere
do. do. _
James A. Altham
Francis £. Snow.
James A. Averell
do. do, „
Oalvln F. Pllley
do. do
Edward E. Dyer„
Harry S. Jaques
do. do
John W. Bain „ I
do. do. ..._
Arthur E, James„ |
Joseph E. McDonald...
Josiah H. Bowman
Everett L. Oarr.
Henry P. Pitcher
John G. Olark
Charles McDermott
Per montli.
Attendant Almshouse
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do.
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do 1
do.
do !
do.
do.
do.
do
do.
. d«
do.
do !
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do.
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do
do.
do„
do.
do
Relief do.
do„
25 IX) 5 mos. 25 days
120 18
20 00 2 months
40 00
25 00 1 year
300 00
1
25 Ot) 5 months
125 00
SO 001 7 months
210 00
25 00 10 months
2rX)00
85 00 11 mos. 27 days....
415 4S
80 Wj 11 mos. 27 days
870 65
85 Wi 1 year
420 00
25 001 1 month
25 00
30 00 10 mos. 21 days
827 70
20 00 28 days
11 84
20 00 2 mos. 9 days
40 15
80 00 4 mos. 23 days
112 20
35 00 3 months
105 00
1
80 00 2 mouths
60 00
35 00 5 mos. 23day.s....
200 97
80 00 21 days
15 4S
20 00 2 mos. 6 days
43 87
25 00 2 months
50 00
80 00 10 months
300 CO
25 00 2 months
COCO
SO OOj 2 mos. 5days^....
64 84
20 00 2 mos. 19 days
C2 2C
20 00, 2 mos. 25 days
50 13
25 00! 1 mo. 4 days
2S 17
25 00 2 months
1
50 00
30 00 9 mos. 30 days
2U9 03
25 00 1 mo. 22 days
42 74
20 00 2 mos, 5 days
43 23
25 00 7 mos. 2 days
176 30
20 00 2 mos. 20 days
1
56 77
20 00 1 mo, 4 days
22 52
25 00 6 mos. 18 days
164 41
5 00 10 mos. 23 days„...
53 83
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86 6TATE OHABirnS AHD GORBEOTIOKS.
8TATB PBI80N AND PROVIDBNOB COUNTY JAIL
Names,
curieu.
Bate,
Tiine.
AmaipU.
B. Bdmund Slocum
Prank O. VlaU
William O. Towne
Bffbert W. Lowe^
Olarenoe N. Oram
Rufus W. Partridge
George W. Spencer
Thomas 0. HeniT
Oscar B. Kemp
Aimer J. Davis
Wells 8. Hannon
Henry 8. Bpaldlng
J. Albert MlUerd.
William O.Thompson,
Albion M. Ransdell
George O. Flanders
Herbert A. Kinsley
do. do
George A. Woodbury...
do. do
Herbert W. Knight
James A. Ourtls
Manley D. Tlbbetts
Manley A. Gardner
Henry O. Deerlng
Ernest L. Hilt
do. do
do. do
do. do
John F. Richardson.....
do. do
Frank A. Crosby
do. do
do. do
do. do
Augustus McLean
Deputy Warden....
Clerk
Assistant Clerk....
Steward
Engineer
Hall Keeper
Overseer „
do
do
do
do ^-
do
Day Officer
do. do
do „
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Extra
do
Extra
Per year
$1.800 00
1 year..
1 year.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
Watchman
do. Extra..
do ^
do. Extra...
do
do. Extra..
do
1.600 00
Per month„i
75 OOj 1 year
75 00 11 mos. 28 days...
60 00' 1 year
75 00 1 year
75 00 11 mos. 21 days...
75 00 11 mos. 24 days^.
1 year
11 mos. 24 days...
76 00
75 00
I
75 00 II mos. 23 days...
75 0011 mos, 28 days...
«5 00:11 mos. 24 days...
60 00 10 mo. 6 days
60 00 11 mos. (^ days..
60 00 1 year
50 00 1 mo. 15 days„...
60 00 10 mos. 28 days
60 00 8 mos. 21 days
60 00 7 mos. 28 days
60 00 2 mos. 26 days
60 00,11 mos. 24 days
60 00 U mos. 17 days,
60 00 11 mos. 17 days...
41 67 1 year
41 67 8 mos. 24 days...
41 67 1 day
60 00 8 months
60 00 1 day
65 0011 mos. 29 days
65 00 1 day
41 67j 9 mos. y^ day
41 67 1 day
60 00 1 mo. 14 days
60 001 1 day
41 67 6 mos. 24 days
S 1,800 00
1.600 00
900 00
882 82
720 00
900 00
875 02
888 06
900 00
888 06
882 50
888 06
765 82
611 61
676 80
720 00
68 98
648 29
185 00
474 82
140 82
668 71
576 77
877 04
600 04
874 86
1 49
160 00
1 61
777 88
2 17
877 11
184
78 88
189
280 94
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BSPOBt OF THS BOABD. 87
STATE PBI80N AND PBOVIDBNOB COUNTY JAIL.— Cofrfmiied.
Name$.
QfTlees.
AK«.
Ttm4.
Amatad,
Guy Oarnej „
Watchman
Per month.
96 00
86 00
86 00
85 00
4167
4107
85 00
86 00
85 00
85 00
4107
85 00
85 00
41 87
41(r7
85 00
86 00
85 00
85 00
85 00
85 00
15 00
Per hour —
85
5 mos. 7 days.
19 days
189 90
do. do
do. Extra
18 74
Bdmand R. Greene
do. do. .. .
do.
do. Extra -
do
1 mo. 7 days —
8 days
aY5
861
do. do
7 mos. 16 days...
8 days
816 19
do. do. «..
do. Extra
4 Oi
Frederick 0. Nelson
do. do
GK19t«ye TKihAmll
do.._ :.
do. Extra
do
9 mos. 11 days...
6 days
7 mos. IS days...
14 days
89 41
679
968 66
do. do. ..^.
do. Extra
16 94
do. do
James Armstrong
do ^..
do
4 mos. 19 days.»
0 mos. 8 days
15 days..
1 mo. 14 days —
1 day
9 mos. 9 days
29 days „
2 mos. 6 days
• days —
8 mos. 26 days .
18 days
7 months
800 hours
199 99
817 89
do. do
do. Extra...
17 88
do. do
do
do Extra..
e9 19
do. do
1 18
Walter 8. Sessions
do
816 09
do. do.
do. Extra...
do. do.
95 97
Hanson H. Wills
76 7T
do. do
do. Extra —
do do „.
do. Extra..
School Teacher
do. do
6 89
Raymond Oonn
809 17
do. do. ^
20 69
Rufus W. Partrtdife... .
Aimer J Davis
119 00
75 00
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88
BTATB CHARITISS AND CORRECTIONS.
SOCKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
Names,
0010*1.
Rate, 1 Time,
Amount,
Ezeklel E. Gardner......
Deputy Sunt
Per year.
S 1.500 00
Per month.
50 00
25 00
1 year
S 1500 00
George 0. Campbell
Edith P. Gardner
Clerk. . ..
1 year
600 00
Deputy Supt's. Clerk
do. do
4 mos. 10 days...
115 83
Abble P. Blcknell
25 OO' 7 moH. 11 daya..
184 17
Doty E. Sheldon.
Overseer
60 00
5500
60 00
65 00
55 00
60 00
65 00
60 00
50 00
50 00
60 00
6 month
800 00
do. do
do
do „ .-
do
do _
do _
do
6 months
830 00
Wesley Kenney -.
6 months
800 00
do. do
6 months
830 00
JohnGk>odell
6 months
880 00
do. do.
6 months
300 00
George W. King
6 months
2 months
S90 00
do. do.
do
do
do
do
do
Engineer
do
Barn A Relief Officer..
do
do
Teacher, Primary
do do„
do Cot. No 1
do do
120 00
Fred Howard
4 months.:
200 00
Fred E. Adams
6 months
800 00
do. do.
6 months
860 00
Dwlght 8. Austin
50 00
GO 00
65 00
75-00
2 months
6 months
100 OO
do. do
860 00
Clarence W. Adams
6 months
890 00
do. do
6 months
450 00
John M. Whltten . .,.
46 00
50 00
55 00
26 00
80 00
26 a)
80 00
25 00
2500
25 00
27 50
26 00
6 months
270 00
do. do.
4 months
200 00
do. do. .. .
2 months
6 months
110 00
Evelyn F. Austin
150 00
do. do
6 months
180 01)
Clara L. Maddocks
do. do.
6 months
6 mos. 11 days...
10 mos. 10 days...
7 days
150 00
187 10
Mabel R. L. Dawley
Lura K. Goodell
do Cot. No. 2
Sub. Teacher
288 88
6 65
Leutner O. J. Hatch -
Teacher Cot. No. 8
do do
6 months
160 00
do. do.
5 mos. 6 days
S mos. 15 days...
141 06
Ethel M.Campbell
Sub. Teacher
87 60
Nellie F. McNelL .
Teacher Oot. No. 4
Sub. Teacher
25 00
25 00
23 00
80 00
20 CO
8 mouths
200 00
Jennie J. Chambers
2 mos. 28 days...
6 months
72 74
H.Mabel Stearns _.
Teacher Annex— and
HousekV Primary
do do
Extra duty
160 00
do. do. »
6 mos. 17 days.....
1 mo. 20 days
1 166 45
do. do
1 3838
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REPORT OP THE BOARD.
SOCKAN08SET SCHOOL FOR BOYS,— Continued,
8d
JVamtfR.
QTket.
Bate. Time. , Amount.
Per month.
25 00 1 nios. 4 <lays„... 27 42
20 00' 3 mo8. 25 days... 70 07
20 ooi 6 mos. 15 days... 190 00
20 00 U mos. 20 days... 232 VO
20 OOj 0 mos. 14 days.. ld» 08
20 OOi 3 mos. 7 days tt4 00
20 Oo; 2 mos. 17 days... 50 V7
20 oo' 1 year I 240 00
20 00 1 year 240 00
20 Ooj 1 year 240 00
20 01) 11 mos. 15 days... 22i* 68
I
40 00, tf mos. 2 days 212 t>7
35 00 4 mos. ao days... 178 87
30 00 1 year 8«X) oO
25 00 e uios. 13 days 15N OO
30 CO 0 months ISO 00
20 00 14 days I W 83
20 «» 3 mos. 4 days 62 67
20 00 4 mos. 28 days. . 96 34
60 00 3 mos. 4 days I 1S8 oo
65 00| 4 mos. 7 days 232 N3
55 00 3 mos. 6 days 176 00
60 00 1 year 720 00
60 001 6 mos. 19 days 338 00
55 001 5 mos. 5 days _ 2SJ 69
no Ool 6 months 360 00
70 eo! 6 months 420 00
60 00 6 months 860 00
70 00] 6 months 420 00
65 00|12 days 26 00
56 00. 5 mos. 20 days 811 67
60 00 4 mos. 29 days 296 13
:^ 00 27 days 80 48
40 00 8 mos. 8 days 831 87
CO to 27 days » 48 56
40 00 3 mos. 21 days 148 00
Susie K. Davis ^ Sub. Teacher
Jessie A. Howard Matron. Primary..
Ethel M. Campbell
Lizzie H. Sheldon
Ullia F. Burhoe
Alice E. Pottle
Delia J. Graham
Lura K. Goodell : Matron
Mary L. Whitten Matron
Alice R. Boring... ;
Alice Bradford Deputy Supt*s House-
; keeper
Rose IJnden iNurse and Matron
of Chapel
Mabelle H. Slay ton do. do.
Angle K. Stover Matron, Sewing-room
Lillian r. Creasey Matron, liaundry
do. do do. do
do. do do Extra Duty
Mathilda Boucher Matron, Officers' Din.
Room A Main Halls
Linda A.Cunningham.. do. . do
do.
do
do.
Cot. No. 1
do
Cot. No. 2
do.
do.
do.
do.
tron
Cot. No. 3
tron
Cot. No 4
do
Annex
Charles K. Boucher Instniclor, Carpentry
' A Joinery...
William Rasmusseu...
Nathan J. Pottle
Howard H. Dawley....
James H. Lewis
(ieorge Chambers
Edward W. Foster
do. do.
Alphlda Boutier
do. do
Alfred G. Fleld...„
Roy E. T^ayman
do. do
do. do Officer, Extra duty..
Harry H. (Cunningham Relief Officer
Nlles Wescott Supply do
Charles Perkins , Watchman
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
Machine shop
do.
Hlacksmlthlng
do.
do.
do.
do.
Bricklaying A
Plastering
do.
do.
Hhoemaklng..
do.
do.
do.
Printing
do.
do
do.
do
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STATE CHARIIES AND CORRECTIONS.
SOCKANOS8ET SCHOOL FOR BOYS— Continued,
r
yatM8.
Offices.
Hate.
Time.
Amount.
Dwlght 8. Austin
Wm. J. Douglas
Lillian M. Douglas
Anne Stone
Fred Baldwin.
Ella Baldwin
Mabel R. L. Dawley....
James Gallagher^
Thomas A. Sammon...
Malachy Kelley
Harriet A Broome
Helen McLeod
Aunle F. Walnwrlght,
Susie G. Titus
Mary E. Forrest
Watchman
Steward
Oook
Supply Cook
Steward
Oook :
Musician „..
Fireman
Military Instructor.
do. do.
Extra Nurse
do. do
Night Nurse
do. do
do. do
,Per month.'
I 40 OOj 4 months.
45 001 8 nios. 21 days .
25 ai 8 mos. 19 days .
25 001 1 mo. 3 days ....
45 00 2 mos. 9 days...
25 00, 2 mos. 9 days...
5 00 9 months
10 00 2 mos. 21 days..
Per day I
2 00 62 days
2 a), 37 days
Per week
15 00
15 00
25 wks. 1 days.
3 weeks
21 00 4 wks. 2 days..
25 00| 4 wks. 3 days..
25 00 4 wks. 4 days.,
100 00
391 50
215 83
26 91
103 07
S7 26
45 00
28 00
154 00
74 00
877 16
45 00
90 00
110 72
114 28
OAKLAWN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
Names.
Offices.
1
Rate. Time.
1
• Amount.
1
Clara F. Forbusb
Deputy 8uDt
Per month. 1
50 Ot' 1 year
$600 00
Rose N. Marwood
Assistant
do.
Matron....
do
30 00
.. 1 25 00
1 year.
360 00
Alice D. Reynolds.^
1 month
25 00
do. do
do.
do.
do.
do
do
do
30 W
25 OC
11 months
830 00
Maud S. Howard
•
5 months
125 00
Annie M. Rurbank
...] 25 0(
1 mo. 15 days
37 10
Abble J. Clements
do.
do
25 a
4 mos. 15 days
112 l'»
do. do
do.
Teacher..
do
30 0»
...'■ 25 0(
1 month
30 00
Agnes 0. Smith
1 month
25 00
do. do.
do. ...
30 OC
1
25 0(
11 months
330 00
Agnes B. McNuughton
do. ..
1 month
25 00
do. do.
do. ..
30 0(
11 months
830 00
Respectfully submitted,
^AMES R. READ, Se:retaTy.
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STi^LTISTICS
OF THE
State 2l/orAAouse and Jifouse of Correct/on.
1907.
Committed 697
Discharged dOl
Escaped 18
Attempted to escape 0
Returned to Reform School 0
Transferred to Reform School 1
Transferred to Providence County Jail 0
Died 6
Men,
Number of inmates January 1, 1907 211
Committed during 1907 ^ 444
Escaped inmates recommitted 10
Transferred from Reform School 0
Committed for fine and costs 4
Totals 669
Discharged during 1907 464
Escaped 18
Died 6
Transferred to Reform School 0
Totals .1 488
Remaining January 1, 1908 181
Previously,
mai.
22,322
22,919
20,350
20,954
1,397
1,415
27
27
68
68
2
3
59
59
149
155
Women,
Total.
59
270
138
582
0
10
1
1
0
4
198
867
140
601
0
18
0
6
1
1
141
629
67
238
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92
STATISTICS OP T&E WORKHOUSE, ETC.
STATISTICS OF PERSONS COMMITTED.
SEX.
1907, Previously.
Men 459 16,940
Women 138 5,382
Totals 597
RACE.
TUaL
17,399
5,520
22,322 22,919
White
Colored.
Indians...
1907.
587
10
0
Preu,
21,611
701
10
Totals
BIRTHPLACE.
597 22,322
Total
22,198
711
10
22,919
1907.
United States.. 323
Ireland 125
England. 59
Scotland 13
Wales 3
Canada 39
Nova Scotia. .. 4
New Brunswick 2
P. E. Island. ... 1
Now Foundland 2
(Germany 0
France
Holland
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland ..
Prussia
Spain
Austria..
Armenia
Greece
Denmark . . .
Preu.
12,848
5,417
1,889
560
18
813
176
71
5
45
119
43
3
II
126
9
10
9
4
2
1
4
Total
13,171
5,542
1,948
563
21
a52
180
73
6
47
119
44
3
11
131
9
10
9
9
2
1
4
Portugal
Italy
Mexico
So. America
Cuba
East Indies
Calcutta
('ape Verd I's.
St. Helena
Western I's
Africa
At Sea
Kussia
West Indies
Turkey
Finland
Belgium
Syria
Poland
Unknown
1907
5
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
1
1
0
3
0
Prev.
9
48
1
.4
2
4
1
2
1
5
2
5
15
5
1
4
2
2
17
19
Total.
10
63
1
4
2
4
1
3
1
5
2
6
17
5
1
5
3
2
20
19
Totals 697 22,322 22,919
BIRTHPLACE OF PARENTS.
United States
United States and England
United States and Scotland
United States and Ireland
United States and Britisii America
United States and West Indies
1907.
Prev.
Total.
113
5,063
6,166
3
106
109
3
a^,
38
18
349
367
7
67
74
0
8
8
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BTATB CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
98
BIRTHPLACB OF PARENTS.— ConfWMed.
United States and Germany
United States and South America
United States and Portugal
United States and Poland
United States and Western Islands
United States and Sweden
United States and Italy
United States and St. Helena
United States and at Sea
Italy
Enja:land
England and Scotland
England and Ireland
England and Wales *
England and Germany
England and France
England and British America
England and Sweden
England and at Sea
Scotland
Scotland and British America
Scotland and Spain
Scotland and at Sea
Ireland :
Ireland and Spain
Ireland and British America
Ireland and Norway
Ireland and Scotland
Ireland and Wales
At Sea
Sweden.
Germany
Germany and Switzerland
Germany and Ireland
Germany and British America
Germany and France
Greece
France
France and America
France and Ireland
France and Belgium
France and British America •
France and West Indies
France and Scotland
British America
Wales.
1907
Prmf,
Total.
0
13
13
0
2
2
1
4
5
0
1
1
0
2
2
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
3
3
0
2
2
6
49
55
41
1714
1755
0
31
31
6
241
247
1
11
12
0
3
3
0
8
8
2
21
23
0
1
1
0
4
4
12
619
531
0
12
12
0
1
1
0
1
1
292
12,038
12,330
0
2
2
2
81
83
0
1
1
6
145
151
0
1
1
0
1
1
6
130
135
1
172
173
0
2
2
0
13
13
0
3
3
0
1
1
0
2
2
1
52
53
0
21
21
0
4
4
0
1
1
0
10
10
0
2
2
0
1
1
59
1140
1199
1
12
13
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94 STATISTICS OF THE WORKHOUSE, ETC.
BIRTHPLACE OF PAUE^TS. —Continued.
1907. Prev. Total.
Prussia...- 0 8 8
Spain 0 6 6
Switzerland 0 11 11
Syria 0 2 2
Denmark 0 2 2
Denmark and England Oil
East Indies 0 4 4
West Indies 0 6 6
Mexico 0 1 1
South America 0 4 4
Africa ,011
Western Islands 0 9 9
Portugal 1 13 14
Portugal and Western Islands Oil
Poland 3 19 22
Cape Verde Islands 12 3
Belgium 1 2 3
Austria 4 7 11
Austria and Russia 10 1
Norway 0 10 10
Russia 1 18 19
Russia and Ireland 0 3 3
Russia and England 1 0 1
Turkey 0 1 1
Finland 1 6 6
Armenia 0 2 2
Unknown 3 86 89
Totals 697 22,322 22,919
AGES.
1907. Prev. Total.
Under 20 years of age 26 1,128 1,1&4
From 20 to 30 years Ill 6,810 6,921
'' 30**40 ** 138 6,633 6,771
** 40**50 ** 154 4,898 6,052
** 60 ** 60 ** 112 2,689 2,701
** 60 ** 70 ** 47 978 1,026
"• 70 ** 80 ** 8 237 246
Over 80 years 1 23 24
Unknown 0 26 26
Totals 697 22,322 22,919
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STATE CHABITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
96
Afi^ents
Actors
Artists
Awning makers..
Bakers
Barbers
Basket makers. .
Belt makers
Bleachers
Boiler makers
Bookkeepers
Bookmakers
Boxmakers
Brakemen
Brass workers ...
Broom makers...
Burnistiers
Bootblacks
Bartenders
Brokers
Butchers
Bricklayers
Brussels carpet
weavers
Bell hangers
Blacksmiths
Button makers . .
Boatmen
Bookbinders
Brewers
Confectioners
Cabinet makers..
Car inspector
Carpenters
Cigar makers
Clothes cleaners
Cloth examiners
Clerks
Combmakers
Cooks
Coopers
Coremaker..
Curriers
Cutler
Chasers ,
Carriage makers
1907.
Prev,
1
3
0
9
0
1
0
1
2
126
4
195
0
9
1
10
0
18
0
55
0
68
0
7
0
17
1
78
0
11
1
0
0
2
1
2
0
6
0
4
1
63
I
59
0
10
0
2
a
259
0
1
0
5
0
2
0
I
0
3
0
22
1
0
14
541
1
45
0
2
0
1
3
207
0
4
B
282
I
19
1
0
0
12
0
I
0
5
0
7
OCCUPATIONS.
Total 1907. Prev. ToiaL
4 Coppersmiths 0 8 3
9 Corn doctors Oil
1 Designers 1 3 4
1 Diesinkers 0 5 5
127 Draughtsmen 0 10 . 10
199 Dyers 2 69 71
9 Dressmakers 1 85 86
11 Electricians 1 18 19
18 Electroplate rs... 0 1 1
55 Engineers 1 72 73
68 P^ngravers 2^ 28 30
7 Engine turners.. Oil
17 Farmers 8 383 391
79 File cutters, 1 45 46
U Fishermen 1 36 37
1 Firemen 8 155 163
2 Furniture polish-
3 ers. 0 3 3
6 Gardeners 5 83 88
4 Gas fitters 1 27 28
64 Gas makers Oil
60 (Hass makers 0 2 2
Grocers 0 4 ' 4
10 Glaziers 0 3 3
2 Hairdressers 0 2 2
262 Hairdrawers 0 1 1
1 Hatters 0 14 14
5 Harness makers 0 37 37
2 Hotel keepers 0 7 7
1 Hostlers 12 610 622
3 Housewives 25 1,769 1,794
22 Hackmeii 3 40 43
1 Jewelers 14 649 563
555 Laborers 152 6,729 6,881
46 Looraflxers 0 27 27
2 Lawyers 0 4 4
1 Leather Japan-
210 ers 0 2 2
4 Laundry men 3 0 3
288 Laundresses 1 217 218
20 Lathers 0 29 29
1 Lecturers. Oil
12 Linemen 0 4 4
I Machinists 17 498 510
5 Masons 7 286 292
7 Marble workers.. 0 14 14
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STATIflTSCTS OF THE WORKHOUSE, ETC.
occvPATioys.— Continued.
1907. Prev. Total.
1907. Prev. Toial.
Mender china-
ware. 0
Merchants 0
Manufacturers... 0
Mill hands 108
Motormen.. 0
Moulders 7
Musicians 0
Music teachers.. 0
Meat cutters 2
Nurses 0
Oystermen 0
Painters 20
Peddlers 3
Photographers . 1
Physicians 0
Piano polishers . 0
Piano tuners 0
Polishers 1
Plumbers 2
Preachers 0
Printers 0
Pearl workers .. 0
Policemen 0
Plasterers 0
Paper makers 0
Paper hangers... 0
Quarry men, 0
R. R. Conductors I
Roofers.,. 2
Rubber workers 7
Reed makers 0
Reporters 0
Salesmen 5
Slaters „ 0
Sailors 3
1907.
January 42
February 28
March 53
April 48
May 41
June. 43
July 58
Saloon keepers ..
0
9
9
1
1
Sailmakers „
0
10
10
10
10
School teachers..
0
14
14
8
8
Seamstresses
2
164
166
3,039
3,147
Servantsand
1
1
waiters
75 1,680
1,755
236
243
Shipriggers
0
5
5
25
25
Ship carpenters..
0
9
9
15
15
Silver polishers..
0
22
22
21
23
Silversmiths
0
7
7
13
13
Steam pipe
20
20
workers
3
41
44
609
629
Stone cutters
2
78
80
178
181
Soap makers
0
3
3
16
17
Stucco workers..
0
5
5
21
21
Soldiers
0
7
7
2
2
Shoemakers
2
279
281
3
3
Stenographers . .
0
1
1
23
24
Silver platers
0
4
4
41
43
Tailors
3
142
146
2
2
Tailoresses
0
6
6
105
105.
Tanners
0
10
10
1
1
Teamsters
36
737
773
15
15
Telegraphers
1
7
8
8
8
Tool makers
0
8
8
6
6
Tinsmiths
1
60
61
1
1
Upholsterers
1
17
18
20
20
Wax workers
0
2
2
7
8
White washers ..
0
21
21
16
18
Wheelwrights
0
11
11
68
75
Wiredrawers
0
7
7
2
2
Woolsorters
0
22
22
5
5
Woodturners
0
4
4
58
90
Unknown
0
53
58
4
4
217
214
Totals
597 22,322 22,919
TIME
1 OK COMMITMENT.
Prev.
Total
i
\907.
Prev.
Total.
1,456
1,498
August.
77
2,389
2,466
1.226
1,254
September
74
2,188
2,262
1,476
1,529
October
41
2,152
2,193
1,50J)
1,5.57
November.
43
1,906
1,949
1,787
1,828
December.
49
1,881
1,930
1,942 1,985
2,410 2,468
Totals
59T 22,322 22,919
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STATE CHARITIES AXD CORRECTIONS. 97
OFFENCES FOR WHICH COMHITTD.
1907. Prev. Toial.
Assault
Attempting to escape
Abandoning their children
Being a common drunkard
'' vagrant
a tramp (Under Chap. 224 Public Status)
common prostitutes
'' railers and brawlers
*' disorderly persons >.
*' cheats and swindlers
'* sturdy beggars
Cruelty to animals .:
Exposure of person
House breaking
Intent to commit rape ^ ^
Intoxication in violation of town ordinance
Larceny
Lewd and wanton ^
Malicious mischief
Maintaining a nuisance
Neglect to support family
Night walking
Obstructing an officer
Revelling
Returned from Reform School
Returned from the Providence County Jail
Transferred from Reform School (Incorrigible)
Wilfully escaping ,
0
5
5
0
26
26
0
16
16
282
10,228
10,455
191
5,743
5,934
8
520
528
4
1,126
1,180
1
229
280
52
],01S
1,065
0
16
16
23
1,028
1,051
0
1
1
0
2
2
0
6
6
0
1
1
3
47
50
0
15
15
28
183
211
0
1
1
0
9
9
31
762
788
12
507
519
0
1
1
1
5
6
0
1
1
0
6
6
1
118
119
10
722
732
Totals 597 22,322 22,919
PLACES FROM WHICH COMMITTED.
1907. Prev. Total • 1907. Prev. Total.
Bristol 11 637 648 Glocester 0 47 47
BurriUville 10 235 246 Hopkinton 0 10 10
Harrington 4 34 38 Johnston „ 5 468 473
Cranston 20 899 919 Jamestown 0 4 4
Coventry 0 73 73 Lincoln 6 744 750
Cumberland 19 222 241 Little Compton.. 10 1
Central Falls 36 618 663 Middletown Oil
Charlestown 0 1 1 No. Providence.. 0 828 328
Exeter 0 3 3 Newport 82 1,300 1,332
East Greenwich . 4 143 147 No. Kingstown.. 0 63 63
East Providence 39 1,272 1,311 Narragansett 9 81 90
Foster 0 4 4 No, Smlthfleld.... 0 Iq 15
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Providence 206
PawtuCkefc 118
STATISTICS OE THE WORKHOUSE, ETC,
PLACES FROM WHICH OOMMITTED.—CtwUmMed.
1907. Prev, Total
Portsmouth 0
Providence
County Jr-il 0
Reform Sciiool.... 0
Richmond 0
Smithfield 9
So. Kingstown... 1
Prev, Total,
9,490 9,696
3,418 3,536
1 1
6
119
7
67
120
6
119
7
76
121
Scituate 0 45 45
Tiverton 7 56 63
Woonsocket 40 707 747
Warwick 8 484 492
Westerly 1 383 384
Warren 12 407 419
West Greenwich 0 10 10
Totals 597 22,322 22,919
TERM OF SENTENCE.
Three months
Six ''
Seven '"
Eight '^
Nine ' ^
Ten ' '
Eleven "•
Twelve ''
Thirteen ''
Fourteen ' '
Fifteen ''
Sixteen ''
Eighteen ''
Two years
*' '' and five months,
*" '' and six months
Three years
*"' ^' and six months
During minority (from Reform School) .
Returned from Reform School
Returned from Providence County Jail-
Fine and costs *
Awaiting trial 1...
•07.
Prev,
Total,
0
2
2
[nS
17,404
17,857
10
58
68
0
124
124
46
760
806
0
65
65
0
4
4
78
2,976
3,054
0
I
1
0
2
2
0
19
19
1
1
2
0
162
162
4
3*K)
394
0
1
1
0
15
15
0
168
168
0
1
1
1
112
113
0
1
1
0
6
6
4
48
52
0
2
2
Totals..
597 22,322 22,919
RECOMMITMENTS.
Has been committed once 94
"• '' '' twice 49
** *' '' three times 32
'' '' '' four '' 28
** ** '' five '' „. 16
*' ** '' six '' 9
** *' '' seven ** .„ ,..,^.^.. U
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8TATB CHARITIBS AND C0BRBCTI0N8.
nmcoMMiTMESTS,— Continued.
Has been committed
eight
nine
ten
eleven
twelve
thirteen
fourteen
fifteen
sixteen
seventeen
eighteen
nineteen
twenty
twenty-one
twenty-three
twenty-five
twenty-eight
thirty
thirty-two
forty
never before...
times..
99
9
8
5
8
7
4
1
3
3
2
2
1
4
1
2
8
1
1
1
1
296
Total 597
EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS.
Number of inmates in 1907 who can read and write ^ 482
** ** who can read only 14
*' *' *' '*" ** who can neither read nor write 101
Total 597
SOCIAIi CONDITION.
Married 229
Single ^. 368
Total 597
RELIGION.
Protestants 164
Catholics '. 433
Total 597
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES F. McCUSKER,
For the Executive Committee.
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IRcport ot tbe THIlar&en of tbe State prtson*
Uo the ^oard of tSiate CAartiies and Corrections,'
The iiiulorsigiied, Warden of the Rhode Island State Prison
and Keeper of the Providence County Jail, respectfully pre-
sents the following account of receipts and expenditures for
the year ending Deceml)er 81, 1907:
ExpentlituroH % 70,792 53
Keceipts 28,436 04
Excess of expenditures over receipts f42,8o7 49
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ttfiPORT OF TtlE WARDEN OV THE STATE PRISON.
101
Age, sex, etc., of persons committed to the State Prison,
since its first institution in 1838 :
Undent years of age ^ 414
From 30 ** to80..._ 12W
80 " "40 5ir>
40 " "50 271
Total „ 2«27
Nativity of persons committed to the State Prison, since its
first institution in 1838 :
From '0 years to <V)..
i'*) *• " 70..
70 *■ •* M)..
Over w>
Hi
4
Maine ^ as
New Hampshire li*
Vermont 22
Massachusetts 2yy
Rhode Island 1007
Connecticut 108
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia..
Virginia
Ohio
IlUnois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Arkansas
Wisconsin
North Oarolinu
South Carolina
Mississippi
Louisiana
Florida
Texaf
Michigan
Iowa
Georgia
Oallfornla
Nebraska
Missouri
Idaho
Alabama
Canada
Poland
16*2
14
3")
2
13
Itf
47
11
W
5
I
2
Australia
Nova Hcolla
Nfw Foundlaiul .
New Brunswick
Bermuda
KantaCruz
Poiu
Kiigland
16
3
8
12
Ireland 24ft
Hcotland
Wales
CJIbralter
(Jermany , .
Austria
Fi*anfe
Italy
Sweden
Hwit/erland
Denmark
Holland
Hpain
Turkey
West Indies
Barbadors IsIa'ndM
Mexico
Russia
Western Islands
Bel(?uim
Armenia
Prince Edward Island-
Cape Verde Islands
Norway
Finland
Azores Islands
Total..
2tJ27
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102
REPORT OF THB WARDEN OF THE STATE PRISON.
Number of convicts in prison, committed, discharged, par-
doned, died, escaped, and returned, in each year, since the
establishment of the institution in 1888 :
YEAR.
i
1888
1839
5
1840
9
1841
15
1842
26
1818
24
1844
28
1845
19
1846
19
1847
19
1848
21
1849
27
1850
80
1861
42
1852
49
1858
45
1854
49
1856
62
1856
63
1857
54
1858
67
1869
70
1800
67
1861.„...
67
1832
85
1868
6l»
1864
47
1865
41
1886
48
1S67
72
1868
59
1869
59
1870
80
1871
75
1872
65
1878
71
1874
77
1K75
67
1876
66
1877
86
1878
92
1879
88
1880
! 112
1881
82
1882
1 81
1888
; 94
1884
1 ^
1885
114
1886
129
1887
106
1888
1 92
1889
; 120
1890
1 186
1891
1 108
1892
112
1898
{ 124
1894
! 170
1896
135
1896
155
1897
198
1898
181
1899
1 173
1900
1 195
1901
1 198
1902
.! 178
1908
187
1904
.. 188
1906.....
176
1906
144
190r
119
1908
U9
6
6
9
18
7
18
6
8
8
11
8
14
29
21
17
26
28
27
14
34
26
28
29
39
18
12
10
22
40
25
26
42
25
26
30
:J8
24
24
51
47
66
25
30
46
89
66
58
46
42
69
82
49
57
54
90
48
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87
69
69
2
8
2
6
10
6
5
5
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8
13
13
20
19
20
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27
18
38
20
13
11
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27
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16
25
31
16
26
29
29
22
38
37
81
48
29
26
31
81
4:{
62
45
89
60
73
50
39
38
73
61
49
78
Returned.
5
11
10
4
14
4
2
2
1
3
3
4
8
2
9
4
1
3
6
5
3
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72
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STATE CHARITIEB A17B CORRECTIONS.
108
Crimes for which persons have been committed since 1838 :
Accessory to murder „ 1
AborUon 2
Adultery 11
Arson „ 6
Assault and battery 82
Attempt to burn dwelling house 2
Attempt to bum barn „ 1
Attempt to have carnal knowledge of
a girl under 14 years of age 1
Attempt to have carnal knowledge
of a girl under 10 years of age 9
Assault and larceny 2
Assault with Intent to kill £6
Assault with a dangerous weapon 164
Assault with intent to commit rape... 06
Assault with Intent to commit sodo-
my 2
Assault with intent to rob.. 19
Assault on the warden 2
Assault against nature 1
Being common gambler 1
Bigamy 81
Breaking and entering a bank 5
Breaking and entering a church 7
Breaking and entering a church and
larceny _.. 1
Breaking and entering a hen house... 2
Breaking and entering a sehool house 2
Breaking and entering a vessel 2
Breaking and entering an engine-
house 1
Breaking and entering an offlce 8
Breaking and entering a barn..... 12
Breaking and entering at night and
larceny 21
Burglary 182
Breaking and entering shop at night 18
Breaking a barn at night and larceny 8
Breaking and entering a post office^.. 8
Breaking and entering dwelling and
larceny „ 7
Breaking and entering ^ 2
Breaking parish house at night and
larceny^ 1
Breaking tool house at night and
larceny...*.^ ^ 1
Breaking and entering shop with
intent to commit larceny ^.... 1
Breaking and entering shop at night
and larceny 94
Breaking shop at night and larceny... 68
Breaking shop in day-time and
larceny „ 0
Breaking a store house in day-time
and larceny ^ 1
Breaking shop and larceny 4
Breaking and entering a building in
day-time and larceny „ 8
Breakingand entering and larceny... 20
Breaking and entering shop in d&y-
tlme and larceny 8
Breaking and entering club-room at
night 1
Breaking and entering .shop In day-
time 1
Breaking and entering dwelling-
house In day-tlnie : 88
Breaking building at night and
larceny 0
Breaking dwelling-bouse In day-time
and larceny 27
Breaking and entering dwelling-
house In duy-tlnie and lareony 81
Breaking and entering dwelling-
house In the day-time with intent
to commit larceny 1
Breaking an unfinished dwelling in
day-time and larceny 1
Breaking ond entering unoccupied
house at night fl
Breaking and entering unoccupied
house at night and laiceny 1
Breaking and entering unoccupied
dwelling in day time and larceny^... 4
Burning a building „ 1
Oonspli-acy _ 2
Conveying tools to prisoners 8
Counterfeiting ^ 2
Circulating obscence literature-.. 1
Carnally knowing a girl under 14 years
of age _ 4
Carnally knowing a girl under 16 years
of age „,... 8 1
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104
RJSPORT OF THK WARDEN OF THE STATE PRISON.
Crimes for which persons have been committed since 1838:
Defaolng a building 2
Deitroylns a dam 1
BxhiMtlns obscene literature 1
Bmbezzlement 81
Embezzlement of letters from the
postK>ffice 3
Entering store house In day time and
larceny ^ ^ 1
Entering shop at night and larceny... 8
Entering a barn at night and larceny 1
Entering dwelling house in day-time 11
Entering dwelling-house in day time
and larceny „ 41
Entering dwelling-house in day-time
witl} Intent to commit larceny 1
Entering building in day time and
larceny 1
Entering unoccupied house at night
and larceny 1
Entering dwelling house at night and
larceny „ > 8
Entering dwelling house at night to
commit larceny 22
Entering .dwelUng In day time and
larceny „ 7
Entering dwelling with intent to
commit murder 1
Entering shop in day-time and
larceny 4
Escaping prison 8
False pretenses 9
Forgery 84
Forging and uttering 8
False representation 0
Fraudulently taking letter from post-
offlce 1
Falsely changing and altering a cer-
tain money order I
House breaking ^ 63
Having and passing counterfeit
money 48
Horse stealing 2
Total
Inciting another to commit perjury 1
Inciting another to commit larceny 1
Incest 1
Incestuous adultery 1
Ir.decent assault and battery 1
Indecent exposure of person 9
Larceny 498
Larceny and receiving stolen good^... 8
Larceny from the pei-son 172
Malicious mischief 4
Murder 57
Manslaughter 01
Mingling poison with drink...- 8
Obtaining goods under false pretenses 5
Obstructing a ralIi*oad « 4
Perjury 15
Passing counterfeit coin 6
Rape 17
Receiving stolen goods 20
Robbery 98
Receiving a Jail prisoner 1
Bending obscene matter through U.
8. mall 2
Setting flres 81
Setting flre to lumber 1
Betting flre to and burning a iMirn 1
Sodomy 1
Store breaking 261
Tearing open and injuring a certain
mall bag 1
Treason , 1
Unlawful cohabitation 2
Using mall for.obscene publication 1
Uttering a forged order 4
Uttering counterfeit coin 8
Violating a pension law 8
Violating the U. S. Mail laws 3
Violating the U. 8. naturalization
laws 2
Wounding a horse 1
2627
Average number of convicts in 1907:
KaXes,
There were in Prison Dec. 31st, 1907 :
Males 119 White 101
Females,
0
Total.
Natives, U. S 71
Females^
0 Colored.
.18 Foreigners..
..48
Total 119
Total 119 Total ..-..119
ANDREW J. WILCOX, Warden,
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STATE CBAKITIBS AKD COBBECTIOltS.
105
Ueport of tbe 3ailcr of tbc providence County 3ail.
IN JAIL JANUARY 1.
1907.
Maka.
Pmal$$,
Totals.
By
the State. -..-..;
** City of Providence
240
5
3
1
1
3
1
0
1
1
1
1
2
7
13
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
258
5
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k4 44 4» pawtucket
3
k»
44 k 4k Woonsocket
1
** Town of Lincoln
** ** ** East Providence
1
3
ki
Warwick
•' ** *' Cranston
3
1
• •
*' ** *' Glocester
1
»i
k» 4k k4 j^Q Providence
1
ik
'' Smithfli'ld „
44 44 •* No. Smitiifleld
1
1
»i
** United States „..
** Debtors
2
7
267
16
283
COMMITTED DURING THE
: YBAR.
Males,
Females.
Totals.
By *'.h« Sf.ate
1279
18
60
6
2
3
2
162
36
25
10
3
6
13
1
2
4
2
7
89
82
0
6
0
2
0
2
21
7
2
U
2
1
2
0
0
1
0
1
3
1361
if
4i
** City of Providence „
44 44 Pawtucket -.^
M 4k ** Woonsocket
18
65
6
it
»' . *' ** Central Falls
4 4 Town of Lincoln
4
3
4»
** *' ** Cumberland
4
** *' ** East Providence ^
44 Warwick.
44 Cranston
'* Burrillvllle
'* '* ** No. Providence
173
43
27
10
5
t(
" " ** Coventry
6
i«
44 44 44 smithfleld
15
4*
'* *' ** Scltuate
1
it
44
44
44
44 44 44 Warren
'* No. Smithfleld
*' »» '* East Greenwich
" United States
2
5
2
8
44
'* Debtors
92
1719
1^1
1850
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106
KBPORT OP TrfE JAtLBR.
DIflOHARGED DURING THE YEAR.
Males. I Females.
By the State
'' '' Transferred to Boys School..
*i - ^^ - '* Girls
** *' ** Escaped
'' ''' '' Transferred to State Hospital
*' '' *' Sentenced to State Prison
'* '' '' Died
'* *' City of Providence
"- Pawtucket
'* *' ** '' Woonsocket I
** ^^ *^ *' Central Falls I
'* \* Town of Lincoln |
'' ** '' ** ('umberland
** '* '' ** East Providence
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ferred to Boys' School
** '* ** '' East Providence Escaped.
** '' '' '' Warwick
'* *' '* '' Cranston
'* ** ** '' Glocester
*' '^ ^* ^* Burrillville
'' '' '^ '' No. Providence
'' '' ** *' (U)ventry
'' '' '^ '' Smithfleld
'' " '' '' No. Smithfleld
• '' ** ** '' Scituate
'' '' '' '' Warren
'' " " '' East Greenwich
'* '' United States
'* '' Debtors
1182
70
1252
9
0
9
0
1
I
1
0
1
0
2
2
28
0
28
I
1
2
22
0
22
o6
6
61
7
0
7
2
2
4
4
0
4
*>
2
4
148
21
169
1
0
I
1
0
1
34
7
41
24
a
27
1
0
1
10
0
10
4
2
6
6
I
6
18
1
14
5
1
6
1
0
1
2
0
2
2
0
2
9
1
10
89
1
90
1668
121
Totals.
1784
REMAINING, I)K(^KMBER 31. 1«07.
By the State
** ** City of Providence
*' '' '' "■ Pawtucket
** '' Town ot Smithfleld
'' *' *' '* Cranston
'* *' '' '' East Providence
'' '* '' '' Warwick
** '' Debtors
Males.
Females.
Totals.
299
21
820
1
0
1
7
0
7
1
1
2
1
0
1
5
0
6
8
2
6
6
2
8
323
26
349
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STATE CHARITIBS AND C0RRBCTI0S8.
AVKRAQK NUMBER IN JAIL DURING IW7.
107
By the State
** City of Providence
" *' Various Towns
^* *^ United States
'' '' Debtors
Males. ! Female*.
265U?
297^1
r
13
0
3
Totals.
27811?
2:iJ?
315JS^
COMMITTED ON HENTENOE BY THE HTATE FOR:
Assault
Assault and battery
A^^sault with a dangerous weapon
Adultery
Bastardy
Breaking and enttring
Breaking shop at ni^ht and larceny
Breaking ancf entering barn at niglit and
larceny
Breaking shop at night
Breaking and entering store-house
Carrying concealed weapon
Cruelty to animals
Defacing building
Defacing property
Destroying property
Entering a barn ^
Entering a dwelling house in day-time and
attempt at larceny
Entering a storehouse
Embezzlement
Exposure of person
Evading fare
Evading payment of food
Fast driving
Fornication
Firing gun in the street
False pretences
Keeping common nuisance
Larceny from the person
Larceny
Manslaughter
Malicious mischief
Nei^lect to provide for family
Neelect to send child t^ school
Males.
Females.
Totals.
210
6
215
I
0
1
17
2
19
8
6
14
1
0
1
16
0
16
6
0
6
1 !
0
1
8
0
8
1
0
1
42
0
42
18
38 1
0
0
18
38
3
0
3
1 1
0
1
2
0
2
^ !
0
6
1 1
0
1
35 !
1
36
2
0
2
14
0
14
2
0
2
3
0
3
8
7
15
I
0
1
6
0
5
2
3
5
2
0
2
36
1
0
37
2
2
3
1
4
10
0
10
0
1
1
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108 REPORT OF THE JAILER.
OOMMITTBD ON SENTENCE BY THE STATE FOK l—Qmtinutd,
Peddling without license
Playing ball on Sunday
Playing dice on Sunday
Receiving stolen property
Shooting craps on Sunday
Selli ng liquor
Stealing hens
Swearing on the street
Scheme to defraud
Setting fire to barn
Threats
Theft.., ,
Trespass on the railroad
Throwing glass In the street
Til rowing stones at a railroad train
Using flre crackers without license.
Males,
4
2
8
3
1
9
10
2
1
1
6
356
32
4
2
1
946
Femalet.
0
0
0
2
0
6
0
0
1
0
0
13
1
0
0
0
49
Totalt.
8
6
1
14
10
2
2
1
6
4
2
1
996
STATE SENTENCES.
Males,
Females,
Totals,
Fined $1 00
3
6
6
86
10
109
102
209
41
1
' 12
1
13
1
1
5
3
9
1
111
14
s
I
0
9
9
6
0
0
1
2
0
0
1
1
1
4
0
0
0
3
2 00
6
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6
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10
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118
111
216
'' 26 00
'' 26 00 and bonds ^
* * 30 00
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** 76 00
41
1
13
8
18
1
*' 86 00
2
'' 100 00
6
ImprlsQned 10 day h
4
10 '' Fined $20 00
18
'' 16 *'
1
30 '^
111
30 '' Fined $20 00
14
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109
Imprisoned 30 days Fined $100.00
60 **
90 ''
90 ''
2 months
3
3
4
6
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
11
11
1 year
COMMITTED ON BENTKNOE BY THE OITY OF PROVIDENCE.
Females.
Males.
Totals.
Drunki-niiesH ^
Revelling
16
3
0
0
16
3
18
0
18
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BEPORT OF THE JAILBR.
CITY OF PROVIDENCE BENTENOE8.
Fined
$2 00.
5 00.
15 00 .
Males,
14
1
3
Females,
18
Toiats.
14
I
3
18
COMMITTED ON 8KNTKNOK BY OTHER CITIES AND TOWNS.
Drunkenness
R«»velling
Obstructing Street
-
Males.
Females.
Totals.
254
64
1
40
5
0
294
69
1
819
45
364
8ENTENCEH BY OTHER CITIEH AND T(^WN8.
Fined
$1
2
3
5
7
00.
00
00.
00
00.
10 00
15 00
20 00 ..
Imprisoned 10
30
days .
Males.
319
Females.
1
0
1
234
35
269
9
2
11
46
7
53
3
0
3
15
0
15
4
0
4
3
0
3
3
1
4
1
0
1
45
Totals.
364
NATIVITY OF PERHONfl COMMITTED ON SENTENCE.
Maine 17
New Hampshire 15
Vermont 6
Massachusetts 174
Rhode Island 432
Con necticu t 43
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
District of Columbia..
58
18
14
9
3
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STATE OHARITIBS AND CORRECTIONS.
Ill
NATIVITY OF PERSONS COMMITTED ON SENTENCE :-Ciwrfinu#d.
Virjdnia 9
Kentucky ^ 3
Tennessee I
No. Carolina ^ 2
So. Carolina 6
Georj^ia 4
Alabama I
Louisiana „ 2
Texas ; 2
Ohio
Illinois
Michigan
Iowa
(California
Colorado
Montana
New Mexico.
Missouri
England 66
Ireland 142
Scotland 25
Wales 4
Canada - 87
Nova Scotia 9
France 7
Germany , 9
Sweden 21
Portugal „ 7
Italy \ 72
Newfoundland 2
Austria 11
Norway 4
Total
Total, United States 840
Russia 24
Poland 18
Turkey 2
Armenia „. I
(Jape de Verde Islands 6
Western Islands 1
Syria 2
Australia 2
Finland «« 10
Hungary 2
Brazil 1
St. Helena Island 1
Azores Islands 2
Foreign (Countries 5h7
AGKH, SEX, KTO., OF PERSONS COMMITTED ON SENTENCE.
Under
20
Between
20
30
40
50
60
70
Over
80
20 years of age..
170
and 80 454
367
234
116
29
^ 7
1
Total 1377
40..
50..
60..
70..
80..
Males 1283
Females 94
White 1280
Colored 97
Married ...630
Single 847
Totals 1377 1377 1377
Total number of persons who can read and write 1136
^' '' '' but not write 33
"• '* '' '' *' '' neither read nor write 208
Total .1377
Total number persons committed 1860
*' *' *' sentenced ^ ^ „ 1377
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REPORT OF THE JAILER.
NATIVITY OF PABBNTPU
Fathers.
Mdhert,
United States 401
Enfclaml^ VI
Ireland 480
Scotland 88
Wale« 4
Canada „ 146
Nova Rcotla 9
New Brunswick 1
Newfoundland 8
' France IS
Germany 80
Sweden 25
Portugal 11
Italy ; 80
Norway ft
Austria 18
Russia »
Poland 17
Armenia 1
Spain 1
Turkey 2
Switzerland 1
Syria 2
Australia 2
Finland „ 10
Oape de Verde Islands fl
Western Islands ft
Hunirary 2
West InJles 2
Brazil 1
Azores Islands 2
Mexico 1
United States.
England H8
Ireland 468
Scotland ^ 40
Wales.;
Oanada J61
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Newfoundland ..
France
Germany _
Sweden
Portugal
Italy : -.79
Norway w
Austria
Russia
Belgium
Armenia ;
Spain
Turkey. „
Sy rla
Australia
Finland
Oape de Verde Islands
Western Islands
Finland
Poland
Azores Islands
Hungary
West Indies
Brazil
St. Helena Island
Total 1877
AVERAGE OF PARENTS.
Total 1877
Fathers,
Mothers,
Americans..
Foreigners..
29x% Americans 28^
TOAfiy Foreigners 71tVt
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REPORT
OF THE
Executive Committee, ^*''°"""'*^ "^^ ^""*" ^' superintendent
Temporarily. (See page 10)
U0 iAe Sfoartf ofSiaiw Ckariii^s anii Corr^ciions/
Gentlbmbn :— We have the honor to present herewith the statistical
tables of the school for the year ending December 81, 1907.
Whole number in school December 31, 1906 ^ ^.. 888
Number since received 660
Number since discharged ^^ 5^7
Number In School December 81, 1907 877
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122 REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
TABLE I
Showing the number received and discharged, also the
number remaining in the In^tititution at the close of each year,
since its opening (November 1, 1850.)
TEAR. RKCRIVED. DISCHARaEB. REMAINING
The Ist year 62 7 46
" 2d •• 66
" 8d •• 91
•• 4th " 86
• 6th •• ^ W.
• «th " 87 .
' 7th *' 12»..
' 8th •• UL.
' 0th •• 112..
' 10th •• 97..
nth *• „ 128
12th " 188..
' 18th •• IW..
14th " 198..
' 15th •• 158..
' Wth •• 156.
' 17th •* 157 .
18th •* ^ 169 .
19th " 184..
20th •• 148..
2l8t •• 117...
22(! " 118 ..
28d •• „ 188..
24th *•' 168.
• 25th " 128..
• 28th *• 120 .
• 27th •• 158..
• 28th " 148 .
• 29th *• ^ 119 .
• 80th *' 121..
' 8l8t •• 158..
• 82d " 148...
• 88d *• ; 194...
' 84th " 188...
• 86th " 180...
' 88th •• 124...
■ 87th " 158...
' 88th " 117...
' 89th " 150...
' 40th " 181...
' 4lit •• „ ., 161...
' 42<1 •• 224...
' 48d " _ 198...
44th " ..^ 190...
" 45th •• _ 198
•• 4«th *• 299
•• 47th •' 289.
•• 48th " ^ 298
•• 49th " 274
•• 60th •* 286
•• 6l8t •• _ ^ 2T7 ^
•• 62(1 " ^ 818
V 68d •• 828
" 54th •• 823
•• 66th " 861
•• 66th *• 447
•• 67th •• 566
•Twenty girls transferred to Oaklawn Bohool, July 18th, 1882.
. 81
79
. 69
101
. 80
106
. 68
142
. 86
.... 148
. 91
^. 181
. Ill
181
106
187
. 115
109
110
187
116
204
179
208
. 188
218
. 165
216
. 164
207
166
.. . .199
, 184
224
185
228
184
282
138
211
181
198
120
206
149
220
183
215
184
206
141
118
218
288
126
281
118
289
208
•189
199
188
159
178
177
164
128
109
101
189
183
214
181
200
120
280
176
196
161
186
174
226
171
260
196
178
242
266
280
, 284
212
248..
804
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869
829
279
885
248
822
864
800
849
... 887
881
829
845
845
454
627
888
877
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TABLE II.
Showing the number received for each month during the
past year.
MOUTH. BOTS.
January _ ^ „ 88
February 87
March M
April 41
May ^ 74
June „ 56
July 46
AuffUBt - 48
September ! ^ „ 88
Ootober „ 46
November „ « , ^ 68
December.^ ». ^ 89
Total ^ 666
TABLE III.
Showing the number discharged for each month during the
past year.
MONTH. BCTS.
January ^ „ 61
February S6
March „ 64
April „ ; 80
May ^ 44
June ^„ : 66
July 18
Auffust -. 62
September ^ „ - «
October „ ^ „ 66
November _ ^> 6i
December 88
Total ^ „ 627
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BSPOBT OF THE lEXSCUTIVS COMMITTEE.
TABLE IV.
Showing the disposal and employment of those discharged
the past year and previously.
1
Past Y9ar.
Prtv*
1
i TbtaL
1
1
DISPOSAL.
BouM.
Boys,
Delivered to fiiendi
248
0
10
0
0
0
0
1
14
«
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
9
0
4054
1644
10
9i9
85
6
40
62
18
192
287
8
9
1
210
624
116 ,
1 '
73
25
2
806
27
1
14 !
8 1
« 1
1
6
4 I
idl I
67 j
4855
" Court „ „
" '• Overseer of Poor
DlsohArffed on explrfttlon of ^ent^nc^
1892
10
889
*• to go to sea
85
•' M Insane _
Died
6
40
Enlisted In the army ^
62
" " " navy
14
Escaped not returned .... . ..
200
absent more than one day and returned or re-
taken
248
" retaken and sent to Jail under new sentence.
** previously retaken and sent to Jail on alter-
native sentence
*' from Rhode Island Hospital, havlnir beeo
Injured In attempting to escape from the
School „
Indentured „
Placed at farming
8
9
1
228
524
** various trades „ ^
** " Asylum for Deaf and Dumb
116
1
Bent to State Workhouse and H. of O
78
Bent to Prison
25
Discharged on payment of fine and costs
2
Released on Ball „
Discharged by order of Court
882
27
•• *^ " •• Mayor
" ** '* '* Attorney General
14
*• Board
** to Probation Officer
Placed with Children's Friend Society
Transferred to Jail on alternative sentence
Transferred to State Almshouse
4
Returned to Jail
170
Error In report of 1881
57
Totals
6S7
8M2,
9189
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TABLE V.
Showing the length of time spent in the Institution by those
discharged during the past year and previously.
But ytar.
Bay..
PfWV,
TIMB.
BauM,
Tt4aL
Less than one month
?41
81
w
68
71
18
6
0
2
8
4
2
4
0
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1090
n7
886
U8S
1678
406
80S
SS6
08
74
48
4S
00
67
1097
One month and less than five
1101
Five months and less than ten
786
Ten months and less than fifteen...^
Fifteen months and less than twenty
861
1886
Twenty months and less than twenty-flve...
1744
Twenty-five months and less than thirty
614
Thirty months and less than thirty-five.
806
Thirty-five months and less than forty „
Forty months and less than forty-flve ^
Forty-flve months and less than fifty
286
100
77
Fifty months and less than flfty-flve _
Flfty-flve months and less than sixty
47
44
Bixty months and more
04
Error In report of 18R1
67
Totals
587 1 8063
0190
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REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
TABLE VI.
Showing the authority by which commitments have been
made the past year and previously.
AUTHORITY.
Oourl of Magistrates, Providence
Justice Oourt. Providence
Justice Court. North Providence^
Oourt of Magistrates. Pawtucket ^
Justice Oourt, Pawtucket
Oourt of Magistrates. Woonsocket
Justice Oourt, Woonsocket
Police Oourt, Providence
Supreme Oourt
Common Pleas Division of Supreme Oourt
Oourt of Common Pleas
Oourt of Justices, Newport :
Justice Oourt. Newport ;
.Justice of Peace, In different towns
Order of Trustees, boarders
Order of Board of Btate Charities, boarders
Order of Board of State Charities. ( Sec. 7 Chap. 290)..
Order of Mayor, for safe keeping
From Overaeerof the Poor
•Returned for cause
Returned voluntarily
Surrendered by surety
Order of Mayor
Order of City Marshal, for safekeeping
Justice Courts of other towns
Held for Probation Officer
Transferred from Jail by Board
First District Oourt ,
Second *' ** ,
Third
Fourth '
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh '
Eighth *
Ninth
Tenth '
Eleventh
Twelfth
Superior
I\ut year.
Boys,
Total!..
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
SO
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
17
0
8
10
4
866
18
4
0
19
11
21
88
Prev.
Boys,
566
7»1
800
4
86
61
68
49
170
102
201
867
61
104
410
812
82
2
8
926
148
7
6
1
804
7
166
216
41
68
160
64
2284
152
142
87
286
164
171
89
9000
Total,
791
HOO
4
86
61
58
49
170
102
261
867
61
104
410
812
9
88
2
8
976
148
7
6
1
804
7
175
288
41
66
170
68
9689
170
146
87
266
176
192
72
9666
•This includes all escaped In previous years, retaken or returned.
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TABLE VII.
Showing the number committed from each county and town
during the past year and previously.
But year.
PROVIDENCE COUNTY.
I BOUM.
Providence „
North Providence '
Woouftocket. '
Cranston-
Smlthfleld.
North Bmlthfleld
Johns ton„ -> i
Burrillvllle ■
Scituat^ I
Gloucester
Onmberland : 1
Kast Providence
Pawtucket „ '
Lincoln. ',
Totals...^ I
I
NEWPORT COUNTY.
Newport
Fall River
Tiverton ^
Portsmouth
Little Oompton..
Totals..
KENT COUNTY.
Warwick.
East Greenwich....
Coventry
West Greenwich..
Totals
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Bristol....
Warren .
Totals..
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Oharlestown.^
Richmond _
South Kingstown
North Kingstown....
Bxeter
Westerly _
Hopklnton.
Totals..
Prom other States
Whole number committed..
Recommitments
Returned from places
Prev.
Boys.
AT!
10
0800
m
14 '
17 I
475
8
100
27
186
181
0
616
7881
0
906
41
714
TataL
«w
4704 1
5008
4
118 !
117
28
201 '
814
4
140 1
144
0
41
41
0
1 1
1
1
124 !
126
0
50
60
2
27 1
20
0
5
6
8
27 1
80
22
100 '
221
20
868
878
0
216
226
677T
452
14
18
6
2
402
60
100
22
8
111
20
140
7
7
67
10
6
96
8
180
6
7887
014
766
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RBPOKT OV THE EXBOUTIYE COBfMITTBE.
TABLE Yn.-C^ni/nMe^.
RBOAPITULATION.
Providence County
Newport Oounty
Kent County.
Biiitol County.
Washington County
Other States „ ,
Recommitments
Returned from places
Totals
Aut ytar.
Pnv,
BOUM.
Boys'
477
6800
17
476
10
288
4
186
8
181
0
6
9
905
41
n4
i 6M
9000
Total
6777
49S
898)
140
189
6
014
755
9566
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TABLE Vin.
Showing the cause of commitment the past year and previ-
ously.
\rson ^
Assault
Assault and battery
Assault with Intent to kill
Assault with intent to commit nipe^
Assault with Intent to rob.
Burjrlary and theft »
Burning building „
Contempt of Court „
Cruelty to animals „ „
OarrylnK concealed weapons
Carnal knowledsre „..
Defacing a building
DefaclnK property
Destroying property
Disorderly conduct on the 8treet„
Disturbing school ^
Driving off a horse and carriage
Drunkenness „
Embezzlement
Exposure of person
False pretenses In writing.
Forgery „
Fast drivings
Held for Probation OlHcer
Housebreaking
Housebreaking and theft
Housebreaking with Intent to steal
Incorrigibility
Lewdness
Malicious mischief
Obtaining goods under false pretenses ...
Obtaining money undor false pretenses..
Passing counterfeit money
Receiving stolen money or goods„
Returned for cause
Returned voluntarily
Revelling
Robbery
Bhop-breaklng„
Stubbornness and truanry
Surrendered by surety
Sturdy l>eggar„
Taking and using boat
Theft from the person
Theft.
Threatening to assault
Threatening to kill
Throwing stones at a train
Transferred from Jail by Board„
To await trial
TroAncy <OhapterJW8 Public liawsL
Truancy (Chapter 649 Public Law8)„
Using profane language
Vagrancy
Totals..
_
—
I^ut year.
Prtv.
—
Tbtoi.
Boys.
BOVM,
0
6
6
8
118
120
0
28
28
0
8
8
0
6
6
0
2
S
0
21
21
0
18
IB
0
1
.1
0
4
4
8
2
6
0
9
'©
5
44
49
0
5
6
«
a
0
«
106
lis
0
8
8
0
72
72
0
16
16
8
12
16
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
6
6
0
1
1
0
7
7
0
80
80
0
57
57
0
15
15
0
4
4
0
1
1
0
W)
99
0
5
5
0
5
5
0
1
1
0
19
19
f-0
919
969
0
148
148
0
6
6
2
0
8
24
200
224
rt
899
405
0
2
2
0
1
1
. 0
«
8
1
l:J
14
ftp
2W4
2^3
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
8
3
10
165
176
272
1800
3072
0
25
26
81
769
860
0
2
2
20
llftl
1218
066
9000
9666
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TABLE IX.
Showing the terms of sentences of those committed the past
year:
TERMS. BOYS.
Minority 218
Two years^ ^ 69
Three years ^ 6
To await trial » ^.^ 272
Transferred from Jail 10
Four years ^ _ ^ ^ 0
Total 566
TABLE X.
Showing the ages of those committed the past year :
A0B8. BOTS.
Six years ^ « ^ ^ 1
Seven years „ 1
Eigiit years ^ 4
Nine years „ „ ^ 38
Ten years „ _ ^ 46
Eleven years ^ _ ^ 60
Twelve years 05
Thirteen years ^ 98
Fourteen years « ^ 92
Fifteen years 68
Sixteen years , 49
Seventeen years ^ 27
Eighteen years ^ „ „ 6
Nineteen years _ „ ^ 1
Twenty years _ ^ _ _ 1
Total 6661
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STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES AND INCOME FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 81, 1907.
Expenditures ^ $62,829 76
Income ^ 886 56
Balance $61,994 20
Respectfully Submitted,
JAMES F. MCCDSKER,
Chairman of Executive Committee
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1j0 M# ^oard o/Siaie Charities and Cmrr^ciionsi
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to present ray report for the
year ending December 31, 1907.
The wSuuday services have been held through the year with
no change in the order of succession, or in the hours of service, at
the several institutions. Occasionally, the service at the State
Hospital for the In sane has been omitted on account of a severe
storm, and for a few Sundays in the summer, the Ohapel at the
House of Correction was closed for repairs. I have been person-
ally absent from the field but one Sunday, for which I employed
a competent supply. In no instance has there been a failure to
meet an appointment on account of ill-health.
The order of service has been modified at several of the insti-
tutions in the interest of a better adaption to the preferences
or the needs of those who gather regularly for religious instruc-
tion and worship.* This is especially the case at the State
Hospital for the Insane. Here a simpler form has, in part,
displaced the liturgy, and congregational singing has been in-
troduced. The hymns, printed in attractive form, are distri-
buted in the congregation and the voice of praise is now heard
in every part of the Ohapel. Oongregational singing sometimes
breaks down for lack of competent guidance. This want is here
supplied by a volunteer choir made up of attendants and in-
mates, some of whom, at least, have a knowledge of musical no-
tation, and all are led by the Superintendent, Dr. A. H. Har-
rington. It is proper for me to say that these changes have all
been made in concurrence with the wise suggestions of Dr. Har-
rington. As is well known to the Board, the pupils of the Oak-
lawn School for Girls regularly attend this service, as has been
their cui^tom for several years, and their singing continues to
be an attractive feature of the occasion.
The service at the State Prison and Oounty Jail is second to
none in it^ importance. Here our limitations are most keenly felt.
Many of the men sent here are apparently confirmed in evil
ways. This is the popular view. The Christian preacher and
teacher, however, must be an optimist, or surrender his commis-
sion. For the Lord Jesus Ohrist *'came to seek and to save that
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which was lost.'* It is in no sense derogatory to those engaged in
prison reform work to say that no merely human methods for ef-
fecting the betterment of prison administration, and the per-
manent reform of the prisoner's manner of life, can ever reach
the root of the trouble. The truths of religion make the supreme
appeal to both conscience and heart, and it is only as men are in-
duced to yield to the claims of the higher law, with its infinite
sanctions, that such as those whom we seek to serve can even be-
gin anew life. I am happy to be able to state with assurance
that with all the difficulties and frequent disappointments in this
work, there are many evidences that good is done, and some
at least go forth from time to time empowered to live more
worthily before both Qod and man.
And what has been said above willapply equally to the prob-
lem as represented at the Workhouse and House of Correction.
At the Sockanosset School for Boys, the liturgy, somewhat
modified, is generally used. The boys are well trained in the
musical parts by Mrs. Mabel Dawley. This service attracts
many visitors. The element of worship is not wanting. Rev-
erence for Gk)d and all the institutions of religion is taught. All
virtues, expressive of morality and piety, are enjoined. These
are of primary importance. But prominence is also given to the
duty of self-respect; to the relation of personal upriglitness in
character and life to success; and also to the demand <^f the age
for the highest order of good citizenship.
At the Almshouse, formal religious services are held the
first Sunday in each month. These are supplemented by brief
services on other Sundays conducted by Mr. Frederick Bowman,
in which the ritual of the Protestant Episcopal Church is used.
During the week, hospital visitation and other pastoral minis-
tration, including many funeral services, make up the sum of
the Chaplain's labors.
The decease of Superintendent James H. Eastman was an
event keenly felt in this field of religious work . He was seldom
absent from any of the services in the institutions under
his charge, or from that at the State Hospital for the Insane.
Upon the organ and in sacred song he interpreted in touch and
tone the deeper mysteries of musical composition and hymn;
his voice retaining both power and sweetness to the close of his
useful life. On the first Sunday in November last, a special
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memorial service was held in the Ohapel of the Sockanosset
School for Boys, by order of the Board, at the request of the
Ladies' Board of Visitors. The members of both Boards were
present. The favorite hymns of Mr. Eastman were sung by the
pupils of the two Schools and addresses, appropriate to the oc-
casion, were made by the Hon. Walter A. Read, the Hon. Daniel
R. Ballou and the Rev. R. K. Wickett, pastor of the Franklin
Congregational Church at Howard.
I take pleasure in commending the faithful ministrations of
my colleagues, the clergymen of the Catholic Church. They
are held in high esteem by all in the institutions. Some
changes have been made in the assignments to this field during
the year: Father Buckley is still with us. Father Peloquin has
returned to a parish, and is succeeded by Father Quinn who is
ably assisted in the Sunday School at the Sockanosset School for
Boys by a number of young men, members of the Brotherhood
of St. Vincent de Paul.
In closing, permit me to record my appreciation of the
uniform courtesy of the officers in charge of all the institu-
tions, and especially of the very generous support and coopera-
tion of the governing Board.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES H. EWER,
Reliqious Instructor
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IReport of tbe pbi?0ician of tbe State institutiond.
Gbntlbmen : — ^I hereby submit my report as Resident Phy-
sician of the State Workhouse and House of Correction, the
State Almshouse, the Sockanosset School for Boys and the
Oaklawn School for Girls, for the year 1907 :
WORKHOUSE AND HOUSB OP CORRECTION.
At the Workhouse and House of Correction there were six
deaths, all males. No epidemics visited this institution during
the year. The general health of the inmates is poor, and more
than ever the fact is apparent, that the personnel of the inmates
is rapidly changing; the greater number now being committed
are at once the recipients of medical care. The sturdy inmate
is more the exception than the rule, and in his stead comes tne
tottering, chronic drunkard, the terminal dement, the epileptic
and the feeble-minded youth, whose care involves a large out-
lay of medical supplies. This condition obtains in both the
male and female departments, and is a matter of considerable
interest and import in its medical aspect. The presence of the
insane and epileptic in this institution is a menace and a cauae
of great anxiety, especially where they are kept in open dormi-
tories at night.
The large number of seriously ill cases during the year has
called for their removal to the hospital wards of the State Alms-
house, which institution can ill afford to open its already over-
crowded wards for their reception. Some of the inmates thus
transferred remain after the expiration of their sentence, as
their physical and mental condition unfits them for the outside
life.
STATE ALMSHOUSE.
Of all the institutions this one makes the strongest appeal to
human sympathy and compassion, for within its walls are
gathered from every clime and station in life, those who have
once seen better days, but who through sickness or misfortune
have *'fallen by the wayside" in the struggle for existence ; for
them this is the last resort. Broken in body and spirit they
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186 REPORT OF THE PHYSICIAN OP THE STATE INSTITUTIONS.
come here ''to husband out life's taper to its close, " and spend
what little time is allotted them, in the recipients of
medical treatment and care.
The admission of a large number of aged, tuberculous and
severely ill persons increased the death rate greatly, there
having been 220 deaths, an increase over last year of 28; of
these one-third died of tuberculosis in its various forms. This
class of inmates is on the increase. The tuberculous wards are
overcrowded nearly all of the time. Their bed capacity is forty,
but, owing to the increase, we had t<) crowd in four additional
beds on the male and three on tlie female side.
It is imperative that this class should not be limited in
breathing space, and every inmate thus added to a crowded
ward deprives all of so much of oxygen which constitutes their
only chance of life. The health of tlie nursery department has
been about as usual, no epidemics having appeared among the
babies.
80CKAN0SSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
During the past year the school was visited with an epidemic
of scarlet fever; eighteen boys and one officer were affected.
While the majority of the cases were mild, yet some were of
the malignant type with complications, and were seriously ill;
none of the boys died. Unfortunately the officer, who had the
fever in the worst form, died within four days of the onset of
the disease. The cause of this epidemic was presumed tx) be
due to visitors coming from the infected districts around us and
mingling with the boys, as no other cause could be ascertained.
Two cases of typhoid fever developed, one complicated with
erysipelas of the head and face; both of these cases made a
good recovery. Apart from this epidemic the general health
of the inmates was good.
OAKLAWN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
Nothing of special note occurred in this department during
the year; from a medical standpoint, the health of the inmates
having been as usual.
Very respectfully submitted,
HENRY A. JONES, M. D.,
Resident Physician.
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STATE CHARITIES AKD CORRECTIONS. 187
Vo Jfnticrm y. 2£/iicoje, WARDEN.
Sir: — I hereby submit my report as Resident Physician of
the State Prison and Providence County Jail for the year 1907.
STATE PRISON.
The general health of the inmates has been good, but would
be far better if they were wholly isolated from the Jail
prisoners.
No epidemics have occurred, and since the closing of the deep
artesian well not a case of typhoid fever has appeared. One
death occurred, that of a prisoner who died of a cancer wuthin
a few months of the termination of an eight year sentence.
One case of attempted suicide occurred, that of a young
primary dement who cut his throat with a case knife while in
his cell. The trachea being severed across made his case a
Berious one. The wound was firmly sutured, the patient was
placed in humane restraint in the hospital and for days was fed
with a feeding tube; he made a splendid recovery physically,
but mentally shows but little improvement, and has to be
watched constantly. This class of inmates should not be con-
fined in a State Prison where there are not the proper facilities
for their care and treatment.
As mentioned in previous reports, there is urgent need for a
criminal Insane Hospital or ward for the many mentally defec-
tive and insane in the penal institutions. This class of inmates
should find no lodgment in the wards of the curative insane
hospital ; their presence is obnoxious, and detrimental to the
welfare of those who may recover, and their care calls for a
building specially adapted to their needs. There are enough
criminal insane in the various departments to till a large ward
whenever it may be erected.
At the Providence County Jail there were treated about the
usual number of sick and broken down prisoners ; many of these
being the chronic repeaters, out of Jail only long enough to get
thoroughly ''run down" and diseased and then returning for
medical treatment and care. This class of inmates compels a
large outlay of medical supplies.
Two deaths occurred; one male and one female died from
alcoholism.
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188 REPORT OF THE PHYSICIAN OP THE STATE INSTITUTIOirS.
The need of a new Jail has been dwelt upon for years in every
report. Repetition becomes tiresome, but at the risk of so
becoming we urge again the needs of this greatly overcrowded
iustitution.
Very respectfully submittid,
HENRY A. JONES, M. D.,
Resident Physician.
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REPORT
OF THE
flficnt of State Cbaritica mt> Correctiona.
Office op the Agent op State Oharities and corrections, )
Providence, R. I., January 1, 1908. )
Uo M# ^oard o/'fSiate Ckariii^s amti Correeiions.
Gentlemen: The undersigned respectfully presents the re-
port of his department for the year 1907 :
State Hospital for the Insane.
Number of patients January 1, 1907 627
Admitted during the^year „ 236
Returned from parole _ „ 91
Escaped patients returned l6
Total 868
Discharged during the year 27
Died during the year 92
Released on parole during the year 196
Escaped during the year 17
Total 882
Number remaining December 31, 1907 536
Wofmm.
ToUd
479
1006
165
390
80
171
2
17
716
1,684
18
40
79
171
166
862
2
19
260
692
456
992
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140 RISPORT OP THl AGENT.
Of the 890 patients admitted to the State Hospital for the In-
sane during the year, three hundred and forty-five were com-
mitted by the District Courts, forty -one were admitted by order
of the Board of State Charities and Corrections and one was
admitted upon his own request; two were removed thereto by
order of a Justice of the Supreme Court and one, by order of
His Excellency, Governor Higgins, from the Providence County
Jail.
Of the patients admitted in 1907, forty-nine died, thirty-two
were removed from the State, forty-two are out on parole and
sixty-four were discharged. Thirty-eight had beenin the State
Hospital for the Insane before, not counting those returned
from parole.
The sum of $20,834 64 was collected during the year for the
board, care and medical attendance of patients supported at
the State Hospital for the Insane by their relatives or friends.
The State Hospitalfor the Insane was opened for occupancy
November 7th, 1870, and from that date to the first day of Jan-
uary, 1871, there were received 118 insane perscms, of whom
sixty-five were received from Butler Hospital, twenty-two from
the Vermont Asylum at Brattleboro, four from the Asylum at
Worcester, Massachusetts, two from the Asylum at Taunton,
Massachusetts, and twenty-five from the Town Poorhouses in
this State.
The following table shows the number remaining January 1,
1908, of the patients admitted each year since November 7,
1870:
Year, Admisfiims, Remaining Jan, 1, 1908,
1870 118 3
1871 68 2
1872 : 63 2
1878 63 2
1874 60 1
1875 69 6
1876 76 3
1877 68 4
1878 44 3
1879 84 1
1880 70 3
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8TATB 0HARITIB8 AHD COBBBOTIONB.
141
Year,
1881...
1882...
1888...
1884...
1885....
1886....
1887...
1888....
Admisfion.
96
Remaining Jan, U 1908,
8
1890.
1891..
1892..
1893.
1894..
1895..
1896.
1897..
1898..
1900..
1901..
1902..
1903..
1904..
1905..
1906..
1907..
72
69
90
4
6
4
137 ....;.....
164
: 19
8
143
161
140
163
11
14
4
9
167 ......
16
188
17
214
34
198
26
199
29
206
27
243
23
199
22
216
28
277
41
297
51
323
40
340
57
324
64
346
82
376
116
390
208
6470
STATE ALMSHOUSE.
Men, Women,
Number of inmateR Jan. I, 1907 215 231
Received daring the year 239 127
Born during the year
Total 454 358
Men, Women,
Discharged during the year 116 66
Died during the year 128 81
Total. ..„ 243 147
Boys,
Girls,
Total.
34
28
508
18
13
397
9
6
15
61
47
920
Beys,
GirU,
Total.
16
19
216
9
2
220
25 21
436
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142
REPORT OF THE AGENT.
Remaining Jan. 1, 1908 211
211
36 26
484
The number received from the cities and towns of the State
and from other sources were as follows : —
From Barrington 1
Burrillville 1
Central Falls 23
Charlestown 2
Coventry 2
Cranston 11
Cumberland ^ 10
East Greenwich 2
East Providence 12
Exeter 2
Foster 1
Glocester 1
Johnston 2
Lincoln 4
Middletown 1
Newport 6
North Kingstown 3
North Smithfield 1
From Pawtucket 46
Providenco 200
•* Richmond 1
'' Scituate 2
Smithfield 4
'* Tiverton 3
Warren 7
Warr^'ick 27
'* West Greenwich 1
'* Westerly 4
'* Woonsocket 27
** State Workhouse and
House of Correction 4
"' State Hospital for the
Insane „ 1
R. I. S. P. C. to C 1
Total 412
The above table includes the children born at the Almshouse who
are counted as cominj? from the same places as their mothers.
The sum of $7,610.54 was collected for the board of several of the
inmates.
The following table shows the number of inmates, adults and child-
ren, of each sex, in the State Almshouse, on the first day of January
of each year, since the institution was opened for occupancy in August,
1874.
•
STATE ALMSHOUSE.
Men,
Number of inmates January 1, 1876 53
. 1876
1877
1878
1879
1880-„
1881
1882
1883
61
68
61
76
71
76
88
91
Women.
49
62
60
66
71
69
77
66
79
Boys.
18
20
6
9
25
14
21
12
29
Girls.
21
21
8
4
12
8
4
6
22
Total.
141
164
142
140
184
162
178
171
221
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148
Men,
WofMfl*
Bays,
Girls.
Total.
ry 1, 1884
... 86
69
30
15
200
1885
... 81
72
32
21
206
1886
... 103
65
13
12
193
1887
... 95
71
15
9
190
1888
... 100
72
14
19
205
1889
... 115
80
12
28
230
1890
... 116
102
17
20
255
1891
... 103
100
11
22
236
1892
... 103
110
9
13
285
1893
... 110
127
14
20
271
1894
... 113
133
12
19
277
1895
... 114
126
19
18
277
1896
... 137
146
28
18
829
1897....
... 122
136
28
23
309
1898
... 152
155
29
31
867
1899
... 147
160
31
23
861
1900.....
... 167
169
29
11
876
19U1.....
... 174
176
33
13
896
1902..,..
... 190
175
36
19
420
1903.....
... 190
191
31
28
485
1904
... 195
192
38
28
458
1905
. 225
201
34
24
484
1906
... 219
216
37
29
501
1907
... 215
281
34
28
508
1908
... 211
211
36
26
484
Kemoval of Pauperk
There were removed, during the year, 567 persons. Of this
number, 607 were sent away from the State, sixty-nine of whom
were sent to foreign countries, and sixty were sent to places
within the State.
Seventy of the whole number had been inmates of the Work-
house and House of Correction ; thirty, of the State Almshouse ;
forty-four, of the State Hospital for the Insane; six, of the
Providence County Jail; and two of tho State Prison.
Included in the above total, 567, there were fifty insane per-
sons, of whom forty-four were from the State Hospital for the
Insane and six from places where they had been cared for
temporarily.
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144 REPORT OF THE AGENT.
LICENSED BOARDING PLACES FOR INFANTS.
Under the provisions of the law licensing and regulating the
receiving, boarding and keeping of infants, thirty-six licenses
were issued the past year, sixty-six infant inmates were re-
corded, and one hundred and three visits to licensed places were
made by representatives of this departmt?nt.
The number of licenses in effect December 31, 1807, was
thirty-two, distributed as follows: — Thirteen in Providence,
six in East Providence, two in Cranston, one in Warwick, one
in Scituate, one in Pawtucket, one in Barrington, five in New-
port, one in Wickford, and one in Charlestown.
The following table shows the sums collected each month
during the year ending December 81, 1907, on account of the
several departments of the Agent's work : —
State State Butler Transpor-
Hospital , Almshouse Hospital. Probation. lotion. Interest.
January $1,887 86 $ 982 89 $ 18 29 $ 86 65 $ 1 88
February .... 1,287 94 812 61 18 29 8 60 $ 48 88 2 62
March 1,485 54 824 01 12 (X) 25 05 17 88 2 28
April ^ 1.579 19 1,812 10 . 18 29 4 50 1 88
May _. 1,265 27 171 99 12 86 2 00 3 10
June 1,127 67 188 'M) 18 29 7 (K) 31 00 1 78
July 3,198 85 2,542 45 12 86 65 60 1 19
August 1,891 98 . 60 87 18 29 4 45 29 60
September.. 1,604 68 148 78 18 29 8 67
October . 2,006 09 1,088 90 12 86 16 85 1 60
November.. 1,976 87 882 82 18 29 112 47 16 46 1 17
December... 1,678 75 ia5 87 12 86 88 18 46 66 2 86
$20,884 64 $7,510 64 $166 47 $816 30 $189 86 $28 98
PROBATION WORK.
During the past year, 1059 persons were placed in the custody
of the several probation officers, divided as follows : — Men,364 ;
women, 147; juveniles 548.
Ninety-five of these persons were committed to the custody
of the probation officers by the Superior Court of the counties
of Providence, Newport, Washington, Bristol and Kent, eleven
of whom were subsequently surrendered to the Court for sen-
tence.
The reports herewith submitted show the details of each
probation officer's work during the year.
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REPORT OF WILLIAM J. WALLACE, PROBATION OFFICER FOR MEN AND
BOYS OP THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE.
In the Sixth District Court, as well as in the other courts of
the State, where the wise provisions of the probation law have
been adopted, the results of probation have been most gratify-
ing. With the increase of population, the work necessarily
increases. In the course of the past year, three hundred and
seventy boys, whose ages ranged from eight to sixteen years,
guilty of various offences, from truancy to breaking and enter-
ing, were placed on probation in the iuvenile division of the
Sixth District Court.
Two hundred and forty men, sixteen years of age and upward,
classed under the law as adults, were likewise placed in the
custody of the probation officer. A large percentage of these
cases were for non- support. Where reconciliations could not
be effected, arrangements had to be made for weekly payments
in proportion to the amounts earned and the immediate needs
of the family. In this way many thousands of dollars were
secured for mainteneuce of families of probationers. About
six hundred^ dollars were collected for costs of court. Over one
hundred boys, arrested and held as run-aways or suspects, were
interviewed and sent to their homes.
In the last report mention was made of the serious handicap
to the successful handling of many juvenile cases through the
lack of a school of detention. Wherever juvenile courts are in
practical operation, the detention house is considered an in-
dispensable adjunct. As the work constantly increases from
year to year, this need becomes more apparant, from the lack
of any place in the State to commit temporarily children
awaiting trial, or pending the disposition of their cases. While
we have a good child-labor law, and excellent compulsory
education laws, more specific legislation is needed to enable
the district court judges to have jurisdiction of all cases per-
taining to the delinquency and dependency of children.
Through the cordial interest displayed by our judges in their
desire to promote the welfare of all juveniles coming under
their official notice, we have been able to maintain the ex-
cellent record, as shown in past years, of not surrendering for
sentence more than five per cent of juveniles and ten per cent
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146 REPORT OF THE AGBHT.
of adults committed to the custody of the probation officer.
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM J. WALLACE,
Assistant Probation Officer.
report of margaret h. dennehy, probation officer for women
and girls of the city of providence.
During the year 1907, one hundred and fifty-seven women
and girls were committed to the charge of the Probation Officer
for Women. Of this number, thirty -one were juveniles and
forty-seven were between sixteen and twenty-one years of age.
Four, who had violatedtheconditionsof their probation, were
surrendered to the Court and sentenced. Six cases against
juvenile offenders were discontinued in the Juvenile Court,
and seven cases against adult offenders were discontinued in
the Sixth District Court on the payment of costs.
Eight young girls were placed as domestics in private families
where in addition to fair remuneration they have the advant-
age of Christian influence and considerate treatment.
Fourteen juveniles and twenty-two adults were admitted to
private reformatory institutions in this State. Two young girls
were placed in an industrial home in New York State.
Thirty-six women, who came to this city from other states,
were sent to their respective homes. Some of these women
were accompanied here by men known to be criminals, and
there is no doubt the majority of them were of the class who
eventually become public charges.
The remaining fifty-eight women and girls on probation live
at home, helping to support their families and reporting to
the probation officer at stated times.
One hundred and twenty-five dollars were collected in small
sums to pay the costs of cases in the Sixth District Court.
As in past years, your officer works in cordial co-operation
with the Lying-in Hospital, the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children and other kindred organizations, and with
the Police Department, who place in her charge, until other-
wise provided for, wayward and runaway girls and those with-
out homes.
Tho Probation Officer for Women, being also superintendent
of the Providence Rescue Home, admitted to that institution
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twenty-nine unfortunate young women aboyt to become
mothers. Five of these women were sent to maternity insti-
tutions in the states where they had a claim for aid.
Several young girls, held as witnesses in criminal cases in
the District Courts, were placed in the custody of the Probation
Officer for Women and kept in the Providence Rescue Home
until their testimony was required before the grand jury and
the Superior Court. This method of providing for witnesses of
this class is certainly humane besides being a distinct saving
to the State.
Respectfully submitted,
MARGARET H. DENNEHY,
Probation Officer for Women and Girls.
REPORT of THOMAS B. MAYMON, PROBATION OFFICER FOR THE CITIES OF
PAWTUCKET AND CENTRAL FALLS AND THE TOWNS OF
CUMBERLAND AND LINCOLN.
During the year 1907, four hundred and fifty-eight persons
were in charge of the probation officer of the above named
cities and towns under the jurisdiction of the Tenth and
Eleventh Judicial Districts as follows : — Two hundred and
ninety -four were old cases carried along from previous years,
and one hundred and sixty-four were new cases, divided as
follows: — One hundred and ninety-four men, forty-five
women, fifty-six girls, and one hundred and sixty-three boys.
The cases were disposed of as follows : — Of the one hundred and
ninety -four men, the cases of twenty -one were discontinued,
nineteen were surrendered to the Court and sentenced, and the
case&of one hundred and fifty-four are now pending.
Of the forty-five women, the cases of nine were discontinued,
four were surrendered to the Court and sentenced, and the
cases of thirty-two are now pending.
Of the fifty-six girls, the cases of twenty-four were discon-
tinued and the cases of thirty-two are now pending.
Of the one hundred and sixty-three boys, the case? of sixty-
seven were discontinued, eleven were surrendered to the Court
and sentenced, and the cases of ejghty-five are now pending.
Thirty-eight girls, twenty-one women and twenty -one boys
were placed in good families or in private institutions. This
course of aciion is taken only in cases where the home influence
is not conducive to the future welfare of the probationer. The
custom of rescuing juvenile offenders by giving them a chance
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in respectable families, or in institutions organized to help and
protect therti, is certainly commendable. A great many,
personally known to the probation ofiicer, have been trusted
and given a chance in such families or institutions, and as a
result they are now respectable and trustworthy men and
women.
Probation has come to be a very important and useful adjunct
to the Courts. In many instances it is, and has been, bene-
ficial to them, and to the police as well, in dealing with offend-
ers. Success is certain to continue so long as the Courts, the
police, and the probation officers work with confidence in each
other. Anything that is done to improve the character, habits
or conditions uf men, women, girls and boys, is surely for the
public's good, and is also pleasing to the Court and all who
represent it. A probation officer's duties are not confined to
the Court only, for he must spend much of his time visiting and
looking after the unfortunates in their homes; he is often re-
quired to give such advice in the family as will bring together
fathers and mothers and children ; or a wayward son is return-
ed to his mother and, on mending his ways, his mother rejoices
and the home is again made happy.
Non-support cases have presented many vexing problems the
year past. • As was the case in former years, many men were
placed on probation for neglecting to provide for the support of
their wives and families.
During the year, nearly four thousand dollars were collected
from men who had been placed under the care of the probation
officer; much attention is required in these cases, that the chil-
dren may not be allowed to suffer. Many reasons are offered
by men by way of excuse in such cases, and sometimes the
fault is not all that of the man.
Besides the many visits made by the probation officer, the
probationers are required to report in person from time to time ;
some call weekly, some fortnightly and some monthly.
During tlie year, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars were
collected in small installments toward the liquidation of costs
of court.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS B. MAYMON,
AssisTAirr Probation Officcr
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STATE CHARITIBS AND CORRECTIONS. 149
REPORT OF GEORGE L. SlfflTH, PROBATION OFFICER FOR THE FIFTH AND
SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.
During the year 1907, in the Seventh District Court, twenty-
eight persons were placed in the custody of the probation officer,
divided as follows: — Men, fifteen, boys, thirteen. A large
proportion of the adults charged with non-support are now
supporting their families, and, having paid the costs of Court,
their cases were discontinued. Eight of the above total, twenty-
eight, were sent from the State to their homes or peaces of
settlement. With one exception, all the costs of Court were
paid.
In the Fifth District Court, twenty-seven persons were placed
in the custody of the probation officer, divided as follows: —
Men, twelve, boys, fourteen, women, one. One of the above
number, a boy eleven years of age, was surrendered to the
Court for sentence; the cases of the remaining twenty-six were
discontinued. With one exception all the costs of Court were
paid.
In the Superior Court, eighty persons were placed in the cus-
tody of the propation officer, divided as follows : — Men, forty-
seven ; boys, thirty-three. A very large proportion of the pro-
bationers in the Superior Court were young men between the
ages of seventeen and twenty-one years, many of whom hadljfen
in the State but a few days, having come from New Yr rk. The
low rates on the Sound steamers running between Providence
and New York bring a large number of passengers of the unde-
sirable type, many of whom are subsequently brought before
the Court, charged with petty crimes and bound over to await
the action of the grand jury, and are held in jail from one to
three months for want of bail. If their conduct is good while
awaiting trial and no previous off ence is known, they are placed
in the custody of the probation officer and returned to their
homes.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE L. SMITH,
Assistant Probation Officer.
report of theophilus topham, probation officer for the city op
NEWPORT.
During the year 1907, in Newport County, lifty-six persons
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were placed on probation as follows : — Juveniles, twenty-seven ;
men, twenty-six; women, three.
The disposition of cases was as follows : — Cases discontinued,
ten; cases pending, forty -one; surrendered for sentence, five.
Two men and one woman were sent out of the State.
One woman and one girl were placed at the Home of the Good
Shepherd, the girl after having been given a trial at the Prov-
idence Rescue Home.
Only a small amount(about seventy dollars)hasbeen collect-
ed for the payment of costs of court, as most of the adult cases
were continued.
During the year, about three hundred dollars were collected
from those on probation for non-support and paid to their fam-
ilies. This is a smaller amount than usual, because most of the
probationers are now living with and supporting their families.
Of the old cases, seventy-six are still pending, forty-five
have been discontinued, and nine have been surrendered for
sentence.
On January 1, 1908, there were sixty-six men, six women, and
forty-five juveniles on probation: total, one hundred and seven-
teen.
Many cases, both adult and juvenile, are adjusted without ar-
raignment in court.
♦ Respectfully submitted,
THEOPHILUS TOPHAM,
Assistant Probation Ofpicer.
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STATE 0HARITIB8 AND CORRBCTIONS. 151
BUTLER HOSPITAL.
Men. Women, Total
Number of patients January 1, 1907 74 96 170
Admitted during the year 67 48 106
Total under treatment during the year 131 144 276
Discharged during the year 66 57 118
Remaining January 1, 1908 ^„ 75 87 162
Of the number discharged, twenty-one had recovered, fifty-
three were improved, thirty were unimproved and nine had
died.
STATISTICS OP STATE PATIENTS.
Remaining January 1, 1907, State patients ^ 22
Remaining January 1, State beneficiaries
Admitted during the year, State patients
Admitted during the year, State beneficiaries^
Discharged during the year..
Died during the year
Remaining January 1, 1908
30
62
8
12
16
67
18
8
21
46
Divided as follows : —
19 State patients at $70.00 per quarter
20 State beneficiaries at $26.00 per quarter
7 State beneficiaries at $89.00 per quarter
The total amount paid for the support of the
State patients for the year ending December 31,
was _ $6,396.41
The total amount expended for State benefi-
ciaries was 8,487.08
$9,882.44
Of those discharged, two had recovered, eight were improved,
eight were unimproved and three had died.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER R. WIGHTMAN,
Agent of State Oharitibs and Corrections.
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152 REPORT OF THE BOARD.
OFFICERS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OVERSEERS
OF THE POOR.
PreMident, A. D. Roberts. Vice President, Edmund Walker,
Secretary and Treasurer, Thomas B. Maymox.
Executive Committee.
John B. Brown. John Bigbee L. H. Peabody.
John H. Brown. Philip Brady.
Arbitration Committee.
John T. Barber. George B. Carpenter. Charles E. Frost.
Elijah Anthony, Walter R. Wig htm an.
overseers op the poor of RHODE ISLAND WITH THKIR P. 0. ADDRESSES
Barringtoii William S. Martin Karriiij^toii Centre.
Bristol Pliilip Brady Bristol.
Burrillville Gilbert S. Taft Pasotm^.
Cenral Falls Leonidas Franklin C<Mitrai Falls.
Charlestown Elisha S. Card Sliannoek.
Coventry ..Warren M. Greene Washington.
Cranston John Bigbee ..Cranston PrintWorks
Cumberland Charles Kl. Huling ^Valley Falls.
East Greenwich Timothy Andrews Fast Green wieii.
East Providence Frank T. Calef, M. I) Fast Providence.
Exeter Herbert E. Knight Kxeter.
Foster James F. Nichols Fost(*r Centre.
Glocester _ Seth H. Steere Xo. Seituate K. F. D2
Hopkinton George B. (Carpenter Ashaway.
Jamestown Elijah Anthony J amestown
Johnston George A. Kobley Thornton
Lincoln. Job Ashworth Saylesville., T. Farm.
Little Compton William H. Briggs Jiittle C'ompton
Middletown Joseph A.Peckham,Pres.Nevvport
Narragansett. James F. Cross Narragansett Pier.
Newport John B. Cottrell, CJi Newport
New Shoreham Charles Littlefield Block Jsland
North Kingstown George C. Cranston Lafayette
North Providence J. W. Naylor Prov. No. Station
North Smithfleld John B. Greene. Slatersville
Pawtucket .William M. Peckham Pawtueket
Providence Matthew J. Cummings—Providence
Portsmouth John B. Cornell Portsmouth
Richmond Rev. Warr?n Dawley Kenyon
Scituate George K. Whitman So. Scituate
Smithfleld Emor H. Mowry Smithflehi
South Kingstown Edmund Walker AVakefleld
Tiverton A. Lincoln Hambly (act.)Tiverion
Warren Charles H. Bliss Warren
Warwict E. R. Shippee Centreville
West Greenwich George W. Fish Nooseneck Hill
Westerly John B. Brown Westerly
WooQBOcket Adalbert D. Roberts Woonsocket
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ACTS AND RESOLVES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED
AT THE JANUARY SESSION, 1907, RELATING TO THE
BOARD OF STATE CHARITIES AND CORREC-
TIONS, ITS OFFICERS AND THE STATE
INSTITUTIONS IN CRANSTON.
Resolution appropriating the sum of $4,000 for the use of the
board of state charities and corrections in the purchase
of land.
(No. 12.Pa88ea April 11). 1907.)
SX^soived, that the sum of four thousand dollars be, and the
same is hereby appropriated, from any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the board of
state charities and corrections for the purchase of land, with
improvements thereon, adjacent to the lands occupied by the
state institutions in (Jranston, which may be deemed advisable
for the said institutions that the state should own ; and the state
auditor is hereby directed to draw his order upon the general
treasurer in payment for land so purchased :
iProtfid^d, that before any payment is made as hereinbefore
authorized, the title of any land purchased shall be examined
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by the attorney-general or his assistant, and the deed thereof
approved in writing by said officer or his assistant as the case
may be, both as to title of land and to the form of the deed.
Rksolution appropriating the sum of $10,000 for the use of the
)»oard of state charities and corrections, to be spent for
certain purposes at the state institutions.
(No.li, Piissed Apiil 17, 1«07.)
^^aoiv^d. That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the
same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, for the use of the board of states
charities and corrections, to be expended, under the direction of
said board approximately as follows : for the installation of the
Burke Mechanical Draft at the state hospital for the insane^
state workhouse, and sockanosset school, seven thousand
dollars; for repairing the boilers at the state almshouse, three
thousand dollars ; and the state auditor is hereby directed to
draw his order on the general treasurer in payment of such por-
tions thereof as may be required, upon the receipt by him of
properly authenticated vouchers.
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
FORTIETH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF
STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS
OF
RHODE ISLAND
1908.
Office. State House. (Room 126) Providence.
HOWARD, R. I.
PRINTED AT SOCKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS,
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BOARD OF
STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS OF RHODE ISLAND
CHAIRMAN :
JAMES F. McOUBKER.
secrstabt:
JAMEB R. READ.
MKMBKBS OP THE BOARD. WITH POST OFFIGB ADDBESSKS*.
JOHN J. WATSON. JB., JAMESTOWN Term expires Feb. 1. 1«12.
WALTER A. READ. Providence Term expires Feb. 1, 1911.
PHILIPPE BOUOHER. Woonsocket Term expires Feb. 1. 1910.
J AMES.P. McOUSKER, Pontiac „ Tei-m expires Feb. 1. 1909.
OBOROE R. LAWTON, Tivebton Temi expires Feb. 1. 1909.
ROBERT F. RODMAN. Allenton Term expires Feb. 1. 1914.
HARRY H. 8HEPARD, Bbistol Temi expires Feb. 1, 1918.
HORACE F. HORTON, Providence ^Term expires Feb. 1, 1918.
8. WILLARD THAYER, Pawtucket - Term expires Feb. 1, 1910.
Agnt qf State Charitiet and Corrections:
WALTER R. WIGHTMAN, PROVIDENCE.
Executive Committe:
JAMBS F. McOUSKER. PHILIPPE BOUOHER. ROBERT F. RODMAN.
Superintendent SttUe Hospital far Insane:
ARTHUR H. HARRINGTON.
Warden of the State Prison:
ANDREW J. WILOOX.
Deputy Superintendent, Soekanosset School for Boys:
EZEKIEL E. GARDNER.
Deputu Superiniendens, Worhhouse and House of Correction:
TIMOTHY P. DODGE.
DeptOv Superintendent, Almshouse:
ASA L. MAY.
Deputy Superintendent, OahUnm School for Girls:
OLARA F. FORBUSH.
Deputy Warden, State Prison:
8. EDMUND SLOOUM.
Deputy Superintendent, State Hospital for the Insane:
GEORGE E. SIMPSON. M. D.
Resident Physician, State Institutions:
HENRY A. JONES. M. D.
Assistant Physicians at ttie State Hospital for the Insane:
B DGAR L HANSOOM. M. D. ELI8HA H. OOHOON. M. D.
WILLIAM B.TRKADW AY. M. D.
Internes, State Institutions.
THOMAS MOURNINGTON. M. D. GEO. A. ANDERTON. M. D.
WALTER L. SWINDELL. M. D.
Pharmacist:
EVERETT F. CORLISS.
Religious Instructor, State Institutions:
OHARLE0 H. EWER,
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Report op the Board: Page.
Almshouse ^ 81
Appointment of members and chanflre of offlcers 9
Oonst ruction— Additional cottacre, Oakawn School for Girls 10
New imilding. State Almshouse „ 10
Alteration of Building in Prison and Jail yard 11
Purchase of Land _ ^ ^ 11
Hospital for Contagious Diseases 10
(lost of maintenance - ~ 01
Orops raised at Hospital for the Insane „ 26
Orops raised at Htate Farm » fS
Orops raised at Prison ^ ~ 88
Orops raised at Sockanosset School ^ 44
Crops raised at Oaklawn School GO
Dally average of inmates « „ .^ 61
Estimate of expenditures for IW9 _ 62
Finances ^ ~ 66
Hospital for the Insane ^ 18
Oaklawn School for Girls 47
Prison and Providence Oounty Jail _ 88
Report of Washington Oounty Jail 68
Report of Bristol Oounty Jail ^ 64
Report of Kent Oounty Jail ^ 68
Report of Newport Oounty Jail „ 61
Sookanosset School for Boys _ 89
Workhouse and House of Oorrectioii... ...^......^ ■■.. ^^^^.^^^ 86
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Meetings of the Board ^ 08
Statement of appropriations, etc « tw
^tatem^nt of money collected ^ 65
Statement of salaries - «7
iiet>6i^ of the Agent of State Charities and Corrections 181
Report of the Providence County Jail „ ^ „ 10»
Report of the Physician of the ntate Institutions 126
Report of the Probation Oflftcers _ 1»J
Report of the Religious Instructor „ 122
Report of the Sockanosset School > ill
Report of the State Prison „ «8
Report of the Workhouse and House of Correction ^ 8N
Appendix— Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly passed at.t be Jnnunry
Session, 1908, relating to the Board of State Cbarlties and Correc-
tions, etc ^ 142
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fortie:th annual report
of U\o
Board of State Charities and Corrections.
To the HonoraOole General Assexnblx of Oie State of Rhode Islanci
at its Janviary Session. 1909.
The Board of State Charities aud Corrections respectfully
present their report for the year ending December 31, 1908, as
required by Chapter 291, Section 11, of the General Laws of
Rhode Island.
Mr. Robert F. Rodman, of North Kingstown, was elected
member of the Board, by the Senate, at the January Session,
1908, for an additional term ending February 1, 1914.
Mr. S. Willard Thayer, of Pawtucket, was elected member
of the Board, by the Senate, at the January Session, 1908, to
succeed Mr. William P. Cross, of Barrington, who was appoint-
ed ad interim by His Excellency, Governor James H. Higgins,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Col. R. H. I.
Goddard, June 2, 1907.
p. S. Mr. Jnmes F. McCuMkcr. oj H'nniirk, anrl Mr. (ieonir R. iMtrton, nj Tixrrtnn, uvre rc-
nppointed mtmber/t of the Boarrl bp /f*> ErccUeiify, Uovn'iinr AmmJ. Pitfhitr, at the January Session,
1909. their term* to expire FeJiruary 1, Wlii.
Mr. Ezekiel E. Gardner wa» apptihUcl SiiiterintnuffjU of the SiH'kanofitet Scfiool Jar Boys, by the
Bmrd, January 15, 1909.
Mrs. Clara F. Forbu^h was a^^iiUet.1 ^iuj^riiitrnrleiU uftht) Ooklaivn HchifoljQr (HtU^ hy tliC ^09,14%
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10 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
CONSTRLX^TION^
ADDITIONAL COTTAGE FOR THE OAKLAWN SCHOOL.
This building, begun in 1906, was completed in 1908. It is
partially furnished and will soon be ready for occupancy. It is
described in the report of 1906, page 11.
NEW BUILDING AT THE STATE ALMSHOUSE.
A two-story stone building, 110 feet long by 28 feet wide,
outside measurement, is now in process of construction by the
mechanics and inmates of the in.4titutions.
The first floor contains a snjoking-room, 24 by 54 feet. At
the north end of this room, a space, 6 feet io width, has been
partitioned off for a water-closet and other purposes. Beyond
this, at the north end of the building, are two rooms, the one,
13 by 21 feet, for a morgue, and the other, 10 by 21 feet, for an
autopsy-room. These last named rooms are each reached from
the yard by a separate door and are not connected directly with
the rest of the building. They have a connecting door between
them. At the south end of the smoking-room is a dining-room,
23 by 34 feet, with a pantry and a stairway leading to the
second floor.
In the second story there is a dormitory, 24 by 76 feet, to
contain fifty beds for men. At the north end of the dormitory
are the bathtubs and water-closet and a linen closet. At the
south end is a room for an attendant, 12 by 14i feet, and the
stairway landing.
Under the head of ''State Almshcmse" are mentioned some
repairs and improvements at the Almshouse, including a
maternity-room and an infirmary in the nursery wing, and
additional sleeping accommodations in the basement of the
female wing, which is mostly above ground and well lighted.
The latter are temporary, it is hoped, and are necessary because
of the crowded condition of the institution.
HOSPITAL FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES AT THE S0CKAN088ET
SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
This building, constructed of wood in 1908, is 120 feet long
by 22 feet wide. It consists of two one-story wings, to contain
each thirty-six beds, and a central building of two stories, hav-
ing on the first floor a diet kitcheii and two bath-roo<ns, and on
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 11
the second floor a sitting-room, two bed-room? and a bath-room.
The wings are so made that the sides may be removed in sum-
mer. The building was constructed, under contract, for $8,000,
by David J. Barry, with the exception of the mason work, the
plumbing and the painting which were done by mechanics of
the institutions. Its total cost was $3,987.70. It is heated by
its o.vn steam heater.
The class of the boys of the School who are under instruction
in mason work built *'three fancy cobble-stone porches (there
are four doors) which add very much to the effect of the build-
ing from the outside."
The Hospital was built in haste to meet an outbreak of scarlet- *
fever in the spring and is not yet fully furnished.
The location is to the southwestward of the other buildings
of the School and about 800 feet distant from the nearest cottage
occupied by the boys.
ALTERING BtHLDTNG IN' PRISON AND JAIL YARD.
A building in the Prison and Jail yard, measuring 48 by 26
feet, built of stone, with brick trimmings and slated roof, by
inmates in 1885 for housing swine, but not used for this
purpose the past two years, has been converted into a dormitory
for forty-eight short-term men. This is referred to under the
heading: Prison and Jail.
PURCHASE OF LAND.
An area of land measuring seventeen and one half acres was
bought the past year of Job. S. Potter for $1,600. The laud
borders on the Pawtuxet River and forms the present north-
eastern corner of the land of the State on the eastern side of
Pontiac Avenue. It has a frontage of about 500 feet on the
river.
The territory of the State Institutions in Cranston now em-
brace, 7567Vff acres bought in twenty-two separate parcels
between 1869 and 1908 inclusive, at an average cost of $100.29
per acre and a total cost of $75,889.41. The initial purchases
in 1869 comprised 398 acres.
The following table shows the size and cost of all the areas
of land purchased for the State Institutions in Cranston;
1869 Howard Farm, with buildings 2H0.65 acrps |22,500 00
1869 Brayton Farm, with buildings 117.46 '' 7,000 00
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STATE CHARITIES AND CORRKCTTOKS.
1870 Burlin^ine purcha^ie. for water work 8.... 19.70 ncres
1871 Pardon Williams purchase ^ 3.50 *'
1877 Thomas Gnw?p purchase 11.35 **
1880 Job Wilbur purchase, for Oaklawu School 8.78 ''
1882 Pardon Williams purchase, with buildings 63.48 *'
1886 JeniBon purchase, for sewerage 12.08 '*
1886 Latham purciiase 8.39 '*
1887 Hamlll purchase 7.80 *'
1891 Slade purchase, with buildings 7.39 *'
1894 Frank L. Budlong purchase 97 ''
1894 Cliristoplier N. Wescott purchase 3ii ''
1896 Charles E. Stone purchase 20.80 "•
1897 Frank Silva purchase 88.30 ''
1902 Stafford purchase 8.00
1903 Frank F. Olney purchase 50.00 *'
1903 Jonathan King purchase 24
1907 Walter E. Stafford purchase 25.00 ''
1907 Jonathan Kimr purchase 6.00 **
1907 Julina Potter purchnse, with buildings 1.00 ''
1908 Job S. Potter purchase 17.50 "
758.61 acres
SALE OF LAND.
1886 To E. A. Jenison 2.42 **
2,500 00
800 00
1,500 00
1,200 00
5,500 00
3,961 79
1,852 44
1,467 92
6,000 00
145 50
50 70
2,000 (K)
10,000 00
800 00
2,803 76
450 00
1,500 00
600 (X)
2,400 00
1,600 00
756.19
76,632 11
792 70
75,839 41
Areraf* cost per acre |100.29.
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STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
Superintendent: Dr. Arthur H. Harrington.
7>eputy fSupt. Dr. George E. Simpson.
Appended liereunto are a large number of tables containing
information regarding the patients at the State Hospital for
the Insane which are given for the first time in thes*' reports
and will be of interest and use to alienists and students of
social science.
From the report of Dr. Harrington :
STATISTICAL INFORMATION.
"It is the universal practice for Hospitals ior the Insane to
publish statistical information annually ami it is needless to
say that this practice should be followed in our Static
The tabulations hereunto appended aim at complete
statistical information concerning all patients a<linitt(^d, and
have economic, sociologic and medical l>earings.
While caution is to be exercised in forminj; opinions based
upon the comparatively small tiumber of cases of a single yetir,
we are warranted, after collecting the data tor a term of years,
in deducting certain d<»finite conclusions; for instance, after
having determined the average duration of h()s])ital n^sidence
of all patients treated in our Strife, we are in a position to
compare this unit with that of tlu* average duration of residence
in other hospitals and states.
The percentage of recoveries and restorations, the ratio of
relapses and many other facts which can be gathered from such
^tables furnish a basis for forming a conclusion as to whether
with our expenditures for the care of the insane our results
compare favorably or unfavorably with other places. With
such data, furthermore, we obtain aids which enable us to dis-
cover and to trace what elements pertain to our conditions
which may be present or absent in other localities and to cal-
culate to what extent results are affectcnl by our own conditions.
The antecedents and characteristics of our population, the
occupations of our people, the influence of the state of aflfairs
in the commercial world may be found to have a definite bear-
ing upon the ratio pf the insane t-o the number of inhakitanta
(kf tbo state.
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14 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
The relative frequency of the varying forms of insanity
may have a significance, when viewed from a medical stand-
point, which may lead to the adoption, from time to time, of
certain measures directed not only to the treatment of mental
diseases but perhaps to their prevention to some extent in our
community.
These few observations alone render it clear, it seems to me,
that we should set about collecting these data in our own
case without delay.
The smallest number of patients present on any one day in
1908 was 990; the largest, 1049. The daily average number of
patients for the year was 1024 which exceeds the daily average
for the previous year by thirty-two.
The numbers of deaths, 121, was fifty less than the preced-
ing year.
Of the 845 oases admitted, 116 were natives of Rho<le
Island and sixty-seven natives of other states of the Union.
One hundred and fifty four were born in foreign countries. The
birthplace of eight were unknown.
Concerning the birthplaces of the parents of the Mo cases
admitted, fifty-five fathers and forty-four mothers were born in
Rhode Island. P'orty fathers and forty-two mothers were
natives of other parts of the United States, while 226
fathers and 23^3 mothers were foreign born. The birth-places
of twenty-four fathers and twenty -four mothers were un-
known.
The average duration of the hospital residence of all persons
discharged and died was 2 years and 5i months.
Of the total number of 126 cases discharged by your Board
and also sent from the State, forty-five, or thirty-five per cent.,
were regarded as recovered.
The percentage of recoveries based upon the total number
of committed cases was thirteen per cent. Also thirteen per
cent, of the total number of committed cases were discharged
improved.
We have done no construction work during the past year.
Attention has been given only to such repairs as were
absolutely necessary, but there has been need of repairs for
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which we have not had the force of workmen nor the means to
carry them on.
0IPT8.
**We are indebted to the following persons among the friends
of the Hospital who have sent ns gifts :
From Mr. Walter K. Wightman we received candy and cigars
for the patients' summer outing.
From Mrs. A. R. French, flowers for the wards.
From Mrs. Frank H. Nottage, magazines and Christmas
wreaths.
From the Women's ('hristian Temperance Union, fruit and
flowers.
From Mrs. B. B. Hammell, Christmas presents for patients.
From Mrs. J. William Rice, magazines.
We are especially indebted to the efl'orts of Mrs. Horatio N.
Reynolds who interested a number of persons in contributing
to a subscription fund for the purchase of a Victor Talking
Machine for the patients. As the result, we now possess a
Victor Talking Machine and a number of records. The ma-
chine is in daily use upon our wards and has proved a source of
delight and entertainment to the patients.
We gratefully acknowledge our thanks to all who have con-
tributed in any way to the happiness and comfort of our
patients.
AMUSEMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENTS.
'^There have been weekly dances for the patients through-
out the year with the exception of the hot summer months.
August 28th, 120 patients were given a shore dinner and
outing at Palace Gardens.
October 15th, a piano recital was given in the congregate
dining-hall by Mr. Raymond L. Havens, assisted by Mrs.
Evelyn Johnson, vocalist; Miss Muriel Haslaiu, elocutionist;
and the Hospital Orchestra.
October 31st, there was a Halloween Party, at which were
exhibited in the Assembly Hall various products of the farm,
and a play was given, the cast of characters being composed of
Hospital officers and employees, also an exhibition in presti-
digitation by Prof. Woodhead.
On Thanksgiving evening a Sheet and Pillow-case Party was
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16 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
On December 15th a band concert was given in the congre-
gate dining-hall by the Palestine Band at which Miss Clara
Harry assisted as violin soloist.
The Hospital Orchestra has been assisted frequently
during the year by Mr. Herbert Wygatt and by Deputy Dodge
and members of the Howard Orchestra. Misses Esther and
Mamie Johnson have assisted us in our musical programs. All
who have contributed to the above entertainments have given
their services voluntarily.
Amusement and entertainment constitute features of
treatment in hospitals for mental diseases. Practical exper-
ience proves that they are factors of great importance. We
have seen patients by these means relieved of a load of men-
tal depression, and the minds of patients brightened whose
tendencies were towards inactivity and mental sluggishness.
MEDICAL STAFF.
^'I wish to thank the Board for providing two additional
permanent members on the medical staif, thus allowing four
permanent assistant physicians instead of two as formerly.
When we pause to consider the amount of detail which
enters into the care of a single patient from the time such
patient enters the hospital, the necessity of an experienced
and numerically sufficient medical staff to care for our patients,
over one thousand in number,- it seems to me, is readily
apparent.
The preliminary physical and mental examination of each
newly admitted patient, when properly carried out, cannot be
performed in less than six hours.
It is the intention that every patient in the hospital shall be
seen by a physician at least once each day. More than half
our number of i)atients are seen twice each day and certain
cases even often or.
The changing conditions of the patients from day to day
must be carefully observed by the physician and it is essen-
tial that a sufficient record be made of every case to give a
picture of the progress of the disease from the time of enter-
ing the hospital to the time of discharge. Every complaint
made by a patient must be thoroughly investigated. The
medical stalF must be ready at all times to give detailed in-
formation in regard to the patients to their friends, Oorre-
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spoiidence concerning patients is a detail which consumes con-
siderable time. This statement will satisfy any inquiring
mind that your Board acted wisely in recognizing the neces-
sity for increasing the number of vhe medical staff.
There is another consideration to be taken into account in
this connection. In our classificationof patients we are obliged
to exercise care not to relegate them in our minds to the chronic
class simply because they have been hospital residents for one
or more years. With the demands which the care of incoming
cases create, there is danger that cases of long continuance
may be overlooked, because it is physically impossible for a
medical staff*, unless numerically sufficient, to give needed
study to the older cases.
I have seen surprising recoveries, in a comparatively large
number of instances, in patients who have been hospital
residents for several years. In the course of mental diseases,
favorable results sometimes, unexpectedly come about. It must
not be forgotten that individual treatment of those mentally
afflicted is what counts in promoting recovery, or sufficient res-
toration, to allow the patient to leave the hospital. Every
patient discharged relieves the State of a certain amount of
burden.
No less an authority than Dr. Frederick Peterson, formerly
President of the Commission in Lunacy of the State of New
York, states that the ratio of assistant physicians in state
hospitals for the insane should not be less than one physician
to each 160 patients.
NEKDS.
*'I believe it is desirable that there should be a regulation
by which every female patient when being conveyed to the
State Hospital for the Insane by an officer for the purpose of
being committed thereto, if not accompanied by a member of
her family or a female friend, should, aside from the officer, be
accompanied by a woman engaged for the purpose, if necessary,
and whose compensation for this service should be provided
for by law.
In former reports the "'Family (^are System" has been
referred to. I believe it was first brought to your notice in
an official report of your Agent, Mr. Wightman.
Xb my report of a year ago X pointed out some of the ad-
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18 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
vantages which I believe the State might derive from the
adoption of this system.
In the official report for th(» year 1907 of the State Board of
Insanity of Massachusetts, where the Family Care System has
been in operation since 1885, I find that the Board has placed
887 different patients at board in families. 187 c»f these
patients have passe<l out of public support in the following
ways: Discharged self supporting, eighty-one. Discharged to
care of friends, thirty-one. Self supporting on visit, eight. Self
supporting in families, thirty-five. Boarded with friends with
out public expense, sixteen. Became private patients, sixteen.
It is not improbable that a large percentage of cases which
pass from public care through the means of the Family Care
System would remain at the hospital for, perhaps, the re-
mainder of their lives, did not this system afford them an
opportunity t^) return to tiie world once more.
A discussion of the advantages of such a system would
command more space than the limits of this report allow. I
take this opportunity to bring the matter to your attention
again.
THE RELATION OF THE STATE TO THE INSANE.
'^The state in assuming the care of the insane has taken upon
itself the responsibility of dealing with a social problem which
is to-day a foremost one in ail our commonwealths.
Accordingly as the State keeps pace with the generally
recognized standard of the times will she be judged as rir^ing
to these responsibilities. The State cannot afford, even on
material grounds, to ignore her respcmsibilities towards the
insane and she cannot allow herself to be apathetic in this
regard w^ithout neglecting a sacred duty.
The day is past when mere isolations of the insane, the
comfortable housing of them and providing them with the
necessities of life, suffice to meet the standards of the enlight-
ened medical practice of to-day.
The current belief that the insane are and always will be
helpless indigents, who are to be sequestered from society as
completely as possible for the remainder of their lives, is
refuted by the fact, leaving the deaths out of consideration,
that thirty-seven per cent, of the number admitted to the hos-
pital during the five year period ending December 81st, 1007,
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19
have been discharged, many of them recovered or restored to
the extent that they have again taken their places as bread-
winners in the ranks of society.
Ten per cent, of the patients in the State Hospital .for the In-
sane are able to pay a nominal rate for board, and, for the year
now ending, the total amount of the receipts fnnn paying
patients is J|;20,499.60, all of which has gone into the main-
tenance fund and thus assists the State to that extent in the
support of the Hospital.
While we care for many insane who are indigent, yet prac-
tically fifty per cent, of the cases admitted each year are public
charges only for the time that their disease requires that they
be retained in the Hospital. The State Hospital is their only
resort in the time o£ their mental distress. A prominent
citizen may experience financial reverses. A sickness with
mental manifestation may require that he be treated in a
hospital for the insane. He may not be able to pay even the
minimum rate of a private retreat. Where shall his friends
turn to but the State Hospital? At such a time he needs
everything which science can ccmimand and a watchful care
provided to aid in his possi Die restoration. The State should
become the personification of Hope to such an one by providing
with generous liand for all his needs.
1 desire to make acknowledgement of my appreciation of
the services of all who have labored for the intere.^ts of the
Hospital."
<»KNKRAL HTATIHTTCH FOR THK YKAIl.
Numl^ei'of patleiitM .laiiuury 1, IJKiH..
Hduiltted diirinir the year..
*• returned from parole
escaped IniiiateK returned .
Total numlMr of cases during the year.
Number dlKc ha rfred during the year..
paroled during the year
" escaped during the year
" died during the year
Total number leaving the HoHpital
Mum ber remaining necemberSl. 1»0K.
Daily average number of patientH
Mulfn.
Fnnatt*.
5S6
17
25
85
7»
218
563
AM
152
15
0
H28
14
NO
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42
Total f.
82
21 »
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24
121
855
lUH
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AGRR OF PATIKNTS ADMFTTKD FOR THK FIRST TIMK.
AGK PKRlons. j Male*. Femnirn.
Less than Fifteen yearn
Fifteen to Twenty yeui*H
Twenty to Twenty-live yeHi"8
Twenty-five to Thirty yenrs
Thirty toThlrty-ttve years
Thirty-five to Forty years '
Forty to Fifty years
Fifty to hlxly yeai-s
Hlxty to seventy years
Heventy to Klffhty years ,
Klflrhty years and over
rnkiiown
Totals
Avenifce of known a«e 41.7 12.1,
Totals.
•>
1 '
8
(I
4
8
Irt
11 1
27
24
17
41
19
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34
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15
29
12
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18
10
23
8
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5
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2
10
170
ii;» ,
285
RKHIDKNOK BY OOT^NTTKH OF PATIENTS AI>MrTTKD.
COUNT IKS.
Hrlstol !
Kent i
Newport I
Providence
Wushlntrton |
Totals „ !
Malei'.
Fcmalrn. 1
1
Total.
9
1 <
\Si
9
10 1
19
7
Ifi 1
28
HW
IIH
281
5
4 1
9
IttJ
152
Mh
OrVEL 0')Vf)lTn)N OF P\TrR!^TH AOMTrTKO.
rONDITlON.
SlnRle
Married
Widowed ..
DIvorcred....
He pa rated..
Unknown...
Ttftuls
' Males.
\
Females.
Total.
m
5N
144
SO
61
141
16
24
4(»
4
H
0
' 4
4
7
1 1
8
; i»<
; .52
845
KDTTOATION OF PAT! F NTH ADMITTKH.
Male^.
Frmaletf.
Tt^al.
College ,
illKh scImh)! ,
(4 ram mar School.
Primary Hehool...
None
Unknown
Totals
2 1
0
2
11
10
21
u7
«1
12H
HH
64
lo2
IS
14
82
7
:i
10
198
1
152
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OOOUPATTONB OF PATIKNTS AHMITTED.
MALE8.
21
Afirents 2
Bartenders 8
Bellboys „ 1
Blacksmiths 1
Bookkeepers - 1
Bottlers I
Brewers 1
Carpenters „ ^ 5
(^laindiirffers 1
<Jlerk« «
f*oachnien „ 5?
I^rauKbtsnien i
nrnffffists I
KnRlneerF, Olvll 1
•* Ijoeoinotlve ^ I
Kh rraers., «
Firemen JJ
Hostlers i'
.iHnltors 1
Jewelers 3
I^iborers - »2
lilffhthouse Keeper 1
Machinists 12
Manufacturers 2
Masons ^ 2
Meat Cutters 1
Mouldei's 1
Music Teacher - 1
Operatives ^ 46
Orderlies. Hospital 2
Oyster Men 2
Painters 8
Peddlers I
Railroad Men 1
8allors «
Hhoemakers 2
Btorekeepers 1
Htevedores 1
Students a
Talloi*s 2
Teanistt^rs S
Telephone Inspectors 1
Tinsmiths 2
No Occupation 6
I'nknown Ji
Total IW
KKMALKH.
Artists „ 1
At Home 6
Clerks 1
Domestics 80
Dressmaliers _ 3
Kousekeepers „ 9
Housewives 54
Music Teacher 1
Nurses . 1
opemtlves „... 2m
Htudents 1
Talloresses ^ 1
Teachers 2
None ^ 14
Total
PATIENTft REOEIVKD ON KIRHT AND HUBSKUITKNT COMMITMENTS.
NUMBER OF C30MMITMKNT8.
First to this Hospital...
Hecond to this Hospital.
Third to this Hospital...
Fourth to this Hospital.
Totals
TASKS COMMITKD.
Mulcft.
Females,
Total.
170
18
4
1
115
28
8
1
2So
46
12
2
103
152
845
PROBABLE 0AU8KS OF MENTAL DIHKA8E8. PATIENTS ADMITTED.
Data not sufficient for the year 1908.
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STATE CHARITISS AND CORRECTIONS.
WHOLE DURATION OF MENTAL I)18EA8K8 OF PATIENTS DI80HAKGED
AND DIED.
Data not sufflclent for the year 1008.
AUKH OF PATIKNTH WHO DIED.
AGE PKKIOI>8.
J/«;r*.
Fetnnles. Total*
Fifteen to twenty yeara
Twenty to twenty-live years
0
n
1
1
0
s
4
2
6
10
9
7 :
1 .1
1
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5
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H
7
10
Forty to fifty years
1«
21
Fifty to sixty years
Sixty to seventy years
14
17
24
Heventy to elulity years
7
14
Kljfhty and over
6
7
Totals
79
1
43
121
Average Age
5».42!
54.12
fi8.77
The yearly average numbers taken from the mon
thly reports
up to
1885, and since then from the
daily record are as follows
:
Men.
Women
,
Total,
In 1872
70
. 78.
.. 84..
148
*' 1873
78
162
*• 1874
84
.. 82
166
** 1875
86
.. 84..
170
** 1876
101
.. 87..
188
'' 1877
110
... 94..
204
** 1878
113
.. 103..
216
^* 1879
123
.. 115..
238
'' 1880
114
... 127..
241
** 1881 ^»
123
.. 148..
266
** 1882
141
.. 152..
293
'' 1883
147
... 148..
295
^* 1884
158...
.. 154..
312
** 1885
179
195
.. 170..
... 201..
349
*' 1886
396
'* 1887
210
... 226..
436
*' 1888
221
... 242 .
463
** 1889
231
... 264 .
495
** 1890
234
... 273..
507
'* 1891
245
... 282..
527
** 1892
262
... 292..
554
*' 1893
281
... 292 .
573
*' 1894
298
... 297..
595
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itM"f f';--»'T'»"**"T *'^ ^ n»"rvi»M'
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Men.
Women.
Total.
tn 1896 „
320
384
^ ... 332
.... 652
*' 1897
368..
.... 692
'' 1898
862
349
363
.... 716
* 1899
369
.... 718
^' 1900 -
366
374...„
.... 740
" 1901 _....
378
374..
.... 752
'* 1902
396
446
..- 801
** 1903
426
414
.... 840
" 1904 ^
469
436
.... 896
** 1906 -
503
467
488
.... 960
** 1906 -
517
.... 10U6
'* 1907
636
466
.... 992
'* 19U8
- 661
473
.... 1024
The products of the farm of the State Hospital for the In-
sane in 1908 were as follows :
Apples „
48
bu.
Asparagus
400
lbs.
Beans, green
176
bu.
Beans, lima
24
bu.
Beans, shell
l>i
bu.
Beef
3596
lbs.
Beet greens
32>^
bu.
Beets, mangle
I'JH
tons
Beets, table.^
341
bu.
Blackberries.. ^^
768
qts.
Cabbage _
19456
hds.
Calf skins
13
h92
Carrots
bu.
Cauliflower
30
hds.
Celery „
3080
bun.
Corn, pop
31
bu.
Com, fodder dry
43
tons
Corn, fodder green
70
tons
Corn, green
18442
ears
Cueum bers„ -....
148
bu.
Cucumber pickles ..
20
bbla.
juandelion greens ....
263K
bu.
Ducks
27
lbs.
Eggs
413
doz.
Eggplants-
483
Grapes — -
6
bn.
Gooseberries
7
qts.
Hay, first crop
64K
tons
Hay, second crop,,,.
14K
tons
HWei^.,^-. ^^
14
Honey 26
Hungarian millet.... 12
Lettuce 36>^
Melons, musk 781
Melons, water 119
Milk 88026
Oat, fodder 41>^
Onions 896
Parsnips 128
Pears 26
Peas, green 124
Pork 6268
Potatoes 4492
Poultry 336
Peaches 1
Peppers 7
Quinces 2
Radishes * 42
Rareripes 6420
Rhubarb 4910
Rye 160
Rye straw 20)^
Sage 87
Spinach 91
Squash, summer 1163
Hquash, Hubbard.... 1700
Strawberries 4168
Tomatoes 709
Turnips, flat 94
Turnips, ruta baga.. 485
Veal aae
lbs.
tons
bu.
qts.
tons
bu.
bn.
bu.
bu.
lbs.
bu.
lbs.
bu.
bu.
bu.
bu.
doz.
lbs.
bu.
tons
lbs.
bu.
lbs.
lbs.
qts.
bu.
bu.
bu.
Iba.
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26 STATE CHARTTIKS AND CORRECTIONS.
STATE WORKHOUSE AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
iSup0rini0nti0nh (Duties of Superintendent performed temporarily by
an Executive Committee of the Board.)
7)0puiy 6vpTini0nti0nU Mr. Tiiuothy p. Dodge.
^airon.' Mrs. Mary E. Wood.
The number of persons committed to the Workhouse and
House of Correction in 1908 was 668, an increase of 66 above
the number in 1907, which was smaller by 113 than tlie number
committed in 1906. The daily average number in the institu-
tion in 1908 was 260; in 1907 it was 287.
Of the 663 persons committed in 1908, 282 were common
drunkards. The number of deaths was eight; in 1907 it was
six.
The Executive Committee reports as follows to the Board :
''The discipline during the year has been excellent. Thir-
teen men and six women were punished at different times by
being locked in a dark cell. In no instance was punishment
inflicted unless abpolutely necessary for maintenance of disci-
pline, and not until all other means had failed.
The mechanics of this department have been employed in
part as follows: In addition to the regular repair work, our
mechanics have put in, at the Almshouse, a toilet room in the
female basement and a lying-in-room and an infirmary in the
Cottage or Nursery. We have in process of construction at the
Almshouse, a stone building about two-thirds completed, 110
feet long by 28 feet widf- and two stories high. This work is
mentioned also under the heading of ''Construction*' and
"State Almshouse."
Our paint-force has thoroughly renovated the cell rooms,
wards, halls, cook-room, bakery, flour- room and oflicers' quart-
ers at the Workhouse and House of Correction. At the Alms-
house, the rooms which were remodeled have been painted and
varnished, the wood work in both male and female wings has
had a general touching-up and every inmate's bed has been re-
enameled. For the Sockanosset School, we painted the hospital
and adjoining rooms, after the quarantine was raised, and the
new Hospital for Contagious Diseases inside and out. At the
Oaklawu School, all the painting of the new Cottage, including
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finishingof floors, ceilings, walls, etc., was done by our painters.
In addition to the above, many farm implements, carriages,
wagons and tools for this and other departments have been
painted and kept in good repair.
FARM WORK AND IMPROVEMENTS.
''Five and one-half acres of land on the Allen lot, near the
Pawtuxet River, have been cleared of stumps and rocks and
put into crops. One hundred and seventy-two car-loads of coal
were unloaded at the Prison-siding by farm labor and 281 t^ms
of coal were hauled from Cowesett. All the stone used in
building was quarried, by farm labor, from our fields. The
new ice-pond, near the Pawtuxet River, spoken of in the report
of 1907, has been enlarged from 270 feet in length by 100 feet
in width to 470 feet in length by 118 feet in width. We cut
and stored 500 tons of ice of good quality from this pond, to-
gether with 800 tons from the old ponds near the Prison.
Two gangs, including the mason force, did considerable work
on the new Cottage at the Oaklawn School. They built the
foundation for the Hospital for Contagious Diseases at the
Sockanosset School, and, since May 5th, have been employed
on the new building at the State Almshouse. Farming, in
general, was quite satisfactory, as our report of crops raised
shows.
The health of our live stock has been excellent; our herd
of swine has been free from cholera, and, besides furnishing
fresh and salt pork for the families and inmates of the Institu-
tions, $756.50 was realized from the sale of pigs.
Religious services, both Protestant and Catholic, have been
held in the Chapel each Sunday during the year. Mr. Fred-
erick Bowman, of Providence, a lay reader from the Brother-
hood of St. Andrew, has, a§ in years past, held religious
s^^rvices in the Chapel Saturday afternoons and on the first Sun-
day of every month. Sisters of Mercy have visited the female
inmates several times monthly during the year and their kind
words have been much appreciated. In closing, we wish to
acknowledge our gratitude to those who have contributed read-
ing matter, to those who have given their services at several
entertainments during the year for the benefit of the inmates,
and to many other kind friends."
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8TAn CHABITTB8 AND CORHECTTOKS.
Crops raised at State Farm during 1908 :
Alfalfa.-
Apples .^
Apples, crab
Asparagus
Beans, lima
Beans, shell ^
Beans, string
Beef, fresh
Beets, table..„
Beets, manfirle
Beet-tops
Blackberries
Butter „
Cabbage „^
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
C berries „ „
Corn, sweet...
Corn, sweet shelled
Corn, field
Corn, fodder
C ueum bers
pickied
Currants
Dandelion, greens..
Eggs
Gooseberries
Grapes
Hay, first crop
Hay, second crop....
Lard „
15v*fl^ tons
382^ bu.
3 bu.
545 lbs.
88 bu.
66^ bu.
187^ bu.
2569 lbs.
1102 bu.
3906 bu.
9>i bu.
T73 qts.
673»4 lbs.
16000 hds.
444>^ bu.
97 hds.
72>4 bun.
1% bu.
3327 doz.
9 bu.
694 bu.
38yjtons
993% doz.
5 bbls.
72 qts.
102K bu.
1034Jidoz.
144 qts.
10^ bu.
26l2V5tons
522V<j tons
941 lbs.
Lettuce 640 hds.
Melons, musk 2311
1074
21716>^ gals.
591^2 tons
5111 bu.
315 bu.
l«>ibu.
64>ibu.
95 bu.
Khu.
6^bu.
Melons, water
Milk
Oat fodder
Onions
Parsnips
Peaches
Pears
Peas
Peppers
Plums
Pork, fresh 15388 lbs.
Pork, salt 26 bbls.
Potatoes _. 4106 bu.
Poultry 797% lbs.
Pumpkins 33380 lbs.
Radishes 1281 doz.
Rareripes „ 950 doz.
Raspberries 258 qts.
Rh ubarb «.. 902>^ lbs.
Rye 40 bu.
Strawberries 1716 qts.
Straw, rye ll^Sgtons
Sausage meat 465 lbs.
Spinach 686 lbs.
Squash 8600 lbs.
Tomat(ffc8 528 bu.
Tomatoes, green Ib^ bu.
Turnips 794 bu.
Veal 95 lbs.
The statistics of the Workhouse and House of Correction
for 1908 are as follows :
Men. . Women. Total.
Number of inmates Dee. 31, 1907 ^ 181 57 238
*' committed during the year 518 145 668
** oommitted for wilfully escaping 17..... 0 17
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0
1
160
613
0.
22
0
1
l.~._».~.
8
1
1
0
3
6S...
277
REPORT OF THE BOARD. 29
Men. Wom$H Total.
Number committed for attempting to
escape _ ^ 1^ 0 1
transferred from Reform School 0 1 1
*' committed for fine and costs 2 o 2
'• returned from Reform School 0^ ^.... 2 2
*' transferred from Prov. bounty
Jail 1...
*' discharged during the year 463...
'' escaped during the year 22...
'' attempted to escape during the
year 1..
'* died during the year 7...
'* returned to Reform School 0....
" transferred to Prov. County Jail 8...
remaining Dec. 81, 1908 224...
The average numbers taken from the monthly reports up to
1886, and since then from the daily record, have been:
In 1872
'^ 1873..„
• ' 1874...
^' 1876
* • 1876
'• 1877.,..-
^- 1878 „...
' 1879
' ' 188a
' • 1881 ^
' 1882
^ * lfi83
' ' 1884
• * 1885
'^ 1886
* ' 1887 —
' ' 1888
1890..
1891.«
1892..
1893..
1894..
Men.
Women.
Totd.
108
48
166
146
62 „
69
208
189
208
159
64
223
166 ..
66.....„
232
146........
56
202
146
74
220
126
66
191
137
58
195
149
58
207
164
69
213
166
69
214
179
64 -
283
166
60 ™
226
133
36
169
116 .
40
166
160
66 -.
216
178.6
67.6
286
161.6.
66.6 -
227
187
63
240
179
68 ™
247
179..
60
239
178 .
78 -
261
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30 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
Men, Women. Total.
In 1896
172
69
241
'* 1896
183
77
260
'' 1897
194
77
271
** 1898.....
196...
89
73
286
'' 1899......
189
262
'' 1900 „..
188
62
260
** 1901
196..
67
262
*' 1902
180
70
260
** 1903
- 188
64
262
'' 1904
216
64
279
*' 1906
207
62
i69
*' 1906
217
63
280
** 1907 „ .^
181
66
237
'' 1908
202
58
260
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 31
STATE ALMSHOUSE.
^mpT/nUntient' (Hu^i'^H of Superintendent performed temporarily
by an Executive Committee of the Board.)
7)0puiy 6wp0rtnienti0ntf Mr. Ana L. May.
The number of inmates increafied during the year from 484
at the beginning to 527 at the close. The daily average num- .
ber in the institution was 515; in 1907 it was 507.
The number of persons admitted (408) was larger by eleven
than in 1907. The number of births (17) was two larger than
in 1907. The number of deaths (190) was smaller by thirty
than in 1907.
In the year 1888, when the plans for the present State Alms-
house were prepared, the average number of persons in this
institution was 211. The new buildings were planned to
accommodate 860 persons including children.
Your attention is called to the report of the Physician of the
Institutions who speaks plainly regarding the great need of
added room and conveniences for the proper treatment and
care of the inmates of this institution who require hospital
treatment.
The Executive Committee reports as follows:
*'The overcrowded condition still exists in this department.
It is necessary to utilize* every foot of available space for sleep-
ing accommodations on both the male a!id the female wings. The
hospital for tubercular jiiale patients is crowded to its limit
and a section has been set apart, in the basement, for sleeping
apartments for those patients who cannot be accommodated in
the hospital proper. The hospital for tubercular female
patients is not, at the present writing, so crowded. A new
building for male tubercular patients, now under construction,
is described under the head of * 'Construction" on page 10.
IMPROVEMENTS.
'*In the Nursery, transoms have been put in over each room
door, giving more light and better ventilation. The sheathing,
which was conducive to the breeding of vermin, has been re-
moved from each room and plain plastered walls with cement
base have been substituted. An up-to-date lying-in-room has
been fitted up for this department, also an infirmary. In the
basement of the female wing several rooms with toilet have
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STATE CHARITIKS AND C0RRKCTION8.
been fitted up as sleeping quarters, and will accommodate about
thirty women. See ''Construction," page 10. The usual
amount of painting has been done and all the ward, halls, etc.,
are in good and sanitary condition.
We wish to extend our thanks to all kind friends who, by
word or deed, have made life brighter for these poor unfortu-
nate people at our State Almshouse."
211
36
26
484
128
20
9
408
0
9
8
17
53
16
11
192
70
8
4
190
216
41
28
527
Men. Womtn, Boys. Girls. Total.
Number of inmates Dec. 31, 1907... 211
" admitted during the year 251
'' born during the year 0
** discharged during the year 112
'' died during the year 108
'* remaining Dec. 31, 1908 242
The average numbers taken from the monthly reports up to 1885,
and since then from the daily records, have been:
In 1876 .
'' 1876..
*' 1877..
'* 1878..
'' 1879..
'' 1880..
'' 1881..
** 1882..
*' 1888..
'' 1884..
** 1885..
'* 1886.
1887..
1888..
1889 109 5
Men.
Women.
Boys,
Girls.
max.
46
55
17
14
132
55
66
13
12
146
60
65
10
9
144
67
71
14
9
161
68
77
15
9
169
71
71
18
7
167
70
68
19
7
164
85
73
19
18
190
90
78
23
14
200
85
69
28
18
195
90
71
24
15
200
95
66
14
10
185
88
76
20
17
201
102
75
11
S8
211
109 5
87.2
11.6
28
281.2
100.7
94
11.8
20.2
226.7
100.6
104
10
16.8
229.9
96
118
10
15
884
105
128
15
17
266
107
131
17
21
276
124
137
22
18
801
125
144
29
22
820
134
149
24
28
830
150
160
81
25
866
154
174
30
22
880
180
175
82
14
401
186
178
85
18
417
187.4
192.3
31.7
22.9
484.3
193.1
196.1
86.7
25.11 460
210
205.6
84.6
26.6
476.6
228
217
86
27
507
225
228
38
26
612
214
228
37
28
607
^7
2ia
39
26
616
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 88
STATE PRISON AND PROVIDENCE CX)UNTY JAIL.
Warden: Mr. Andrew J. Wilcox.
deputy Warden.- Mr. S. Edmund Slocum.
The Board approve what is said by the Warden, in his report
printed below, regarding the need of a new Jail. Tlie
statistics given by the Warden show that the present aeconimo-
dations are wholly inadequate for the safe and proper care of
the criminals entrusted to his charge. The crowding of the
Jail is a very serious matter and it has been more or less so for
a long time.
As long ago as 1889, the Board called the attention of the
General Assembly to the need of additional accommodations at
the Jail, mentioning the necessity at times of confining several
inmates in the same cell at night. The largest of the cells
have a floor area 8 feet square, and as many as four persons
have been obliged, unavoidably, to pass the night together in
them (See Report of 1889, p.26).
In 1893, the numbers in the Jail became so large that the
Board, acting with the advice of the Attorney General, caused
to be erected in the yard of the Prison and Jail a wooden build-
ing for temporary use, at a cost of about $3,000, although there
was no appropriation for the purpose. The General Assembly
was not in session at the time. This building, which was in-
tended to shelter temporarily 132 short-term men in three tiers
of bunks, is still in use.
In 1894, the Board presented an outline plan for a new Jail to
cost about $800,000, and they were authorized to construct it;
but this authority was annulled in 1896 on account of large de-
mands upon the State Treasury for the construction of buildings
elsewhere in the State and the authority to construct the
Jail has never been renewed.
The plan of the Board included accommodations for insane
criminals, regarding whose care Dr. Harrington, Superinten-
dent of the State Hospital for the Insane, wrote as follows in
his report of 1907, page 26.
*^Oiir buildings are entirely unsuited in construction for the
custody of the insane criminals, many of whom are dangerous
and are constantly contriving methods of escape. It is an in-
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84 BTATK CHARI1?IE8 AND CORRECTIONS.
justice, al8o, to the non-criminal and innocent persons to be
placed under an unnecessary surveillance in order that a few
persons of the class of which I speak may be prevented from
making their escape or committing dangerous acts. -I, there-
fore, think that separate buildings or wards should be provided
and maintained in connectitm with one of the penal institutions
for the purpose of caring for the insane criminals of the State.
This department should not be located upon the grounds of the
State Hospital for the Insane."
In 1908, the stone building in the Prison and Jail yard, in
which formerly swine were kept, but iiotused for this purpose
for the past two years, was converted into a dormitory to accom-
modate forty-eight men. Such are the expedients to which the
Board have been forced to resort, and these expedients have in-
creased the sleeping accommodations only. Since 1896, in each
report, the Board have called the attention of the General
Assembly to the needs of the Jail and have asked for a renewal
of the authority to build, that was annulled in that year. In
the report for 1897, page 20, may be found an urgent plea for
a new Jail, written by the late Hon. Ellery H. Wilson, then a
member of the Board.
The Warden makes the following report for the year 1908:
*'During the year, high-water mark, as regards the number
of inmates in these institutions, was reached. On September 30,
1908, we had a total of 585 conlined in the Prison and Jail, com-
pelling us to place several men in each of many of the cells of
the County Jail, and also to overcrowd the buildings constructed
for temporary use. Within the past year, fifty were committed
to the Rhode Island State Prison and thirty-nine were dis-
charged; three were pardoned and three died. There were
committed to the Providence County Jail 2,134 persons and
2,097 were discharged. The total number committed to both
institutions was 2,184, and 2,142 were discharged. There were
thirteen more committed to the State Prison than in 1907, and
284 more were committed to the Jail than in 1907, making a
total of 297 more committed to the Prison and Jail, during the
year 1908, than in 1907, resulting in a daily average of persons
confined, in both institutions, of 100 (nearly twenty-four per
cent.) more than the year previous.
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RKPORT OF THK BOAKD. 85
INDUSTRIES.
**For the past year our industries have been practically the
same as the year previous, being divided between the manu-
facture of shirts and wire goods, farming and the care of the
buildings and other property.
NEW JAIL.
"1 desire to impress upon your Honorable Board the great
need of a new Jail. This I have recommended before in my
annual reports, but it has now become almost an absolute
necessity, from the standpoint of morals, discipline and ideas
of reformation.
The best of results in the management, handling and reform-
ation of prisoners, can never be realized until the Jail is in a
building separate from the Prison, and a cell is provided for
each inmate. It is also very desirable, from every point of
view, that suitable quarters should be supplied for the accom-
modation of persons committed for debt (under civil process)
and of witnesses held, instead of confining them with prisoners
who have been sentenced and are serving terms for crime.
This could be readily provided for in a new Jail.
LIBRARY.
^The library has been kept in good condition by keeping the
books rebound and by binding the magazines and other
periodicals. I recommend that a small sum be used each year
in the purchase of a few, desirable modern books, which would
tend to stimulate a somewhat greater interest in the library.
NIGHT SCHOOL.
'^During the winter months, as has been the usual custom,
the night-school has been held for the benefit of the more
illiterate prisoners who desire to attend, and we cannot but
feel that a great deal of good is accomplished in thus enabling
prisoners who are ambitious to learn, to secure some education
in the elementary branches, which will undoubtedly assist
them materially in procuring positions and becoming more
useful persons upon their discharge from this institution.
HOLIDAYS.
**0u holidays, during the summer months, the prisoners have
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86 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
been allowed the use of the yard and to indulge in games and
exercise. In the winter months, entertainments have been
held for the benefit of the prisoners in the chapel, selection
having been made of entertainers from among the inmates,
and we have been greatly assisted by many kind friends from
the outside, who have given their time, gratuitously, to bright-
en the lives of those held in confinement.
FARM.
''During the past year, the crops upon the farm have been
very satisfactory, large amounts of produce having been raised,
as the accompanying statistics will show. The value of a farm
connected with an institution oc this kind cannot be over-
estimated. The vegetables from the farm tend to keep the
men in good health and to reduce expenses, and outdoor em-
ployment ir? provid m1 for a certain class of prisoners to whom
it is admirably adapted.
HEPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
''During the year, many repairs have been made, such as
pointing-up the Prison walls upon the outside, repairing and
building bridges, shingling and fitting up a building in the
yard for the temporary housing of about forty-eight men, which
has somewhat relieved our crowded condition.
DISCIPLINE.
"The discipline, for the past year, has been maintained at
its usual high standard, which is somewhat diflScult, owing to
our crowded condition and the absolute necessity of placing
several men in a cell.
I wish to express my appreciation of the aole and courteous
manner in which the Chaplain, Officiating Clergymen, Phy-
sicians and Officers of this institution have aided me in the
performance of the multitude of duties devolving upon me in
the conduct of this important dual-institution.
I desire to thank your Honorable Board for your constant
support and hearty co-operation, as well as for the many cour-
tesies extended during the past year."
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The statistics of the Providence County Jail for the year 1908
are as follows :
Maleg. Females, Totals,
Number in Jail, January I, J908 323 26 349
committed during the year 1956 173 2129
transferred from Workhouse
and H. of C 3 0 3
** escaped and returned during
the year 2 0 2
2284 199 2483
Disposal of cases :
Number discharged during the year 1842 179 2021
transferred to Sockanosset
School 16 0 10
'* transferred to State Hospital
for tlie Insane __ 8 0„ 3
transferred to State Prison 38 2 40
*' transferred to Workhouse and
H. of 0 ^ 1 0 I
died during the year 3 1 4
escaped during the year 9 1 10
pardoned during the year 2 0 2
19)4 183 2097
in Jail, January 1, 1909 870 16 386
2284 199 2483
Providence County Jail men only :
In Jail, January 1, 1908 323 Jan. 1, 1909 370
Commitments 1907: Commitments 1908:
By the State 1279 In 1908 1403
By the City of Providence 18 In 1908 16
By other Cities and Towns 326 In 1908 450
By United States and Debtors... 96 In 1908 h2
TotaL 1719 Total 1961
Average number in 1907 298 In 1908 380
Maximum number in 1907 366 In 1908 460
Minimum number in 1907 260 In 1908 347
The statistics of the Prison for the year 1908 are as follows :
Males, Females. Totals,
Number in Prison, January 1. 1908 119 0 119
*' committed during the year 47 3 50
166 3 169
Disposal of cases :
Number discharged during the year 38 0 38
** pardoned during the year 8 — 0 ^.. 8
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STATB CHARITIB8 AND CORRECTIONS.
Males.
Number died during the year 3....
transferred to State Hnapital for
the Insane 1...
in Prison, January 1, 1909 121...
lee"
State Prison men only :
In Prison, January 1,1908 119
Committed in 1907 ^ 37
Average number in 1907 H6
iMaximum ** in 1907 120
Minimum •' in 1907 ^ 104
Females,
... 0
0
3.„ _
Totals.
3
January 1, 1909..
In 1908
In 1908
In 1908
In 1908
1
124
169
121
47
125
132
119
The Warden reports the following crops raised :
Apples, 1st quality 24>^ bu.
Apples, 2nd 48 bu.
Asparajfus 164 lbs.
Beans, shell 28 bu.
Beans, string 133^ bu.
Beef 1862 lbs.
Beets, long red 448>^ bu.
Beets, turnip „ 461 bu.
Blackberries 16 qts.
Cabbage 202,268 lbs.
Carrots 1110 bu.
Chickens 288>^ lbs.
Corn, sweet 2071 doz.
Cucumbers 712 doz.
Currants 12 qts.
Dandf'lions 620 lbs.
Ducks 126^^ lbs.
Eggs, ducks 138t\ doz.
E^^gs. geese 1 doz.
Eggs, guinea hens.. lo^ doz.
Eggs, hens 2426 doz.
Eggs, turkeys 6i**^ doz.
Fodder, beet
greens 2660 lbs.
Fodder, corn green 23 tons.
Fodder, corn dry... U tons.
Fodder, oat 10 ton«.
Fowls 298>^ lbs.
Grapes
Guinea broilers..
Hay
Lettuce
Melons, musk ..
b}i lbs.
17 tons.
117>i^doz.
113
Milk 23062 qts.
Onions
Parsnips
Pears
Peas, green..
Peppers
122>i bu.
300 bu.
9
3H
6
Pork 11024
Potatoes 10411
Radishes 402
Rareripes 186
Raspberries 20
Rhubarb 163
Rowen 10
Spinach 4491
Squash, winter 40791
62
322
766
69i
93
Straw, rye
Strawberries
Tomatoes
Turkeys
Turnips, round
Turnips, French
and ruta baga
Veal
bu.
bu.
bu.
lbs.
bu.
doz.
doz.
qts.
lbs.
tons,
lbs.
lbs.
tons,
qts.
bu.
lbs.
bu.
314 bu.
W9}i IbB,
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SOOKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
Japen'nimneieni: (Du^i^^ of Siipprintendf^n*-, peiform^^cl temporarily by
an Expcntive Committee of the Board.)
deputy ^upTiniendeni.' Mr. Ezekiel E. Gardner.'*'
The Executive Committee reports as follows :
''The number of boys at the Sockauosset School decreased
from 377 at the beginning of the year to 372 at the close. The
daily average number was 386, which w^as larger by twenty -five
than that of any previous year. The number of commitments
was 462, and 467 were discharged during the year."
The terms and conditions of the commitments to the School
were as follows :
Committed under sentence for minority 168
under sentence for two years 63
under sentence for three years 3
under sentence for four years 4
under sentence for five years * 1
'' to await trial 207
Transferred to the Sockanosset School from
the Providence County Jail by the Board
of State Charities and Corrections 16
Total 462
During the past year the need of additional accommodations
has been felt more than ever before, on account of the large
increase in the daily average. The congested condition of the
dormitories must, of necessity, be a menace to health, and the
crowded condition of the school-rooms make it an almost im-
possible task for the teachers to accomplish the results re-
quired of them in order to conform to the requirements of the
school system of the State. Most of the teachers have twice
the number of pupils to be found in any school-room in the
State. Considering the facilities and support at liand, we
know that the results at the Sockanosset School compare favor-
ably with those of similar institutions in other States.
The institution is purely an Industrial School, Ai)d its object
is solely to instruct the boys in the proper use of their faculties
in a line that will enable them to earn an honest living, or, in
•Mr, Oftpdner was appointed Hupeiintendent of the Hockanosset Hchool for Boyn
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40 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
the case of the younger boys, to go back to the outside world,
more able and willing to acquire and maintain their proper
status in the community.
The question of how to uplift morally and develop mentally
the juvenile delinquent, of .the present day is an absorbing
topic which is being discussed with a great deal of interest by
6ur National Society of Charities and Corrections.
SCHOOL OP LETTERS.
"We conform as strictly as is possible in our present con-
dition to the methods obtaining in the Providence Public
Schools. We have changed our arithmetics during the past
year to some ])etter adapted to our needs and from which we
are able to promote a better system of teaching. We are using
a few of our old ones in each school for supplementary work,
for which purpose we find them excellent. We would recom-
mend a change in readers in the near future to a graded
system with definitions, in preparation for our school building.
We have also in mind a preparation of a system of language
study, which would include penmanship, and would be used,
together with it, as a more attractive method of study.
In the proposed new school-building, of course, we shall
follow strictly the graded system of study, and a better plan
will be devised for teaching those who are more or less de-
ficient mentally, which the present crowded condition of the
school-rooms, in a measure, precludes.
Our school library has been augmented during the year
only by the bound volumes of magazines and mechanical
periodicals which are yearly subscribed for.
MILITARY AND BAND DEPARTMENT.
''The Sockanosset Battalion has been kept up to the usual
standard of discipline. The permanent employment of a resi-
dent military instructor, in the person of Andrew I. Dennegan,
has been a means of improvement in this department, inasmuch
as the needs of the department require constant attention.
This change was brought about by the inability of the visiting
instructor, Captain Malacby Kelly, to give his whole time to
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the work. We get good results from this department and it is
an excellent aid to physical development.
Our band, under the excellent instruction of our teacher,
has upheld its usual good reputation. We have some forty-
seven boys under instruction two hours each day. About
twenty-fiveof this number comprise the regular playing band.
We have purchased only three new instruments during the
year, and probably will not need more than that number during
the coming year.
We played for outside parties only three times during the
past year. The Board of State Charities and (Corrections were
obliged to curtail this privilege on account of very frequent
applications for the services of the band upon various occasions.
CARPENTER SHOP.
*'We have a class in architectural-drawing in this depart-
ment which is giving the boys a fair idea of making their own
drawings of work to be done, and is also teaching them to work
from drawings.
MACHINE SHOP.
**We have a class in mechanical drafting in this department
where all drawings for lesson or repair work, of whatsoever
nature, are made.
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
"The estimated value of repair work done in 15)08 in this
department for the Institutions is $2,085.05. This work is done
outside of the hours given to instruction, or class work, and
includes a general line of necessary repairs.
PRINTING DEPARTMENT.
'**The estimated value of work done in this department for
the Institutions during the past year was $2,408.25. This in-
cludes the printing of the annual report of the Board of State
Charities and Corrections, but does not include work done upon
the semi-monthly issue of the Howard Times.
MASON SHOP.
"The amount of repair work done in this department during
the year was valued at $1,842.75. Besides this, w^e have gotten
out 9kni cut corner stoue for our proposed new buildings.
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SHOE DEPARTMENT.
^*The repair work in this department in 1908 amounted in
value to $2,412.09. This includes the work done for other Insti-
tutions. Under the prospective plan, this shop will be equipped
to make, as well as to repair, shoes for all of the Institutions.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
'*We have increased the number of boys in this department
and have made it more instructive, as we depend upon it for
all electric and steam fitting repairs about the School. This
department installed the steam heating and lighting apparatus
in the new Hospital for Contagious Diseases of the School.
BARN AND FARM DEPARTMENT.
*'An itemized statement of crops raised will be found else-
where in this report. We believe that we have made progress in
this department. • With the exception of the potato crop, we
met with fair success. The dry period, during the summer,
prevented a full crop of potatoes, but we have enough to last
us into February. We have usually been able to raise suflScent
vegetables to carry us from season to season.
Connected with this department is the greenhouse, with
which we feel we have been very successful; inasmuch as we
have raised a large amount of flowers, which have been enjoyed
by the School. Besides, we have sold enough to pay for the
expense incurred.
We also consider the poultry plant a section of this depart-
ment, and the showing made speaks for itself. We have some
600 fowls, and, including all cost of food, etc., we have a favor-
able balance of $604.96. We have bought oi\ly three cases of
eggs the past year, having furnished, with this exception, the
entire needs of the School from our hennery.
LAUNDRY.
**Our laundry is sadly in need of new machinery. The
matron of this department deserves credit for the good work
rendered under the present condition of the equipment.
SEWING ROOM.
''This is always a busy department, as all of the making and
repairing of garments used in the iScbool is done here ; and
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when we consider that we have a daily average of 886 boys, one
can imagine the amount ot work required.
AMUSEMENTS.
''(Considering the number of boys in the School, the actual
expense incurred for their amusement is comparatively small.
The principal feature of the year is the annual excursion to
Gaspee Point, which takes place in August. This excursion,
together with the visit to Keith's Theatre on Christmas week,
and a small expense for one or two entertainments during the
winter, is the extent.
AFTER-CARE.
''We believe that our method in this work has proven suc-
cessful, as we experience very little trouble with boys on
parole, and all the work of visiting the boys after their dis-
charge is done by those connected with this School."
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STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
FARM AND GARDEN.
The following table shows the quantities of farm and garden
produce raised at the School by the larger boys :
Apples, hand picked 16 bbls.
Apples, windfalls 76 bu.
Asparagus 248 lbs.
Beans, Lima 103^ bu.
Beans, shell , 19>i bu.
Beans, string 26 bu.
Beef 663 lbs.
Beets, bunches 84 doz.
Beets, cattle „ 1116 bu.
Beets, table 172 bu.
Blackberries 48 qts.
Cabbage 2641 hds.
Carrots 103 bu.
Cauliflower 42 hds.
Celery _. 2207 bun.
Corn, fodder 12 tons.
Corn, pop ears 28 bu.
Corn, sweet 1030 doz.
Corn Sweet ears 96 bu.
Cucumbers 7 bu.
Dandelions 4o>^ bu.
Eggplant 160
Eggs 2380 doz.
Grapes ..^ „ 12 bu.
Hay..^ 20 tons
Lettuce 136 hds.
Melons, musk 693
Melons, water 560
Milk 35444
Oat fodder 14
Onions 129
Peaches 13
Parsnips 46
Pears ^ 24
Peas, green 41
Peppers 3
Pork 2862
Potatoes — 952
Poultry _ 1473>^
Pumpkins 626
Radishes 800
Rareripes 436
Raspberries 66
Rh ubarb 306
Spinach ^ 42
Squashes 36y
Strawberries 408
Straw, rye ^ 10
Tomatoes, ripe 139>^
Tomatoes, i^reen 14
Turnips ^9)4
Vinegar 1
qts.
tons.
bu.
bu.
bu.
bu.
bu.
bu.
lbs.
bu.
lbs.
bun.
doz.
qts.
lbs.
bu.
qts.
tons.
bu.
bu.
bu.
bbl.
THE SCHOOL OF TRADES.
The daily numbers receiving instruction in trades, as well
as the totals for the year, are as follows :
Daily Average.
nnote numoer
During the Year.
Printing Department
._ 14...
23
Blacksmith
do ^
17
- 24
Machine
do._ ^
„.,... 14
21
Carpenter
do
12
20
Mason
do.. ^....
_ 11
17
Shoe
do ^..
17
26
Engineering
do
7
13
Tailoring
do
29
. .. .... 46
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The statistics of the year are as follows :
Number in the School, January 1, 1908 877
Number committed by Courts 402
Number admitted by Board of State Charities A Corrections
(Sec. 7, Chapter 290, General Laws of R. I.) 3
Number returned or retaken, havin^^ escaped „ 9
Number returned from places, surrendered by bail, etc „ «8
Number transferred from Jail by Board of S. C. A C 16 462
839
Number discharged ^ ^ 417
Number escaped 18
Number returned to Jail „ 18
Number released on bail ^ _ 18
Number sent to Jail on alternative sentence....^ 1 467
Number remaining January 1, 1908 872
The offences for which boys were committed from the Courts
were : Assault, five ; defacing building, two ; destroying prop-
erty, one; disorderly conduct on the street, thirteen ; embezzle-
ment, one; placing obstruction on railroad track, one; shop
breaking, twelve; theft, eighty; receiving stolen money or
goods, two; truancy, forty-two; vagrancy, twenty-two; twenty-
two were committed to await trial.
The average numbers in the School were:
In 1883, approximately ^^ 153
In 1884, approximately 171
In 1885, from daily record 156
In 1886, from daily record ^ J. 179
In 1887, from daily record 203
In 1888, from daily record ^ ^.^ 200
In 1889, from daily record ^. 204
In 1890, from daily record 211
In 1891, from daily record 171
In 1892, from daily record 192
In 1898, from daily record 280
In 1894, from daily record 247
In 1895, from daily record 249
In 1896, from daily record ^ 271
In^897, from daily record 801
In 1898, from daily record - 850
In 1899, from daily record 852
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In 1900, from daily record 335
In 1901, from daily record 356
In 1802, from daily record 382
In 1903, from daily record 353
In 1904, from daily record „ 344
In 1905, from daily record 1 ^.. ^ 340
In 1906, from daily record ^ 359
In 1907, from daily record 361
In 1908, from daily record 386
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OAKLAWN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
Super/nieniieni' (Duties of Superintendent performed temporarily by
an Executive Committee of the Board.)
^epuiy Super/nientieni.' MrS. Clara F. Forbush.*
The Executive Committee report as follows to the Board:
''The work at the Oaklawn School for Girls has been much
the same as in former years. At the beginning of the year
there were forty girls in the School ranging from the ages of
eleven to twenty years, under the care of five teachers each
earnest, faithful and conscientious in the discharge of her
exacting duties.
The girls have been employed in the forenoon of each day
in the different departments — kitchen, laundry, sewing-room,
and at general housework. In the afternoon every gid attends
school. Two schools of letters are maintained with gratifying
results. Four girls are detailed to attend to the work in the
garden and to the poultry through the season. The work of
the girls is changed every four months; thus affording each girl
an opportunity to become proficient in the different branches
of household duties.
No sickness, other than now and then an ordinary cold or
some slight indisposition, occurred during the year. The disci-
pline has been excellent.
One little girl, when unobserved, walked off the play-
ground and started for home, but was soon returned to the
School. This was the only attempt to run away during the
year, and we consider this an exceptionally fine record, indi-
cating that the girls are loyal and contented.
Mass is celebrated once a month, and Sisters of Mercy have
visited the School once in two weeks and have been very help-
ful to the girls, as in years past. Instead of attending the
Sunday morning service at the State Hospital for the Insane as
formerly, the girls remain at the School, where Sunday-school
is held for them. In the afternoon a Protestant service is
conducted by Chaplain Ewer. Washington's Birthday was
observed at the School, as usual, and an entertainment was
given by the girls in the evening. Fourth of July was appro-
•Mre. Forbush was appointed Superintendent of the Oaklawn School for Girls
January U>. 1909.
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priately celebrated. The girls' annual outing was held in the
School grounds August 14th, and was, as usual, a great success.
Thanksgiving was a day of feasting with an entertainment in
the evening by the girls. Christmas is the gala-day of the
year. The turkey dinner, with all that goes with it, fades into
insignificance before the gaily decorated Christmas tree loaded
with gifts for each girl. A bright, pretty, musical entertain-
ment is given in the evening by the girls.
The new cottage for girls, spoken of in our report for 1907,
as nearly finished, has been completed during the year and is
now being furnished. We expect it will be ready for occu-
pancy very soon.
Looking back on the past year, we feel that much has been
done for our girls and that the ensuing year will find all of us
zealous and as determined as ever in our work for these chil-
dren.
We desire to thank those who so generously remembered
the girls at Christmas and all other kind friends."
The statistics of the year are as follows:
Remaining: in the School January 1, 1908 40
Committed by the Courts during the year 14
Admitted by the Board of State Charities and Corrections 4
Returned from places 4
Returned from Workhouse and House of Correction 1
Committed, awaiting trial ~. 2
Returned, having escaped ^ ^ 1 26
66
Discharged on probation to go home 10
Discharged on probation to live in families ^ 1
Removed to Workhouse and House of Correction 1
Removed to State Almshouse 1
Released for trial 2
Escaped 1
Discharged on expiration of sentence 2
Returned to Workhouse and House of Correction 2 20
Remaining in tlie School January 1, 1909 ,. 46
Average number in 1882 (six months) 22
'' 1883 '* '' 31
*♦ ^* "• 1884 '* »' ^ -. 39
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Average number in 1886 (daily averaj^e)..^ 36
*' 1886 '* '' 25
'' 1887 '' '' 30
'* '* 1888 '' " . 34
'* *' 1889 *' '' 37.6
'' '* 1890 '' '' * 33
** 1891 ** '' 28.7
'' '' '' 1892 '' *' ~. 29.9
"• 1893 '* *' . 21.9
'' *' '* 1894 ** *' 26.3
" ** 1896 ** *' 26.6
** *' *' 1896 '' '* 34.2
** ** '' 1897 *' '' 40.4
'* 1898 *' ** « 61.4
'* 1899 '* *' 54
*' '' ** 1900 '' *' 44
^' '' 1901 ** "• 46
*' '* 1902 *' '* 49.1
** 1903 *' '* ^ 46.6
"■ 1904 '* " 46.6
*: '' '* 1906 '' '' 46
'" " 1906 " *' 49
** 1907 " *' 44
** 1908 " '* 42
Fourteen girls were sentenced to the Oaklawu School by the
courts in 1908. This number is six larger than in 1907. The
number remaining is six larger than one year ago. The daily
average number was forty -two.
Two were sentenced for vagrancy-; one for night walking;
three for theft; two for lewdness; four for disorderly conduct;
one forassult; one for breaking and entering. One was re-
turned, having escaped ; one was returned from the Workhouse
and House of Correction ; two were committed, awaiting trial ;
four were admitted by the Board ; four returned from places.
•
The ages at the time of sentence or admission were : one,
twelve years; five, fourteen years; four, fifteen years; six,
sixteen years ; two, seventeen years.
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STATK CHARlflBS AND CORRBCTIONS.
Garden Produce raised at the
1908.
Apples 63^ bu.
Asparagus « 10% lbs.
Beaus 8>^ bu.
Beets n^ bu.
Blackberries 6K bu.
Carrots ll>t^ bu.
Cauliflower 26 hds.
Celery „ „ 805 bun.
Cherries ^.. 10 qts.
Chickens 47
Corn, sweet 386 doz.
Cucumbers 403^ bu.
Currants . — 8 qts.
Dandelions \\}4 bu.
EgKS o63>i doz.
Grapes S}4 bu.
Lettuce 654 hds.
Oaklawn School for Girls during
Melons, musk 116
Melons, water
Onions
Peaclies
Pears „....
Peas
Peppers
Quinces
Radishes 119 doz.
Raspberries 12 qts.
Rhubarb 88>^ lbs.
Spinach 12 bu.
Squasli H5
Strawberries 23% qU.
Tomatoes 69>^ bu.
Turnips 4 bu.
106
2H
bu.
IH
bu.
8
bu.
ISH
bu.
3%
bu.
^
bu.
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61
NEWPORT COUNTY JAIL.
Zhf iJk9 S^0arti o/Siai0 CAar/i/^s amd Cmrrmci/oms/
I have thf> honor to hand you, herewith, a report of commitments
and diflposals of cases at the Newport County Jail, for the year 1908.
Men. Women. Totai,
Remaining In Jail. January 1, 1908 4 0 4
Committed during the year 414
Discharged during the year..
Remaining in Jail, January 1, 1909..
Offences.
Adultery.,;
Assault
Begging
Being a common drunkard
Being an idle person
Being a lewd and wanton
person
Breaking and entering
Carrying concealed weapons
Circulating obscene litera-
ture
Defacing a building
Drunkenness
Forgery
Fornication
Having carnal knowledge....
Incendiarism
Keeping house of ill-fame....
Keeping unlicensed dog
Larceny
Lounging :
Malicious mischief
Nigh t walking
Non-support .,
Rape
Revelling
Selling liquor without license
Sleeping out
Using profane language
Vagrancy
Violating lobster law
Committed for debt
Committed for safe-keeping
Committed under bond to
keep the peace .,
Remaining in Jail, Jan.
1908.„
1,
No.
9
76
8
21
21
17
4
1
7
3
132
20
2
3
6
1
1
66
1
1
2
2
1
14
2
5
1
6
2
433
9
8
1
451
418
417
1
87
37
87
0
451
455
454
of
Disposal of Cases.
Discharged on bail
• Discharged by writ
Habeas Corpus
Discharged by order of
Plaintiff's Attorney
Died
Discontinued
Fine and costs paid
Fine and costs remitted
Sentenced to Providence
County Jail
Sent-enced to Reform School
Sentenced served and costs
remitted
Sentenced to Workhouse and
House of Correction
Reprieved and costs paid
Remaining in Jail Jan. 1,
1909
No.
42
9
1
1
30
110
66
8
43
1
454
1
455
455
Respectfully submitted.
JOHN J. WATSON, Jr.
Jansstown, R. I., January, 1909,
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8TATB CHAKITIEB AND CORRECTIOKB.
WASHINGTON COUNTY JAIL.
ZTo iAm S^oarJ 0/ Siai^ OAar/it'ms and C^rr^ct/omsf
I have the honor to hand you, herewith, a report of the com-
raitments and disposals of cases at the Washington County Jail
for the year 1908.
Men, Women. Total
Remaining in Jail January 1, 1908 0 0 0
Committed during the year 96 2 98
Discharged during the year..
96
96
Remaining in Jail January 1, 1909..
Offences.
Assault
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
Being a common drunkard..
Being a lewd and wanton
person
Bigamy
Breaking and entering
Burning a building
Carrying concealed weapons
Cruelty to animals
Drunkenness
Evading payment of hotel
bill
Keeping liquor for sale
illegally ~.
Larceny ~
Murder ^
Non-support of family
Neglect to send children to
school
Track walking
Vagrancy
Held as witness
No.
7
12
6
1
1
8
1
2
1
29
6
12
3
1
1
2
4
97
1
98
0
Disposal of Cases.
Committed to Providence
County Jail
Committ*^d to Reform
School
Committed to State Work-
house and H. of C
Delivered to U. S. Training
Station „
Discharged on bail
Discharged by order of Chief
of Police, Narragansett .^
Discharged on writ of
Habeas Corpus
Released on expirati<»n of
sentence
98
98
No.
71
98
Allbntox, R. I. January, 1909.
Respectfully submitted.
ROBERT F. RODMAN.
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53
KENT COUNTY JAIL.
7joiA0 S^oarti ^/"Siai^ OAar/i/ms and Corr^ci/onst
I have visited the Kent County Jail and found everything
satisfactory. I was pleased, upon my last visit, to find plumbers
at work improving the sanitary conditions. Again, I would
suggest, as I have in several previous reports, the purchasing,
by the State, of a strip of land adjoining the Jail, as the build-
ings upon said land cause one side of the Jail to be very dark.
The statistics for the year 1908, as furnished by the Jailer, are
as follows :
Remaining in Jail, January 1, 1908 7
Committed during thie year 110
Women.
1
10
117
Discharged during the year 116
Remaining in Jail, January 1, 1909 1
Offences, No.
Assault 22
dangerous
11
11
0
Assault with
weapon
Bastardy
Being a common drunkard..
Bf^ing an idle person
Bplnj? a lewd and wanton
person
Breakinsr and entering
CarryiuK concealed weapons
Cruelty to animals
Defacing building
Destroying property not his
own
Drunkenness ^
Indecent exposure
Larceny
No:i-support of family
Rape „
Threats
Committed on civil suit
Detaind as witness
Remaining in Jail, Jan. 1,
1908
9
1
3
2
6
6
2
2
2
8
36
1
11
6
1
2
111
6
4
120
8
128
TUal.
8
120
Disposal of Cases.
Committed to Providence
County Jail
Committed to State Prison-
Committed Ut Reform
School
Discharged, fine and costs
paid
Discharged, fine and costs
remitted
Released on bail
Released by order of plain-
tiff
Released on probation
Released on writ of Habeas
Corpus
Remaining in Jail, Jan. 1,
1909
128
127
1
No.
12
6
3
4
2
16
4
8
78
127
1
128
Respectfully submitted
_ ^ JAMES F. McCUSKER.
PONTiAO, R. I., January, 1909.
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STATE 0HAKITIB8 AND CORKECTIONS.
BRIBTOL COUNTY JAIL.
Uo M^ ^aard 0/ Siat9 CAar/i/^s amtl Corr^oiions.-
I have the honor to hand you, herewith, a report of the com-
mitments and disposals of cases at the Bristol County Jail, for
the year 1908.
Men,
Remaining in Jail, January 1, 1908 ^ 1
Cmmitted during tlie year 171
Discharged during the j'ear ^...
Remaining in Jail, January 1, 1909..
Abandoning wife and chil-
dren
Assault
Assault with Intent to com-
mit robbery ^
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
Being a common drunkard..
Being a disorderly person....
Being a sturdy beggar
Being a lewd and wanton
person
Being an idle person
Bigamy
Breaking and entering in the
night-time
Breaking and entering in the
day-time .
Ho.
1
2
9
4
21
1
11
6
Defacing a building
Drunkenness ^ ^
Embezzlement
Larceny „.,
Murder
Non-support 4
Obtaining goods by false
pret^ence „ 1
Rape 8
Revelling ^.. 8
Vagrancy 14
Violent assault ^^ „ 18
143
Committed for safe-keeping 30
Civil commitments 2
Remaining in Jail, Jan. 1,
1908
175
176
172
171
1
Womm,
0
4
4
4
0
1
176
176
176
Disposal of Cases, No,
Discharged on bail ^ 3
Discharged by Town of
Bristol 30
Discharged by JaUer 2
Released on writ of Habeas
Corpus 140
RemainiuR: in Jail, Jan. 1,
1909
175
1
176
Respectfully submitted.
HARRY H. SHEPARD.
BBI8T0L, R. Im Jmu^ry, 1000.
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55
FINANCES.
RESOUROKfl.
Appropriation for Maintenance of State Institutions. 190H
Appropriation for KmerKency Hospital, Htate InHtltutlons, January
Besslon, 1908
Appropriation for Oonstniotion. at Htate Hospital for Insane, and
Hockanottfiet School, January Hesslon, 1908
Balance of Appropriation for Construction, at State Hospital for In*
8ane,avallable jHuuary 1. 1908 „
Balance of Appropriation for Repairs and Improvements, at State Insti-
tutions, available, January 1, 1908 _
Balance of Appropiiation for Purchase of Land, available January 1.
1W18..
BalHnce of Appropriation fcr BuUdln?, at State Institutions, available
January 1. 19U8 „
Balance of Appropriation for Industrial Training, at Hockanosset
HchooLavallable January 1. 190K
From board of Inmates 120,490 00
S»90,000 00
4,000 00
81,000 00
998 91
6,768 28
1,H6H 18
79.960 04
194 07
sale of produce ^ ^
labor
sale of Junk „
sale of sundries
money left with the Rupt. of the Hospital..
^noom90 o/ Siaio ^artm
From board of Inmates
sale of produce
sale of Junk ^
sale of sundries
688 73
60
806 94
08 26
85 76
labor
sale of crushed ston*-..
16.496 02
1,096 07
142 86
164 68
122 18
151 18
^ncown9 o/ ^r/smn and ^a/i {imoiutUn^ 6iiis tiuo /mr iaSor
and 6mar*i, ^ocom6or 3/, /SOS)/
From labor of Inmates > I28.8S8 27
board of Inmates
Jail fees and bonds..
sale of produce.^ ,
sale of Junk
sale of souvenirs
sale of sundries
rent »
6.481 84
449 10
985 96
284 72
864 06
12 10
SHI 00
21.498 78
8.160 48
81,286 64
^noowo o/ SooAano*s0i SeAooh
From printinic department
labor in shops
" sale of produce
M sale of Junk „
sale of sundries
board „
1114 00
914 84
181 86
22 10
17 80
214 00
1,418 60
Interest ^
Coal on hand undivided, January 1, 1908
Due from sundry parties for labor and board at StatePrlson, January
1,1908
Due on credits. January 1, 1908 „
Due on Union Trust Co.. January 1, 1908. _
27 58
18.072 88
2.282 69
122 48
1.741 06
I628.28U04
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8TATB CHARITIBS AKB CORRBCTIOKS.
- EXPENDITURES.
Consiruoii«nt
Land
Cottage No. 2, Oaklawn School, (previously, 1:20.086 87:
total $28,832 28)
Emergency Hospital, State Institutions
Completing Emergency Hospital. State Institutions..
Installation of Mechanical Draft at State Institutions.
(previously $1,500 00; total $6,878 00)
Altenitlon of Boiler House, State Farm, (previously
$2, 506 30: total $2, 668 86)
Morgue etc.. State Farm _
Altering Building Into Annex No. 2, State Prison
Brooder House, Sockanosset School, (previously
$208 85; total $258 41)
Poultry House. State Farm, (previously $117 62; total
$119 87)
Current 9jep9ns&s o/ Stat9 ^o*pitai for iAm ^msamo/
Subsistence:
$1,626 00
8,706 01
8.«87 75
107 50
5,878 00
68 00
2,889 68
812 35
49 56
2 26 $28,211 96
Meat
_ . $11,026 66
Fish
„ 1,146 46
Butter
2,196 72
Butterlne
Cheese
„ 2,816 85
299 08
Tea
1,840 01
Coffee
Sugar
Molasses
..- 607 88
2.801 78
440 80
Soap
1,282 77
Tobacco „
918 47
8,264 82
Flour. . .
Crackers
66 67
Beans...- ^
Meal
Cereals
Sundries
Farm expenses:
Manure
1.166 26
888 58
848 36
. .- 9,481 94
$1,468 14
$48,858 57
Fertilizer
Gral n
588 00
8,960 85
Seeds
Sundries ^
Farm stock and tools:
Stock
560 01
292 47
$190 00
6,864 47
Farm tools, etc
296 08
Sundries
184 25
670 83
Salaries
Medical supplies ,
Clothing and bedding
46,562 85
1.197 07
7.217 11
Furniture
4,618 72
Fuel
14,581 28
Repairs and Improvements
Lights
8,974 16
8.789 90
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57
PostaKe -. -.
Stationery. ^ ^
Books, periodicals, etc ^..
Telephones, electric and Are apparatus
Expenses returning escaped Inmates
Transportation of Inmates ^ ^
Miscellaneous »..
Add amount charged by Htate Farm „.,
Add amount cbarfced by Hockanosset Rchool
Dednct amount charired to Sockanosset School..
Deduct amount charged to State Farm
1161 25
81A56
74 80
WO 78
14 20
Oft
706 07
1188,002 61
461 64
196 26
1184.640 40
1160
OM
11 66 I184.63B 75
Cttrrmni «xp0ns0S 0/ Simi^ ^artnt
Subsistence:
Meat ^
17.708 21
Fish
676 88
Butter
., 820 62
Butterine
Cheese
1.801 48
426 67
Tea
876 61
Ooffee
276 71
Bu(?ar _.
1,401 87
Molasses .,
Soap
842 61
1,04« 16
Tobacco
600 85
Flour
7.772 26
Orackers
Beans
207 10
„ 620 87
Meal
420 42
Cereals „
206 12
Sundries
Farm expenses:
Manure „
4.674 02
1070 22
120,671 20
Fertilizer
AsheS
.^ 642 00
217 04
Grain „ „ „
Seeds «
6,566 86
686 22
Sundries
572 67
8,668 41
Farm stock and tools:
Stock
1421 00
Farm tools, etc. ..
618 06
Sundries.
888 12
1378 10
Salaries
81.506 78
Medical supplies
Clothing and bedding
1.068 01
6.614 77
Furniture
1.076 87
Fuel
8.878 66
Repairs and improvements _
LlKhts
8.525 60
1.680 06
Postage
120 00
Stationery ^
Books, periodicals, etc
165 64
02 17
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Telephones, eleotrlo and flreapparatat $276 4S
BxpenBes retarnlns escaped inmates 46 10
Transportation of Inmates «8 80
Miscellaneous m W
106.161 M
Add amount charged bj Bockanosset School ~ 68 66
Add amount charged by State Hospital for Insane 9 06
I86.SS5 96
Deduct amount charged to the following Institutions:
State Hospital for Insane $461 64
State Prison ^ J.006 18
Bockanosset School « 7,180 64
Oaklawn School ^ «.4fl7 » 11.006 86 I88J18 01
Cmrrmmi 9Jtp0W999 o/Siai^ ff^Umm*
Subsistence :
Meat „„ 18.676 28
Pish. 70168
Butter 800 OJ
Cheese 100 42
Tea. „ ^ 82 00
Ooffee 186 78
Sugar 288 46
Molasses _ 848 08
Soap 284 40
Tobacco : 1.601 81
Flour _ 4.106 76
Crackers ^ ^ 21 18
Beans ^ 760 52
Meal „ ^ 868 74
Cereals ^ _ 108 06
Sundries „ ^ _ _ 4.124 17 128.610 06
Farm expenses :
Manure
Fertiliser
Grain ^
Seeds^ ^
Hajr^..
Sundries ^ 882 84 6.466 86
Farm stock and tools:
Stocks „
Farm tools, etc.- - ~
Sundries ^ 487 86 1.184 64
Salaries 28.126 41
Medical suppUes ^ 688 66
Clothing and bedding..... 6.687 00
Furniture 086 70
Fuel _ 8,628 67
Repairs and improvements 8.604 61
Lights > ^ 1326 87
Postage 162 00
Stationery 212 78
Books, perlodleals.etc „ 84 02
Telephone, electric and flre apparatq8...^,„,., — ,^„„„ 870 68
. 12.106 17
46800
2,617 86
44186
467 18
88284
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Transportation of Inmates. ^ 816 00
Discharge money to inmates ?06 00
Miscellaneous „„ „. 788 01
177.028 04
Add amount charged by State Farm 2,006 18 170.020 22
Curr^ni expenses of fSoeJtanossei ScAooi
Subsistence:
Meat.....
Fish „
14,402 10
472 00
Butter ^
Butterlne „
Oheese ,. ,
Ooffee „ ^ ^
Sugar
Molasses ^
Soap _ „ ^,
800 68
266 70
258 01
821 80
222 46
086 62
141 01
418 48
Flour ^ : 180 76
Orackers ^ 901 17
Beans _ 860 27
Meal - 40 85
Cereals^ ^.
00 70
Sundries „
Farm expenses:
Manure
8.442 81
1870 80
112.764 78
Fertilizer
818 00
1,H71 80
Grain «.^
Seeds ^
Hay^
„^ 268 77
^ 408 18
616 44
S66 00
01 81
906 11
Sundries ^.
Farm stock and tools:
Stock
Farm tools, etc „ _ „.
Sundries „
Salaries „ _
Medical supplies ^
Clothing and bedding
4.268 44
861 02
90.006 60
862 80
10.968 01
Furniture
Fuel
1.088 62
4,866 86
Repairs and Improvements _
Lights
Postage ^
Stationery
2.48140
1.076 48
11*7 00
812 44
Books, periodicals, etc _
Telephones, electric and fire apparatus
876 88
260 01
Expenses returning escaped inmates
02 71
Transportation of inmates
96 80
Printing supplies „
124 76
Miscellaneous , ,
1t»t?t !•••
1.006 68
I01.207I62
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STATIC CHARITIBfl AND CORREOTIONB.
Add amount charged by State Farm „
Add amount charged by State Hospital for Insane
Deduct amount charged to State Farm |68 66
Deduct amount charged to State Hospital for Insane ia« 26
17480 M
1 09
|68.4d(i76
189 91 168.249 Hi
Carrifni 0jepens€S of Oakiawn SeAooi,
Subsistence
Salaries
Farm expenses, tools, etc
Medical supplies
Clothing and bedding
Furniture :
Fuel.
Repairs
Lights
Postage
Stationery
Books, periodicals, etc
Telephones ._
Transportation of inmates
Expenses returning escapes ^
Miscellaneous — .
Add amount charged by State Farm
$108 62
2.648 17
99fi8
14 72
185 67
79 66
649 66
81 96
52 49
10 00
17 25
68 06
76 00
286
SHO
6 68
18.991 72
2.467 99
16.469 71
£xp0ns9S of the Xoarti,
Travelling expenses:
Walter A. Read
12 20
James F. MoOusker
50 00
Philippe Boucher
50 00
Robert F. Rodman
„ 82 00
George R. Lawton
25 00
Harry H. Bhepard
60 00
Horace F. Horton
35 00
8. WiUard Thayer
85 00
1289 20
Expensesof James F. McOusker to National Confer-
ence of Charities and Corrections, Richmond, Va. 90 00
Expenses of Philippe Boucher to same 90 00
Expenses of Horace F. Horton to .same 90 00
Expenses of S. Willard Thnyer tosame 90 00
Travelling expenses of E. E. Gardner to same 88 80
Travelling expenses of Andrew J. Wilcox to National
Prison Congress, Richmond. Va 32 00
Travelling expenses of ( 'harles H. Ewer to same 32 00
1746 50
Office expenses:
Salaries of Secretary and Clerks 14.662 50
Postage, stationery, etc 448 28
6.110 78 16.867 S8
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Sxp9ns0s of r^tmovin^ paupers from iho Siaio.
Balarles of Agent and Clerks ^,880 00
Sundry expenses * 2,264 17 |5,fl44 17
Cxponsos of iProhaiion fi/ork
Salaries of Officers |8,66(» 00
Sundry expenses 6«7 .V 4,217 5«
Union Trust Oo.'s Account transferred to the General
Treasurer by act of the General Assembly, February
4. 190H 1,741 OH
Paid indebtedness of 1807 10,142 4»
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Oon-
structioD, at State Hospital for Insane |9e« 91
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Purchase
of Land 282 18
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Industrial
Training, at Sockanosset School 145 11
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Building
at State Institutions rtH,2fl8 80
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Repairs
and Improvements, at State Institutions 425 86
State Treasury, account of appropriation for an
Emergency Hospital, at State Institutions 12 25
State Treasury, occount of appropriation for (Con-
struction, at Sockanosset School and State Hospi-
tal for Insane „ 81,00u 00
Goal on hand, undivided _ 6,445 12
Dae from sundry parties for labor and board at State
Prison. December 81 1908 5,427 76
1112,964 90
Due sundry parties, maintenance account. December
81. 1908 $11,793 87
Due sundry parties, special account, December 81, 1908 182 01 11,925 88 101.029 11
523,230 04
^a/iy avoraffo numhor of inmaios.
State Hospital for Insane ^ 1, 024
State Farm „ 775
State Prison and Jail 529
Sockanosset School „ 386
OakUiwn School 42
2756
Gross cost of the Institutions „ $871,886 48
Gross cost per year for one inmate 134 76
Gross cost per week for one inmate 2 59
Net cost of all the Institutions 809,060 85
Net co«t per year for one Inmate. 112 13
|9«$ oMt p«r week tor one iiuoate.»^..^ ^....... % 10
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ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITURES.
It is estimated that the Board will require for the main-
tenance of the expected number of inmates in the Institutions
the coming year and for necessary repairs, the sum of
$885,000.00, in addition to their receipts.
The estimate in detail is as follows :
For deficiency 1908. S 11,000 00
For the support of the Hospital for the Insane ^ 112,000 00
For the support of the Workhouse and Almshouse 82,000 00
For the support of the Prison and Jail 44,000 00
For the support of the Bockanosset Bchool 62,000 00
For the support of the Oaklawn Bchool ^ 7,000 00
For the expenses of the Board of State Charities and Oo»*rectlon8 Including
salaries of Secretary and Olerks ^ - 7,000 00
For expenses of removal of paupers Including salaries of Agent and Olerks
and probation work „ lO^uuo 00
836.U0U 00
The sums named for the several Institutions are the esti-
mated expenditures less the estimated incomes.
Respectfully submitted by the Board of State Charities and
Corrections.
James F. McCusker,
Walter A. Read,
Robert F. Rodman,
Harry H. Shepard,
S. WiLLARD Thayer,
George R. Lawton,
Philippe Boucher,
John J. Watson, Jr.,
Horace F. Horton.
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MBPORT or THB boARD. 6^
REPORT
OF THE SECRETARY.
Zu» iJk^ S^mmrti 0/'Simi0 CAmriiims mnd Corr^ciionsf
The Secretary respectfully presents the following report :
The regular semi-monthly meetings of the Board have been
held alternately at the Institutions and at their office in
Providence. One special meeting was held during 1908.
^Amti^ Jsitmti Siwii0 Vr^oMury in account w/iA S^cartl c/ Simi0 CAmr/i/cs
mnti Ccrr^ciimnst
Appropriation for maintenance of State Institutions :
Dr. O.
To appropriatlOD made for 1908 1820.000 00
To mon9j paJd Into the Treasarr In 1908 59,140 92
By payments upon the orders of the Board ^ 1879,140 99
$379.140 92 1879.140 92
Appropriation for Oonstruction at State Hospital for Insane:
Dr, Cr.
To balance available January 1. 1908 „ 1968 91
By balance undrawn December 81. 1908 „. 1908 91
1908 91 1908 91
Appropriation for purchase of Land at State Institutions :
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1. 1908 11.888 13
By payments upon the orders of the Board ^ 11.026 00
By balance undrawn December 81. 1908 „ — - 282 18
tl.868 18 |l.aa If
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Appropriation for Industrial Training, at Sockanosset School :
Dr. Cr,
To balance available January 1, 1908 |1M «7
By payments upon orders of the Board S 40 5<(
By balance undmwn December 31, IWW U5 11
SUM «7 |1»* tf7
Appropriation for Building at State Institutions :
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1, 1008 170,950 04
By payments upon orders of the Board -... |ll,6Bl 58
By balance undrawn December 81, 1008 tt8,20H 86
170,060 04 170.060 04
Appropriation for Repairs and Improvements at State
Institutions :
Dr. Cr.
To appropriation made April 1908 f3,768 28
By payments upon the orders of the Board 15,827 87
By balance undrawn December 31, 1906 4i*5 8rt
$5,75?^ 28 16.758 28
Appropriation for Emergency Hospital at State Institutions:
Dr. Cr.
To appropriation made 1008 ^ $4,000 00
By payments upon orders of the Board $3,087 76
By balance undrawn December 81, 1908 12 26
$4,000 00 $4,000 00
Appropriation for Construction at State Hospital for the Insane
and Sockanopset School for Boys :
Dr. Cr.
To appropriation made 1908 $81,000 00
By balance undmwn December 81, 1908 $81,000 00
$81,000 00 $31,000 00
State Auditor's Office,
Providence, R. I., January 1, 1909.
This is to certify that the books of this department verify
the foregoing statements of accounts with expenditures.
CHARLES 0. GRAY,
Stats Auditor,
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REPORT OP THE BOARD. 66
STATEMENT OP MONEY COLLECTED.
The sums collected and paid into the General Treasury are
m detail as follows :
1908.
Jan. M> From A. J. Wilcox, collected at Htnte Prison |1.78:J IH
80 ** Kxecutlve(7oiiimltte*». collectt^dat Hookanos^Mt Soho<»l . HUH tSH
80 •• Execiillve<ioinmlttet\ collected Ht Ktatt* Farm HM &2
»0 " A. H. HariiiiKtoii, collected at Htate Hohpital for Insane 67 00
W •• W. R. WlKhtman, collected for l)oard of Insane „_ 2.2i)7 7u
80 •• W. R. WlRhtnmn. collected for board at Almshouse 1,1 1« 0»J
»u •• W. R. Wlflfhtnian. collected for Interest 2 «8
Fob. 2» " Executive (ToTumlttee.coIlected at Hockanossel Hohool . 83 70
29 ** A. H. Harrington, collected at Ktale HospiUtl for Insane 21 02
2» •• Executive Oommlttee, collected at Htate Farm 68 8tt
2» •• A. J. Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison 2.7»i6 14
29 •* W. R. Wlffhtman. collected for board of Insane 1.306 88
» " W. R.WlKhtnian, collected for board at Almshouse 172 78
» " W. R.Wlghtnian, collected for Interest 3 29
Mar. 80 •• A. J. Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison 2.527 21
81 •• W. R.Wijrhtman, collected for iKWird of Insane 1.372 69
81 *• W. R. Wightman, collected for board at Almshouse 823 8H
81 *• W. R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest „ 2 98
»1 " Executive ('ommltte'-, collected at Htate Farm 2-18 20
81 ** A. H. Uarrlngton, collected at Htate Hospital for Insane 11160
81 *' Executive Oommlttee, collected at Hcu-kanosset Hchool.. 30 00
April S9 " ExecutlveOommlttee, collected at Htate Farm 42 00
29 " A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2,807 95
29 ** A. H .Harrington, collected at Htate Hospital for Insane 47 ^o
29 •* W. R. Wlghtman. collected for iKMird of Insane 1.828 7;)
29 " W. R. Wlffhtman. collected for board at Almshouse 1,198 01
29 " W. R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest 174
80 ** Executive Oo:nmittee, collected at HockanossetHch<M>l.. 68 37
May 7 " W. R. Wiffhtman. collected at Htate Hospital for Insane 86 76
29 *• A. J. Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison 2,719 64
29 •• A. H. Harrington, collected at Htate Hospital ^or Insane 209 58
29 *• Executive Committee, collected at Hoi'kanosset Hcho"l.. 86 64
29 •* Executive Committee, collected at state P'arm ll»J 27
29 " W. R. Wightman, collected for iKMird of Insane 1.4JM) 31
29 •* W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board at Almshouse 302 16
29 *• W. R. Wightman, collected for Interest 2 76
June 29 " A.J. Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison 2,618 96
29 •* A. H. Ha'-rlngton, collected at Htate Hospital for Insane 102 70
80 ** W. R. Wightman, collected for board of Insane 1,650 93
80 ** W. R. Wightman. collected for board at Almshouse 70 73
80 " W. R. Wightman, collected for Interest 2 12
80 ** Executive Committee, collected at Hockanrwset HchooL 5178
80 " Execntlve Committee, collected »tHtate Farm 244 62
July 29 •• A.M. Harrington, collected at Htate Hospital for Insane 28 29
80 *• W. R. Wightman, collected for board of Insane 2,156 40
80 ** W. R. Wightman. collected for board at Almshouse I.os i»
80 •* W. R. Wightman, collected for Interest 162
81 " Executive Committee, collected at Bockanosset School.. 88 65
81 " Executlv^e (Committee, colected at Htate Farm . 46 81
81 *• A.J Wilcox, collected nt Htate Prison 2.595 84
Aug. 29 •• A.J.Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison 1,756 70
29 " A. H. Harrington, collected at Htate Hospital for Insane 28 12
n '* Bzeoutlve Oommlttee. collected at Btate Farm.... 99 70
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Auff. 81 From Executive Oommlttee, collected at Sookanosset School. $21 ^
81 " W. R. Wightman, collected for board of Iniane 1.026 S5
81 *• W, R. Wlghtraan. collected for board at Almshouite 224 87
81 " W.R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest 2 7«
Sept. }ia " Executive Oommlttee. collected at Bockanosset BcbooL 58 10
80 " Executive Oommlttee, collected at State Farm 70 88
80 '* A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane 72 48
80 " A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison „ 1,446 M
80 ** W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board of Insane . 1,079 16
80 " W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board at Almshouse 68 16
Oct. 81 " A. H. Harrtngton. collected at State Hospital for Insane 80 00
81 " Exttcutlve Oommlttee. cbllected at State Farm 178 61
81 " Executive Oommlttee, collected at Sookanosset SchooL 80 57
81 *• A.J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2.087 82
81 •* W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board of Insane 2.086 70
81 " W. R. Wlghtman collected for board at Almshouse 1.164 80
81 •• W. R. Wlghtman. collected for Interest _ 8 00
Nov. 80 "AH. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane 100 74
8ii ** Executive Oommlttee. collected at Bockanosset SchooL 08 74
80 " Executive Oommlttee. collected at State Farm 167 21
80 *• A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2.018 78
80 " W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board of Insane ^ 1.011 82
80 " W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board at Almshouse 100 08
80 •• W. R. Wlghtman. collected for Interest 2 41
Dec. 28 ** W. R. Wlghtman. collectedfor board of Insane. 1.600 60
28 " W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board at AlmshouHe ., 804 10
28 •• W.R. Wlghtman. collected for Intei-est 107
28 " X. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane 84 80
2s " A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2.119 87
28 *• Executive Oonnnlttee, collected at State Farm 08 78
2S *• Executive (Committee, collected at Hockanoaset School. 94 82
150.140 92
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67
SALARIES.
The names and salaries of persons appointed or employed by
the Board of State Charities and Corrections^ during 1908,
(Chapter 291, Section 11, of the General Laws of Rhode Island,)
are as follows : .
All are furnished with board, lodging and washing, excepting
those against whose name an asterisk is placed.
OFFICERS AND CLERKS OF THE BOARD.
NameM.
1
Offices.
Rate, 1 Timr.
Amount.
James R. Read*-
Hec. Board of H. Char-
ities A Corrections.
(Uerk do
do do
do do
do do
Agent Htjvte Charities
A Corrections
Per year
SS.600.00
760 00
1 year ™
y months
Emily M. Nichols*
12.600 00
60^60
do do
1.000.00
760.00
♦WO.OO
2,500.00
780.00
Per day
2.(X)
2.00
Per raonthi
60.00
100.00
100.00
75.00
25.00
60.00!
8 monHis
260 00
Oarrte E. Oatley*^
1 year
760 00
Harriet K. Nlcliols*^...
1 year
000 00
t Walter R. Wljclitman*
1 year
2.500 00
Louise H. Purkl8*„
Clerk do
do do
do do
do do
Probation Officer
do do
do do
do do
do do
1 year
7.% 00
Agnes 8. Purkls*
8 days
t5 00
Nora F. McOormlck*...
12 days
24 00
do do
2 months
100 00
William J. Wallace*. .
1 year
1.20000
Margaret H. Dennehy*
1 year
1.200 00
Thomas B. Maymon*...
7 months
525 00
Jehn Downes*.„
6 months
125 00
George L. Smith*
1 year
00000
STATE INSTITUTION, ETC.
Names.
Offirfi.
Rale.
Time.
Amount.
Arthur H. Harrington
Consulting Physician
State Institutions |
Resident PhysiclaiL.
' Per year
Henry A. Jones....
Oharles H. lBwer_ | Religious Instructor
Mathew J. Harklns....! Catholic Clergyman
Bverett F. Corliss. Registered Pharmacist
$1,000.00
1 year
11.000 00
1.800.00
1 year
, 1,800 00
1.800.00
1 year _
1.800 00
1.800.00
1 year
1 1.800 00
840.00
1 year
1 840 00
IThlt Amonnl looludM alUMliUnoe in reinov*! ol pauptra .
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STATE GHARITiES AND CORRECTION^.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE ISQJLNB.—ConUnued.
Names.
Qtflm.
Rate.
Time,
Amamt,
Arthur H. Harrington
Superintendent
Per year
12.000 00
1 VARr
12.000 00
(icorjre E. Simpson
Deputy Supt
1.800 00 ft months .-
6fi) 00
do do
do do
1,400 00
6 months
700 00
Edgar I. Hansconi
Ass't Physician
do do
900 00
1,000 00
1,200 00
800 00
800 00
Per month
26 00
25 00
10 months _
750 00
do do
2 months .
166 67
Ellsha Il.Ooohoon „
do do
11 months
1,100 00
Leslie K. OofTin
do do
19 days
40 80
William B. TreadNvay.
do do
9 months ...l
600 00
Llewellyn I). Obandler
Interne
2A% days
10 81
(ieorge A. Anderton
do
8 mos. 11 days...
84 17
Halph G. Reed *
do
26 00
2 mos. 18 days...
64 62
Waiter L. Swindell
do
25 00
25 00
60 00
1 mo. 28 days...
1 mo. 19 days
il mos. 20 days
48 88
Oliver A. Menges
do „
40 88
Wlllard Putnam
Hupervlsor male
700 00
Charles H. Getty
Ass't. do do
87 00
11 mos. 22 days
11 mos. 80 days...
488 26
William H. Follett
do do do
50 00
588 96
Phillip W. McDermott
Night do do
85 00
11 mos. 20 days
408 71
Helen H. Putnam
Supervisor female
60 00
11 mos. 20 days-...
700 00
Martha Scott
Ass't. do do
85 00 11 mos. 21 days
410 47
Edith 0. Sylvester
do do do
28 00
11 mos. 22 days
827 W
(7arrle Murch
Night do do
27 50
5 mos. 8 days
189 21
do do
do do do
90 00
8 mos. 19 days
107 46
Arlie Mclntyre
AssH do do
22 00 1 month
22 00
do do
do do do .
do do do
Clerk
28 00
25 00
6 months
115 00
do do
6 months
150 00
Abble M. Peclchara
/
to 00
11 mos. 24 days
470 97
Ruth i\ Swift
Ass't Clerk
8000
11 mos. 28da3'S
868 00
William H. Oarr
Musician
80 00
11 mos. lldavs
840 64
Olara W. Harry
do
25 00] 7 mos. 20 days...
191 18
do do
do
30 00
Per Sunday
200
Per month
10 00
H 00
4 months
180 00
May Johnson
Organist
10 Sundays
20 00
Irene Collins „
: Pianist
do „
1 year . .. .
180 00
liars Anderson ... ._
1 mn. 8 dfi.v.<3
14 00
Felix McOonnell
do
5 oo' 1 mo. 8 days
622
Harry K. Butterlleld...
iKnglneer
75 00 11 mos. 19 days
872 60
Herbert R. Elmer
!A8s*t Engineer
85 00 n moH.lSV^dAVH
400 96
1
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STATE HOSPITAL FOB THE IS»Ay E.^CotUinued.
Names.
Qffleet.
Rate. i Time.
Amount.
George Blmmons
A8S*t Engineer
Per month.
$85 00, 4 mos. I« day§..
lltoOfi
Everett L. Washburn..
do do
I
25 00 1 month
25 00
do do
do do
28 00
80 00
•1 month
28 00
do do
do do
tf months
IHOOO
do do
do do
85 00| 8 mos. 28 days..
85 00 5 mos. 80 days....
136 01
Alexander McDonald..
Day Fireman
20M 86
William R. Gardner^..
do do
80 00 6 mos. 22 days
85 00 7 mos. 21 days
171 2J»
WllUam A. Glelsmann
Night do
268 72
Pasco 0. liiaccoccia
do do
80 00
80 00
85 00
40 00
IS days
17 81
William A. Thomas
do do
8 mos. 2 days
4 days
91 26
William A. Knowles
do do
4 62
Frank D. Shaw
Storekeeper^
1 mo. Itt davs
62 07
Georffe H. Brigfrs
do
1
40 00 1 month
28 00 18 days „
40 00
Earl 0. Lane
do
13 85
do do
do
25 00 1 month
26 00
do do
do
28 00
80 00
50 00
8 months
84 00
do do
do
Baker
8 months
OO 00
Henry Zwaagrstra
1 vftar
«00 00
John J. Nattian
Sub. Baker
50 00 10 days
85 00 1 month
16 18
Berb J. Marston
Oook
35 00
do do
do
40 00
45 00
50 00
1 month
40 00
do do
do
1 month
45 00
do do
do
8 mos. 2« days
448 88
John Oavanaugh
do
50 00 16 days
24 68
Annie B. Simpson
do ....„
25 00 1 mo. 17 days
89 66
Isabelle Ford
do
25 oo' 1 mo. 12J^ days...
28 00 11 mo. 19 days
36 78
Phebe 0. Williams
do Supt. House
325 79
Ashford A. Sampson...
Boss Farmer
55 001 1 year
6<SO0O
liary Sampson
Housekeeper _.
45 00
11 mo. 18 days
513 68
Barah Fraser
Housekeeper at Farm
20 00
4 mos. 13 days..
S8 39
Wm.H.Sllloway
r^aundry Supervisor
85 00, 1 year
420 00
Elizabeth Pierce
Laundry Matron
25 ool 1 mo. 21 days
48 10
Mand Bccles
do do „
28 OOj Qnius.8days
209 28
Elva L. Patton >
do do
26 Oo| 2 mos. 2t>H days..
71 87
Barah Donahue
Jjaundress
20 001 1 mo. 20 dftvs
83 79
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70 6TATK OHARITIBB AND CORRBCTIONB.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.— C<?7l<i7lMed.
Names.
1
Offices.
RcOe.
Time
Amount.
Karah Donfihno
Laundress ^
do
do
Per month.
$22 00
28 00
20 0()
22 00
28 00
22 00
28 00
25 00
26 00
27 00
80 tt)
28 00
22 00
82 00
82 00
87 00
40 00
85 00
2 months
144 00
do do
0 mos. 88 days'...
1 month „
8 mos. M% days
7 months
158 77
JosephlDe Marooux.
20 00
do do
do
86 10
do do
do
161 00
BusAn H. Thurber
Hevs'lnff Matron
6 months
182 00
do do
do do
5 mos. 26 days...
28 days
2 mos. 1 day —
1 month
184 96
Anna R. McLachlan
Dressmaker
22 68
3ertha BrookjH
do
60 81
do do
do
27 00
do do
do
8 months
240 00
Minnie W. Hhaw
Kitchen Matron
1 mo. 16 days
7 days -
48 46
Oatbeiine Dempsey
William T. Rowe
do do
5 81
Porter
U mos. 28 days...
11 mos. 28 days...
6 months
6 mos. 18 days...
8 months
881 87
William E. Underwood
EUott G. Broadwell
do do
Melne Gouuia
Barber ^
Painter
do
Oarpernter
880 90
186 00
268 28
105 00
Hazen A. Blckford
do
45 00
0 months
405 00
Georffe E. Goods peed...
Gang OflB.cer„
85 00 11 mos. 3 days...
887 48
Harry McPhall
do do
do do ~
do do
do do
do do
88 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
85 00
40 00
86 00
85 00
85 00
85 00
28 00
1 mo. 11 days...„
1 day
45 62
John F. Seaney
74
do do
8 mos. 29 days..
2 mos. liH days
2 mos. 22 days...
1 month. ,
118 07
Otis G. Wooster
66 64
Donald F. Bampson
62 87
William R. Bresee..
Barn Officer
86 00
do do
do do
6 months
240 00
James G. MeOormack..
William K. McLellan
do do
Teamster
Gardener
do
1 mo. 8 days
1 year
88 50
420 00
Thomas Walsh
Frank H. Clements .
5 mos. b% days..
7 months
181 42
245 00
Arnold Hltchen
Attendant »
do
7 mouths
]»t 00
do do
80 00
1 mo. 2 days
82 00
Frank K. Nutter_
do
28 ool 1 mo. 18 days
82 97
do do
do
28 00
80 00
27 days
25 20
Martin J. Mollor
do
1 mo. 16 days ..
46 56
1
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8TATB HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.- -Contmued.
nmmn.
QfTlM*.
Rat$.
Timt.
Amount.
Brnebt De Bt. Oyr
Wallace Oolllna
Attendant — .
do
Per month.
ISO 00
87 00
88 00
88 00
85 00
88 00
80 00
80 00
88 00
86 00
85 00
88 00
80 00
85 00
88 00
88 00
88 00
80 00
80 00
86 00
88 00
88 00
85 00
88 00
80 00
88 00
88 00
88 00
. 85 00
88 00
86 00
88 00
88 00
85 00
86 00
8 mos. 84 days...
1 month „
1175 60
87 00
do do
Willis 0. Bpenoer
do — ^..
do —
do
do
do
7 mos. 8S dayB„
7 mos. 88 days...
1 month „
8 months
808 66
818 77
Raymond O. M^Intjre
do do
do do
85 00
108 00
5 months
160 00
James F. Prowse
do
1 month
80 00
do do ,^.,....
do
9 mos. 88 days...
1 month
815 00
<lo do
do
85 00
do do
Prank H. Olements
do...Extra service
do
53 days A nlRhts
1 month „
60 00
85 00
do do
do
8 months
84 00
do do ......
do
1 month
11 mos. 80 days...
10 mos. 5H days..
3 mos. WA days
1 year
80 00
Ck>rneliti8 Oaoron
do
407 68
SterUnir Averell
P.Everett Peaslee
do
886 56
do
70 00
Lools M.Olark »
Joseph Round.
do s
do
806 00
5 mos. 81 days...
1 mo. 80 days... .
8 mos. 7 days —
4 mos. 5 days...-
1 mo. 80 days.....
8 mos. 80 days...
1 month «
171 00
John D. Campbell
do „....
do s..
do
60 00
do do
William Kinney ~.
118 17
118 68
George M. Groton —
do do
do
87 84
do
74 10
do do
do
do —
88 00
do do „..
8 months
8 mos. 4 days
1 mo. 8>4 days...
1 mo. 17 day8..._
5 months
80 00
Ernest G. Ellsworths
do
87 78
Oarl N. Royce —
Ernest H. Malkson
do do
do
30 81
do
do
85 81
186 00
do do
Alonzo Wallace
do
1 month
88 00
do
do
1 month
85 00
do do
5 months
140 00
Rot Btableford
do
8 months
60 00
do do
do
1 month _
86 00
Marshall A Delphia
do
1 mo. 25^ days...
87 88
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72 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
STATK HOSPITAL FOR THH iNHANE.— Continued,
Names.
OjBU'f f.
Rate.
Time.
Amount,
I
I
Larh Andersun Att
Lorke Myatt
Gardner W. Decker,
do do
do do
Gerard Dlckmans
do do
Hheniinn L. Edwards
do do
do do
L. Kdsar ThurlK»r
do do
Kdward Dean
do do
Jesse K. Olark
do do
do do
Arthur B.Rowley
Arthur Ij. KInff
Robert Moody
do do
do do
George O. 81eicher„
do do
do do
do do
Jesse M. Steel
do do
do dq
do do
Aianson J. Bryants
do do
Oharles A Danford
Charles Tubbs
Earl W. Mclntyre
Wilbur M.Thompson..
eiidant
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
month.
135 00 10 mo8. 11 days
I8«l 2»
28 00 aodays
27 00
28 00 21^ days
17 06
28 00 1 month
28 00
80 00 7mos. 2Kday8...
212 50
2K 00 1 month
28 00
80 00 10 mo8. 29 day8_
829 00
25 00 1 month
26 00
28 00 1 month ^
28 00
30 00 4 mo8. 20 days...
180 85
80 OO' 1 month
80 00
82 00 10 mos 26 days...
847 78
28 00
4 months
112 00
30 00
7 mos. 20 days...
220 85
25 00
1 month
25 00
28 00
80 (V
1 month _
28 00
5 mos. 18H days
105 58
28 00
80 00
2 months
50 00
2 mos. 20% days
80 04
28 00 22 days
16 82
25 00, 1 month _
25 00
28 00' 8 mos. 1« days...
06 45
28 00| 2 mos. 7 days....
5156
25 00
28 00
80 00
2 months
50 00
1 month _
28 00
1 mo. 5 days
85 00
28 00, 1 mo. 21 days...„
88 68
26 00
28 00
1 month
25 00
I month
28 00
80 00
1 month
80 00
28 00
1 mo. 17 days
48 86
80 00
8 months
W)00
28 00
27 days
2? 48
28 00
18 days . .. .
18 82
28 00
4 months
OS 00
28 00
2 mos. 22S days
68 25
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STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.— Con^wd.
Qfficea.
Namet.
RaU.
Time.
Amowd.
Wilbur M. Thompson^.
Arthur P. Bonnln
Attendant
do
do
Per month.
126 00
25 00
^00
23 00
26 00
28 00
23 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
25 00
28 00
28 00
25 00
28 CO
28 00
28 00
28 00
26 00
28 00
26 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
26 00
MOO
28 00
26 00
28 00
23 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
1 month
1 month
7 mos. 18>^ days
2 mos. 8^^ days.
2 mos. 17 days...
8S days
18 days
1 mo. 29 days.
2 mos. 0 days
1 mo. 8 days
1 mo.6da3rs
2 months
126 00
26 00
do do
218 27
William W. BUC06
do do
John Bmethnrst
Ezra D. Hlnes. Jr
Clarence E.Qove ^
do
do
do _
do
do
48 00
68 71
260
10 11
44 62
Harry P. Helme ^
do do
do
do
62 90
27 42
Alexander Lawrle _
do
26 23
do do
do
60 00
do do
do
4 mos. 17 days-.
2 mos. iy% days...
1 month..
2»H days
5 months
128 M)
Ltewis 8. Hoffan
do
do
do
do
5176
do do
26 00
Harry Hlxson
2180
do do
126 00
do do
do
do
do _
do
do
do
do
1 mo. 27 days
2 mos. 21 days..
2 months
2» days
2 mos. 8 days
8 mos. 6 days
8 mos. 10 days...
1 month
16 days
62 80
Thomas W. Locke
6168
do do .*...
60 00
John M. Murray „...
do do
21 62
66 67
Mathew J. Ooffey
72 68
Fred D. Burnii
80 71
John M. 81mi>son ^.
db
28 00
John Burns
do .. ..
11 87
Fred 0. Holbrook
do
do
do
8 mos. 8 days —
1 month
2 mos. ^ days...
2 mos. 22 days
1 month
7188
do do
IS 00
do do ...
64 17
Dexter H. FoUett
do do
do
do
62 8T
26 00
Nathaniel H. Burt J
do
1 mo. 80 days
1 mo. 6 days
2 mos. 25)^ days.
1 mo. 8Mdays
19 days
46 96
Walter Borthwlck..
do do
do
do
26 23
70 28
Edward 0. Sylvester.
do
84 94
Harrison Toothaker
do
18 84
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STATE CHARITIES AND CORREOTIOKS.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.— Contt»M6d.
Names.
Offices.
BaU.
Time.
Amount
Harrison Toot hake r.....
Attendant
do do
do*
Stephen L. Murch
do
do do
do
Leslie B. Smith
do
do do ^
do
do do
do
Wm. E. Northup
do
Herbert Turner
do
Walter F. Longley
do
Merrltt 0. Eldred
do
do do
du
do do
do
Georpre H. Delaney
do
do do
do
Max Novel
do
Fred G. Mundell
do
Harry H. Smith
do
do do
do
Jerry A. Small
do
John I. Wood
do
Krnest L. Jones
do
Georfre N. Pease
do
John W. Brewer
do
Frank W. Bryant
do
Austin J. Reld
do
John W. Galllgan
do
Henry 0. Salvldge
do
do do
do
do do
do
Daniel Grant
do
Fred W. Moore „
do
do do
do
do do „
do
Joslah H. Bowman
do
Edward A. Vauarhn
do
Per month
i months
85 01) 0 moB. 18H days.
27 50 5 mos. 2 days
80 00 5 mos. 92 days„...
28 00 1 mo. 18 days
25 00 2 months
80 00] 8 months
28 00, 8 mos. 18 days....
28 OOWHdays
28 OOJ 2 mos. 6H days..
28 00 8}^ days _
26 00 1 month
28 00 4 months .....
28 00 1 mo. 113^ days..
25 00 1 month
28 00 7 days
28 00 aHdays
28 00 21 days
80 00 1 mo. 22 days
28 00 80 days
28 00 2 moB. VA day....
28 00 4 mos. 7 days
28 00 1 mo. 12% days .
28 00 1 mo. 7H days....
28 00
28 00
28 00
88 00
26 00
2 mos. 26 days.....
28 days
1 month..
24 days
1 month..
28 00, 2 months..
28 00
1 mo. 26 days
28 00
1 mo. 22>^ days..
26 00
1 month
28 00
1 mo. 24H days..
23 OOj 1 mo. 21 days
23 00
HiKdays
KM) 00
225 76
188 88
171 20
86 80
66 00
90 00
81 98
28 28
60 22
2(K)
26 00
112 00
81 63
25 00
687
1 02
10 10
52 00
22 70
47 70
07 10
82 06
28 28
04 66
17 06
88 00
18 40
86 00
66 00
48 17
80 60
26 00
60 87
89 10
12 27
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8TATB HOBPITAL FOR THB IN8ANB.— CtWI*ilUI«d.
75
Name$,
QtJlUxi,
RaU.
Time.
AmomU.
John R. Ray..
Attendant „
Per month.
t28 00
4 mos. 20 days —
$106 11
Byerett Hook
do
28 00
0 days ~.
888
JamM B. Andrews
do _ .
28 00
2 mos. 8 days —
68 18
do do
do
25 00
4 months. ^.
100 00
Peter O. MoKenna..
do .,
28 00
28 00
tfHdays
2 mos. 5 days —
728
Harry W. Phelps
do -
60 80
do do
do
8&00
4 months
100 00
Prank H. Tugffy
do „
25 00
1 mo. 7H days —
8145
Bdward E. Hunt
do
28 00
2 mos. 24 days —
56 06
do do
do _
do
25 00
28 00
2 mos. 1© days —
I7dfty<»
87M
George J. Bradbury —
Bernard H.Greenwood
12 51
do „ -
28 00
8 mos. 14 days —
7»78
Bdson E. Baker
do
do
26 00
88 00
2 mos. 18 days —
8 mos. 11 days —
54 85
Frederick B. Bishop
82 85
Forrest E. Nutter
do
28 00
28 00
1 mo. 275^ days.^
1 mo. 8 days
48 88
Felix 8. McOonnell
28 50
George 0. Greene
do
28 00
8 mo. 8 days
70 40
George H. Kennedy —
do
28 00
2mos.2^days.
56 66
do do
do
25 00
28 days
22 66
William A. Prock _
do
28 00
ISHdays
1160
Bessie Wilson
do
28 00
6 mos. 8H days...
142 55
Agnes B. BoUvar
do
28 00
11 mos. 10 days
826M
Eva 0. Publloover
do
28 00
11 mos. 20 days
825 57
Mary A. Bcott
do
28 00
11 mos. 21 days .
828 87
HattleM.BaU
do
28 00
10 mos. 25 days
806 48
IsabelU 8. Burnett.
do
25 00
11 mos. 21 days
201 04
Margaret Bartwur..
do
25 00
11 mos. 25 days..^
205 57
Alioe Herman .^
do .. -
28 00
1 month
28 00
do do
do
do
25 00
25 00
11 months
276 00
Minnie A. Reardon —
5 mos. 1 day
142 18
Agnes 0. RusselL..
do
25 00
7 mos. 28 days.
106 80
Jennie N. Rounds
do...
20 00
1 month .
20 00
do do
do
22 00
4 mos. 21 days —
106 40
JuUaL. Desmond
do
20 00 24 days
16 48
do do
do.
26 00 9 mrkfl. 99 Attyn
57 74
NelUe OolUns
do
26 00
1 year
800 00
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76 BTATK CHARITIES AND CORRKCTIONfl.
8TATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.— Con/miifid.
Namnt.
fW^es.
RaU.
Time.
Amaunl.
Marparet Moller
Attendant
Per month.
24 00
20 00
30 00
20 00
22 00
28 0I>
I mo. 1« days
1 mo. 11 days
2 nios. KfiA days-
3 mos. 24Vi days-
3 mos. 4 days
2 mos. 22 days
N inoM. H davB
188 70
Floi-aMcPhnll
do
88 10
Mary A. OarrlKuu
rarrle E. Kennedy
do
do
48 77
75 OA
Bessie Andrews
do
62 «7
do do
<lo
50 01
Avis K. Hltchen_
do
186 80
Edna L.. Kay
do
20 «»; I mo. 12 days
20 00 I mouth
22 00' 1 mo 15 days
23 00 H moR. fi dAVR
27 06
Anna B. Hpenrer
do
20 00
do do
d<.
82 74
do do
do
71 11
Aprnes R. LaFlour
do
28 00
25 00
H months
184 00
do do
do
H moR 18l^ davs
86 08
Alice K. Knowlton
do
28 00 H mnfl. 'H davs ...
87 40
Bei-tha E. Oooley
do
21 00
28 00
28 00
22 00
23 00
23 00
23 00
25 00
28 00
1 month.....
21 00
do do
do
2 mos. 18 days
4 mos. 27 days...-
1 month _
1 day
55 07
Kdlth M. Johnson
do
112 06
Julia Joslyn
Annie Oarr
do „
do
22 00
74
Myrl Noblet
Emily M. Burns
do „
do ...
10 mos. 2% days...
8 months
s mos. 23 days
2ttday8
281 02
60 00
do do
do
218 55
MarjraretO. Bowman...
do
do
10 SO
(;llve M. Joslyu
22 00
10 mos. 2 days
220 88
Julia H. Marstou
Dora Noblot
do
do
22 00
23 00
20 00
28 00
90 00
20 00
28 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
7 mos. 28 days
1 year
170 wr
276 00
Mary McPhall
do
do
8 mos. 4% days...
6 months
2 mos. 18 days —
1 mo. 24 days
5 mos. 18 days.....
17 days
62 00
do do -
188 00
Badle 0. Briggs
do
do
61 61
Amj M. Lane
86 48
do do
do
124 80
Mattie McManuH
do
11 26
Marlon Hannlni?
do
4 mos. 11 days-...
8 mos. 21% days-
8 mos. 18 days-...
4 mos. 2lH days-
87 00
Adelaide M. Mc-Kny.
EmmaO. Carter
do
do
78 87
212 00
Elizabeth Hartness
do
06 87
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tli(i>ORT OF THE BOARD. 77
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THR INSANE— Con/mM€d.
Xames.
ogicfu.
RiUf.
Time.
Amffunt.
Kllzabeth Hartness^..
Flora B. Hutchlns
Alice Slelcber
Katheiine Burns
Jes8i*) B. Altken
do do
Margaret Hlxson
KUzabeth B. LeoDard..
Anna Qui on
do do
do do
Badle G. Sharp
do do „
Marie King
Florence Willis
do do ,
do do ,
do do
Frances Hardest
do do
Phylls L. Delaney
Oella Brown
Bertba Boardnian
do do
Isabella H. Ewart
Nellie Chase
Martha J. Smith
Genie G. Slrd-
do do _
Roberta 8. Bridges
Marie E. Davaney
do do
Edith M. Clarke
Antonette B. Sherman
Angle L, Sanborn
Margaret Bowers ^
Attendant
do
Per month.
ri2 w>.
20 00|
20(H)
20 00
20 00
22 00
20 (w'
20 00
20 00
22 00'
28 00
20 00
22 00
20 oot
20 «K)
22 (to
2:i 00|
2J 00
20 00
22 ool
20 00
20 00
20 00
l-t (K)
20 (HJ
20 00
20 (30
20 00,
22 (K>,
20 0()
20 00
22 00|
20 (K)
20 00
20 a)'
20 00
22dnys „.
1 (lay
$15 61
74
do
I luo. 28 days
3 nios. 16^/2 days..
1 month
G nu)H. 2V> days
5 nios. 4 days
.1 nios. 193^' days.
i nios. 2X days
1 month
85 05
do
70 9(5
do
20 00
do
do
do
152 58
101 04
113 00
do
98 06
do
22 00
do
»i months
188 00
do
19 days
.12 67
do
Hmos. H days
2 mos. 20>;i days..
2 months
1 montti
71 68
do
58 76
do
do
40 00
22 (M)
do
2 monlh-
4 mo8. ;> (l»iys
4 mos. 21 days
7 months
16 00
do
102 42
do
do
95 48
15^t U)
do
2 mos. 25/4 tluys..
14 days
56 15
do
9 08
do
8 n»os. 11 days ....
.'{ MH)nl hs
66 HS
do
6«5 a)
do
do
l«* days
I nio. IS days
1 mo. n days
;} mos. 19' 2 days„|
<jV2 days
10 :j2
32 09
do
26 90
do
73 00
do
10 (Vj
do
4 mos. ITS days..
8 mos. 22 days
8 months 1
90 61
do
do *
76 00
66 00
do '
4 mos. 4^2 days...|
(•days 1
i mo. 28^2 days.-.l
4 mos. 9 days '
.S2 90
do
ao
do
4 00
88 89
85 81
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78 8TAT1E GfiARlUlES AND GOftHKOTIOlld.
BTATB HOSPITAL FOB THE INSANE.— ConlWIMerf.
Names,
OJSUxs,
Sate.
Time,
Amount.
Margaret Bowers
Attendant
Per month.
$X2 00
1 month -
822 00
do do
do
do
28 00
90 00
0 months
188 00
Eva B. Sargent .^
46>i days
80 40
LIbby M. Malkson
do -
SO 00
26 days -
16 80
do do .
do . ....
22 00
6 months
112 00
do do
do
26 00
90 00
22 days„
1 year ^
18 88
Edith Herman
do
240 00
Rhoda Oushman
do
90 00
8 mos. 19 days...
72 66
do do
do
99 00
7 months
164 00
Irene Collins.^ -
do
do
do
90 00
20 00
90 00
22 00
90 00
1 year
26 days
940 00
Alice McLellan
16 77
Bessie M. Yates
8 mos. 98 days...
7 months....
79 81
do do
do
164 00
Eliza 0. Burns
do
19 days
19 61
Orace Rowland .. ..
do
do
90 00
90 00
1 mo. 1^ days.
1 mo. 9 days —
81 98
Louisa A. Nutter
26 09
OaroUne A. McNeil
do
90 00
2 mos. 8H days-
49 84
Kate K. Taylor
do
20 00
1 mo. 11 days
27 83
Bstella M. Scott ^
do
20 00
20 00
7 days
467
Rebecca 0. Merrill
do
1 mo. 2H days...
2167
Bertha 0. Maxwell
do
20 00
90 00
1 mo. 6 days
2(^ days
94 00
Mary A. Dodge
do
18 62
Susie N. Hook
do \
20 00
0 days....
6 81
Nina G. Snaulding
do
20 00
19 days
19 96
Ethel L. Maxwell
do
do
20 00
20 00
28 days
9 days..
14 84
Ella M. Man war ring...
6 81
Bessie E. Oassldy
do
18 00
2lH days
19 48
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BmRT OP THk BOARD. 79
STATE WORKHOUSE AND HOUftB OF CORRECTION.
NameM.
Otnces,
Rate, ' Time.
1
Amount.
Tlraothy P. Dodffe
Deputy 8up*t
Per year
$l,->00 ot
Per month,
75 0(J
80 00
15 00
15 00
WOO
80 00
80 00
80 00
80 00
80 00
25 00
25 00
(ViOO
50 00
.50 00
45 00
45 00
40 00
45 (V)
10 00
80 00
8500
•SO 00
80 00
85 00
45 00
45 00
50 00
50 00
30 00
46 00
40 00
25 00,
<^ 00
1 year
1 year
: $1,200 00
Ira E. Hinfcins
Olerk
90000
Muriel Uaslam
Augustus E.Hammond
Assistant Clerk..
do do ~
11 mos. 25 days...
1 mo. IH days....
2 months
854 19
' 24 00
Francis J. Kernan
Office Boy
i 8000
Mary B.Wood
Matron
11 mos. 19 days...
1 year
<»8 00
Joanna 8. Farr
Supt's Housekeeper..
Assistant Matron
do do
do do
do do _
do do
Relief do
Overseer
800 00
Battle D. Brockhause„
Oaroline Kron ..
1 month
5 mos. 10 days...
0 mos. 25 days...
9 months
80 00
150 HI
Mildred A. Lawrence...
Ellen Q. Johnson
294 19
270 00
Catherine M. Gallery...
Ada J. Bunker . . ..
9 mos. 29 days...
11 mos. 17 days...
1 year
11 mos. 16 days...
1 y*jar
249 74
2H8 71
David F. Prescott
7H0a»
Francis A. Bu,nker
do
574 19
Oharles L. Payson
do
do
000 00
Nathaniel B. Doe
6 mos. 8ya days..
1 year
• months
275 ON
John M. Whltoomb
do
540 00
Htanley Hlgglus
do ...
240 00
do do
do
5 mos. 27^3 days
11 mos. 29 days...
8 months
204 92
Oscar Wentworth
do
477 42
James O'Nell
do
do
240 00
10 mos. 5 days.....
2 mos. K days
5 mos. 80 days...
6 months ,
1 year
1 year
1 year
1 year
9 days '
1 year
8 mos. IS days...!
s mos. 11 days...
1 vf*ar
855 88
William E. Burns
do
«7 74
Wlnfred C. Gallup..
do
179 0!i
do do „
Patrick F. Shields
do
Outside Watchman^...
Inside do
Overseer Cook Room
•
Baker
210 00
540 00
Pliny W. Langdell
James B. Mathewson.....
Oarrit Reltsma
510 00
«00 00
tiOOOO
Andrew J. Dennlgan...
Relief Officer
8 71
Clarence Kenny
Teamster .
510 00
Cbesley T. Trowsdale_
Oharles E. Gallery
8aniuel 8. Wilson
As8*t Storekeeker
do do
Painter
144 00
209 17
780 00
Henry M. Whipple
Carpenter
55 00 11 mos. 12 days...
«27 00
1
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80 STATE OfiARtTIES Al^ OOltREOTIOKd.
STATE WOBKHOUSE AND HOUSE OP CORRECTION. Continued
NaviM,
Offices,
Sate,
Time.
Amount.
Patrick Lamb
Mason
Plumber .,
Plumber's Helper ...
8tone Mason „
Blacksmith
60 00
60 00
Per week
600
Per day
200
2 60
Per month
60 00
65 00
35 00
80 00
25 00
11 mos. 1 day —
1 year ^
• wks. 8 days
86 days _
809days_:
7 months
547 96
William T. Douglas„...
James O'Nell _
Owen Connors
790 00
67 00
72 00
John F. Callery «...
772 60
Arthur C. Walker
Engineer....
do
420 00
do do
5 months
825 00
Edward Kllbane
Fireman „
do
1 year
430 00
Edwin J. CoUamore
1 year
4 mos. 28 days...
860 00
Andrew L. Dee ring
Soap Maker _
122 66
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RIPORT OF THE BOARD.
STATE ALMSHOUSE.
81
Namtt,
Qffitet,
Bate. Tiwf.
Ammtnt .
*A8a L. May
Deputy Rupt
Peryeur
H.aoooo
Per month.
26 on
S5 4K)
1 y«»ar
$1,200 (10
Thomas F. Mouriilnff-
han
Clifford Howlsnd
Interne
do
1 year
2 mos. 27 days....
»H) 0J»
71 iw
George A. Anderton —
do
»00 8 nios. I«d«y8....
21.') ««
Oalvena T. Norton
Matron
60 00 11 mo8. 24 days..
6HS71
Charles A. Norton -
Attendant ^
86 00 11 nios. 2i»day8
417 74
Mark A. Rolerson -
do
80 00 1 month
80 W»
do do
do
86 00 11 months
3H5 (K)
Allwrt E. Franklin
do
86 00 1 year
420 00
John M. Simpson
do
86 OO' 4 mos. 24 days
U7 W
do do
do
40 00 6 mos. 16 day8„...
80 00 0 mos. »V» days
220 00
William H. Popham...
do
1»> 16
James A. Averell
do
do
80 0011 mos. 28 days..
80 00| • mos. 1© days-...
26 00 4 mos. 17 days
358 00
John W. Bain .. . .
288 3(1
Josiab H. Bowman
do
118 71
John G. Clark
do
26 00 0 mos. 26 days.....
170 86
do do
do
80 00 4 mos. 24 days„...
144 00
WilUam F. Farrell
do
20 00 8 mos. 1 day
60 66
do do
do
28 00; 2 months
60 00
Francis R. Snow
do . ..
1
20 00 1 month
20 00
do do „
do
26 Oo! 1 mo. 29 days.....
48 80
John J. Sherlock
do
20 00l Imo. Wdnys
80 66
jAfnAA in . McGinn
do
do _
20 00
20 00
17 days
10 »7
William P. Newcomb...
6 mos. 16 days
148 88
Percy W. Stevens
do
1
20 OOj 2 mos. 6 days
48 28
do do
do
25 00 6 months
125 00
James P.McKenna
Olftrenoe E. Arnold
do
20 Oo'lT)^ days
11 67
do
20 00 27H days
18 02
James A. Altham
do
do
20 00 1 mo. 1» day8„...
25 00 2 mos. Itt days^...
82 67
do do
62 90
Nathan B. Walker
do
20 00, 2 mos. 27 days„ ..
67 42
Harry L. Jackson
do
20 OOj 1 mo. » days
26 81
do do ... .
do
26 00
1 month..
25 00
Thomas J. Foye
do
do
20 00
20 00
225^ days
14 52
Allen T Knowles-
8>4 days
226
Charles MoDennott
ReUef Attendant
600
11 months
65 00
^hlt Amount inplndet uUsry of housekeeper
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82
8TATK CiiARtTti^S AKl) COttRKOTtONd.
STATE AJjHBTiovfiK,— Continued.
Names.
omc9$ 1
RaU,
Time,
Afnount,
Ida K. Averell
Lllla M. Trowsdale^
■
Attendant ^ „
do
do
Per month.
35 00
S5 00
25 00
26 00
26 00
85 00
25 00
25 00
80 00
26 00
80 00
25 00
25 00
25 00
26 00
25 00
26 00
16 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
25 00
11 mo8. 28 day 8
1 year
1858 00
800 00
Mary M. Jamison
5 nios. 15 days
14 days
187 50
Mary M. Keyler
do
1129
May L. Potter
do
9H days
766
Edna Davis
do
4 mos. 26 days...
8 months
120 16
Kllen H. .fohnson
do
76 00
Hattle Messer
do
1 year
800 00
Julia Ooon
do
11 months
^5 00
do do
do
1 month ~
80 00
Grace TIbbetts.
do ^
8 months..
7 nios. 0 days
1 year
76 00
do do
do
216 00
Jennie F. Blmonds.
do
800 00
Kmina Bradstreet.^
do
1 year
8(J0 00
Uoru A. Bowman„
do
4 mos. 17 days...
11 mos. 28 days...
11 mos. 80 day8„.
1 mo. 16 days...
2 mos. 19Hday8
4 mos. 24 days-...
1 day.
2 mos. 21 days-...
2 months
118 71
I^eia Hlgfflns
do
297 58
Wlnrletta RolerKou
do
299 19
Minnie M. Balu
• do
87 82
Bessie K. OJark....
do do
do ^
do
89 44
96 00
Jennie Rawllnson^
Mary KawUnson
do
do
66
68 66
do do
do
50 00
Anna M. Harlow-
do
20 00
It mo8. 17 d&va ...
74 97
Annie F. Armstroncr
do
20 00 1 mo.8(«4day8...
20 Oo' 2 days
39 68
Bertha Arnold ^
do
1 88
Sarah RawcUfTe
do ^
do
20 00
20 00
26 00
1 mo. 1© days
8 mos. 18 days
1 mo. 10 days
32 67
Mildred O. Bridges
71 61
do do
do
80 00
Kathertne Altham
do
20 00 1 mo. 19 days
83 67
do do
do
26 00
90 00
20 00
26 00
20 00
26 00
2 mos. 16 days —
2 mos. 11 days
8 mos. 5 days
5 months
62 90
Ida T. Hawkins
do
do „..
do
47 10
Lura "W. Stevens
48 *;
do do
125 00
Margaretta Snow
do
1 month
1 mo. 29 days
20 00
do do
do
48 89
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ilBt»ORt 6P THk BOARb.
STATE aJjUBROVSB.^ Continued.
88
Name,
CPcw.
Rate. Ttmc.
t Amount.
MAry A. Sherlock
Attendant
do
1 fan (X>j 2mos. SW days...
» 001 1 mo. llVi days..
1 $»l 84
do do
»4 28
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84 STATE 0HARITIE8 AKt> CORRBCTIOK^.
STATE PRISON AND PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL
Namts.
Qffiffs,
Rate.
Time.
Amount.
Andrew J. Wllcox„ Wardeu
8. Edmund Slocum Deputy Warden.
Frfink O. Vlall Clerk
WllJiani O. Towne Assistant Clerk,
GeorRO W. Spencer^ Overseer
Thomas O. Henry I do
Oscar K. Kemp
Aimer J. Dnvls
Wells H. Hannon
Henry R. Bpalding
Rufus W. Partridge
Eprbert W. Lowe
Clarence N. Cram
J. Albert Mlllerd-
William C.Thompson.,
do do
Albion M. Ramsdell
George O. Flanders
Per year '
12.500 00 1 y^ar..
.; 1.H0O oo' 1 year..
.! 1.500 oo] lyear..
;Per month..
do
do
do
do
Hall Keeper..
Steward
Engineer
Day Officer
do do
do
do
do
Herbert A. Kinsley ; do
George A. Woodbury... j do
James A. Curtis ! do
do do do
Manley D. Tlbbetts do
do do do
Manley A.Gardner do
do do do
Henry C. Dee ring i do
do do do
Ernest L. Hilt i do
do do do
Gustave Duharall do
do do do
John F. Richardson.
Frank A.Crosby
Guy Gurney
do
do
do
do „
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do I Extra)..
do
do ( Extra K.
Wilfred H. Boucher...
Watchman.
do
do
do
I \\
75 00 11 mos. 2454 days
76 00 1 year
75 00] il mos. 27 days,...
75 oo; II mos. 34 days...
76 001 1 year
76 00 11 mos. 2H days...
75 00 11 mos. 2K days...
75 00 11 mos. 80 days...
76 00 11 mos. 24 days...
KO 00 11 mos. 20 days...
A5 00 11 mo. 80 days....
tX) 00 5 mos. 17 days....
66 00 7 mos. 10 days...
eo 00 1 year
«0 00 I year
60 00 11 mos. 24H days
60 00 11 mos. 80 days
60 00 4 mos. 16 days..
60 00 7 mos. 15 days..
50 00| 5 mo. 12K days..
60 oo| 6 mos. 11 days...
50 00| 6 mos. 15j^ days..
«0 oo; 5 mos. 10J4 days
41 67 2 mos. 1)4 days
50 00 10 months
I
50 00 11 mos. 854 days
50 Oo| 2 days
41 67 11 mos. 80 days...
41 67 2 days
65 00 1 year
50 00 1 year
85 00 18 days
86 00 8 mos. 29 days.
12.600 00
1,800 00
1.500 00
881 85
000 00
890 08
887 16
900 00
802 74
892 74
897 68
8K6 00
716 18
777 90
884 00
411 67
720 00
720 00
710 98
718 06
225 82
449 02
270 83
882 00
324 79
818 89
85 63
500 00
562 86
8 22
498 70
2 68
780 00
600 00
14 68
188 80
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 86
STATE PRISON AND PROVIDBNOB COUNTY JAIL,— Continued,
Names.
Offices,
Rate. ' Time.
Amount.
WUfred H. Boucher....
Watchm
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
School T
do
an Extra
Per month.
185 00
86 00
85 00
35 00
85 00
85 00
6 days
S7 00
Lewis V. Oook
5/4 days
6 42
Edward K. Hunt
do do
Extra
8 nios. 18 days ..
5 days
124 46
5 76
Frederick O. Nelson^..
tt mo. 21 days
7 days
888 71
do do .. ..
Kxli-a....*
K 18
do do
41 67
85 00
2 ni»8. 10 days ..
10 mos. \H dnvs..
96 78
Harry McPball
371 72
d« do
Extra
85 00I2-2 days -
1
35 OO! tt mos. 25 days...
25 11
Manson H. Wills
342 09
do do
Extra
86 00
85 00
IM days '.
20 70
Arthur O'Leary
•i nioH. 16 dHVH...
87 56
William H. Tucker
85 00 4 nioB. ^A da vs..
170 iO
do do
Extra
Extra
a5 00
35 00
85 00
85 00
85 00
85 00
85 00
86 00
85 00
41 67
41 67
16 00
Per hour
0 days
10 86
Fred O. Gerould
4 months
140 00
do do
5 days
5 76
OharlesO. Hnrdlson...
2 mos. 6 days
•5 days
76 77
do do
Extra
do
6 76
Wldmer T. Curtis
Falrfleld Butler
4 days
22 dnys.„
4 52
24 H4
Raymond A. Oonn
do do
do
Extra
Extra
eacher
8 mos. 7 days
8 days
118 17
3 47
do do
do do
5 mos. 10 days
5 days
222 24
6 81
Rufus W.Partrldsre
7 months
112 00
Aimer J. Davls.^
do
80'2 hours
75 50
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STATK CfiABITUSS AND C0RRK0TI0N8.
800KAN08SBT SCHOOL FOB BOYS.
Names.
CUflees,
Rate, 1 Time.
AmoiaU.
Ezeklel K. Gardner .
Deputy Supt.
Per year.
$1.600 00
1 year
$1600 00
Oeorf?e 0. Campbell
Abble F. Blcknell. . i
Fred M. Howard
Clerk .*..
Deputy SuptVj. Clerk
Overseer .
Per month.
66 00
26 00
60 00
66 00
66 00
00 00
00 00
00 00
76 00
70 00
7U00
00 00
06 00
86 00
00 00
86 00
66 00
00 00
66 00
80 00
66 00
26 00
25 00
25 00
27 50
27 60
26 00
80 00
80 00
26 00
26 00
25 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
1 year
1 year „
1 year
1 year
000 00
800 00
000 00
Doty E. Sheldon..
Wesley Kenney ...
do _
do
do
do
000 00
11 mos. 80 days-...
1 year
d66 28
JobnGoodell
720 00
DwlRht 8. Austin
11 mos. 80 day 8
11 mos. 20 days —
1 year —
11 mos. 80 days
1 year
718 00
Fred R. Adams
Clarence W. Adams
do
Ensrineer..
008 20
000 00
Edward W. Foster..
Instructor Hrloklay-
Incr
887 74
Alphlda Boutler
do ShoemakluK-
do Machine shop
do do
Extra duty
do Printing
840 00
Howard H. Daw ley .. ..
4 months
240 00
do do
8 months
620 00
do do
Roy K. Layman
1 day
11 mos. 24 days.....
4 days
1 18
706 46
do do
Extra duty
do Brksmlthlnfr
do do
do Carpentry A
Joinery..
4 62
Georsre Chambers
1 months
66 00
do do
10 mos. 10 days.....
8 months
8 mos. 80 days
1 year
1 year
080 46
Nathaniel J. Pottle
• 105 00
do do
John M. Whitten
do do
Barn A Relief Officer..
Teacher
588 00
000 00
Ethel M.Campl)ell
800 00
Winifred M. Combs
do
11 mos. 80 days...-
8 mos. 4 days
8 months
200 19
Mnbel R. L. Dawley.,...
do do
do
do
do
do
do ^
do
do
do »
0480
220 00
Leutner C. J. Hatch ...
Jennie J. Chambers
1 month -...
1 year
27 60
800 00
Evelyn F. Austin
1 year
800 00
H. Mabel Stearns
2 months
00 00
Eliza J. Delaney
10 months. -
2G0 00
Alice E. Pottle
11 months
276 00
do do
do Extra „
Matron
8 days .'.
2 00
Jessie A. Howard
1 year
240 00
Alice E. Pottle _...
Lizzie Sheldon
do
do
1 month
1 year
20 00
210 00
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REPORT OF TUB BOARD.
80CKAN088ET SCHOOL FOR BOY »— Continued.
87
Names.
Qfflcef,
MaU. Time.
Amount
Lara Goodell
Nellie L. Swallow
. Matron
do „ „
.; do .,
do
do
Per month.
ISO 00 10 mo8. • days
20 00 2mo8. 25 days
20 00 1 year.
I20COO
8dff7
Mary L. Whltten
240 00
Delia J. Grabani
20 00 1 year
240 00
A-llce A. Sherman
20 OOllmos. 8 days
20 00 11 mos.2» days
20 oo'ii mos. 14 days
46 00 11 mos. 80 days
25 0011 mos. ao days
26 Oo| 1 day
22fl 46
Alice R. Boring
Annab F. Bates
Fred Baldwin
J do
. Deputy 8upt*8 House-
keeper
. Steward
286 88
•i2ft 03
58N 5r^
Ella Baldwin
. Oook
290 10
Delia J. Graham
. Supply Oook„
Hi
Mabelle H. Slayton
Hattle D.Brockhause
. Nurse and Matron
Ohapel .-
. Kxtra Nurse-
1
85 00 11 mos. 14 days
Per week ,
10 001 1 week
401 88
10 00
Harriet A. Broome
do do
do do „
Supply do „
15 00 18 weeks 8day8..„
Per month
85 00 1 month
201 44
86 00
Angle K. Btover..
Lillian O. Oreattey
. Matron Sewing Room
do Laundry
. Watchman
80 00 1 year
80 oo! 1 year
8fl0 00
860 00
Charles E. Perkins
40 00 1 year
4>« 00
ThomHS A. 8am mon....
Horace Benbow
. Military Instructor...
do do and
Supply Officer
Per day
2 00 20 days
Per month
50 00 8 mos. 7 days
85 00 6 mos. 16 days
5 00 1 year
40 00
]60 86
Andrew J. Dennegan..
Mabel R. L. Dawley
do do -
Pianist
10!) 06
60 00
OAKLAWN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
yajites.
Officer,
Rate.
Time.
Amount.
Clara P.Forbush
▲imesO. Smith
Affiles B. McNaughton
Rose N. Marwood
Alice D. Reynolds
Abble J. Clements
Deputy Bupt .
Teacher
do
Matron
do
do
Per month.
160 00
80 00
80 00
80 00
J
1 year..
1 year..
1 year..
1 year..
80 001 1 year
80 00 1 year
1600 00
860 00
860 00
860 00
860 00
860 00
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES R, READ, Secretary.
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STATE OHARITIRS AND C0RRK0TIOK8.
REPORT
OF THE WORKHOUSE AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
Executive Committee: ^^iZpoZny!" °""^'* "^ »""«'' "^"'•«»*
Z/o ihe S^oarti of Siaie Chariiies and Corr&eiions/
Gkxtlkmen:— W« have the honor to present herewith the statistioal
tables of the Workhouse and House of Correction for the year ending
Dec^-mber 31, 1908.
1908.
Committed 687
Discharged 618
Escaped 22
Attempted to escape 1
Returned to Reform School 1
Transferred to Reform School 0
Transferred to Providence County Jail 8
Died 8
Mtn,
Number of inmates January 1, 1908 181
Committed during 1908 518
Escaped inmates recommitted 17
Attempted to escape recommitted 1
Transferred from Reform School 0
Returned from Reform School 0
Committed for fine and costs 2
'I'ri^nsferred from Providence County Jail 1
Totals 7?0
Previously.
Total.
22,919
28,606
20,964
21,567
1,416
1,487
27
28
68
69
8
3
69
62
166
168
Women,
ToUd.
67
288
146
668
0
17
0
1
1
1
2
2
0
2
0
1
aoo
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BEPORT OF THB BOARD.
89
Men,
Discharged during 1908 468
Escaped 22
Attempted to escape 1
Died ! 7
0
8
Returned to Beform School
Transferred to Providence County Jail..
Totals 496
Remaining January 1, 1909 ^ 224
PBR80NS OOMMITTFD.
SEX.
1908.
Men 539
Women , 148
Totals
RACE.
687
1908.
Wliite 662
Colored 25
Indians 0
Totals _.
BIRTHPLACE.
887
1908. Prev. Total.
United States... 407 13,171 18,678
Ireland 127 5,542 5,669
England 67 1,948 2,016
Scotland 8 563 571
Wales 2 21 23
Canada 41 862 893
Nova Scotia 4 180 184
New Brunswick 2 73 75
P. E. Island 1 6 7
NewFoundland 4 47 51
Germany ^ 1 119 120
France- 0 44 44
Holland- - 0 8 8
Norway 1 11 12
Sweden 6 181 137
Switzerland 0 9 9
Prussia... 0 10 10
Spain 0 9 9
Austria 1 9 10
Armenia 0 2 2
Greece 0 1 1
Denmark 0 4 4
Totals
Portugal
Italy
Mexico
So. America..
Cuba
East Indies...
Calcutta
Cape Verde...
Islands
St. Helena
Western I's..
Africa
At Sea
Russia
West Indies...
Turkey
Finland
Belgium
Syria
Poland
Unknown
Women.
150
0
0
1
1
0
152
58
Total.
618
22
1
8
1
8
648
277
Prev. Total.
17,399 17,988
5,520 5,668
22,919 28,606
Prev. Total.
22,198 22,860
711 786
10 10
22,919 28,606
1908. Prev. Total
8 10 18
58 68
1 1
4 4
10
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
4
1
8
1
5
2
6
17
5
1
5
8
2
20
19
4
1
8
1
5
2
6
17
5
1
5
8
8
21
19
687 22,919 28,606
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STATB CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
BIRTHPLACE OP PARENTS.
1908, Prev, Total.
United States
United States and Enj^land
United States and Scotland
United States and Ireland
United States and British America
United States and West Indies
United States and Germany
United States and South America
United States and Portugal
United States and Poland -
United States and Western Islands
United States and Sweden
United States and Cape Verde Islands-
United States and Italy
United States and St. Helena
United States and Denmark
United States and at Sea ^
Italy
Enprland
England and Scotland
England and Ireland
England and Wales .^
England and Germany
England and France
England and British America
England and Sweden
England and at Sea
Scotland
Scotland and British America
Scotland and Spain
Scotland and at Sea
Ireland
Ireland and Spain
Ireland and British America
Ireland and Norway
Ireland and Scotland
Ireland and Wales
At Sea ^ „
Sweden.
Germany .„
Germany and Switzerland^
Germany and Ireland
Germany and British America
Germany and France ,
Greece.
148
6,166
6,309
6
109
115
3
88
41
23
367
390
11
74
85
0
8
8
0
13
13
0
2
2
0
6
6
0
1
1
0
2
2
1
1
2
1
0
1
0
1
1
0
8
8
1
0
1
0
2
2
10
66
65
66
1,766
1,810
3
31
84
6
247
268
0
12
12
0
8
3
0
8
8
2
28
26
0
1
1
0
4
4
7
681
688
1
12
13
0
1
1
0
1
1
322
12,880
12,652
0
2
2
1
88
84
0
1
1
4
161
166
0
1
1
0
1
1
6
186
141
7
173
180
0
2
2
0
13
13
1
3
4
0
1
1
0
2
2
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REPORT OF THB BOABB.
91
BIRTH PLAOB OF PAVk^ifTB,— Continued,
France^ ^
France and America
France and Ireland
France and Beljarium
France and British America
France and West Indies
France and Scotland
British A merica
Wales ^ i
Prussia
Spain
Switzerland
Syria
Denmark
Denmark and England „..
East Indies
West Indies
Mexico ..„
South America
Africa _
Western Islands „
Portugal
Portugal and Western Islands..
Poland :.
Cape Verde Islands
Belgium „
Austria
Austria and Russia
Norway
Russia ^
Russia and Ireland ^
Russia and England
Turkey
Finland
Armenia ~ «„ „....
Unknown ^
708.
Prmi.
TdaL
0
53
58
0
21
21
0
4
4
0
1
1
1
10
11
0
2
2
0
1
1
]S
1,199
1,262
0
18
13
0
8
8
1
6
7
0
11
11
0
2
2
0
2
2
0
1
1
0
4
4
1
6
7
0
1
1
0
4
4
0
1
1
0
9
9
3
14
17
0
1
1
1
22
23
0
3
3
0
3
3
2
11
13
0
1
1
1
10
11
0
19
19
0
3
3
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
6
6
0
2
2
0
89
89
Totals..
687 22,919 23,606
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STATS CHARITIES AND C0RRBCTI0N8.
Under 20 years of age..
From 20 to 30 years
'' 30
'' 40
'' 50
'' 60
'' 70
Over 80 years..
Unknown
40
50
60
70
80
1908.
26
152
151
1((5
140
47
6
0
0
Prev.
1,154
5,921
6,771
5,052
2,701
1,025
245
24
Total.
1,180
6,073
6,922
5,217
2,841
1,072
251
24
26
Totals..
687 22,919 23,606
1908. Prev.
Agents 2 4
Actors 0 9
Artists 0 1
Awning makers.. 0 1
Bakers 4 127
Barbers 7 199
Basket makers... 0 9
Bleachers 2 18
Boiler makers 0 55
Bookkeepers 1 68
Book makers 0 7
Box makers 0 17
Brakemen 1 79
Brass workers.... 0 11
Broom makers.... 0 1
Burnishers 0 2
Bootblacks 1 3
Butlers 2 0
Bartenders 2 6
Brokers 0 4
Butchers 3 64
Bricklayers 4 60
Brussels carpet
weaver 0 10
Bell hangers 1 2
Blacksmiths 4 262
Button makers.... 0 1
Boatmen I 5
Bookbinders 0 2
Brewers 0 _ 1
Belt makers 1 11
Confectioners 0 3
OCCUPATIONS.
Total. 1908.
6 Cabinetmakers .. 0
9 Car inspectors... 0
I Carpenters 13
1 Cigar makers 0
131 Clothes cleaners 0
206 Cloth examiners 0
9 Clerks 10
20 (^omb makers 0
55 Cntton foldrrs 1
69 Cooks 12
7 Coopers 2
17 CJore maker 0
80 Cobblers 2
11 Curriers 0
1 Cutler 0
2 Chasers 0
4 Carriagf* (rim-
2 mers 2
8 Carriage makers 0
4 Coppersmiths 0
67 Corn doctors 0
64 Designers 0
Die sinkers 0
10 Draughtsmen 0
3 Dyers 7
266 Dressmakers 2
1 Electricians 1
6 Electroplahrs 0
2 Engineers 2
1 Engravers 0
12 PiUgine turners.. 0
3 Farmers U
Prev.
22
1
555
46
2
1
210
4
0
288
20
1
0
12
1
5
0
7
3
1
4
5
10
71
86
19
I
73
80
1
391
Totat.
22
I
568
46
2
I
220
4
1
300
22
1
2
12
1
5
2
7
3
I
4
5
10
78
88
20
1
75
30
1
402
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KftPORt OV tut BOAKD.
d8
occu VATiOi^Q.— Continued.
1908. Prev. Total.
File cutters
Fishermen
Firemen
Furniture polish-
ers
Gardeners
Gas fitters
Gas makers
Grocers
.Glaziers
Glass makers
Hairdressers
Hairdrawers
Hatters
Harness makers
Hotel keepers
Hostlers
Housewives
Hackmen
Iron workers
Jewelers
Laborers
Lapidary ^
Loomflxers
Lawyers
Leather Japan-
ers
Laundrymen
Laundresses
Lathers.
Leather cutters..
Lecturers
Linemen
Machinists
Masons
Marble workers..
Mender chi n a-
ware
Merchants
Manufacturers...
Mill hands
Motormen
Moulders
Musicians
Music teitchers^
0 46
1 87
10 16H
0
8
0
I
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
8
8
88
28
1
4
8
2
2
1
14
37
7
622
22 1,794
2 48
8 0
25 568
148 6,881
I 0
0 27
1 4
0
1
0
2
1
0
0
21
2
0
2
3
218
29
0
1
4
610
292
14
0 1
0 10
0 8
134 3,147
0 1
11 243
1 25
U 15
46
88
173
8
91
28
2
5
3
2
2
1
14
89
7
630
1,816
46
3
688
7,029
1
27
6
2
4
218
81
1
1
4
531
294
14
10
8
8,281
1
254
26
15
1908. Prev. Total
Meat cutters 1 28 24
Nrtil makers 10 1
Nurses 0 18 18
Oystermen 0 20 20
Painters 17 629 646
Peddlers 3 181 184
Photo^rraphnrs ... 1 17 18
Physicians 1 21 22
Piano polisl)ers.. 0 2 2
Piano tuners 0 8 3
Polishers 5 24 29
Plumbers 3 43 46
Preachers 0 2 2
Printers 2 105 107
Pearl workers... Oil
Policemen 0 16 16
Plasterer» 0 8 8
Paper makers 16 7
Paper han>;ers.... 112
Quarrymen, 0 20 20
K.R. Conductors 18 9
Roofers 2 18 20
Rubber workers 6 75 81
Reed makers 0 2 2
Reporters 1 5 6
Rule makers 1 0 1
Salesmen 2 90 92
Slaters 0 4 4
Sailors 7 217 224
Saloon keepers... 0 9 9
Sail makers 0 10 10
School teachers.. 0 14 14
Seamstresses 2 156 1^
Servants and
waiters 88 1,756 1,838
Shiprigjjers 0 5 6
Ship carpenters. 0 9 9
Silver polishers.. 0 22 22
Silversmiths . () 7 7
S t e a m-p i p t»
workers 4 44 48
Stone cutters 3 80 83
Soap makers 0 3 8
Stucco workers.. 0 6 5
Soldiers...... 17 8
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B*tAtt C&A^ITIES Ain> C0KRBCTI0N8.
OCCUPATIONS. — Continued,
1908. Prev. Total.
Shoemakers 0 281 281
Stenographers .... 112
'Silver platers. 0 4 4
Tailors 6 146 150
Tailoresses 0 6 6
Tanners 0 10 10
Teamsters 26 773 799
Telegraphers 18 9
Tool makers 0 8 8
Tinsmiths 1 61 62
1908.
Prev.
Total
Upholsterers
.... 0
18
18
Wax workers..
.... 0
2
2
White washers
.... 0
21
21
Wheelwrights.
.... 0
11
11
Wiredrawers....
..» 0
7
7
Woolsorters
.... 0
22
22
Woodturners....
... 2
4
6
Unknown
.... 0
53
58
Totals 687 22,919 23,606
1908. Pnv.
January » 57 1,498 1,556
February - 49 1,254 1,303
March 61 1,529 1,590
April ^ 44 1,557 1,601
May 61 1,828 1,889
June 63 1,986 2,048
July 69 2,468 2,527
TIMB OP COMMITMENT
Total.
1908. Prev. Total.
August 65 2,466 2,631
September 59 2,262 2,321
October 65 2,193 2,258
November 50 1,949 1,999
December 64 1,930 1,984
Totals 687 22,919 23,606
OPPBNCES FOR WHICH COMMITTED.
Assault .- ~
Attempting to escape
Abandoning their children
Being a common drunkard
** a lewd and wanton person
'* a vagrant
'* a tramp „ _
** a common prostitute
" a railer and brawler
'' a disorderly person
** a cheat and swindler ....:
** a sturdy beggars.. „
Cruelty to animals
Exposure of person
House breaking
Intent to commit rape
Intoxication in violation of town ordinance..
Larceny..
Malicious mischief
Maintaining a nuisance
Night walking.. —
)7egleot to support f ftmUy^
)8.
Prev.
Total.
0
5
5
1
26
27
0
16
16
232
10.455
10,687
42
211
253
232
5,934
6,166
6
528
634
2
1,130
1,132
1
230
231
57
1,065
1,122
2
16
18
38
1,051
1,089
0
1
1
0
2
2
0
6
6
0
1
1
2
50
62
0
16
16
0
1
1
0
9
9
13
519
632
88
788
881
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RBPORT 09 THE BOAliD.
95
Obstructing an officer
Revelling
Returned from Reform School
Returned from the Providence County Jail
Transferred from Reform School (Incorrigible)
Transferred from Providence County Jail
Willfully escaping^
0
1
1
0
6
6
2
1
3
0
6
6
1
119
120
1
0
1
7
732
749
Totals 687 22,919 23,606
PLAGES FBOM WHICH COMMITTED.
1908, Prev. Total.
Bristol 26
Burrillville 6
Harrington 5
Cranston 26
Coventry 2
Cumberland 32
Central Falls 31
Charlestown 0
Exeter 0
East Greenwich.. 2
East Providence 37
Foster 0
Glocester 3
Hopkinton 2
Johnston 0
Jamestown 0
Lincoln 7
Little Com])ton.. 0
Middletown 0
No. Providence.. 1
Newport 61
Three months..
Six
245
38
919
73
241
653
1
3
147
1,311
4
47
10
473
4
750
1
1
328 329
1,332 1,383
674
250
43
945
76
273
684
1
3
149
1,348
4
60
12
473
4
767
1
1
1908. Prev. Total
No. Kingstown.. 2 63 65
Narragansett 10 90 100
No. Smithfleld.... 0 16 16
Providence 199 9,696 9,895
Pawtucket 116 3,536 3,662
Portsmouth Oil
Providence
County Jail 1 6 7
Reform School... 3 119 122
Richmond., 0 7 7
Smithfleld 4 76 80
So. Kingstown... 4 121 125
Scituate 1 45 46
Tiverton 11 63 74
Woonsocket 65 747 812
Warwick 17 492 609
Westerly 6 884 389
Warren 19 419 438
West Greenwich 0 10 10
Totals 687 22,919 23,606
TERM OF SBNTBKCE.
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven **
Twelve *'
Thirteen ''
Fourteen **
Fifteen *'
Sixteen ''
Eighteen ''
1908.
Prev. Total.
0
2 2
566
17,857 18,422
4
68 72
0
124 124
15
806 821
0
65 66
0
4 4
93
3,064 3,147
0
1 1
0
2 2
0
19 19
0
2 2
0
m m
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96
dTATB CdARtTlKS A^l> dOttRlfiOTtO^d.
TBBM8 OF SENTENCE. — CorUinued.
Two years
" *' and five months,
** '* and six months ^
Three years
** '* and six months .^
During minority (from Reform School)
Returned from Reform School
Returned from Providence County Jail —
Fine and costs
Fine and costs (trans, from Pro v. Co. Jail) .
Awaiting trial ^
Totals «
w.
Prev.
Total.
2
SM:
396
0
1
1
0
15
15
2
168
170
0
1
1
1
113
114
2
1
3
0
6
6
2
52
54
1
0
1
0
2
2
687 22,919 23,606
RBOOMMITMENTS.
Has been committed once — 120
twice ^ ^ 55
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
eleven
twelve
thirteen
fourteen
fifteen
sixteen
seventeen
eighteen
nineteen
twenty
twenty-one
twenty -two
twenty-four
twenty-five
twenty -six
twonty-seven
twenty-nine
thirty
forty-one
never before...
times...
Total..
40
24
26
19
7
7
10
7
6
6
8
6
2
2
1
3
1
1
2
1
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
687
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EnUCATION ALj STATISTICS.
N^umber of inniateg 1908 wlio can read and write 566
" ** ** ** who can readonly IB
*' ** ** ** who can neither read nor write 108
T<»tal 687
SOCIAIi CONDITION.
Married 271
Single _416
Total 687
RELIGION.
Protestants 2U
Catholics ^ _^
Total 687
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES F. McCUSKER,
Chairman Executive Committi^e.
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STATE CHARirneS AND C0RRECTI0K8.
REPORT
OF THE WARDEN OF THE STATE PRISON.
Zj0 ihe Xoard of iSiaie Chartiies and Corroctioms:
The undersigned, Warden of the Rhode Island State Prison
and Keeper of the Providence County Jail, respectfully pre-
sents the following account of receipts and expenditures and
statistical tables for the year ending December 31, 1908:
Expenditures ..^ $ 79,929 22
Receipts „ 31,236 64
Excess of expenditures over receipts _ $48,698 68
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REPORT OF THB BOARD.
99
Age, sex, etc., of persons committed to the State Prison,
since its first institution in 1888 :
Under 20 years of age..
Prom 10 " to 80
80 " " 40
40 " " 50
416 Prom 60 years to <» lOB
1314 " 60 • " 70 82
^ ...629 " 70 *• •• 80 4
280 Over 80 0
Total 2.«77
Nativity of persons committed to the State Prison, since its
first institution in 1838 :
Maine ^ — 38
New Hampshire 20
Vermont - 22
Massachusetts 804
Rhode Island UW
Oonnecticat ,
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware „
Maryland
District of Colombia..
Virginia
Ohio
niluois
Kentucky
Tennessee
Arkansas
Wisconsin
North Oarolina
South Oarolina
Mississippi
Louisiana
Piorida
Texan
Michigan
Iowa
Georgia
California
Nebraska
Missouri
Idaho ,
Alabama
Canada
Poland.
Australia
109
1«2
16
86
2
18
10
47
11
10
6
8
2
7
8
6
2
2
2
8
2
2
7
6
1
2
1
1
88
2
2
Nova Hcotia 17
New Poundland 8
New Brunswick „ H
Bermuda 1
Hanta Cruz 1
Peru 1
England ~. 128
Ireland 246
Scotland ., 15
Wales 1
Gibralter - 1
Germany 22
Austria - <J
Prance -.. 11
Italy 85
Bweden 18
Switzerland -. 2
Denmark 1
Holland 1
Spain 1
Turkey ~ 8
West Indies - 7
Barbadoes Islands 1
Mexico 1
Russia 7
Western Islands 8
Belguim ~. 8
Armenia ~ 6
Prince Edward Island 1
Cape Verde Islands ~. 7
Norway 1
Pinland 2
Azores Islands 1
Portugal ~ 1
Total 2«77
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100
StATfe CriARtTIKS AND CORRKCTIONfl.
Number of convicts in prison, commir.ted, dischar^Hcl, pardoned.
di»Hl, encaped, and returned, in each year, since the establiHlnneni of
the inKtirntion in 1838:
YEAR.
6
9
16
2ft
n
6
9
18
Died. ' Escaped.
r
Returned.
IWiH
IHJW
2
8
2
6
1K40
IMI
1W2
2
1
1H48
21
18
10
8
1
1844
2:}
6
5
2
2
1H45
19
8
0
2
1
184fl_...
19
8
5
8
1H47
19
11
5
8
■ 1 ;.:
1><4S
21
27
H
14
2
4
IHl^
5
2
I8r)0
80
29
6
11
1861
42
21
2
10
1
1852
49
17
17
4
185«
45
26
H
14
1854
49
2:1
13
4
3
1855
52
27
13
2
1
1856
63
M
20
2
1
1857
54
81
19
•>
1H58
»v7
70
26
23
20
IN
t ..
1S69
8
\H»yo
67
2i*
27
1
1
18(51
07
89
18
8
W'^a
S5
18
\is
5
18<W
m
12
20
4
,..
18(W
47
10
18
2
1
I8rt5
41
22
3
1
I8dfl
48
40
9
7
1807
72
25
27
9
2
I8<i8
59
2«i
20
6
184»U
59
42
16
8
2
1870
80
25
25
5
1871
75
2.1
31
2
8
1872
65
30
16
5
1
1878
% "1
33
26
1
1
1K74
77
24
29
8
2
1876
67
24
29
8
8
187«
MS
MS
-2
4
1877
92
88
112
51
47
56
25
3S
37
31
48
8
<2
9
4
4 1.
1878
2 1
1879
2
1880
3 2
2
1881
82
81
J4
i»5
119
:iO
46
89
6:i
29
2«l
31
31
43
1
3
6
6
2
1
1882
4 . . . - -
18S3
i !:
1884
5 ,
1885
8 1 1
1
1886
124
105
4«i
42
62
15
•3
1 1
1887
3 1 1.
1888
92
120
69
82
39
60
2
4
1
188t>
2
18W
m\
ios
112
124
49
57
51
iiO
73
50
39
3S
4
1
3
2
18t»l
"2 1 :;:::::::::::::
1892
1898
3 1
1844
170
135
1.V-)
1J«
181
17JJ
ll»5
19;i
17M
43
s«
H7
69
69
89
74
61
6")
73
«»1
19
7s
«\i
72
iU
51
5
1
1895
i 1
1896
1 1
18'»7
8
1M98
1
1
18W
2
2
3
1900
2
1901
5
1902
-}
1908
ls7
IKI
176
144
119
llw
1V4
68
72
45
37
00
61
7"'
81
61
32
3i>
5
7
2
4
4
1
1901
1.
IW6
5 .... : ; : i
1906
.> ' 1
1907
I ':::::::::::::;:■
1908
8 ,
1909.
................ 1
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REPORT OF THE BOARD.
101
Crimes for which persons have beencoinmitted since 1888:
Accessory to murder 1
Abortion « 2
Adultery 11
Arson 5
Assault and bnttery „ 82
Attempt to burn dwellluK house 2
Attempt to burn barn 1
Attempt to hftvecnriml knowledge of
a girl under 14 yenrs of nae 1
Attempt to biivp earnul knowledge
of a Rirl under 1« years of age ft
Attempt to commit mpe 1
Assault and larceny 2
Assault with Intent to kill !^«
Assault with a dauKerous weapon 170
Assault with intent to commit rape... rt6
Assault with intent to commit sodo-
my 2
Assault with Intent to rob 19
Assault on the warden 2
Assault anralnst nature 1
Being common ffambler 11
Bigamy 81
Breaking and entering a hank 5
Breaking and entering it church 7
Breaking and entering a church and
larceny I
Breaking and entering a henhouse ... 2
Breaking and entering a school house 2
Breaking and entering a vessp) 2
Breaking and entering an engine-
bouse 1
Breaking and entering an office S
Breaking and entering a barn 18
Breaking and entering at night and
larceny 21
Burglary 188
Breaking and entering shop at night 18
Breaking and enter! ng a l)arn at night
and larceny 0
Breaking and enteiinga post office H
Breaking and entering dwelling and
larceny H
Breaking and entering 2
Breaking into parish-house at night
and larceny „ 1
Breaking toolhouse at night and
larceny 1
Breaking and entering a shop with
Intent to commit larceny 1
Breaking and entering a shop at
night and larceny W
Breaking shop at night and larceny... 58
Breaking shop In day-time and
larceny «
Breaking n store house In day-time
and larceny l
Breaking a shop and larceny 4
Breaking and entering a building In
day-time and larceny „ a
Hreaklngand entering and larceny... 2«
Breaking an<l entering shop in day-
time and larceny H
Breaking *ind enteiing clubroom at
night I
Breaking and entering shop In day-
time 1
Breaking and entering dwelling-
house In dnj-tlme JW
Breaking building at night and
Inrceny ft
Breaking dwelling-house and larency
In day-time 27
Breaking and entering dwelling-
house In day-time and larceny 84
Breaking and entering^ dwelling-
house in day time with intent
tocommlt larceny 1
Breaking an unfinished dwelling in
day-time and larceny 1
Breaking and entering unoccupied
houne at night ft
Breaking and entering an unoccupied
house at night and laiceny 8
Breaking and entering an unoccupied
dwelling in day-time and larceny 5
Burning a building 1
OonsplrHcy 2
Conveying tools to prisonei's 8
Counterfeiting 2
Circulating olv«<cence lltoi-ature... 1
(Carnally knowlnga girl under 14 years
of oge , 4
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102
8TATK GHARITIBB AND GOURBCTIONS.
Crimes for which persons have
Carnally knowing a girl under W
years uf age.. 88
DepoHitlHK obscene lllej-ature with
express company for Interstate car-
riage 1
Defacing a building > 2
Destrojrlng a dam 1
Exhibiting obscene literature...^ 1
Embezzlement 88
Embezzlement of letters from the
post oflftce 3
Enteiing storehouse In day-time and
larceny _ „ 1
Entering shop at night and larceny... 8
Entering a barn at night and larceny 1
Entering dwelling-house In day-time 11
Entering dwelling-house In day-time
and larceny 42
Entering dwelling-house In day-time
with Intent to commit larceny. 1
Entering building in day time and
larceny „ 1
Entering unoccupied house at night
and larceny 1
Entering dwelling-house at night and
larceny _ 8
Entering dwelling-house at night to
commit larceny...„ 22
Entering dwelling in day-time and
larceny „ 7
Entering dwelling with Intent to
commit murder 1
Entering shop In day-time and
larceny „ 4
Escaping prison 8
False pretenses 11
Forgery 84
Forging and uttering 4
False representation 6
Fraudulently taking letter from post
office 1
Falsely changing and altering a cer^
tain money order 1
House breaking 68
been committed since 1838 :
Having and passing counterfeit
money 48
Horse stealing «- 2
Inciting another to commit perjury 1
Inciting another to commit larceny I
Incest 1
Incestous adultery 1
Indecent assault and battery 1
Indecent exposure of person 9
Larceny 494
Larceny and receiving stolen goods... 8
Larceny from the person 176
Malicious mischief ^ 4
Murder 67
Manslaughter ~ W>
Mingling poison with drink.... 8
Obtaining goods under false pretenses 6
Obstructing a railroad 4
Perjury 17
Passing counterfeit coin 6
Rape 18
Receiving stolen goods 20
Robbery 98
Receiving a Jail prisoner ~ 1
Sending obscene matter through U.
8. mall 2
Betting flres „ 81
Setting Are to lumber 1
Betting Are to and burning a barn 1
Sodomy 1
Store breaking 261
Tearing open and injuring a certain
mall bag 1
Treason 1
Unlawful cohabitation 2
Using mall for obscene publication^... 1
Uttering a forged order 4
Uttering counterfeit coin 8
Violating a pension law 8
Violating the U. B. mail laws 8
Violating the U. S. naturalization
laws 2
Violating the U. B. bankruptcy laws I
Wounding a horse 1
Total..
2«77
Average number of convicts in 1908 :
Total.
Females,
There were in Prison Dec. 81st, 1908:
Males 121 White 108 Natives, U. S 73
Females 3 Colored ^ 16 Foreigners 51
Total ^ 124 Total ^..124 Total ^...124
ANPBEW J. WILCOX, Warden,
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RKPORT OF TBI BOARD.
108
REPORT
OF THE JAILER OF THE PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL.
.IN JAIL JANUARY I. IMW.
Males.
Fmmles.
Total
By the State „
** ** City of Providence
299
1
7
1
1
5
3
6
21
0
0
1
0
0
2
2
820
1
*' "• '' '' Pawtucket
7
*i i* Town of Smithfleld
2
** ** ** ** Cranston
1
'* '* *' ** EaRt Providence
5
.. it .4 .* Warwick
5
•* Debtors
8
323
26
349
COMMITTED DURING THE YEAR.
By the State
*' " Escaped and Returned
t4 a ii Transferred to W. H. & H. of. C.
** '' City o{ Providence
** ** '' ** Pawtucket......
i* *» *» '^ Woonsocket...
'' *' " '' Central Falls..
ii " Town of Lincoln
Cumberland
'' ^* East Providence..
'' Warwick
*' *' Cranston
'' *' Glocester ^
'' Burrillville
" '* No. Providence....
'' *' Coventry
'' Smithfleld
** Scituate
'' Warren „
" ** Johnston
United States
Debtors
Males,
1398
2
3
16
227
11
2
8
6
98
33
18
0
4
12
13
8
7
1
2
16
76
1961
Females.
124
0
0
2
8
1
0
1
0
18
8
2
1
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
5
173
Total.
1522
2
3
18
235
12
2
9
6
116
41
20
1
4
13
13
10
7
1
2
16
81
2134
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104
8TATK GHARITIB8 AlH) OORRBGTIONB.
niHOHARGED DURING THK YEAR.
By the State
** Transferred to Sock. School..
* ' Escaped
'* Transferred to State Prison .
'^ to State Hospital
'' W. H. and H. of C
'* Pardont'd
** Died
City of Providence
** ** Pawtucket
*' ** Woonsocket ^
'' '' Central Falls
Town of Lincoln
'' '* Cumberland
*' *' East Providence
"• Warwick
** '' Cranston
** '' Glocester
'' Burrillville
'* '*• No. Providence
** »* Coventry
'' Smithflcld
'' '' Scituate „
'' '* Warren
** '^ Johnston
Uniled States
Debtors
Males.
1316
16
9
88
3
I
2
3
16
208
9
1
5
6
99
81
18
0
2
12
12
7
6
1
2
13
79
1914
Females.
128
0
1
2
0
0
0
1
2
7
1
0
I
0
18
10
2
1
0
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
6
T83"
TotaL
1443
16
10
40
3
1
2
4
18
216
10
1
6
6
117
41
20
1
2
13
12
9
6
1
2
13
86
2097
REMAINING DKOKMBER 31. lfl(W.
By th
e State. ..
City of
Providence
Pawtucket
•* *' Woonsocket
** '* Central Falls
Town of Lincoln
'* *' East Providence..
'' ** Warwick
'* ** Cranston
•* '* HurriUville
'* '' Coventry
'" ' Smithfleld
" '* Scituate
United States ....„
Debtors
Males.
Females.
316
13
1
0
26
1
2
0
1
0
3
0
4
0
5
0
1
0
2
0
1
0
2
1
1
0
3
0
3
1
370
16
Total.
1
27
2
1
8
4
6
1
2
1
3
1
3
4
Digitized by VjOOQIC
RBPORT OF THE BOARD.
AVERAGE NUMBER IN JAIL DURING 1908.
106
By the State
" '' City of Providence..
*' *' Various Cities and
*' ** United States
*' '' Debtors
JWm.
Ptmalts.
Total
8S7I»
fill
mii
m
mi
0
m
867^^
twns
87H4
21
4:11
23,Vi
4025it
OOMMITTKI) ON BENTENOE BY THE STATE FOR:
Assault
Assault with a dangerous weapon
Adultery
Attempt at carnal knowledge
Attending a cock fight
Bastardy
Bigamy
Breaking and entering a dwelling-house
Breaking and entering a dwelling-house at
night and larceny .,
Breaking and entering a house in day-time
and larceny
Breaking and entering a shop with intent
to commit larceny
Breaking ;>nd entering a barn in night and
larceny
Breaking and entering a shop In night.....
Breaking and entering a shop in night and
larceny
Breaking and entering a shop in day-time
and larcenj'
Breaking and entering in day-time with in
tent to commit larceny
Breaking anc} entering in day-time and lar-
ceny ,
Carrying concealed weapons
Cruelty to animals
Carnal knowledge
Cursing and swearing
Defacing building
Defacing property ^
Destroying property
Driving and useing a horse unlawfully
Disturbing a religious meeting
Distributing obscene literature
Entering a school in day-time and larceny
20
8
1
4
2
1
1
10
3
6
5
46
14
3
10
82
7
2
1
1
1
1
Pemaks,
ToUd.
281
21
16
1
4
2
1
1
10
8
6
5
45
1
86
15
8
10
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106 BTATB GHARiniBS AND CORRECTIONS.
COMMITTED ON BENTBNOB BY THE STATE FOB,:— Qmtimitd,
Malu,
FemalM,
Escaping from State Work House and
House of Correction
Entering dwelling in day-time with intent
to commit larceny
Entering dwelling in day-time and larceny
Entering barn at night and larceny...
Entering dwelling at night and larceny...
Embezzlement
Exposure of person ^
Evading payment ot fare
Evading payment of food
Escaping Jail
For n icati on ^
False pretences
Keeping liquor for sale illegally
Keeping unlicensed dog._
Keeping common nuisance
Larceny
Larceny from the person
Indecent assault
Malicious mischief ^
Not sending cliild to school
Neglect to provide for family
Obstructing an officer
Peddling without a license
Playing cards on Sunday
Playing dice on Sunday
Receiving stolen property
Selling liquor illegally „
Stealing hens
Taking fish without bait or line
Threats
Theft ^
Trespass on the railroad track.„
Throwingglass in the street
Theft of U. S. mail bag
Tramps.. ~
Using obscene language on street
Using unsealed scales
Violation sec. 6440 Rev. Statue of U. S
1
4
4
1
26
2
6
2
2
9
14
7
2
6
12
1
1
3
1
26
3
3
2
6
15
10
31
3
7
376
39
6
1
3
1
I
1
1062
TotdL
0
0
0
,0
0
0
0
0
0
19
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
V
0
0
9
0
0
0
29
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
76
1
4
4
1
25
2
6
2
2
28
14
7
2
6
14
1
1
3
1
S6
3
3
2
6
16
19
31
3
7
404
39
5
1
8
I
1
1
1168
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KKPORT OF TUK BOARD.
STATE »ENTBNOK8. 1808.
107
_ ^
1
MaUfs,
, Females.
0
0
0
0
3
0
31
10
0
11
2
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
! ^
0
1
7
1 0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
Total
Fined tl 00
3
4
2
1
111
1
137
123
1
183
43
1
7
3
2
10
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
16
1
120
3
47
0
25
2
3
44
25
4
24
5
56
1
5
5
10
4
1
1
1
13 1
1
1
15
2 '
1 1
5 1
8
' 200
* 3 00
' 4 00
* 500
' 7 00
* 10 00
* 15 00
' 15 00
' 2000
* 25 00
* 25 00
' 8000
* 3500
* 4000
' 5000
' 75 00
* 100 00
* 150 00
' 200 00
' 250 00
4
1 2
'
' 1
i
114
1
j
168
t 133
and bonds
1
194
45
and bonds.
1
- -
7
3
1 2
1 13
1 ^
' 1
1
! 1
' 1
Imprisoned
5 days
10 *'
10 ** fine
15 *'
30 ''
30 '' fine
60 ''
60 '' fine
90 *^
90 ** fine
2 months
8 *^
3
8
4
5
6
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
11
11
12
1 year
1 '* anc^
1 *' ''
only
d $20 00 1
1
2
28
ii
it
1
120
it
d $100 00
3
»'
47
ii
ci $io6 00 i
I
*♦
25
ti
d $20 00
2
il
3
ii
1
49
ii
flnpd $20 00 '
fined $100 00
25
4
ii
ii
24
5
ii
ii
ii
fltipd $T6ooo'l
and bonds
57
1
5
ii
5
ii
1
10
»i
4
it
and bonds
1
it
1
tt
and bonds $200 00..,
1
1
13
**
and bonds ,
1
it
tt
it
it
To pay cost
fbonds" .'Z
. '* $2,500 00
1
16
2
1
5
1082
76
1158
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108 8TATB 0HARITIB8 AND CORRB0TION8.
OOMMITTED ON BENTBNOE BY THE OITY OF PROVIDENCE, 1908.
Males.
Females.
Total.
DrunkenuesH ^
15
1
2
0
Revelling „
17
1
16
2
18
OITY OF PROVIDENCE SENTENCES.
—
Males.
Females.
Total.
Fined
$2 00
15
1
2
0
17
ti
10 00
1
•
16
2
18
OOMMITTED ON SENTENCE BY OTHER CITIES AND TOWNS.
■■
—
Females.
Males.
Total.
Drankenness ^ „
Revelling
881
68
86
4
417
67
444
40
484
SENTENCES BY OTHER CITIES AND TOWNS.
Males.
60
88
11
Females.
0
84
4
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
Totnl.^
Fined $1 00
1
2 00
8 00
808
64
'* 4 00
1
'' 6 00
84
7 00
2
10 00
11
'* 15 00
1
Imprisoned 8 Days
10 '*
80
90
1
9
1
1
444
40
484
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kkpokt OF TkE fiOAltb.
l09
NATIVITY OF PERSONS COMMITTED ON SENTENCE.
Alabama 1
A rk ansas 1
California 1
Connecticut „ „ _ 57
Colorado 1
District of Columbia 3
Florida „ *. 3
Geor^ria 6
Indiana ^ 3
Illinois 2
Kansas ~ „ 1
Maine.-. ^ - 26
Maryland 4
Massachusetts 228
Michigan _ 1
Missouri — 1
New Hampshire 10
New York 46
New Jersey 8
No. Carolina . 6
No. Dakota 2
Ohio 2
Pennt*y Ivania 22
Rhode Island..^ „ 4M
South Carolina..
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
Wyoming
5
1
2
5
19
1
Total, United States 961
NATIVITY OP PERSONS COMMITTED ON SENTENCE.
England „ „ 89
Ireland 166
Scotland 23
Canada 1 19
Nova Scotia 8
New Brunswick 4
France 6
Germany 9
Sweden 33
Portugal 6
Italy 86
Newfoundland ^ 4
Austria 27
Norway 4
Russia 32
Belgium ^ 3
Poland 36
Prince Edward Island ^ 1
Turkey 11
Switzerland _ 2
Armen ia _. 1
Greece 13
Syria 3
South Africa 1
Finland ^« 3
De n mark _ 1
Cuba 1
Cape Verde Islands 8
Western Islands 7
West Indies Islands 2
Lapland ^^ 1
China ^. 1
Total, Foreign Countries 699
AGES. SEX, ETC., OF PERSONS COMMITTED ON SENTENCE.
Under 20 years c»f age
Between 20 and 30 years of age „ ^ ^..
40 * *' '' ^.„ _.
30
40
60
60
70
80
60
60
70
80
90
Total..
... 196
... 648
.. 430
.. 814
... 124
... 46
.... 1
^ 1
-Meo
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110
8TATB CHARITIES AKD CORRfiCTTONB.
AGE, 8KX, ETC., OK PERSONS COM MITTKD ON SKNTKNOE-(7oii<m«^.
Males 1542 White 1660 Married 608
Females 118 Colored 100 Single 1062
Totals 166(» 1660 1660
Total number of persons who can read and write 1346
** '' ''but not write 64
'' '' '' " '' '* neither read nor write 261
Total 1660
Total number persons committed ^2134
sentenced 1660
NATIVITY OF PARENTS.
Fathers.
United States 447
England 106
Ireland 528
Scotland ^ 88
Wales 0
Canada IW
Nova Scotia 18
New Brunswick 4
Newfoundland „ 2
Prince Edward Island 1
Fnince H
Gemiany 80
Sweden 84
Portusral 7
Italy 93
Norway 4
Austria 28
Russia 82
BelfiTlum 4
Poland 35
Armenia 1
Denmark „ 1
Spain 1
Turkey 10
Switzerland 8
Syria 8
Greece „ 18
Africa /. 1
Finland 4
Oape Verde Islands 10
Western Islands _ 8
Cuba 1
West Indies 8
Ohlna 1
Lapland ^ 1
Total 1060
Mothers.
United States 481
KnRland **
Ireland 647
Scotland 42
Wales 2
Canada 202
Nova Scotia 15
New Brunswick 4
Newfoundland -... 8
Prince Edward Island 1
France 7
(ierniany 14
Sweden 88
Portugal 7
Italy ^ 98
Norway ~ 4
Austria 28
Russia -82
BelRlum ' 4
Polnnd 86
Armenia 1
Denmark ~ 1
Spain 1
Turkey 10
Switzerland 8
Syria 8
Greece - 18
Africa 1
Finland - 4
Oape Verde Islands 10
Western Islands ~ 7
Cuba - 1
West Indies ^ 2
China 1
Lapland 0
Total 1060
AVERAGE OF PARENTS.
Fathers. Mothers.
Americans ^ „... 26yVir Americans 26
Foreigners 73ii^ Foreigners 74
ANDREW J, WILCOX, Jailer.
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SiBPOBt 01^ THB BOABb. Ill
REPORT
OF THE SOCKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
Executive Committee: ^''^e^Zaf." """"'^ "' superintendent
ZTo iAe Xoarti o/'Siaie Chariiies and Corr^ciions/
Qbntlembn: — We have the honor to present herewith the
statistical tables of the school for the year ending December
81, 1908.
Whole number: in school December 31, 1907 377
Number since received 462
Number since discharged 467
Number in School December 31, 1908 372
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112 8TATB OHABITIBB AND 00RRECTI0N6.
TABLE I
Showing the number received and discharged, also the
number remaining in the Instititution at the dose of each year,
since its opening (November 1, 1850.)
TBAB. RKCRIVED. DI8CHAROET>. KKMATNINH.
The Ist year „
62
7
45
" Sd
••
65
81
_ 79
•• 8d
••
W
69
101
•• 4th
••
85
80
106
" 6th
••
W
68
142
•• «th
"
87
86 ,
148
•• 7th
•«
, 12»
91
181
•• 8th
••
Ill
n2
Ill
106
181
" Wh
••
187
•• 10th
••
»7
115
169
" 11th
••
128
110
187
•• mh
••
183
116
204
•• 18th
••
1H8
179
208
'• 14th
<•
198
188
218
" 16th
••
...^ 158
155
216
" l«th
*•
155
IW
207
" 17th
••
157
165
199
•• 18th
•*
159
m
224
" mh
••
^ 184
185
223
" 20th
••
148
134
282
•• Hat
" ...... _
~ 117
188
211
" 22d
•*
118
131
198
•• 28d
••
, 188
120
206
•• 84th
*•
163
149
183
220
" 26th
••
128
216
" S6th
"
120
184
206
" 27th
••
158
141
218
•• 28th
•*
148
1)8
288
•• 29th
*•
_ 119
126
281
•• 80th
••
121
113
289
" 8l8t
••
„. 158
308...:
199
•189
"82d
••
14H
188
•• 88d
**
194 ,
159
178
•• 84th
*•
168
177
164
" 85th
"
180
128
169
" 86th
**
124
101
189
••87th
•*
158
188
214
••88th
•*
117 ,
131
200
•• 8»th
••
150
120
230
•• 40th
••
„ 181
176
196
•• 41lt
••
151
161
186
•• 42d
<«
224
174
225
" 48d
•*
196
171
250
•• 44th
"
190
198
178
242
•• 46th
••
^ 196
266
•' 4eth
••
299
289
280
212
284
•• 47th
••
811
•• 48th
*•
296
248 _
860
•• 4Wh
•• .
274
8(H
829
*• 60th
••
285
279
248
885
•• 6l8t
"
^ 2Tr
864
•• 62(1
••
318
822
819
881.^
815
800
*• 68d
••
826
837
•• 64th
••
823
829
•• 66th
"
861
845
•• 66th
*•
447
454
527
_ 888
•• 67th
«•
566
877
"58th
••
462
467
872
^Twenty fflrU tmniferrea to paklAwn Bobool, Jnlj 18th, 1882.
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RBPORT OP THE BOARD. 118
TABLE II.
Showing the number received for each month during the
past year.
MOUTH. BOT8.
January _ — 27
February ~ ~ ^
March 60
April ^.. 49
May ^ „ 51
June ~ 46
July 27
Auicust -. 28
Beptember ^ „ ^ 14
October ^ ^ 87
November - »4
December ^ 46
Total 402
TABLE III.
Showing the number discharged for each month during the
past year.
MONTH. BOYS.
January ^ 22
February „ 2H
March 49
Aprtl _. 46
May ^ ^ 44
June ^ „ 60
July ^ 29
August _ 80
Beptember ^ 81
October 5«
November „ « 89
December _ .• „ _ 48
Total _ 4«7
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114 BTATK CHARITIES AND CORRKC*riONfl.
TABLE IV.
Showing the disposal and employment of those discharged
the past year and previously.
Delivered to friends
" Court ^
•• Overeeer of Poor „ „
Discharged on expiration of sentence
to go to sea
** as insane
Died
Kullsted in the army „
** ** navy „
Kscaped not returned
absent more than one day and returned or re-
taken
retaken and sent to Jail under new sentence..
previously retaken and sent to Jail on alter-
native sentence
from Rhode Island Hospital, having lieen
injured in attempting to escape from the
School ^
Indentured „
Placed at farming
" *' various trades _
** Asylum for Deaf and Dumb
Bent to State Workhouse and H. of O
Sent to State Prison
Discharged on payment of line and costs
Released on ball
Discharged by order of Court „
" Mayor
•* '* ** ** Attorney General
** '* '* " Board of State Ohar. and Oorr.
to Probation Officer
Placed with Children's Friend Society
Transferred to Jnll on alternative sentence „
Transferred to State Almshouse _
Returned to Jail
Error in report of 1881
Discharged to Court
Totals „
Past Year.
Bout*
191
0
19
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
0
467
Prn.
Boys,
4255
1892
10
889
86
5
40
52
14
200
248
624
115
1
78
25
2
27
1
14
8
0
1
7
4
170
67
0
0189
Total
4440
2090
10
868
85
6
40
62
14
216
247
8
624
116
1
78
26
2
860
27
1
14
8
6
1
8
6
188
57
1
9666
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RBPORt OF THK BOARD. 116
TABLE V.
Showing the length of time spent in the Institution by those
discharged during the past year and previously.
Less than one month
One month and lesg than Ave ~
Five months and less than ten
Ten months and less than fifteen.
Ptfteen months and less than twenty
Twenty months and less than twenty-Hve,
Twenty-five months and less than thirty....
Thirty months and less than thirty-five
Thlrty-flve months and less than forty
Forty months and less than forty-five
Porty-flve months and less than fifty
Fifty months and less than fifty-five
Fifty-five months and less than sixty
Sixty months and more.....
Error in report of 18K1
Totals
Past year.
Boyt,
SOB
66
19
85
00
74
10
0
4
0
0
0
1
0
0
Prev.
Bays.
1997
1101
786
861
13H6
1744
614
80H
286
100
77
47
44
94
67
467' 91S9
Total.
2200
1167
754
876
1364
1818
680
808
289
100
V
47
46
94
67
9666
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116
StATE OHARITtBB AND CORftBOTtONft.
TABLE VI.
Showing the authority by which commitments have been
made the past year and previously.
Put year.
PrtVt
Total
1
Bav8.
Boys.
Oourt of Magistrates, Pro\idence
Justice Oourt. Providence-
0
0
0
0
0
s
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
I
42
0
0
0
0
0
0
16
9
2
4
10
4
299
7
9
2
8
8
SO
20
791
800
4
86
61
58
49
• 170
102
261
867
61
1(M
410
812
9
88
2
8
976
148
7
6
1
804
7
175
288
41
66
170
68
2n89
170
146
87
256
175
192
72
791
Justice Oourt, North Providence^ I
4
Oourt of Magistrates. Pawtuclcet
Justice Oourt, Pawtucket ....
86
61
Oourt of Maffistrates. Woonsocket
68
Justice Oourt, Woonsocket
49
Police Oourt. Providence
170
8upreine,0ourt ....
102
Ooinmon Pleas Division of Supreme Oourt
261
Oourt of Oomraon Pleas
867
Court of Justices, Newport
61
J ustlce Oourt, Newport
104
Juiitlce of Peace, In different towns
410
Order of Trustees, boarders
812
Order of Board of State Oharlties and Correction,
boarders „
9
Order of Board of State Oliarltles and Oorrectlon, (Sec.
7 Oliap. 390) „
Order of Mayor, for safe keeping
00
2
From Overseer of the Poor
8
• Returned for cause
1018
Returned voluntarily
Surrendered by surety... „
Order of Mayor
148
7
Order of Oity Marshal, for safe keeping
I
Justice Courts of other towns-
804
Held for Probation Officer „
Transferred from Jail by Board
7
191
Fi rst District Oourt
242
Second ** **
48
Third " "
70
Fourth '* "
180
Fifth " •*
72
Sixth •* '* ^
Seventh *' '*
2988
177
KlKhth " "
166
Ninth " •*
89
Tenth " **
268
Eleventh " " ...
188
Twelfth •• ••
212
Superior " " _
92
Totals
462
9666
10028
•This includes all escaped In previous years, retaken or returned.
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KEPOKT OV THB BOAKD. 117
TABLE VII.
Showing the number committed from each county and town
during the past year and previously.
Put year.
Prev.
Total
PBOVIDENOB COUNTY.
Boys,
Boyt.
117
814
144
41
1
126
59
29
5
ao
221
878
225
Providence
North Providence
\ 824
1 1
28
11
0
6417
118
Woonsocket ^
8i<7
OifinRton.
156
Bmlthfleld :
41
North Hniifchfleld ♦
Johnston
0
0
1
;
2
12
1 ^2
1
Burrlllville
Hcituate
6U
29
Gloucester
Cumberland
Bast Providence «
6
82
288
Pawtucket
888
Lincoln
' 6
281
Totals.
NEWPORT COUNTY.
Newport '
891
8
6777
462
14
18
tJ
2
7168
460
Fall River
0
14
Tiverton . ...
1
0
0
19
Portsmouth „
Little Oompton
6
2
Totals.
KENT COUNTY.
Warwick... ^
9
1
7
1
0
492
69
19V
22
8
501
70
East Greenwich
Coventry
West Greenwich
206
28
8
Totals X „
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Brtstol
9
0
4
298
m
29
802
111
Warren :
88
Totals „
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Charlestowiu
4
0
0
8
\
1
140
7
7
67
19
5
86
8
144
7
Richmond _
7
South Kingstown.
60
North Kingstown.. ^
Exeter
19
5
Westerly „
Hopkinton..
80
0
Totals
From other States
Whole number committed ^
Recommitments
Petnmed from plnces
7
0
420
9
88
189
6
7897
914
755
196
6
8817
928
788
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118
8TATK CHARirnES AND C0RRBCTI0N8.
TABLE N^i.-ConiinMed.
BKOAPITULATION.
Providence County
Newport County
Kent County
Bristol County
Wii8hincrton County
Other Htutes
Hecomniltments
Returned from places
Totals
Pott year. Preu.
Boiis,
891
9
9
4
7
0
»
*< !
4(^2 !
^
-
Unit,
Total,
6777
71«8
492
f.el
298
»)2
24(1
144
1«9
191
A
6
914
9?3
765
7H8
V^
1(I02S
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B8P0RT OV THS BOARD.
TABLE Vm.
119
Showing the cause of commitment the past year and previ-
ously.
\r8on ^
AsHAUlt - „
Afwault and battery .^ _
Assault with intent to klU^
Assault with intent to coniuilt rape
Assault with Intent to rob„
Bunrlary and theft ^
Rurninic a building *
(lontempt of Oourt
Cruelty to animals _
OarrylniT concealed weapons
Oarnal knowledge
Defacing a buildinK»
Defacing property y
Destroying property
Disorderly conduct on the street
Disturbing school
Driving ofT a horse and carriage
Drunkenness „
Embezzlement „
Exposure of person „
False pretenses In writing..^
Forirery- >
Fast driving
Held for Prohiitlon Officer
Housebreaking
Housebreaking and theft
Housebreaking with Intent to steal
Incorrigibility
Lewdness
Malicious mischief „
Obtaining goods under false pretenses
Obtaining money under false pretenses
Passing counterfeit money
Placing obstruction on railroad traok„
Receiving stolen money or goods
Returned for cause
Returned voluntarily
Revelling
Robbery ,
Shop-breaking
Btubbornness and truancy
Surrendered by surety^
Sturdy l)eggar
Taking and using boat
Theft from the person »^ „
Thefts ^ ^
Threatening to assault ^
Threatening to kill ^
Throwing stones at a train
Transferred from Jail by Board of State Ohar. and Corr.
To await trial
Truancy (OhapterSttt Public Laws)^
Truancy (Chapter 649 Public Laws )_
Using profane language « „
Vagrancy _ ^.
Totals ^
But year.
Pi€V.
BOVM.
BOUM.
0
A
5
lii\
0
a
0
9
0
0
<)
i
0
21
0
1»
0
1
0
1
0
5
0
M
2
49
0
6
]
9
13
112
0
H
0
72
TotaU
(i
I
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
42
0
0
0
12
2
0
0
0
0
80
0
0
0
irt
221
0
42
0
22
462
16
16
1
1
6
1
7
m
57
lo
4
1
W
5
5
1
0
10
MO
148
6
2
224
405
2
1
8
14
264.S
1
1
8
175
2072
26
860
2
1218
9666
H
181
28
3
6
2
21
18
1
4
6
0
51
5
10
126
8
72
16
16
1
1
6
1
7
80
67
16
4
1
99
6
5
1
1
21
1011
148
6
2
286
407
2
1
8
14
2728
1
1
8
191
2298
86
892
2
1S86
10028
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120 8TATB OHARrmSB AND OOBRBOnOHS.
TABLE IX.
Showing the terms of sentences of those committed the past
year:
TERMS. BOYB.
Minority 168
Two years ~
Three years —
To await trial « -. ^
Transferred from Jail ^ ~~
F«»ur years
Five years ^ ^ ^
Total ,
63
3
207
16
4
1
462
TABLE X.
Showing the ages of those committed the past year :
AGES.
Six years „ ^ ^ ^..
Seven years ^
Eight years ^
Nine years ^ ^
Ten years » „ „
Eleven years ^
Twelve years ^
Thirteen years ^
Fourteen years « „.
Fifteen years
Sixteen years «... ^ ^ ^
Seventeen years ^
Eighteen years „ ^
Nineteen years _
Twenty year«» _ ^ „
Total..
r«f*.* «f •«..«. trfi.»*n«T. •••ftftM
BOYS.
0
0
8
11
28
25
66
90
72
71
64
26
3
0
0
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STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES AND INCOME FOR THE
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 81, 1908.
Expenditures... $68,249 84
Income 1,413 60
^*^*"^® - - $66,886 24
Respectfully Submitted,
JAMES F. McCUSKER,
Chairman of Executive Committee.
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122 8TATB 0HABITIE8 AND CORRBOTIONB.
REPORT
OF THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTOR.
7jo the ^oarti 0/ Siaie Charaii^^ anti Corrections:
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to present my report for the
year ending December 81, 1908.
I have nothing of special importance to report concerning the
religious work at the State Institutions during the first half of
the year. Early in September, the pupils of the Oaklawn
School for Girls ceased to attend the Sunday morning service at
the State Hospital for the Insane. This change was made in
accordance with the wishes of those most concerned. We now
have the Sunday School session in the forenoon, and the service
for worship in the afternoon. This is simply a return to the
order followed in the earlier period of the Oaklawn School's
history. No other changes in the services at the various in-
stitutions have been found either necessary or desirable.
The decease of Mrs. Susan M. May, wife of Mr. Asa L. May,
Deputy Superintendent of the State Almshouse, on September
22nd, after a protracted and painful illness, brought sadness
to all minds, and evoked the profoundest sympathy. Quiet in
manner, gentle in disp<i«»ition, peculiarly fitted for her work,
both in the home and in the institution, her removal by death
meant to the State tlie loss of one of its most efficient servants,
while to the home and loved ones, it brought unspeakable
grief, Mrs. May endured her sufferings with the greatest
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fortitude, solicitiousoniy for husband and children; and as the
end drew near she faced death with the calmness which evi-
denced a supreme confidence in Him who is **the resurrection
and the life." The funeral services, held at the family resi-
dence, September 25th, were conducted by the Rev. R. K.
Wickett, pastor of the family assisted by the writer.
The services at the Sockanosset School for Boys attract many
visitors. Both here and at the Oaklawn School for Girls, the
singing is a notable feature.
I can speak only favorably concerning the interest at all of
the institutions. Excepting only the Schools, the attendance
everywhere is not compulsory. Yet large numbers are present
regularly, and the congregations are as attentive and apparent-
ly as appreciative as any that gather in the churches. May it
not also be true that the good resulting is as real and abiding?
The Sunday services at the Almshouse are necessarily less fre-
quent than at the other institutions. This lack of service is
more apparent than real. OonsiderabJe time is given to the
Almshouse on other days in the week, in regular visitation and
in response to special calls for individual ministration.
In my work at the penal institutions it has been my constant
endeavor to widen my personal acquaintance and influence,
believijig that on this social basis must rest the hope of real
improvement in moral character and upright living. Many are
the victims of ignorance, hereditary vicious tendencies and
false views of life. With the younger class, especially, the
question as to what their future is to be, turns, in no small
measure, on the possibility of a re-education. The slaves of
appetite and passion are among the weakest of men, and hav-
ing never known the meaning of self-control they chafe under
the restraints of confinement and discipline, and unless the
necessarily hard conditions are ameliorated by softening in-
fluences, moral improvement becomes extremely doubtful.
Patience and kindness in dealing with even the worst of men
help to sweeten the bitterest cup and cause the stubborn will
to relax, often sufficiently to open the way for those higher
influences which alone can rehabilitate and save. In spite of
peculiar difficulties and embarrassments, we find, almost daily,
encouragement and incitement to greater diligence in this
persopal effort,
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124 BTATB 0HARITIB8 AND OORRSCTIONB.
My colleagues, clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church,
are faithful in their work. Their ministrations in the offices
of their Church endear them to those whom they so devoted-
ly serve. On behalf of these co-workers as well as myself,
permit me to acknowledge the unvarying courtesy of the
officials in charge of the several institutions, without whose
cooperation no large degree of sucess could be attained in our
work.
My absences from the field have been few and brief. In
every instance I have provided a suitable supply for the care
of my work, always a clergyman.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES H. EWER,
Religious Instructor.
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REPORT OF THE BOARD* l26
REPORT
OF THE PHYSICIAN OF THE STATE INSTITUTIONS.
ZTo the £je^etiiiue CommiHeey S/aie Workhouse anti J^ouse ofCorrociion,
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to present, herewith, my
report as Resident Physician of the State Workhouse and House
of Correction, for the year 1908.
During the year eight deaths occurred in this department,
seven males and one female, from the following causes:
Alcoholism 4
Pneumonia - « 2
Pulmonary Oedeuia ^ 1
Pulmonary tuberculosis 1
Tot»l Ts
During the past year the need of a small hospital has been
amply demonstrated. The lack of proper facilities for caring
for the sick in this institution has resulted in the transferring
to the overcrowded Almshouse thirteen cases needing care and
treatment.
Of this number, four were pregnant women transferred to the
obstetrical department of the Almshouse; and a very curious
medico-legal fact connected with them is that three of their
infants were still- born. In this connection I again recommend
that a night-matron should have supervision over the Women's
dormitoriei of the Workhouse and House of Correction.
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126 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
During the sunimer months there were a large number of
cases of diarrhoea that required special treatment.
Apart from this, nothing of special medical importance has
developed.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRiT A. JONES, M. D.,
Resident Physician.
ZJo Jfntirew ^ Wtieoxj Warden,
Dear sir : — I have the honor to present, herewitli, my report as
Resident Physician of the State Prison and Providence County
Jail for the year 1908.
I have made during the year 156 regular visits, besides the
numerous calls for special cases received both by day and by
night.
The number of cases treated during the year was 5,976. The
average number of cases attended eacli regular visit was 31.
The hospital report is as follows :
Number of patients in hospital Jan. 1, 1908 6
** admitted durintr the year 121
** discharged durinj^the ye»r Ill
died at State Prison in 1908 - 2
died at Providence County Jail in 1908 4
*' transferred to the State Hospital for the Insane 4
** pardoned (State Prison) 1
** remaining: in hospital, Dec. 31 1908 « 4
The causes of death of prisoners were as follows :
Providence County Jail Alcoholism
'' *• *' Acute indigestion
*' '* ** Pulmonary Oedema
** ** *' Pulmonary tuberculosis
State Prison Senility
" ** *' Pulmonary tuberculosis ^
The prisoners who died from tuberculosis had the disease in
its advanced, or last stages, upon commitment. Tbey remamed
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in the hospital practically from the dates of their entrance to
the Institutions.
The long-term prisoner pardoned from the Prison was in the
advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis, and had been in
the Prison hospital for months.
I question the advisability of pardoning this class of patients
in their last days. They may not receive as good care and
treatment in their homes as in prison. If, however, a pardon
is granted to a prisoner of this class, it should be, I believe, upon
the condition that he will be placed in a sanatorium where he
will receive as good care and treatment as he receives here.
Prisoners so afflicted should not go to their homes and be a source
of infection to the public.
The general health of the long-term prisoners is good.
The overcrowded condition of the Providence County Jail,
wherein many of the cells contain four prisoners each, is well
known. It is impossible to isolate any of the prisoners (except
in the hospital) suffering from venereal and other diseases,
and complaints are often made to the physician by prisoners
that they wish to be removed from such cell-mates. Constant
vigilance on the part of officials here, who enforce cleanliness,
goes far to prevent the lodgement of infectious diseases.
I again, as in previous reports, bring before you the need of
a new Jail.
One case of typhoid fever and one of measles, occurring in
officers, appeared ; both recovered.
Many cases of itch, tonsilitis and influenza appeared among
the prisoners crowded in the Jail.
Apart from this, the general health has been fair.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY A. JONES, M. D.,
Resident Physician.
Qentlemen : — I have the honor to present, herewith, my report
M Reiident Pbysioi^Q for the State Almshouse for the year 1908,
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128 8TATB 0HABITIB8 AND OORBBOTIONB.
In this Institution the overcrowded condition still exists.
During the year past the number of deaths were twenty-eight
less than the previous year. The total number of deaths
was 192.
Tuberculosis in its various forms account for thirty- two deaths,
distributed as follows: males seventeen, females fifteen.
Average age of males dying with tuberculosis, thirty-five
years; females, thirty-one years.
Oancer, in various forms, was prevalent among the admissions
and caused seventeen deaths. During the latter months of the
year, an epidemic of chicken-pox broke out among the small in-
fants and ten contracted the disease. The ward was isolated as
much as possible and the disease was not distributed. No
deaths occurred from this disease.
Typhoid fever developed in two inmates, complicated with
other serious ailments ; both died. One person had the disease,
evidently, on admission; the other, a case of a young, feeble-
minded girl, could not be accounted for, as no other inmate
developed the disease.
One case of measles occurred; this was a matron who, pre-
sumably, contracted the disease while travelling. Strict isola-
tion was established and, so far, no other cases have developed.
Three cases of whooping-cough developed. Isolation prevent-
ed its distribution.
During the year progress has been made toward the proper
classification and distribution of the inmates. A pleasant
obstetric-room in the Howard Oottage or Nursery Building has
been prepared. ^This fills a much needed want, as the mothers
will be separate from the other inmates. Preparations for the
changing of the hospital-wards are in progress and this will add
greatly to the comfort and welfare of the children.
The number of tuberculosis cases is increasing, and especially
is this apparent in the male department. The ward for their
isolation cannot house them and several of these infectious in-
mates are crowded into the alley- way of the basement of the
main building to sleep. This is the most dangerous makeshift
that we have been called upon to make in this Institution, as
it brings into close proximity a dangerous infective class of pa-
tients to mingle at nights with others who are very susceptible
to this disease. As the number of this class increases, just so
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RBPORT OF THE BOARD. 129
much more of the limited yard area at the disposal of the
ambulatory patients of other classes becomes polluted and
infective by the discharges of the consumptives.
I earnestly advise and recommend that before other buildings
are erected here for their care, the question of their removal
from this Institution be seriously considered and acted upon.
They are a separate and infective class of patients; their proper
care calls for extra labor, extra diet, and different surroundings
from the ordinary inmates admitted here.
I view their increase with great alarm as I cannot further
concede, as in the past, that no cases have developed here. To
see the freedom displayed by the feeble-minded in regard to
contact with this class and their discharges, one wonders why
more cases have not developed.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY A. JONES, M. D.,
Resident Physician.
7jo ih0 £je0cuiitfe Commitiee, ^ookanossei SeAooi for S^oys,
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to present, herewith, my report
as Resident Physician for the Sockanosset School for Boys, for
the year 1908 :
During the early months of spring, and again in the fall,
scarlet-fever developed. In the first epidemic, sixteen boys
were taken ill; several of them had the disease quite severely;
others had it very mildly and without complications. In the
fall, two cases developed the disease in a mild form ; they were
isolated in the hospital for contagious diseases recently erected.
Of the eighteen cases treated, no lasting complication oc-
curred and no deaths ensued
Five cases of diphtheria developed, in which antitoxin was
freely used. All of these cases recovered.
Many cases of itch developed which required vigorous treat-
ment and isolation before we got rid of the disease.
There were the usual number of minor ailments treated
4TP^iQg the year »t the hospital. Two boys were transferred to
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130 STATE 0HARITIB8 AND CORRECTIONS.
the State Airashouse, one being feeble-minded and requiring
custodial care, the other being a case of hip-joint disease
requiring special treatment.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY A. JONES, M. D.,
Resident Physician.
TJo the £je^citiitf9 CommiHee, OaAriaam Schooi for Siris,
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to present, herewith, my report
as Resident Physician for the Oakliwn School for Girls, for the
year 1908.
The general healthful condition tif the inmates prevails in
this Institution,
One girl, upon admittance, was transferred to the State
Almshouse for special treatment.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY A. JONES, M. D.,
Resident Physician.
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REPORT
OF AGENT OF STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
Office of the Agent of State Charities and Corrections,
Providence, R. I., January 1, 1909.
ZTo iAe S^oarti o/Jiaie Charities anti Correeiions»
Gentlemen: — ^The undersigned respectfully presents the re-
port of his department for the year 1908 :
State Hospital for the Insane.
Men,
Number of patients January 1, 1908 636
Admitted during the year ^ ^ 193
Returned from parole^ 17
Escaped patients returned 20
Total..„ 766
Discharged durii^g the year ^ ^ 26
Died during the year 79
Released on parole during the year ^ 86
Escaped during the year 24
Total 213 142 356
Number remaining December 31, 1908..^ 663 481 1,034
Of the 345 patients admitted to the State Hospital for the
Insane during the year, 281 were committed by the District
Oourtif flfty-nine were admitted by order of the Board of State
Women.
Total.
466
992
162
346
16
82
0
20
623
1,389
14
39
42
121
86
171
0
24
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132 8TATB CHARITIES AND OORRBOTIONB.
Charities and Corrections and one was admitted upon her own
request; two were removed thereto by order of a Justice of the
Supreme Court, and two, by order of His Excellency, Governor
James H. Higgins, from the Providence County Jail.
Of the patients admitted in 1908, thirty-nine died, forty-nine
were discharged, twenty-nine of whom were removed from the
State, and sixty-five are out on parole. Fifty-nine had been in
the State Hospital for the Insane before, not counting those re-
turned from parole.
The sum of $20,499 60 was collected during the year for the
board, care and medical attendance of patients supported at
the State Hospital for the Insane by their relatives or friends.
The State Hospital for the Insane was opened for occupancy
November 7th, 1870, and from that date to the first day of Jan-
uary, 1871, there were received 118 insane persons, of whom
sixty-five were received from Butler Hospital, twenty-two from
the Vermont Asylum at Brattleboro, four from the Asylum at
Worcester, Massachusetts, two from the Asylum at Taunton,
Massachusetts, and twenty-five from the Town Poorhouses in
this State.
The following table shows the number remaining January 1,
1909, of the patients admitted each year since November 7,
1870:
Year.
Admissions.
Bemaining Jan.
1,1909
1870
118
3
1871
68
2
1872
58 „.^
1
1873
53
2
1874
50
59
1
1875
5
1876
76
»
1877
58
4
1878
44
3
1879
84
1
1S80
70
^ ...„ ^,.^
3
1881
96
8
1882
72
3
1888
: 6
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RIPORT OF THE BOARD.
188
Year.
1884
Admissions.
90 . „. ..
Remaining Jan. 1, 1909
4
1885...
1886
137
.._ 143
17
8
1887
U
1888.
„ 161
140
163
la
1889
1890
9
1891
167
188 ....
13
1892
^ 17
1893^
214
30
1891 ^
198
25
1895....
199
29
1896...„
1897.
205
243
26
21
1898
1899
1900
199
216
277
21
„. 27
„ 34
1901
297
„ „.... 45
1902
323
39
1903
1904
340
_. 324
54
59
1905
346
77
1906
876
88
1907
_. _. 183
1908
6,815
1,034
BTATB ALMSHOUSE.
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total.
Number of inmates Jan. 1, 1908 211 211 86 26 484
Received during the year 251 128 20 9 408
Born during the year 9 8 17
Total 462 339 65 43 909
Men. Women. Boys. Girls. Total.
Discharged during the year 112 53 16 11 192
Died during the year 108 70 8 4 190
Total.. .« 220 123 24 15 382
^mfkining Jan. 1, 1909 ^ 216 41 ^ 5?7
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184
BTATB OHABITIBS AND OORRBOTIOITB.
The following table shows the number of inmates, adults and
children, of each sex, in the State Almshouse, on the first day
of January of each year, since the institution was opened for
occupancy in August 1874.
Men.
Women,
Boys.
Girls.
Total.
lates January 1
, 1875...
.... 53
49
18
21
141
1876....
.... 61
62
20
21
164
1877....
.... 68
60
6
8
142
1878....
.... 61
66
9
4
140
1879....
.». 76
71
25
12
184
1880....
.... 71
69
14
8
162
1881....
.... 76
77
21
4
178
1882....
.... 88
66
12
5
171
1883...
.... 91
79
29
22
221
1884....
.... 86
69
30
16
200
1885....
.... 81
72
32
21
206
1886....
.... 103
65
13
12
193
1887....
.... 95
71
15
9
190
1888....
.... 100
72
14
19
205
1889....
.... 115
80
12
23
230
1890....
.... 116
102
17
20
266
1891....
.... 103
100
11
22
236
1892....
.... 103
110
9
13
235
1893....
.... 110
127
14
20
271
1894...
.... 113
133
12
19
277
1895...
.... 114
126
19
18
277
1896...
.... 137
146
28
18
329
1897...
.... 122
136
28
23
309
1898....
.... 152
165
29
31
867
1899....
.... 147
160
31
23
861
1900....
.... 167
169
29
U
376
1901...
.... 174
176
33
13
396
1902....
.... 190
175
36
19
420
i9as....
.... 190
191
81
23
435
1904....
.... 195
192
38
28
468
1905...
.. 225
201
34
24
484
1906...
.... 219
216
37
29
501
1907...
215
231
34
28
508
1908...
211
211
36
26
484
xm,..
_. 242
^16
n
?8
6?7
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RBPORT OP THE BOARD. 135
The number received from the cities and towns of the State
and from other sources were as follows :
From Barrington 3 From Pawtucket 40
BurrillviUe ^ 4 *' Providence 211
Bristol 6 '' Portsmouth 2
** Central Falls 23 " Richmond 3
'' Charlestown 1 '* Scituate 2
'* Coventry 3 '' Smithfield 2
'* Cranston 9 ** South Kingstown 1
'* Cumberland 14 '' Warren 6
'' East Greenwich 2 *' Warwick 31
East Providence 16 "• Westerly „ 3
** Foster 1 '' Woonsocket 20
Glocester 1 *' R. I. S. P. C. to C 1
Hopkinton 1 '' Prov. County Jail 1
** Johnston 3 '' State Workhouse and
** Lincoln 2 House of Correction 1
Newport 12
North Smithfield. 1 Total 425
The above table includes the children born at the Almshouse
who are counted as coming from the same place as their
mothers.
The sum of $6,495.02 was collected for the board of several
of the inmates from the cities and towns of their legal settle-
ment.
REMOVAL OP PAUPERS.
There were removed, during the year, 688 persons. Of this
number, 540 were sent away from the State, 110 of whom were
sent to foreign countries, and 148 were sent to places within
the State.
Eighty-three of the whole number had been inmates of the
Workhouse and House of Correction; fourteen, of the State
Almshouse; forty-one, of the State Hospital for the Insane;
thirteen, of the Providence County Jail; three from the State
Prison: and one from the Sockanosset School.
Included in the above total, 683, there were fifty insane per-
sons, of whom forty-one were from the State Hospital for the
Insane and nine from places where they had been cared for
temporarily.
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186 STATE OHARITIEB AND OORREOTIONS.
LICENSED BOARDING PLACES FOR INFANTS.
Under the provisions of the law licensing and regulating the
receiving, boarding and keeping of infants, forty-one licenses
were issued the past year, sixty-five infant inmates were re-
corded, and ninety-three visits to licensed places were made by
representatives of this department.
The number of licenses in effect December 81, 1908, was
thirty-eight, distributed as follows : Fourteen in Providence,
seven in East Providence, two in Cranston, one in Warwick, one
in Scituate, one in Pawtucket, one in l^arrington, seven in
Newport, one in North Kingstown, one in Oharlestown, one in
Foster, and one in Burrillville.
The following table shows the sums collected each month
during the year ending December 81, 1908, on account of the
several departments of the Agent's work :
State State
Hospital, Almshouse
January $2,207 70 $1,116 06
February .... 1,306 33 472 73
March 1,372 69 323 88
April 1,823 76 1,193 01
May 1,490 31 302 16
June 1,650 93 70 73
July 2,156 40 1,083 19
August 1,625 25 224 87
September.. 1,679 16 53 16
October . 2,065 70 1,154 36
November .. 1,611 82 196 68
December.... 1,509 56 304 19
$20,499 60 $6,495 02 $256 41 $453 39 $148 34 $27 58
PROBATION WORK.
During the past year, 1,168 persons were placed in the custody
of the several probation officers, divided as follows : Men, 489 ;
women, 159; boys, 586; girls, 29.
Ninety-one of these persons were committed to the custody
of the probation officers by the Superior Court of the counties
of Providence, Newport, Washington, Bristol, and Kent, nine
of whom were subsequently surrendered to the Court for
sentence,
Butler
Transport
HospUal
Probation.
tation.
Interest.
$32 49
$64 51
$2 33
28 59
52 22
3 29
44 83
13 53
$57 16
298
13 29
48 42
20 46
d 74
12 86
60 00
24 95
2 76
13 29
42 14
2 12
12 86
91 47
12 36
1 62
13 29
18 00
14 40
2 76
29 49
12 00
360
12 86
600
8 60
13 29
26 30
2 41
29 27
18 80
10 41
1 97
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KBFORT or T« BOARD. 187
During the past year the work of probation in this State has
increased beyond that of any previous year and, without excep-
tion, the work has been handled in a careful and eflBcierrt man-
ner. The growth of the probation system since its modest
beginning in 1898, has been particularly pleasing to
those engaged in the work and cannot but commend the
system to all thoughtful citizens. During the first year
of the operation of the system, 621 persons were put on
probation, while in 1908 there have been no fewer than
1,168.
In 1898, the work was confined to the two probation officers
of Providence, but now, in addition to these, there are probation
officers for the following districts : the cities of Pawtucket and
and Central Falls ; the Fifth and Seventh Judicial Districts ; and
thfecityof Newport. Only by such expansion has it been possi-
ble to care for the ever increasing work entrusted to the proba-
tion officers. It has been found impossible for one oflBcer to keep
in hand more than a limited number of cases and still obtain
the best results.
Rhode Island is entitle to the greatest credit for having been
among the pioneer states in putting the probation system to the
test. The probationary system had been on trial for less than a
year when its success in securing moral improvement among
minors brought about its application to the cases of adult of-
fenders whose offenses were not sufficiently grave to demand
more rigorous treatment. The belief in the efficiency of the
probation system which caused this extension of its field has
been fully justified by the success of the work. The adult
division of the work is today of almost equally far-reaching
importance as the juvenile, alth<»ugh the percentage of failure
is necessarily somewhat higher.
The essential aim in probation work is to bring into degraded,
dejected and unfortunate lives, through personal influence and
familiar intercourse with the probation officers, an element
of justice hitherto little known. Before sentence is pro-
nounced upon an offender, the probation officer steps in as an
investigating agent acquainted in intimate detail with the
surroundings, temptations and all the discouraging influences
tending to induce or promote crimes in those brought to court.
I robt^tion endeavors throuf;h th<? concrete living personality oj
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138 8TATK CHARTTIBS AWD CORRSCTIONS.
its officers to bring abstract and formidable ideas of justice in-
to a tangible reality applicable to every man in his daily life.
Probation strive? to offset deteriorating factors in a person's
career by a fair deal and a chance to move up even tempo-
rarly into a higher plane of living through a change of occupa-
tion, new surroundings and a regenerated moral code. It
provides a remedy for diseased or deformed natures in an effort
to regenerate and to rehabilitate socially those whose tend-
encies are liable to make them a menace to society.
Probation officers must needs be experts in philanthropy and
adepts in social investigation. Unlike amateur charity
workers, they must have no spasmodic periods of enthusiasm,
but must be constantly at their work, despite the changing
seasons. Scientific regularity and thoroughness are theelf men-
tary principles of professional investigation. In the commun-
ity where they work, probation officers stand as a terror to the
evil doer and as an unchanging symbol of the orderly discharge
of mutual (obligations contracted between probationer and
court. Probation officers conscientiously following up their
cases are living illustrations of tho possibilities of justice in
modern conception and interpretation.
Although M regularly constituted juvenile court is lacking in
the city of Providence, its alisence is little felt owning to the
present admirable administration of our judge in the juvenile
division. All offenders of school age report in person every
Saturday morning and working boys report to the probation
officer on two evenings a week. With the steady increase of
probation work in the city of Providence, one need is becoming
more and more urgent. The courts and probation officers are
seriously handicapped by the lack of a school of detention such
as is carried on with markcul success in several other states.
The school at Sockanosset, admiralily suited as it is to those
needs for which it is designed, does not fulfill the requirements
of a school of detention which should be under the personal
supervision of the probation officers.
Since the several probation officers report that the conditions
now prevalent correspond to those reported in former years,
any detailed discussion of them has been omitted. The juve-
niles put in the charge of tin* probation officers have been guilty
of various offenses ranging from truancy to breaking j^nd ente^t
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REPORT OF THE^BOARD. 189
ing, but of the adults a large percentage were charged with
non-support. In many of these latter cases it has been neces-
sary to secure provision for the payment of w^eekly allowances
for the immediate needs of the family, and a large amount has
been collected by the several probation offlcere. In addition to
the regular probationers, many persons are placed in charge of
the probation officers without being arraigned in court. During
the past year more than 250 such cases, forty-seven of whom
were women, came under the care of the officers in the
city of Providence alone. Such cases were also provided for
by the probation officers of the other courts of the State. In a
large percentage of these cases the offenders were strangers
and were returned to their homes in other states.
The relations between the probation officers and various
organizations interested in such work have been as cordial as
ever and thanks are due to them in no small measure for sup-
port. Miss Margaret H. Dennehy in her double capacity as
Superintendent of the Providence Kescue Home and as proba-
tion officer has used the Home to decided advantage in her
probation work and without expense to the State.
Respectfully submitted,
William J. Wallace,
Margaret H. Dennehy,
Thomas B. Maymon,
George L. Smith,
Theophilus Topham,
Jehu Downes,
Assistant Probation Officers.
WALTER R. WIGHTMAN,
State Probation Officer.
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140 8TATB CHARITtEB AKl> OORRBCTIOlTd.
BUTLBR HOSPITAL.
/
Number of patients January 1, 1908...^
Admitted during the year
Total under treatment during the year^
Discharged during the year
K<'maining J(inuary 1, 1909
m.
Women.
Total,
lb
87
162
60
46
106
185
138
268
66
58
124
69
75
144
Of the number discharged, twenty-seven had recovered, forty
were improved, thirty-two were unimproved and twenty-five
had died.
STATISTICS OP STATE PATIENTS.
Kemaining January 1, 1908, State patients
Kemaining January 1, 1908, State beneficiaries..
Admitted during the year, State patients
Admitted during the year, State beneficiaries..
Discharged during the year _.
Died during the year
Remaining January 1, 1909
19
27
46
12
12
24
70
18
8
26
44
Divided as follows:
24 State patients at $70.00 per quarter
16 Stat^ beneficiaries at $25.00 per quarter
4 State beneficiaries at $39.00 per quarter
The total amount paid for the support of the
State patients for the year ending December 31,
1908 was „ $6,188.55
The total amount expended for State benefi-
ciaries was 2,842.58
^031.08
Of those discharged, seven had recovered, five were improved,
six were unimproved and eight had died.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER R. WIGHTMAN,
Agent of State Obarities and Oorrectious,
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OFFICERS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OVERSEERS
OF THE POOR.
PrmderU, A/ D. Roberts. Vice President, Edmund Walker,
Secretary and Treasurer, Thomas B. Maymon.
Executive Committee,
John B. Brown. John Biobbb L. H. Peabody.
Timothy Andrews. Philip Brady.
Arbitration Committee,
John T. Barber. George B. Carpenter. Charles T. Frost.
Elijah Anthony, Walter R. Wightman.
overseers of the poor of RHODE ISLAND WITH THEIR P. 0. ADDRESSES.
Barrington .^ William S. Martin Barringtoii Centre.
Bristol - Philip Brady Bristol.
BurriUviUe Gilbert S. Taft Pascoag.
Central Falls ., Leonidas Franklin Central Falls.
Charlestown Elisha S. Card Shannock.
Coventry Warren M. Greene Washington.
Cranston William O. Towne Cranston.
Cumberland Charles M. Hnling Valley Falls.
East Greenwich ^ Timothy Andrews East Greenwich
East Providence Frank T. Calef, M. D East Providence
Exeter Herbert E. Knight Exeter
Foster ^ Liouis C. Cole Foster Center
Glocester Seth H. Steere ...No. Scituate, R.F.D. 2
Hopkint«m ^ George B. Carpenter Ashaway.
Jame8town.„ Amos M. >'eckham Jamestown.
Johnston James F. Nichols Thornton.
Lincoln Job Ash worth Town Farm, Saylee-
ville, R. F. D.
Little Compton William H. Briggs Little Compton.
Middletown Joseph A. Peck ham. Prns.T'wn Council, Newport
Narragansett James F. (.'ross Narragansett Pier.
Newport James B. Cottrt^l, Ch Overseers of Poor,
Newport.
New Shoreham Charles Littlefleld Block Island.
North Kingston George C. Cranston Lafayette.
North Providence J. W. Naylor Prov. North Station,
Fruit HilK
North Smithfleld Josua Wardle Slatersville.
Pawtncket William M. Peckham Pawtucket.
Providence Matthew J. Cummingn... Piovidenc<^
Portsmouth John B. Cornell Portsmouth.
Richmond Rev. Warren Dawley Kenyon.
Scituate Leander Hopkins No. Scituate
Smithfleld Emor H. Mowry Smithfleld
South Kingstown Edmund Walker Wakefleld.
Tiverton. A. L. Hambly (actincr).... Tiverton.
Warren » Charles H. Bliss Warren.
Warwick Elihu R. Shippee Centreville
West Greenwich George W. Fish Noosneck Hill.
Westerly Ellery Barber Westerly.
Woonaocket ^^.. Adelbert D. Roberts Woonsocket.
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APPENDIX.
ACTS AND RESOLVES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED
AT THE JANUARY SESSION, 1908, RELATING TO THE
BOARD OF STATE CHARITIES AND CORREC-
TIONS, ITS OFFICERS AND THE STATE
INSTITUTIONS IN CRANSTON.
Resolution appropriating the sum of $4,000 to be used by the
board of state charities and corrections for the erection of an
emergency hospital to be built at the state institutions.
(Passed February 12, IttOH)
i^0soiv0d, that the sum of $4,000 be, and the same is hereby
appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the use of the board of state charities and
corrections to be expended under the direction of said board
for the erection of an emergency hospital, to be located on the
grounds of the state institutions in Cranston, R. I.; and the
state auditor is hereby directed to draw his order on the
general treasurer in payment of such portions thereof as may be
required upon receipt by him of properly authenticated
vouchers.
Resolution appropriating $31,000 for the erection of buildings
at the state institutions located at Howard, in the town of
Cranston, R. I.
( Passed May 2«. 190«)
X^soivd, that the sum of $31,000, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, $6,000 of which sum shall
be expended in the erection of a residence for the Superinten-
dent of the state hospital for the insane at Howard, R. I., aad
the balauoe for the erection of a graded school for boys at the
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sockanosBet school : said work to be done under the supervision
of the board of state charities and corrections and the state
auditor is hereby directed to draw his order upon the general
treasurer for the payment of said sum upon the receipt by him
of vouchers approved by said board of state charities and
corrections.
Passed at January Session, A .D. 1908.
Section 3. Section 8 of said Chapter 115 of the General Laws
is hereby amended so as to read as follows :
'"Sec. 3. Said society, under the direction of said district
court, may deliver said child into the keeping or care of the
state probati(m officer or of either of the following societies: —
The Children's Friend Society, The Rhode Island Catholic
Orphan Asylum, St. Mary's Orphanage, The Children's Home,
Saint Vincent de Paul Infant Asylum, Association for the
Benefit of Colored Children, Home for Friendless Children in
Nt^wport. Provided, howwr^ that in delivering the keeping
or care of any such child by the said Rhode Island Society for
the Preventi(m of Cruelty to Children, under the direction of
said court, into the keeping or care of any of said societies,
regard shall be had to the religious belief of the parents of
such child, and whenever the religious affiliations of the
parents can be ascertained, such child shall be placed into the
care or keeping of such society which is of the same religious
belief, or controlled by persons of the same religious belief, as
the parents of said child. Whenever any such child is over
four years of age, said Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children may deliver such child unto the keeping and care
of the Superintendent of the State Home and School, and
whenever such child is under four years of age said society may
deliver such child unto the keeping and care of the State Board
of Charities and Corrections, who shall provide for the main-
tenance of such child under the provision of Chapter 79, Sec-
tions 25 and 26, of the General Laws. iProvtd^d, howvr, that
neither of said societies shall be entitled to the goods and
chattels of said child. Said district court may at any time,
for good cause shown, revoke sj^id decree •"
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JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1908.
AN AOT in amendement of Chapter 82 of the General Laws
**Re8traint and Care of the Insane/'
yi is 0naci0ti 6jf M# S^n^rai Jfss^mhiy as Miowfs/
Section 1. Section 48 of C'hapter 82 of the General Laws is
hereby amended to read as follows :
''Sec. 48. Upon the written application of the parent,
guardian, relative or friend of any insane person, accompanied
by the certificates of two practising physicians that such person
is insane, the hoard of state charities and corrections are here-
by authorized to receive such insane person for care and treat-
ment upon such terms as may be fixed by said board in its
discretion."
Sbc. 2. All acts and parts af acts inconsistent herewith are
hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect from and after
its passage.
JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1908.
AN ACT in amendment of Chapter 82 of the General Laws,
''Restraint and Care of the Insane," as amended by Chapter
576 of tha Public Laws, passed at the May session, A. D. 1898.
Si is 0naci0d 6y M# S^n^rai Jfssemdiy as Miomw
Section 1. Section 50 of Chapter 82 of the General Laws is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 50. The superintendent of the state hospital for the
insane, acting under the direction of the board of state chari-
ties and corrections, may, whenever he shall deem it for the
welfare of any inmate and consistent with the public safety,
permit any of the inmates of the said hospital, committed
thereto under the provisions of sections 1 and 48 of Chapter 82
of the General Laws, to leave the said hospital, temporarily, in
charge of his guardian, relatives or friends, for a period not
exceeding six months, and receive him whenever returned by
said guardian, relatives or friends, within such period, without
further order or commitment."
Skc. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are
hereby repealed, aj](l this act shall take effect from ftnd aftey
its passage.
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FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
. OF THE
BOARD OF '
STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS
OF
RHODE ISLAND
1909. '
Office, State house. (Room 126) Providence.
HOWARD, R. I.
PRINTED AT SOCKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOtS. .
1910.
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF
STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS
OF
RHODE ISLAND
1909.
OFFICE. STATE HOUSE. (ROOM 126) PROVIDENCE.
HOWARD, R. I.
PRINTED AT SOCKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
1910.
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BOARD^OF
STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS OF RHODE ISLAND
chairman:
JAME8 P. McOUHKBR.
secrrtabt:
JAMKH R. READ.
MXMBBBS OP THE BOARD. WITH POST OPFIOB ADDBE88K8:
WALTER A. READ. Providence^ ^ Term expires Feb. 1, 1911.
PHILIPPE BOUOHER. WooNgocKET Term expires Feb. I.IWO.
JAMEB F. McOUHKER, PoNTiAC Term expires Feb. 1, 1»16.
GEORGE R. LAWTON, Tiverton „Term expires Feb. 1. 1916.
ROBERT F. RODMAN. Allenton„ Term expires Feb. 1, 1914.
HARRY H. HHEPARD. Bristol Term expires Feb. 1. 1918.
HORACE F. HORTON. Providence ^ Term expires Feb. 1. 191S.
8. WILLARD THAYER. Pawtitckkt - Term expires Feb. 1, 1910.
FRANOILLO G. JILLHON. Providence Term expires Feb. 1. 1912
AoeiU of State C?uuities and Corrections:
WALTER R. WIGHTMAN, Providence.
Superintendent, State Hospital for Insane:
ARTHUR H. HARRINGTON, M. D.
Suj)erintenfientt Workhmme and House oj Correction and State Alnwhouse:
FREDERICK B. JEWETT. M. D.
Warden, State Prison and Keeper of Providence Cminty JaU:
ANDRE W J. WILCOX.
Si^erintendent, Sockanosset School far Boys:
BZEKIEL E. GARDNER.
Superintendent, Oaklawn School for Girls:
CLARA F. FORBUBH.
Deputy Superintendent, State Hospital for the Insane:
GEORGE E. BIMPBON. M. D.
Deputy Superintendens, Worhhouse and House of Correction:
TIMOTHY P. DODGE.
Deputy Superintendent, Almshouse:
ASA L. MAY.
Deputy Warden, State Prison:
8. EDMUND BLOOUM.
Resident Physician, State Institutions:
HENRY A. JONEB, M. D.
Assistant Physicians at the State Hospital for the Insane:
EDGAR I. HANSOOM. M. D. ELI8HA H. COHOON. M. D.
WILLIAM B.TREADWAY, M. D.
Internes, State Institutions:
THOMAS MOURNINGTON, M. D. GEO. A. ANDERTON. M. D,
RALPH C. AC HORN, M. D.
Pharmacist:
EVERETT P. CORLISS.
Religious Instructor, Staie Institutions:
CHARLES B. SWSR.
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CONTENTS.
Report of the Board: Paob.
AlmBhouse 40
Appointment of members and change of otflcers 9
Oonstructlon— Additional bulldlnffs needed; appropriation of $800,000
Insufficient U
Hospital for the Insane, Improvements 18
Prison and Jail; temporary buildings and new boilers... 14
Sockanosset School ; ref rifreratlng room and disposal of
sewage ...^ ^ ~ 14
Cost of maintenance — 78
Oropt raised at Hospital for the Insane ^ ^ — 86
Oropt raised at State Farm — 8©
Crops raised at Prison and Jail ^ 48
Orops raised at Hockanosset Hchool 68
Orops raised at Oaklawn Rchool <J?
Daily average of inmates ^.^ 78
Estimate of expenditures for IWO ^ 78
Finances <J7
Hospital for the Insane W
Land, purchase of „ - 16
Oaklawn Bohool for Girls «>
Prison and Providence Ck)unty Jail » ». 44
Report of Washington County Jail fl6
Report of Bristol County Jail ^ 66
Report of Kent County Jail ^ <S8
Report of Newport County Jail _ «4
Bookanosset School for Boys 49
Workhoiue and Home of Oorreotlon. .^ ^..-^.-.^.^^ 80
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Meetings of the Board — — 76
Statement ol appropriations, etc. — 75
Statement of money oolleoted ^ « — 77
Statement of salaries — 7»
Report of tlie Agent of State Oliaritles and Oorreotlons 186
Report of tlie Proyldenoe Ooant j Jail, statistics ~ — 118
Report of the Dental Surgeon - « ~. 186
Reports of the Probation OfQoers ^ ^ — 141
Report of the Religions Instructor ^ ~ 184
Report of the Bockanosset School, statistics _ „ — IM
Report of the State Prison, statistics 118
Report of the Workhouse and House of Correction, statistics 106
Appendix— Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly passed at the January
Session, 1W9. relating to the Board of State Obarities and Correc-
tions, etc. 147
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FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Board of State Charities and Corrections.
To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Rhode
Island, at its January Session, 1910.
The Board of State Charities and Corrections respectfully
present their report for the year ending December 81, 1909, as
required by (Chapter 860, Section 18, of the General Laws of
Rhode Island (Revision of 1909).
Mr. James F. McOusker, of Warwick, and Mr. George R. Law-
ton, of Tiverton, were reappointed members of the Board by
His Excellency, Governor Aram J. Pothier, at the January Ses-
sion, 1909.
Mr. Francello G. Jillson, of Providence, was appointed mem-
ber of the Board by His Excellency, Governor Aram J. Pothier,
April 14, 1909, to fill the position made vacant by the resigna-
tion of Mr. John J. Watson, Jr.
The following resolution was passed by the Board, April 16,
1909:
*'Wherea8, Mr. John 3. Watson, Jr., having tendered his
resignation as a member of this Board and the same having
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10 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
been accepted by His Excellency, Governor Aram J. Pothier,
it is therefore
S^9soio9ti, That we, until recently his associates of the Board,
desire to convey to him, and do place upon record, an expres-
sion of our deep regret that the connection so long and pleas-
antly maintained between himself and ourselves must now be
severed, and of our belief that in his retirement the State loses
an officer, and the Board and all associated with them in their
work, an adviser and friend, whose ability and management of
affairs, and whose sterling character have won the respect and
admiration of all associated with him.
S^9soi99ti, That in his retirement from the Board, we feel an
inexpressible regret, and that to each of us it is a loss of a
valued associate and a highly esteemed friend.''
Mr. Ezekiel E. Gardner was appointed Superintendent of the
Sockanosset School for Boys, January 15, 1909.
Mrs. Olara F. Forbush was appointed Superintendent of the
Oaklawn School for Girls, January 15, 1909.
Dr. Fred B. Jewett was appointed Superintendent of the State
Farm, May 7, 1909.
Dr. Ervin A. Randall was appointed by the Board, December
17, 1909, Dental Surgeon of the State Institutions in Cranston.
The Board had, from time to time, employed a dental surgeon
at the Institutions, and had learned by experience that the
continuous services of this official were necessary.
p. & Mr, Jofeph Jalbert, of Woontocket, wu avpoMtd member af the Board Janucuv If, 1910, by
His ExceUencu, Governor Aram J. Pothier, to mcceed Mr. Philippe Boucher tohote term expires January
31. 1910.
Mr. FranceUo O. JUlson reeigned his membership, January 11, 1910, and was rmppoinled Jamiofv lU
1910, member of the Board, by His Excdlency, Oovemor Pothier. Mr. JUlson had been appointed
member from the County of Newport through an error which was recHJIed by reappointment as member
at large.
Mr. Qeorge R. Lawton, also, resigned his membership, January It, 1910, and was reappointed January
lU, 1910, as member from the County of Newport, instead of member at large, by His Excellency, Oovemor
Pothier.
Mr.S. WHlard Thayer was reappointed memberofthe Board for six years, January U, 1910, by His
Eaxelleney. Oovemor Aram J. Pothier.
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CONSTRUCTION.
At the January Session of the General Assembly, 1908, it
was
X9soi99ti, To submit to the people of the State, for their
approval or rejection, a proposition to issue bonds of the State
in the sum of $800,000, to be expended in permanent improve-
ments at the State Institutions in the town of Cranston.
At the General election in November, 1908, the proposition
to issue bonds was approved by the people.
At the Session of the General Assembly, January, 1909, the
General Treasurer was authorized to issue the above named
bonds, and the sum of $300,000, from the proceeds of their
sale, was appropriated for permanent improvements at the
State Institutions in Cranston, to be expended under the direc-
tion of the Board of State Charities and Corrections.
This appropriation will not, the Board believe, meet the
large and urgent needs of the Institutions. It was much
smaller than the Board's estimate of their requirements.
With the means provided, the Board might add wings to ex-
isting buildings, or small inexpensive buildings migJit be erect-
ed as temporary expedients, as in several instances has been
done; but such construction is unsatisfactory and, soon, it will
be of little value, when larger, more commodious and up-to-
date buildings are imperatively called for by the public.
A specimen of inexpensive construction can be seen in the
yard of the Prison and Jail. We refer to the cellarless, wooden
building, provided with 182 bunks for Jail inmates and built in
1894 at a per capita cost of about twenty-six dollars. This
building is still in use as a dormitory.
This view of conditions and needs at the Institutions applies
especially to the Hospital for the Insane where most of the
buildings are old and inconvenient and have already been
publicly criiicised. The Board believe that were the $800,000,
to be expended wholly at the Hospital for the Insane, it would
not suffice to raise the standard of that institution to the stand-
ard of similar institutions in many other states.
For many years much larger accommodations have been great-
ly needed at the Jail, and when, in 1894, the General Assembly
authorized the construction of a new Jail, the sum of three
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hundred thousand dollars was named as its probable cost. The
authority to build was subsequently rescinded.
That large expenditures are now needed at the Institutions is
not surprising when we consider that during the eighteen years
that have passed since the completion of the Almshouse, the
number of persons at the Institutions has increased l)y about
one thousand, and tliat the appropriations made for permanent
improvements (land and buildings) for them during that period
have been far from adequate, the increase of inmates having
been largely provided for by excessive crowding of buildings
and by makeshift structures that have been mentioned in pre-
vious reports. The aggregate of appropriations during the
period named was, indeed, less than half the sum required for
accommodations such as are now being provided in our own as
well as in other states. At least a million and a half dollars
were needed for the purpose and the aggregate of appropria-
tions made for permanent improvements was less than six
hundred thousand.
To indicate the scale of cost of such accommodations as are
being provided elsewhere for institutions similar to the State
Institutions in Oranston, the following instances are given.
Buildings of the kind that public opinion now demands for the
care and treatment of the insane and such as are required to
hold criminals securely and without undue austerity are ex-
pensive; and so, too, are those for the proper care of the poor
and the sick.
Providence has just now completed a hospital for contagious
diseases that has cost about $1,700 per bed.
Regarding the prospective cost of a new hospital for the in-
sane in the District of Columbia, the following statement was
made in the report for 1907 of the District of Columbia Board
of State Charities.
''The average number of District patients in the Government
Hospital for the Insane in 1907 was 1,260. To provide the same
accommodations, as now needed by these patients, would in-
volve the expenditure of approximately two and one half
millions of dollars. At a conservative estimate, buildings that
would afford such accommodations as these patients now enjoy
at the Government Hospital for the Insane would cost $2,000
per bed.''
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There were 1,101 patients in the Rhode Island Hospital for
the Insane, January 1, 1910.
The foregoing, we trust, gives sufficient evidence to show
that the appropriations for permanent improvements at the In-
stitutions in Cranston have not been sufficient for many years
to maintain them at a proper sta»)dard as regards accommoda-
tions and that the result of the failure to do this has been
cumulative, so that now a large expenditure is necessary.
Under the direction of the Committee on Buildings and Re-
pairs, plans are now being prepared of several of the buildings
that the Board believe to be needed ; namely, a new Jail similar
to the one described in the report of the Board for 1894, which, as
said before, was to cost about three hundred thousand dollars;
a Reception Hospital at the State Hospital for the Insane, 461
feet long, to consist of a Central Building of three stories, with
a wing of two stories on either side for patients; a Trades' School
for the Sockanosset School for Boys; an Administration Building
for the Board, and a residence for the ^'Superintendent of the
State Farm'' having charge of the Workhouse and House of
Correction and the Almshouse and so much of the farm as is
not set off to the other Institutions.
Definite plans for additional accommodations at the Alms-
house have not yet been prepared, but the Board have in view
the construction, by Institution labor, of a building for the sick
of the Almshouse. The problem of how best to provide for the
needs of the Almshouse contains some uncertain factors.
When the proposed new accommodations at the Hospital for
the Insane are completed, so that it will be able to care for the
quiet insane patients who for many years have been cared for
at the Almshouse, and when sufficient accommodations are pro-
vided at the Rhode Island School for the Feeble Minded to
enable it to take from the Almshouse those of that class now
there, the needs of the Almshouse will be somewhat lessened.
During the year 1909, the following items of construction
were accomplished or begun :
HOSPITAL FOR THK INSANE.
The former residence of the Superintendent of the State
Farm,, a house bought with the Howard farm in 1869, has been
repaired and improved for the occupation of the Superintendent
of the Hospital for the Insane.
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14 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
A large amount of repairs has been done upon the steam-pipes
conveying steam from the central boiler-house to the several
buildings, and the underground conduit, through which the
steam-pipes are laid, was extended eighty-five feet.
Two poultry-houses, each fifty feet long, an incubator and a
brooding-house were built for the hennery.
STATE ALMSHOUSE^
Work was continued in 1^09 upon a stone building, measuring
110 by 28 feet, to accommodate fifty men, in the Almshouse
yard. The building was described in the report of 1908. The
labor was supplied by the mechanics and inmates of the Insti-
tutions. At the close of 1909 it was practically completed.
STATE PRISON Af<D PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL.
A temporary shed and stable and a temporary dining-room
were built at these Institutions.
Two Babcock & Wilcox boilers were put in to replace two
old boilers.
flOCKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
An addition for a refrigerating-room has been attached to the
Main Building. It measures ten by six by twenty-six feet and
is an extension of the central part of the basement northward.
The front door of the building is immediately above and the
steps which led up to itarenow at the north end of the addition,
the top of which is flat surrounded with a parapet waJl. By
covering this flat area by a roof and by placing sash above the
parapet in cold weather, there will be provided a convenient
lobby, or porch, outside of the front door.
The work was done wholly by boys of the School and con-
forms in construction with the Main Building.
Three covered cepspoole have been constructed to intercept
the sewage of the School. Each cesspool is fifteen feet in di-
ameter and they measure in depth fifteen, eighteen and twenty-
four feet, respectively. A large amount of addtional leaching
surface is provided by trenches filled with stone and covered
with earth. The entire structure is below the surface of the
ground.
The location is about eleven hundred feet southwesterly from
the former outlet of the main drainage-pipe of the School, which
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 16
has been connected with the cesspools by an eight-inch pipe.
The work was done by the boys.
PURCHASE OF LAND.
An area of land measuring approximately twenty-five acres
was purchased May 19, 1909, from Edwin Corning. The land is at
the southwest corner of the New London turnpike, so-called, and
the Sockanosset cross-road. It is bounded on one side by land
of the Oity of Providence and on the other sides by land own-
ed by the State. The cost was $1,881.18, including the expense
of surveying, etc., ($81.18).
The present area of the territory of the State Institutions in
Cranston measures about 781 acres.
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16 BTATE CHAKITIE8 AND CORRECTIONS.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
fSupertnientieni.' Dr. ArTHUR H. HARRINGTON.
^Deputy ^upi.f Dr. GeORQK E. SiMPSON.
At the close of the year 1908, there were in the State
Hospital for the Insane 1084 patients ; at the close of 1909 there
were 1101 patients, an increase of 87 during 1909.
The number admitted in 1909 was 861; in 1908 the number
admitted was 845.
In 1909, 210 patients were discharged or paroled, the same
nuinl)er as in 1908.
The number of deaths in 1909 was 123; in 1908 the number
was 121.
The largest number of patients in the Hospital in any one
day in 1909 was 1104, while the daily average number was 1067.
In 1908 tiie daily average was 1024.
Plans for an a<lditional building at the Hospital for the In-
sane are being prepared. This is spoken of under ^'Construc-
tion.'*
The following is the report of Dr. Harrington :
7To M# S^oard o/fSiaie Charities anti Corrections/
Gentlemen: — In presenting this report I am conscious that
it is desirable to set forth the operations of the Hospital for the
year in as brief form as is consistent with the amount of in-
formation required for your purposes, and that in stating the
present and future needs of the hospital such reports should be
shorn of all cant phraseology."
"'I do not think, however, that we can be justly accused of
the latter fault if we employ only such expressions as give
emphasis to the vital truth. In reviewing the reports of the
Hospital, which have been annually presented, there is re-
corded the growth in the numbers of the patients from year to
year, and there are repeated appeals for increased accommoda-
tions and means for all the administrative and working needs
of the Hospital."
''I will respectfully put the question : What is it that lies at
the heart of these appeals? I will endeavor to answer it, but first
allow me to state what it is not. It is not the desire to ascer-
tain how much money we can obtain from the State treasury;
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 17
it is not that we may have a proud part in the material creation
of an imposing hospital plant; it is not that we may gather
around us a corps of assistants and employees to do our bidding ;
but underneath and permeating all these appeals lies a Cause;
a Cause which, when understood, addresses itself to conscience,
to ethical sense, to humanitarian instinct. It is the Cause of
the Insane in the State of Rhode Island.''
''The vital truth which I wish to impress is that the insane
committed to State care in Rhode Island have a Cause. No
one can doubt this when we are ready to show any inquirer that
our wards are crowded far beyond the limits of their capacity,
that an acute case on entering the hospital may, under the
necessity of present conditions, have to be thrust into a ward
containing from fifty to one hundred patients, where he may see
every form of mental disease and every known manifestation of
the disease, and where his own mental distress may be aug-
mented by the sights and sounds around him."
''In the evolution of the care of the insane, physicians, as
they have gained in knowledge of mental diseases, and have
acquired rational views of their management, have struggled
with boards of control, and boards of control, as they have be-
come enlightened, have in turn struggled with legislatures for
recognition of the many requirements of those entrusted to
their charge."
"As we trace these efforts, the successful appeal has not in-
frequently been made through an education of the general
public. Within recent years I believe there has been a uni-
versal awakening to the knowledge that the insane man is a
sick man, entitled to all the sympathy that a generous and
enlightened people can bestow and to all the aids which medical
science can summon. I believe that there are indications that
this awakening has extended to the general public of this State
and that the public mind has acquired a grasp of the true con-
ception of mental affections and a realizing sense of the need
of new adjustments to meet the requirements of the recognized
standards of the day, and that our citizens are ready and anx-
ious to support their legislative representatives in the adoption
of a broad and liberal basis in dealing with the Cause of the
Insane.''
''Your Board has long been fully cognizant of this Cause, and
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18 8TATB CHAKITIBS AND COKKSCTIOlfS.
already, as the result of your deliberations, we are inspired by
the hope that before many months we shall have here a Recep-
tion Hospital, a separate structure, which shall be a hospital in
every sense of the word for the first care of the acute and new
cases."
*'But it must be borne in mind that a Reception Hospital
deals with but one of the numerous phases of our work of Stat-e
Oare of the Insane/'
''Without discussion of details I will recount once more the
recommendations that have on previous occasions been made to
your Board, both formally and informally, which, I believe, are
necessary of adoption in order that there may be a proper ad-
justment to present conditions and to provide for the near
future."
''First. To relieve the crowded condition, we should at once
plan for additional wards for men."
"Second. We should start a "Colony", so-called, at some
distance from the main plant on our Hospital lands, for at least
ten per cent, of our men."
"Third. We should begin as soon as possible the renovation
of our one story stone structures and carry them up two stories."
"Fourth. Increased laundry facilities are an imperative
necessity."
"Fifth. We should construct the building already planned
and so long needed for ofSce and officers' quarters."
"Sixth. I strongly recommend that there should be a con-
sideration of the adoption of the "Family Oare System", as
practiced for twenty-five years in Massachusetts and as ex-
plained in previous reports."
"The State by statutory enactment has assumed, and that
wisely, the responsibility for the care of the dependent insane.
It must meet this responsibility with credit to itself. To carry
out the provisions for so doing obviously cannot be done with-
out cost. This aspect of the subject is a prime consideration
with the taxpayer, but experience is everywhere demonstra-
ting that an economic value is derived in dealing with all our
social problems in the most enlightened and scientific manner.
The adoption of the best care which can be given the insane is
a matter of financial policy. It has been shown that in the
development of the wealth of a state, the life of each individ-
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KIPORT OF THE BOARD. 19
ual has an estimated financial value of $200 per annum. The
average duration of life of the chronic insane is twelve years.
Let us, by way of illustration, place the total cost of maintain-
ing a patient at the State Hospital at Howard at $150 per year.
Then the total cost to the State per year for each year that the
patient remains in the Hospital is the loss of his social finan-
cial value plus the cost of his maintenance at the Hospital, or
a total of $860 per year, which in twelve years would amount
to $4,200. Without argument, is this statement not sufficiently
conclusive to convince every fair minded person that on the
financial consideration we should not sacrifice any measure
which offers a prospect of aiding the return of a patient to his
home or to the ranks of the bread-winner?"
**A8 bearing upon the necessity for immediate action to pro-
vide for present numbers and future growth I desire to sulimit
the following significant figures."
''The daily average number of patients in the State Hospi-
tal for the Insane for the year 1890 was 507; for the year 1895 it
was 621 ; for the year 1900 it was 740 ; for the year 1905 it was 960 ;
for the year 1909 the daily average was 1067, while the largest
number present on any one day in 1909 was 1104,"
'*The whole number of persons cared for in certain years to
be named, which includes the number present on the first day
of January of these years and the number committed in each
year designated, shows the following progression."
'In 1890 it was 666 ; in 1895 it was 808 ; in 1900 it was an even
one thousand; in 1905 it was 1270 and in 1909 it was 1466."
'*The total number of commitments to the State Hospital
for the Insane during the ten year period ending Dec. 81, 1899
was 1992. During the ten year period ending Dec. 31, 1909 it
was 8879. That is, within the last decade the number of com-
mitments was greater than during the preceding decade by 69
per cent."
"In 1890 the number of cases committed was one to each 2119
persons of the total population of the State. In 1895 it was one
to each 1933; in 1900, one to each 1547 ; in 1905, one to each 1887.
This is as far as the census returns to date will allow of compu-
tation."
"In 1890 the daily average number of patients resident at the
State Hospital was one to each 681 of the total population of the
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20 BTATS CHARITTE8 AND CORRKOTIOITB.
State. In 1895 it was one to each 619 ; in 1900, one to each 579 ;
in 1905, one to each 500/'
*'In respect to the number of the insane in our State Hospi-
tal and the proportion of this number to the population, our
position is not different from that of many other states which
are thickly settled and growing."
"In most of our states the proportion of the insane cared for
in state hospitals is about the same as here and in a few it is
considerably greater.''
*'Rhode Island has been a rapidly growing state, increasing
from 845,508 in ISJK) to the present number estimated by Ool.
Geo. H. Webb, the Supervisor of the Census of Rhode Island,
at, I believe, approximately 580,000. To this growth must be
attributed mainly our numerical problem in State care of the
insane."
"With each five hundred increase in the population of the
State we can reasonably expect to have to provide for at least
. an additional insane person under our system of state care of
the insane."
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
"We have put up a structure for the temporary housing of
kitchen and dining-room refuse, thoroughly protected by fly-
screening."
"We have also completed the screening, for protecting
against flies, of our entire Congregate Dining Hall and Service
Building."
"We have built two poultry houses, each fifty feet in length,
and have practically completed an incubator and brooder-
house."
"We have been obliged to make extensive renewals of old
steam and water piping, putting in 860 feet of four inch steam
pipe and 800 feet of two inch return pipe, with necessary valves
and fittings."
"We have renewed a portion of the steam drum in the boiler
house."
"We have replaced old water pipes in the basements of some
of the wards, using 485"feet''of "galvanized iron piping, with nec-
essary valves and fittings.''
"We have connected our high and low pressure water service,
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REPORT OF THB BOARD. 21
installing 686 feet of four inch cast iron piping, thus giving a
better water supply to old parts of the Institution/'
*'We have added 85 feet to our system of tunnels for steam-
pipes, thus giving another building better connection with our
main heating supply."
"^Extensivs repairs and alterations are being made in the
Superintendent's residence."
GBNBRAL HBALTH OF THB PATIENTS AND EMPLOYEES.
Notwithstanding the overcrowded condition of the Hospital,
the general health of those resident here has been very good.
During the summer we had an epidemic of acute dysentery.
The patients were at once isolated, as far as could be done, in
a tent. A similar, though more extensive, epidemic has re-
cently occurred at the Danvers, Mass., State Hospital. There
an exhaustive study on every line of inquiry was made and the
conclusion arrived at was that flies were the carriers of the
pathogenetic germs. The lesson to be learned from this and
other experiences is that fly-screening of all buildings is a
measure which protects life and is also one of economy. While
tents have their uses, yet for diseases which insects may carry,
or if it is necessary to serve food in them, they are unsuitable.
I think that in their place airy structures of wood thoroughly
screened are far superior ; a suggestion which I think it would
be wise to carry out here."
''One patient, a woman of forty-nine, committed sucide by
hanging. The patient was not suspected of suicidal tendencies,
as she had habitually expressed herself as being happy. Never-
theless she had been under close observation. Within fifteen
minutes of the time when visited by a nurse, she hung herself
by means of her bed clothing fastened to a window guard."
* 'There have been a few accidents to patients, all of a minor
character, and no fatalities have resulted from such causes."
GIFTS.
"We are indebted to the following named persons among the
friends of the Hospital for various gifts."
"Mrs. Harriet E. Reynolds; records and needles for the Vic-
tor Talking Machine."
"Mrs. A, R. French; flowers for the wards on several
occasions.' *
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22 STATE bHARtTtES AifD CORJlKCTtoijd.
*'Rev. 0. Oonal McKay; papers and pamphlets/'
''William J. Rice; magazines/'
''Rev. Charles D. Crane; reading matter."
"Walter R. Wightman : cigars and confectionery for the pa-
tients' summer outing."
"Women's Christian Temperance Union; a case of oranges,
Jan. 2l8t; oranges and flowers, June 9th."
AMUSEMBNTS AND EKTERTAISMENT8.
Weekly dances have been held in the Assembly Hall through-
out the year with the exception of the summer months."
"We have tried the experiment of employing a professional
teacher of dancing, several weeks, with success. The patients
have been perfected in the figures of the square dances and many
patients have learned the round dances. We have found that
the employment of an instructor has led both patients and em-
ployees to take part in the dancing in greater numbers, all of
which contributes to the physical and mental benefits which
the patients derive from this exercise."
"Feb. 9th, members of theSaylesville Cong. Church Sunday
School presented a drama entitled, "Men, Maids and Match-
makers."
"March 8th, and 11th, several of the officers of the Hospital
presented the farce-comedy, "Captain Racket."
"March 18th, the First Band, Coast Artillery Brigade, under
the leader-ship of Lieut. Walter L. Anthony, gave us a band
concert in the Congregate Dining Hall."
"April 1st, through the kindness of Rev. 0. Conal Mckay,
we were given a musical entertainment by ladies and gentlemen
of his acquaintance."
"Sept. 9th, about 150 patients were given an outing and
shore dinner at Palace Gardens."
"In closing this report I desire to refer to the service of our
assistants and faithful employees who are performing a noble
service for the Hospital and the State. There are men and
women here who have stood by their arduous and trying tasks
day by day the past year, some of them even for repeated
years, displaying both patience and zeal."
"I desire to express my thanks to your Board for the favors
shown me the past year and especially for providing a com-
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RBPORT OF THB BOARD. 28
fortable and commodious Superintendent's Residence, and for
your readiness in giving official consideration to my various
suggestions."
1 have the honor to remain,
Very respectfully yours,
ARTHUR H. HARRINGTON,
SUFKRINTBNDENT.
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StATfe CHARrriteS A!n> COttRlSCTtONCl.
GENERAL RTATI8TI08 FOR THE YEAR.
Number of i>atlents January 1, 1000..
admitted durlnir the year..
" returned from i>arole
" escaped Inmates returned .
Total number of cases during the year..
Number discharged during the year..
paroled during the year
** escaped during the year.,
*• leaving voluntarily
*' died duiing the year
Total number leaving the Hospital
Number remaining Deceml)er 81, 1000.
Daily average number of patients
Males.
FemalfJt.
TotaU.
m
4H\
1084
200
158
801
M
28
46
10
0
10
800
060
1450
K
7
20
05
83
180
22
0
2i
1 •
0
1
7fi
4«
188
216
140
856
AGES OF PATIENTS ADMITTED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
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llKtK)Rt Of THIS BOABD.
AGES OP PATFKNTH WHO DTK I).
25
AQR PERIODS.
Fifteen to twenty years^
Twenty to twenty-tlve yeara^
Twenty -Ave to thirty yenra....
Thirty to thirty-five years
Thirty-five to forty yesrs^ ,
Forty to fifty years „
Fifty to sixty years
Sixty to seventy years
Seventy to eighty years
Klghty years and over
Totals ....
Average age .
OOOUPATION8 OF PATIENTS ADMITTRD.
MALES.
Actor « ^ 1
Acrent 1
Baken 2
Barbers „ 2
Bartenders ^ 8
Blacksmiths 8
Bottler „ 1
Brakemen 2
Butcher 1
Oarpenters ^ _ 0
Cigar Makers S
Clerks „ 5
Coachman 1
DentUt 1
Engineers, Stationary 2
EngraTer 1
Electrician « ^. l
Farmers ^ 6
Fl renien 2
Florists 2
Fishermen . 8
Harness maker 1
Jeweler 1
Laborers 28
Machinists 14
Masons ,
Moulders
Musicians
Operatives, Mill
'* Jewelry .
Rubber ..
Oyster man
Palntera
Peddler
Policeman
Printer
Physicians
Sailors
Sea Captain
Shoemakers
Soldier
Stenographer
Student
Storekeepers
Teamsters
Tinsmith
Undertaker
No occupation^
8
2
2
80
13
6
1
5
Total..
27
.20»
FEMALES.
Artist _ 1
At home 7
Olerk „ _ 1
Dressmakers 6
Domestics 82
Housekeepers ._ ^ 15
Housewives 45
Nurses : 4
Operatives. Mill 20
" Jewelry 2
Saleswomen 8
Teacher „ -... 2
Unknown 4
None - - 10
Total 162
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STATfe CHARtTlBS AND C0BBICTI0M8.
(JAUSKS OV DKATH WITH FORMS OF MKNTAL U18KAMKS
DI9KASR8.
^
1. Diseases of Nervous System '
Apoplexy 0
Kximiistlonfroin Motor Kxci lenient 1
DiMiientla Paralytica { u
Sliock from Injury i 0
8latU8 Kplleptfcus 0
Orebral Syphilis 0
2. Diseases of Circulatory System....
Arterlo Sclerosis 0
Ht^art Failure 0
Valvular lesions , 0
Myofardltls i 0
8. l)lsf»ast»s of Respiratory System '
lioltar Pneumonia i 0
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 0
4. Diseases of Dljrestlve System-..
Acute Knterltls
Acute Cholangitis
(dancer of Liver
I nlestlnal 01>structlon „
Intestinal Tuberculosis
5. Diseases of Genltor-urlnary System,
(Chronic Intestinal Nephritis
(Chronic Parenchymatous Nephritic
6. Kxternal causes
Suicide by hanging..
Totals
RKSIDKNOR BY COUNTIES OP PATIENTS ADMITTED.
0OnKTIK8.
Bristol
Kent
Newport
Providence .
Washington
Totals .
MaUt.
F^maUi.
TotaU,
9
t
IS
19
8
n
10
18
»
196
ISS
m
0
7
11
90»
162
Ml
CIVIL CONDITION OF PATIENTS ADMITTED.
CX>NDITION.
Males.
Fmalet,
ToUiU.
Single
89
81
S3
8
0
U
68
61
89
1
S
1
147
Married _
US
Widowed „
61
Divorced
7
Separated ^
Unknown. „
S
IS
Totals^
S09
118
Ml
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P\tlBNT8 RKOKIVKI) ON FIRRT AND HITBRKQITKNT dOMMITNf KNT8.
NUMBBR OP CX>MMITMKNTS.
Ktrst to this Hospital...
Hecond to this Hospital
Third to this Hospital...
F*oarth to this Hospital
Totals
rvw« rammUted.
Males.
186
19
i
a
Females,
137
10
8
Totals.
822
29
4
6
209
152
Ml
EDUOATION OF PATIENTS ADMITTED.
Oollege
HlKh School
Oraiuiuur Hcliool..
Primary Hcliool....
None ,
UnlcDown
Totalb
Males.
Females.
ToUds.
7
1
8
0
16
21
74
51
125
73
5S
181
H»
10
29
80
17
47
209
152
iMl
PROBABLE CAUSES OF MENTAL DISEASES OF PATIENTS ADMITTED.
CAT7S1CS.
Males.
Females.
Totals.
Alcoholism la Parents ,
18
2
12
tt
49
11
95
0
0
1
0
0
0
7
0
I
(»
0
0
17
67
20
4
12
8
10
2
22
7
9
0
i
1
1
6
1
0
1
1
2
17
82
88
Nervous Diseases in Parents
(}
Insanity in Parents
24
Insanity in Grandparents
u
Alcoholism in Patient
69
Syphilis
18
DefectlvA Mental Ba«l«
47
ChildbearlnK
7
Clhnacterum
9
Pul>erty
1
Tulierculosis
1
Typhoid Fever
1
(^ardiac Disease
1
Arterlo Sclerosis
12
Spinal Meningitis
1
Injury to Heart
1
Destitution
1
Surgical Operation
Morohinism
1
4
Over work ...
2
Old Age „
84
Unlcnown . .
89
Totala.-
209
152
861
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28 STATE OHARITTES AND OORRECTIONB.
FORMH OF MENTAL DISEASKS OF PATIENTS AT)MITTE1>.
Mnlfff.
Fmuilr^.
Totah,
1. I nfoclloii Psychoses
2. Exhaustion Psychoses
8. 1 ntoxlcntlon Psychoses
(ft» Acme Alcoholic Psychoses
Deltiiuiii Tremens
Acute Aicoliollc Hallucinations
('hronlc Alcoholic Psychoses
Alcoholic Hallucinatory Dementia..
Alcoholic Paranoia
Kerssokows" Psychoses
Simple Alcoholic Deterioration
Morphinism -
(b)
• c)
Totals..
Dementia Praecox
Hel>*^phrenlc Form..
(Catatonic Forui
Paranoid Form
Totals..
Dementia Paralytica...
J)emonted Form...
Depressive Form..
Expansive Form...
Totals..
Organic l>ementl&s
Apoplexy
Cerebral Syphilis,.
Cerebral Truma
Totals..
Involution Psychoses..
Melancholia
Senile Dementia...
Totals..
Manic Depressive Insanity..
Manic States ,
Depressive States
Totals.,
16
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28
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PsychoKenlc Neuroses
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Psychopathic Personalities
l>efectlve Mental I^evelopment..
10
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Idiocy
I
2
1
9
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4
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6
6
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18
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REPORT or THE BOARD.
86
The products of the farm of the State Hospital for the In-
sane in 1909 were as follows :
Apples . ^ 48 bu.
Asparasus ^. 888H lbs.
Beans, green „ SM bu.
Beans, lima 18^ bu.
Beef- 487 lbs.
Beet.ffreens 4 bu.
Beets, mangle 1116H bu.
Beets, table 426M bu.
Blackberries » 4S6 qts.
Broom corn 4 tons
Brussels sprouts 68 bu.
Cabbage ^ ^ 18800 heads
Calve sklns^ 20
Carrots ^ > 470 bu.
Cauliflower 828 heads
Celery „. (S800 heads
Chickens » ^ 160>i lbs.
Corn, pop „ - 28}^ bu.
Corn, fodder, dry._ „ li tons
Corn, fodder, green„ 74 tons
Corn, green 17090 ears
Cucumbers. 146 bu.
Cucumber pickles^ 21 bbls.
Dandelion greens „ 224 bu.
Ducks „ f» lbs.
Eggs „ 706H doz.
Egg plants 60
Grapes 4 bu.
Gooseberries ^ 8 qts.
Hay, first crop _. 88 tons
Hay. second crop 8 tons
Hides
Hungarian millet
lettuce. ^ ,
Melons, musk
Melons, water„
Milk
14
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. 180 bun.
. 1201
. 886
. 87072 qts.
Oat fodder 6(^ tons
Ontons 270 bu.
Parsnips 180 bu.
Peas, green 100 bu.
Pears 8 bu.
Pork 4608 lbs.
Potatoes 8792 bu.
Poultry 291H lbs.
Peaches l>i bu.
Peppers 66 bu.
Quinces . 8 bu.
Radishes « 80 bu.
Rareripes ^ 2906 doz.
Rhubarb ^.—^ 6277 lbs.
Rye - IflO bu.
Rye straw 2^ tons.
Sage 27 lbs.
Spinach 6(^ bu.
Squash, summer 1660 lbs.
Strawberries. ^. 4826 qts.
Tomatoes - 814 bu.
Tomatoes, green 60 bu.
Turnips, flat 176H bu.
Turnips, rutabaga. 664 bu.
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86 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
STATE WORKHOUSE AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
6mp0rini0nii0ni: FrBD B. JeweTT, M. D.
7)9ptiiy Suptt Timothy P. Dodoe.
Vfaironf Mrs. MaRY E. WoOD.
The number of persons committed to the Workhouse and
House of Correction in 1909 was 588, a decrease of 76 compared
with the number committed in 1908.
The daily average num)>er in 1909 was 240; in 1908 it was
260.
Of the 588 persons committed in 1909, 205 were common-
drunkards; in 1908 the number of this class was 282.
Four of the inmates died in 1909; eight died in 1908.
The Superintendent reports as follows to the Board :
7jo ih9 ^oarti of Siai0 Chartitos and Corrociionst* '
Gentlemen: — I hereby present for your consideration the
report of the State Workhouse and House of Correction and of
the State Farm for the year 1909, though my supervision cover-
ed but seven months of that year. 'J
"Statistics showing the movement of population, together
with other standard tables and a list of the products of the farm,
will be found appended hereto."
"'This institution, for in spite of its three legal divisions it is
practically one, has dual functions.'*
**First, the seclusion of its inmates for a time, together with
more or less laborious work, and, second, to foster and assist
any desire to lead a better life, or, in other words, the reform-
atory side. Along the latter line, reward of merit seems to
produce a greater response than almost anything else, and it
would seem advisable to follow along that course as much as
circumstances will allow."
**A subject that has been mentioned in previous reports and
is especially worthy of attention, is the question of hospital
facilities for those who may be ill at this institution. I would
suggest that the space between the workshop and the main
building be filled in by a three story addition, the second and
third floors to be used as hospital wards, while the lower floor
would provide a dining-room for men. The latter improvement,
during the winter, is an absolute necessity, as we are obliged to
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REPORT OF THK BOARD. 37
feed some 215 men in a dining-room built to accommodate 176.
It would also allow the extension of the 'reward of merit' idea
by giving this dining-room better surroundings and more privi-
leges."
'"The usual amount of the usual kinds of work was done dur-
ing the past year. This means the work necessary on the farm
to raise vegetables, etc., as shown by the appended list, the
harvesting of 800 tons of ice, the reclaiming of seven acres of
land on the ''Stafford lot," the extension of the ice pond 100
feet and the hauling of 617 tons of coal from Ooweset."
"A new road nearly one quarter of a mile long has been
opened from the southeast corner of the sewer lot in a straight
line towards the ice pond, in order to shorten the haul and
make an easier grade."
''The general status of the institution has changed little dur-
ing the year. We have had thirteen escapes and four escapes
were recommitted. There have been the usual religious exer-
cises, and, as before, Mr. Bowman has contributed of his time
and energy in the hope that he might be the determining
factor for good to some person. Contributions of reading mat-
ter have been gratefully received, and our thanks are espec-
ially due to those who have given their time and talent for the
entertainment of the inmates."
"The results on the farm were, on the whole, very fair in
spite of the prolonged drouth in the middle of the summer.
Some crops, especially cabbage, were unusually good, while
others did not come up to the average."
"We produced 10876 pounds of fresh pork, and salted 28 bar-
rels; sold pigs to the amount of 1714.25, and killed and used
2649 pounds of beef. The barn and outbuildings will need
rather more than usual repairs and some changes are advisable
in order to handle the milk and stock in a more satisfactory
and convenient manner."
"Regarding the health of the inmates Dr. Jones reports as
follows:"
'At the Workhouse and House of Correction during the past
year there were four deaths, all males, from the following
causes :
Tuberculosis _ ~ 2
Aloohollsm 1
Vraotore ot ikall « .«. — .^ :.^,^.^ ~«^ l
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88 STATK CBAKITIES AKD CORRECTlOl^S.
*The case of skull fracture was sent to this institution for
vagrancy with a sentence of nine months. From his appear-
ance we presume he had been diagnosed as a case of alcoho-
lism when committed. The diagnosis of fracture of the skull
was made here before death, and an autopsy preformed by the
Medical Examiner confirmed the diagnosis.'
*The cases of tuberculosis had been transferred to the tuber-
culosis ward at the State Almshouse for isolation and special
treatment.'
^During the summer months a large number of cases of
dysentery were treated. It was not clear as to what was the
cause, but it was thought to be due to some error in diet.
There were no cases of contagious diseases present either in the
male or female departments. One case of maniacal insanity
was committed to the State Hospital for the Insane. A num-
ber of epileptics of both sexes are annually committed to this in-
stitution whose presence is detrimental to the welfare of
the others. This has been mentioned in previous reports.'
^Taking into consideration the class of people committed
here, the general health of the institution is good.'
*'I wish to thank your Chairman and the Board as a whole
for their disposition to bear me out in whatever seemed of
benefit to the service."
Respectfully submitted,
FRED B. JEWETT, M. D.,
SUPKRINTENDKNT.
The statistics for the Workhouse and House of Correction
for 1909 are as follows :
Men, Women. Total,
Number of Inmstefl Dec. 81, 1808 224 68 277
committed durlns the year_^ » 4fle 122 688
" committed for wilfully esoaplnff ~ 8 1.4
** committed for attempting to escape 2 0 2
•• committed for fine and costs _ 10 1
•• transferred from Prov. County Jail 10 1
** discharged during the year.^ ^ 402 106 698
•• escaped during the year 12 1 18
*' attempted to escape during the year 2 0 2
•• died during the year 4 0 4
•* returned to Reform School 0 1 1
remaining Deo, 81, 1900 817 68 886
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The average numbers taken from the monthly reports up to
1885, and since then from the daily record, have been :
Men. Women. ToUd,
In 1«72 108
" WIS...
•• 1874...
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" 1881...
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" 1884..
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" 1888..
" 188P..
" 1890..
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180
IfiO
108
146
146
lis
187
U»
IM
166
17»
166
188
116
100
178^
161.6
48
6S
64
66
66
74
66
68
68
60
60
64
60
86
40
56
67.6
166
808
908
288
202
220
101
106
907
218
214
288
226
100
WH
216
286
Men.
In 1801 187
1802...
1808...
1804...
im6..
1806...
' 1807...
' 1808...
' 1800..
' 1000..
' 1001..
' 1002..
• 1008..
• 1004..
• 1006..
• 1006..
' 1007..
• 1008..
' 1000..
170
170
178
172
188
104
106
180
188
106
180
188
215
207
217
181
202
186
Women.
68
• 68
00
78
60
77
77
80
78
62
07
70
64
64
62
68
66
68
66
Total,
240
247
280
261
241
960
271
286
262
260
962
280
262
270
200
280
287
26U
240
The crops raised
lows:
Alfalfa
Apples
Apples, crab..
Asparafrus „
Beans, IJma
Beans, shell
Beans, string
Beef, fresh _
Beets „
Beets, mangle
Blackberries
Butter „
Cabbeare
Carrots
Cauliflower
Celery
Cherries ^
Corn, sweet
Corn, field shelled
Corn, fodder
Corn, pop
Oncumbers
Currants .,
Dandelions
Egfifs
Gooseberries
Orapes „
Hay, first crop
Hay, second crop
Lard
Lettuce ^
Melons, mask ..
at the state Farm during 1909 were as fol-
15 18-16
87
1>4
600
589jJ
4W%
m%
2640
588H
502
854 8-16
15:<0
277
117
2000
28
2067V^
870
17 10-10
6
1081 6-12
02
21694
1248H
188
84H
164 1-90
72 101-400 tons
644 lbs.
707 hds.
10(H
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bu.
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bu.
bu.
bu.
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bu.
bu.
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lbs.
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bu.
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dos.
bu.
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bu.
dos.
Qts.
bu.
dos.
qts.
bu.
tons
Melons, water..
Oat _
Oat fodder, dry
Oat fodder, green..
OnlonB
. 065
250 bu.
48 08-400 tons
16 7-10 tons
185 bu.
Milk 21882 gals.
Parsnips „ 280 bu.
Pears 86>^ bu.
Peaches 87 bu.
Peppers % bu.
Pickles, cucumbers 2J^ bu.
Pork, fresh 10876 lbs.
Pork, salt 23 bbls.
Plums IK bu.
Potatoes 8288 bu.
Poultry 870 18-16 lbs.
Radishes » - 806 dos.
Rareripes 1642 doz.
Raspberries 226 qts.
Rhubarb ^ 1080 lbs.
Rye 47 bu.
Rye straw lOH tons
Sausage roeat 684 lbs.
Spinach ^ 46<^ bo.
Strawberries 2776 qts.
Squash 220 Ibe.
Tomatoes 288 bu.
Tomatoes, green 06 bu.
Turnips .^ 681H bu.
Veal .- 187 Ibe.
Wonderberries oH qts.
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40 STATE CBARITiSS AIH) OORkkCTtol^d.
STATE ALMSHOUSE.
6mp€rini9nd9nii FrED B. JewBTT, M. D.
2>0pMiy Apt/ Asa L. Mat.
Dr. JewBtt, Superintendent of the State Almshouse, reports
as follows to the Board :
77o M# ^0arti of ^iai9 Chariitos an«i Corrociion*/
Gentlemen : — I hereby present for your consideration the re-
port of the Almshouse for the year J 909."
'*The average number increased from 515 to 581, though
there were fewer people in the institution at the end of the
year than at the beginning. The number of girls has increas-
ed, owing, in part, to the fact that a number of feeble-minded
girls had to be brought back from institutions in other states to
the Almshouse, because no appropriation had been made for their
maintenance in institutions outside of the State, and the State
School for Feeble-Minded is not yet able to take any girls."
''The deaths were 182 as compared with 190 in 1908. An an-
alysis of the deaths shows that 94 of those who died (68 men and
26 women) were admitted during 1909. Of these, 66 were here
less than one month, or an average of fourteen days. We also
find the average age of the men a little over 48 years, while
that of the women is a little under 52. From these figures we
may conclude that the movement of population is much greater
on the male side, that these men were largely in the prime of
life and that the hospital department is becoming the most im-
portant part of the Almshouse. That 66 who entered during
the year stayed with us on an average of but fourteen days,
and 17 of them five days, or less, is a fact that shows what an
amount of work must be done without the slightest possibility
or hope of good results. In relation to this Dr. Jones, the Resi-
dent Physician, says :
'As in former years a large number of the inmates were in a
serious condition on entering the institution. One such case
was driven in an ambulance twelve miles on a cold day and
reached here in a dying condition from pneumonia.'
'Situated, as it is, between the large city hospitals and the
country towns, this institution receives annually many acutely
and seriously \)\ persons for treatment ; such were three cases of
fatal burns sent here during the summer/
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*'0f all the inmates at the State Almshouse, those afflicted
with tuberculosis call for the greatest care and supervision. In
this report we can but barely touch upon the great importance of
this branch of the work and of the danger that comes to all from
the proximity of this infectious class of inmates. They should
not find lodgment within the walls of an almshouse or in any
institution other than a hospital properly equipped for their
care. These cases are sent in to us as the sick poor, their ail-
ment is diagnosed and we segregate them so far as possible.
We have to bear in mind constantly that the State Almshouse
is not a sanitorium for the benefit of the tuberculous. Un-
fortunately these patients are here, they are increasing in num-
ber and something should be done speedily for them in the way
of better quarters and larger yard-area, away from the other in-
mates. We are now receiving a number of cases that come from
other sanatorium s."
'^While there has been a decrease of patients during the year
over last year, yet this is not evident in the tubercular class."
*'The new building in the rear of the main building has l)een
carried along as fast as the limited number of men and the de-
mand in other directions for the service of the master-mechan-
ics would allow. If nothing prevents, we shall be using the
recreation-room before the end of January."
'^The condition of the buildings is very good and, so far as can
be determined now, no extensive repairs or changes will be
necessary more than already have been provided for."
Regarding the health of the inmates Dr. Jones reports:
'The number of deaths was lower than last year, being 184.
Of this number, tuberculosis was responsible for 54, divided as
follows: — males 45, females 9. A large number of cases of
paralysis were noted the past year, and of these 20 died. Dur-
ing the winter an epidemic of influenza prevailed, but was not
of a severe type. In the summer, a large number of cases of
dysentery appeared among the aged patients; it was severe in
character and caused a number of deaths. No cases of con-
tagious disease developed among the inmates; among the corps
of attendants one case of scarlet fever and one case of diphthe-
ria developed, both women.'
'During the year, 22 children were born; two of these were
still born. At present the nursery department is the only one
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that is not overcrowded and the chihlren show by their appear-
ance the advantages of plenteous sunlight and fresh air. In the
early spring months, several of the babies w^ere attacked by
broncho-pneumonia, and two died after a prolonged illness.'
'Several cases of opthalmia-neonatorum appeared, and one
case was under special nursing day and night for a long period
before we felt confident that the eyesight was not lost. There
were no other cases of contagious diseases among the children.'
'We note with pleasure a considerable improvement in the
general appearance of the wards in the male department, due
in a great measure to the presence of female attendants there-
in.'
''As has been their custom, members of the W. 0. T. U. made
their annual offerings which involves considerable expenditure
of time and money. A kind friend from Kingston made sever-
al offerings of flowers to the sick ; others donated magazines and
reading matter, while at Christmas time a party of ladies from
Providence, under the leadership of Mrs. Paye, an old-time
friend of the Institution, presented each one on the female side
with a pretty box of candy. Our thanks, on behalf of the in-
mates, are due these people and all who have in any way con-
tributed to brighten a moment of their lives. Members of the
Board would have been touched, had they been present, by the
expressions of satisfaction of the inmates over the Christmas
dinner of 'turkey and fixins' provided by them. From this
the inmates went to the Chapel where, after a short entertain-
ment, each one was presented with some token by a genuine
Santa Claus."
Respectfully submitted,
FRED B. JEWETT, M. D.,
Superintendent.
The Statistics of the State Almshouse for 1909 are as follows :
Mm. Wfmm. Bav*. GhU. Tol(U.
Number of Inmates Dec. 81. 1908 24* 116 41 fH 6ST
" admitted during the year 218 121 1« »l 878
*' Ijorn during the year 10 » iv
discharged during the year 110 08 25 18 280
died during the year IIV 66 6 2 182
renmlnlDg Peo. 81, 1000 282 ^ 10 88 612
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The average numbers taken from the monthly reports up to
1885, and since then from the daily records, have been :
}fen. Womm. Bayn. OirU. Tntal.
In 1W6 4« Si 17 14 18*
" W7« 56 W 18 12 14«
" 1W7 „ 50 «ft 10 y 144
" 187H m Ti 14 9 1«1
" lK7tt «M 77 16 » IW
•' 1H80 71 71 IM 7 IflT
" 1881 70 <W 1» 7 1«4
•* 1882 86 78 Itt 18 IW
** 18H8 : „ 90 78 W 14 iW)
" 1884 86 (W S8 18 106
" 18N6 UO 71 «4 15 JW)
" 1886 06 M 14 10 186
" 18W 88 76 80 17 201
" 1888 102 76 11 28 211
" 1889 „ 10»^ K7.2 11^ 2i| 281
•* 1800 ^ 100.7 W 11^ 20.2 226.7
" 1801 ^ lOO.n 104 10 15J 22W.9
" 1802 m 118 10 16 284
*' 1808 „ 106 12K 15 17 3W5
" 1804 107 181 17 21 276
" 1806 124 187 22 IH 801
•• 1806 125 144 29 22 8iO
" 1897 _ 184 140 24 28 880
" 1«« 150 lfll» HI 25 8iW
" IWO 154 174 8J> 22 880
** 1000 180 175 82 14 -lOl
*• 1001 186 178 85 IH 417
** 1002 ^ m7.4 10:».« 81.7 22.» 4»4
•* 1008 198.1 106.1 85.0 25.11 450
•* 1004 210 2l>5.« 84.6 26.5 476.5
" 1905 22H 217 85 27 507
" 1006 225 ^ 228 88 26 612
" 1007 214 ' 228 «7 28 507
*• 1008 „ 237 218 80 26 615
" 1000 „..2S5 228 40 83 581
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44 BtATIi CHABtTlES AKD COttRECTIOlTS.
STATE PRISON AND PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL.
Warden:
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ c Mr. Andrew J. Wilcox.
JCeeper of Zrro»ttie9ee Counfy ^aii,*
2)epiiiy Wanien: Mr. S. EdMUND SlOCUM.
Plans are in preparation for the construction of a new Jail
and this renders unnecessary any detailed statement of the lack
of accommodations at these institutions to which the attention of
the General Assembly has been called in many previous reports.
The plans here referred to are spoken of under the head of
Construction in this report.
The following report of the Warden to the Board tells con-
cisely the story of the operation of the Prison and Jail during
1909.
POPULATION.
"'During the year 1909, 48 persons were committed to the
Rhode Island State Prison, 39 were discharged and four were
pardoned. The total number in the State Prison on the 31st
day of December, 1909, was 129."
''Tliere were committed to the Providence County Jail dur-
ing the year 1909, 2051 persons; 2107 were discharged during
the year, one was pardoned and three died. The total number
in Jail December, 31st, 1909, was 326."
'"The total number of persons committed to the Rhode Is-
land State Prison and Providence County Jail together during
the year 1909 was 2099; the total number discharged was 2157;
live were pardoned and three died. The total number of persons
in the Rhode Island State Prison and Providence County Jail
together December 3l8t, 1909, was 465."
''There were two persons less committed to the State Prison
during the year 1909 than during the year 1908, and 88 persons less
committed to the Providence County Jail during the year 1909
than during 1908, making a total of 85 less committed to the
two institutions during 1909 than during 1908."
INDUSTRIES.
"For the past year the industries were the same as the year
previous, having been divided betw een the manufacture of shirts
and wire goods, farming and the care of buildings and other
property."
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LIBRARY.
"The Library is in its usual good condition, and has been
somewhat increased by magazines and other periodicals that
accumulated during the year. These have been bound, there-
by making them useful reading for a long time to come. The
addition of a few desirable, modern books would be greatly
appreciated."
REPAIR8 AND IMPROVEMENTS.
"Such repairs as were necessary to keep the buildings in
good condition were made during the year. A carriage-shed,
18 ft. X 20 ft., was erected and our two boilers were replaced by
two new ones. New floors were laid and a general renovation of
the officers' quarters in the Warden's house was made during
the year, and a temporary dining-hall was built for the use of
the officers."
DISCIPLINE.
"The discipline during the past year was very good ; it was
especially so, considering the fact that we were obliged to keep
several men in the same cell in the County Jail, in several in-
stances, as well as a large number in each of the two buildings
in the yard."
INCOME AND EXPENDITURES.
"Our income for the past year was $6,848.80 in excess of
that earned in 1908. Our expenditures amounted to $2661. 95
more than for the previous year. Our expenditures would have
been considerably less than for 1908 except for the large ex-
pense occasioned by the typhoid epidemic."
FARM.
"During the past year the farm was conducted in the same
manner as in years passed, and the results were very satisfac-
tory."
HEALTH.
"During the year 1909 the health of the inmates was about
the average of institutions of this character."
"The Resident Physician, Henry A. Jones, M. D., in his re-
port says:"
'The number of cj^see treated ia the hospital for the year
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46 STATE GHARirrES AND CORRECTIONS.
numbered 117. The number of deaths for the year was three
(all the deaths were in the Jail) and were caused as follows:
Alcoholism „ 8
Typhoid fever ^ 1
Total - 8
We had a large number of cases of bronchitis, influenza
and tonsilitis during the winter months, and about the usual
number of cases of intestinal diseases during the summer. A
number of these cases were severely ill from dysentery.'
'There were no deaths in the Rhode Island State Prison
during the year.'
''During the latter part of August, several of our oflScers
were taken with typhoid fever. They were immediately re-
moved to the Rhode Island Hospital, (with the exception of
two, who preferred to be taken to their homes,) where they
could receive the very best medical attendance to be procured,
as well as the best of care and attention. Notwithstanding the
fact that everything possible was done for them, six officers
died. This was a severe loss to the institutions, as these offi-
cers had been, many of them, employed here for a long time,
and had been found worthy of every responsibility placed upon
them."
''I again wish to express my appreciation of the able and
courteous manner in which the chaplain, officiating clergymen,
physicians and officers have supported me in the performance
of my duties, and I desire to thank your Honorable Board for
its hearty co-operation, as well as for the many kindnesses ex-
tended during the past year."
Respectfully submitted,
ANDREW J. WILCOX,
Warden op Prison and Keeper op Providence Ooumty Jail,
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The Statistics of the Prison for the Year 1909 are as follows :
Nnmber In PiiBon. January 1. 1P09
** Comoiftted during the year..
Disposal of Cas«8 :
Number Dlscharfred durln^r the year.^
** Pardoned during the year
In Prison January 1, lUlO
State Prison, men only:
In Prison January 1, IflOQ „ 121
Com muted In IWR 47
Average number In IflOR 125
Maximum " " 1908 i:{2
Minimum " " 1»0H 11»
Malss.
Females.
Total.
121
8
124
48
0
48
160
8
172
88
,
30
4
0
4
127
2
12i>
im> 3 172
January 1, 1910 127
III lfl09 -IS
In 1909 122
In 1909 129
In 1909 lift
Female)*.
TfMnl.
W
JW«
124
2W7
0
1
0
8
140
2437
The Statistics of the Providence County Jail for the year 1909
are as follows:
Male*.
Number In Jail January 1, 1909 370
** Committed during the year 1923
" Transferred from Sockanosset School 1
" escaped and returned during the year 3
2297
Disposal of Oases:
Number discharged during the year 1928
transferred to Sockanosset School
" " State Hospital for the Insane^...
" ** State Prison
" •• State Workhouse and House of
Correction
died during the year
escaped during the year
pardoned during the year
reprieved during the year
In Jail, January 1, 1910..
1928
125
2048
14
0
14
1
I
2
89
0
89
1
0
1
8
0
8
2
0
2
1
0
1
0
1
1
1984
127
2111
818
18
826
2397
140
2487
Providence County Jail, men only:
In Jail January 1, 1909 870
Commitments 1906:
By the state 1408
By the City of Providence 16
By the other Cities and Towns 4fi0
By the United States and debtors 02
Total 1961
Average number in 1008 880
Maximum number in 1008 - 460
Minimum number In lOOS......^.^^..... 847
January 1, 1010.
818
Commitments 1000:
In
1009
1200
In
1900
22
In
1000
608
In
1909
87
Total
1026
In
1000.
...... 870
In
1900
800
lu
1000.,..,^..
,.^.~ 80^
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BTATB CHARITIEB AND CORBECTIONB.
The Warden reports the following crops raised :
Apples 2» bus.
Asparntrus «6 lbs.
Beets, turnip 400 bus.
Beets, lonn red 44« bus.
Beans, string 81?'a bus.
Beans, shell 14 bus.
Beans, lima 7 bus.
Cucumbers lOStl doz.
CabbHKe 48 tons
Carrots <KiH bus.
Currants 22 qts.
Chickens ±MH lbs.
Dandelions 27.5 bus.
Ducks 12 lbs.
Guinea fowls 37 lbs.
KuKs, hen's 44«7 do/.
Kkks, duck's l;jlV^ do/.
Ktftrs. turkey's 2 M2 doz.
Kfftca, trulnea fowls' 12»Vn doz.
Enrurs, (coose 8 5-12 doz.
Fodder, (Trass ift tons
Fodder, oats 5 tons
Fodder, corn 9 tons
Fowls 40N Hw.
Hay 30 tons
L<»ttuce ^ lOB doz.
Milk 84,617 qts.
Mamrel wurzels flw bus.
Onions 16HK bus.
Potatoes „ 871 bus.
Peppers 24 bus.
Peas, (?reen 2834 bus.
Pork : 3086 IIjs.
Parsnips 800 bus.
Rhuliarb 222 INs.
Radishes 81 doz. bun.
Raspberries ft qts.
Rareripes 187j^ doz.
Spinach 212j^ bus.
Sweet corn 123 doz.
Strawberries 120 qts.
Squash, summer 5 doz.
Squash, winter 6 tons
Tomatoes 665 bus.
Turnlpi, round 64 bus.
Turnips, French „ 226 bus.
Turkeys 88 lbs.
Veal „ 745 lbs.
Straw, rye 50 tons
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REPORT OP THE BOARD. 49
SOOKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
Smj^n'miwmtt^mif Mr. EzEKIEL E. GARDNER.
The following is from the annual report of Mr. Gardner to the
Board :
7jo M# X^ani of Siaio Chariiios and Corrociions: ' *
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to present a general report of
the Sockanosset School for the year 1909, which includes a syn-
opsis of work and conditions in all the departments, together
with such suggestions as seem to me necessary for a continued
success in the line of work to be carried out."
*'We believe that the past year has been a successful one at
the Sockanosset School. No casualty occurred and we have the
gratifying knowledge that many boys who have gone from us
are doing excellent work and are earning a living in some trade,
the rudiments and general knowledge of which were obtained
from our instructors. We have noted with pleasure that there
is very little, if any, prejudice against our boys and that many
industrial establishments readily give them employment, en-
courage them and increase their compensation according to their
efficiency. I could name scores of boys at the present moment
who are a credit to the School and whose conduct and good
work in the outside world encourage us to an added effort in the
future for all boys that come to us."
*'The industrial department of an institution such as this has
ceased to be an experiment; it has proven conclusively, be-
yond the shadow of a doubt, a wise investment, inasmuch as it
makes the boy, who had been in many ways a continued law-
breaker, or so wayward that he needed restraint and instruction,
a wage earner able to earn his own living and free from the
conditions that proved his undoing."
'*The following is a brief outline of the work of the different
departments :
80H00L OF LETTERS.
**During my administration, 1 have appointed to the position
of Supervisor of Schools, one of our teachers, Mrs. Mabel R. L.
Dawley, whose conscientious work is fully appreciated. The
course of study has been revised and systematized until now we
have a course which seems fitted to our needs. Each school is
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conducted, as nearly as is practicable in our present condition,
as a graded school. Thepresenceof many grades in the same
school-room is,. of course, somewhat detrimental to the best
results, but we have succeeded in keeping our boys in the grade
equivalent to that established in the City schools. This can be
realized by the fact of our having fifty weeks of school each
year, whereas the public schools have about forty."
''In addition to the schedule of the previous year, we have
added a practical course in language work ; this to be taken in
conjunction with the writing lessons. So far, ft seems to be
very satisfactory and helpful, for our boys appear to learn more
in language by observation or by imitation and practice than
by formal teaching of rules; hence our reason for a schedule of
this sort."
*'We hold a teachers' meeting in my office the first Tuesday
of each month for the purpose of general discussion upon mat-
ters pertaining to the school work, at which time we discuss
not only delinquent cases, but a general formulating of meth-
ods of obtaining special instruction along special lines, if need
be with any pupil, and discipline ; in fact, all that pertains to the
school work."
''Monthly tests are given the boys of each school as means of
determining their standing from week to week. Twice dur-
ing the year examinations have been prepared and held in each
school, covering the work assigned in each study for a given
period. The average for the whole school obtained from these
examinations during the year was 86 per cent., which I con-
sider very commendable and seems to show that conscientious
work is being done at the School. When we consider the dis-
advantage of so many grades in a room and our short time of
study, this average is a very creditable showing."
"We have found our change in arithmetics to be of great ad-
vantage and I would respectfully recommend a change in readers
and spellers to some more suitable to our needs. Our geogra-
phies are not thoroughly up to date, but I would defer a recom-
mendation upon these to another year. My object in recom-
mending one change each year, is that I wish to keep our school
system up to date if possible."
"To illustrate the change in population and to emphasize the
fact of the changes of pupils in our school system, it may be
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well to give an outline of commitments and discharges for the
past year. The number of boys decreased from 872 at the be-
ginning of the year to819 at the close. The daily average num-
ber was 889, which was 47 less than the daily average of last
year. The number of commitments was 448 and 496 were dis-
charged during the year. The larger number of discharges the
past year was due to a large number of commitments of boys in
1907, the greater number of whom earned their parole in the
early part of 1909."
MILITART AND BAND DEPARTMENT.
*'The Sockanosset Battalion has maintained its usual stand-
ard of efficiency under the instruction of Fred F. DriscoU who was
newly appointed in 1909. We are sure that the military de-
partment is a valuable adjunct to an institution of this kind,
as it not only trains a boy to assume a respectful attitude at
all times towards his fellow beings, but it is a source of physi-
cal instruction as well, and we find it an excellent aid to physi-
cal development."
*'Our band, under the instruction of Fred E. Adams, who has
been with us many years, still continues to do excellent work
when you consider that the band changes its entire personnel
at least once every year. We have always some forty-five or
fifty boys under instruction in order to maintain a band of
twenty-five pieces. We purchased no new instruments dur-
ing the past year; although given permission to obtain two new
cornets we have gotten along without them to this time. The
band played at only one outside entertainment during the year,
which was for the Public School Play Grounds' Association
on their Field Day Exhibit. The Board of State Charities and
Corrections found it necessary a year ago to curtail the privi-
lege of the use of our band by outside parties on account of the
numerous applications for it."
CARPENTER SHOP.
"Under the instruction of Nathaniel J. Pottle, this depart-
ment has maintained its usual high class of efficiency, the boys
receiving at the beginning of their shop experience, a theory
course and primary instruction in architectural drafting. They
begin on repair work and pass to new work after some eight
months of instruction, Thip shop is an asset to the institution
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by way of repair work done, which, of course, is a saving and
proves a valuable form of instruction. For instance, we built
some sixty window screens and twelve screen doors for the State
Prison, one hundred and twenty window screens and four
screen doors for the Oaklawn School, besides a number of ward-
robes and other inside fixtures. We built new seats for our
chapel here, brooders for our hennery, twenty-five folding
tables for the State Hospital for the Insane, besides general re-
pairs for the various institutions.''
MAOHINX SHOP.
''Under the instruction of Howard H. Dawley, the method
obtaining in this shop is very similar, by way of lesson work
and primary instruction, to that of the other industrial depart-
ments, except that we have a class in mechanical drafting
which furnishes instruction and detail drawing for work to
be done in tlie shop. Every boy in the department has a turn
at lesson work and repair work drafting. We have done dur-
ing the year a large amount of repair work of various kinds for
our own and other institutions. Among our new work for the
year, we finished fifteen iron bed-steads for our new emergency
hospital and are working at the present time upon fifty bed-
steads to be used at the State Hospital for the Insane. We
added a power hack-saw, during the year, to this department
and find it very useful. We have also kept up a full line of
tools, which are in constant use in this department at all times. ^'
BLAOKBMITH SHOP.
''Under the instruction of George Chambers, this department
is conducted in its primary instruction very similar to the other
departments. We have a wide and varied class of work, in-
cluding horse-shoeing, wagon making and all sorts of iron work
usually done in a general repair work shop; also, the forging of
all tools to be finished and used in other departments of the
School. We find here a department that needs a rugged and
sturdy class of boys, not necessarily advanced in class work, but
strong physically. A very satisfactory result has been obtain-
ed during the past year."
PRINTINe DEPARTMENT.
**Under the instruction of Roy B. Layman, this department
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has continued its good work of previous years. The work furn-
ished us by the different departments of the Institutions, is
widely diversified and very valuable as a means of instruction.
We have, as formerly, printed the Annual Report of the Board
of State Oharities and Corrections together with other general
work for the Institutions."
MA80N SHOP.
*'Under the Instruction of Edward W. Foster, this department
accomplished a large amount of work during the past year. In
February, 1909, we turned several arches in the new building
at the State Almshouse. During the months of March and
April, the entire force of masons were busy at the State Work-
house and House of Correction making extensive alterations in
the laundry plant. During the early part of May , they cement-
ed the floor of the bakery at the same institution. Two weeks
during the month of May, they were cementing the basement
floor at the Oaklawn School for Girls. During the month of
September, two hundred feet of conduit was built at the State
Hospital for the Insane. Since October 20th, they have been
building a cold storage room at our main building. Together
with the above, a thorough patching, where needed, in all the
buildings at the School was done and, besides this, other neces-
sary repair work. This force is capable of doing very excellent
work.'*
SHOE DEPARTMENT.
'"Under the instruction of Alphida Bouthillier, this depart-
ment has maintained its general degree of success. We are al-
ways very busy in this department, inasmuch as in addition to
the repairing of all of the shoes worn in this institution, we repair
those of the State Hospital for the Insane. We hope later to
have a more modern system of appliances in this department,
but it is thought that, considering the conditions, remarkable
work is done here.''
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
'*The ten boys of this department, under the valuable instruc-
tion of 0. W. Adams, repair the steam-heating and power
plant, the electrical apparatus, the telephone system and other
kindred work,** •
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54 STATE CttARtTtEg AND CORRlECTiONd.
LAUNDRY.
*'Under the instruction of Lillian 0. Creasey, we have been
able to continue our good work of past years and, considering
the bad condition of the machinery, we feel that the matron
of this department deserves credit for the accomplishment of
such good results."
TAILORING DEPARTMENT.
''Under the instruction of Angie K. Stover, this department
is a busy one. In it we make all clothing worn by the boys,
except underclothing, and also repair all clothing, including
underclothing."
BARN AND FARM DEPARTMENT.
''Under the instruction of John M. Whitten, this depart-
ment has accomplished excellent results during the year. An
itemized statement of crops raised will be found elsewhere in
this report. We were unfortunate in having a dry season the
past year which affected our potato crop seriously. Otherwise,
the result of our farming was very satisfactory. We raised
enough of all other vegetables to carry us through the winter."
"Connected with this department is the greenhouse, which
has been very well conducted. We have raised a largeamount
of flowers that have been put in use at the institution and
have been a source of enjoyment to everyone. Also we have
succeeded in teaching floriculture to a class of three boys at a
time."
"The poultry plant under the instruction of Fred M. Howard
has been very successfully conducted, we feel, as our report
will show. We raised 685 fowls the past year and succeeded
in furnishing eggs enough for the use of the entire insti-
tution, with the exception of three cases bought in November.
Figuring from an exact cost standpoint, this department shows
a balance over and above all expenses of $759.88."
HEALTH.
"The health of our boys was very good, generally speak-
ing, during the year. Under the efficient and conscientious
supervision of Dr. Henry A. Jones, Resident Physician, and
Miss Slayton, Resident Nurse, the results were very satisfac-
tory and are sincerely appreciated by this administration, I
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will quote from the report of Dr. Jones, Resident Physician of
State Institutions, the following:
'During the past year there has been about the usual num-
ber of cases treated at the hospital, and these vary all the way
from a splinter in the finger of a child to cases of contagious
disease.'
'Among such a multitude of boys, coming as they do from
many unsanitary homes, the wonder grows that there is no more
sickness among them and a larger number of cases of conta-
gious disease present, not periodically, but all the time.'
'We have been fortunate in that no cases of scarlet fever
developed here during the year.'
'An epidemic of measles, numbering in all seven cases, ap-
peared in the late autumn months, and the boys who contract-
ed the disease were promptly quarantined in the new emer-
gency hospital, under the supervision of a special nurse. The
cases made a good recovery although with a somewhat prolonged
period of convalescence in two cases.'
*Apart from this epidemic, the number of other cases of
contagious disease was very small. Only one case of diphtheria
developed, and also one case of whooping-cough. One case of
typhoid fever developing in the autumn gave rise to some con-
cern lest there should be an epidemic, but this case, one of the
matrons, was removed to a hospital from the vicinity of the
School and no other cases appeared.'
'One case of acute insanity was committed to the State
Hospital for the Insane for care and treatment.'
'We regret to report, for the first time in a number of years,
a death in this institution, that of a colored boy who developed
pleuro-pneumonia. This case assuming a tubercular tendency,
was transferred to the tuberculosis ward at the State Alms-
house for special treatment, but died after being there a short
time. Apart from the cases mentioned the general health of
the institution has been good.'
AMUSEMENTS.
"Very little is done for our boys by way of amusements that
is of much cost tt) the State. The usual excursion of the year
at Gaspee Point took place in August and was greatly enjoyed
by all. Besides this, there is the visit to Keith's Theatre, which
takes place Ohristmas week of each year at a cost to the State of
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56 STATE CHARiTtBS AKB OORkECTiONd.
the expense of transportation. These two items are the extent
of cost outside of a few dollars expended in preparing for the
winter entertaiunienls."
''I feel that instead of encouraging inside games and that
form of entertainment, we have a better way of encouraging
and helping in games to take place upon the play grounds.
Much time is devoted by the officers of the School in instruct-
ing and directing games of an athletic nature of all kinds;
namely, base-ball, foot-ball, basket-ball, running races etc.
Many of the boys come to us emaciated and in poor physical
health due to previous neglect and abuse, and the place to
build them up, we are sure, is in the open air.'*
AFTER-CARE.
'*When a boy is released from this institution, some respon-
sible person signs an agreement to exercise care and authority
over him. He has to report, upon a quarterly report blank
sent to him, for two years as to his employment, habits and
associates. This report must be countersigned by the person
whose signature we have on the former agreement. Together
with this, we have frequent correspondence and personal com-
munication with the boy and with those who know about him.
We visit as much as is possible the place where he lives and
also the place of his employment. In this way we are able to
keep a careful supervision of the boy. We use for ihis any-
body and everybody connected with the School. All are liable
to be called upon at any time for duties of this kind, but we
usually select the officer or teacher who had the most to do
with this particular individual while he was an inmate of the
institution. In this way, the boy learns that he always has a
friend to turu to. '
'1 wish to express to your Honorable Board my entire ap-
preciation of the utmost kindness and moral support always
received at your hands, which enable me to give the best that
is in me to help the boys, who, by unfortunate conditions or
neglect on the part of somebody, compel the State to step in and
direct their future.''
Respectively submitted,
EZEKIEL E. GARDNER,
SUPKRINTINPSNT,
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The statistics of the year are as follows:
Number In the Hcliool. Jnnuary 1, IWW ST;}
Number committed by (Courts JMW
Number admitted by Board of HtnteOliaritles A (Corrections (Her. 7. (Mmpter
«0. General I^ws of R. I • 7
Number returned or retaken, having escaped «... 6
Number returned from places, surrendered Uy imll. etc.„ 4H
Number transferred from Jail by Board of H. O. A(^ U 448
M15
Number discharged 4<J7
Number escaped . . 7
Number returned to Jail » 10
Number released on ball 11
Number sent to Jail on alternative sentence 1 4Wi
Number remaining January I, IW© 819
The ofTenoes for which boys were committed from the Oourts were: Assault, two;
defacing building, two; defacing property, three; destroying property, one; driving
off horse, one : disorderly conduct on the street, eleven: enil>ez/jHnient. one; false
pretense In writing, one; larceny, three; shop breaking, ttve: theft, forty-nine; re-
ceiving stolen money or goods, four; truancy. Ilfty; vagran<'y, tlfteen; two hundred
and twenty-one were comniltted to await trial.
The average numbers in the School were:
In 1888, approximately 153
In 18K4. approximately _ 171
In 1W6. from dally record l^
In 1885, from dally record 17«
In 1887. from dally record «W
In 1888, from dally record AX)
In 18«>. from dally record , 5fU4
In IWW, from dally record 211
In 1891. from dally record 171
In 18i«. from dally record ll»2
In 1896. from dally record 2*)
In 18W, from dally record 1'17
In 1896, from dally record 24»
In 189<J, from dally record 271
In 1897, from dally record H(H
In 1>«8. from dally record »50
In 1899, from dally record «i'>2
In 1900. from dally record 8:i5
In 1901. from dally redord 85*i
In 190i. from dally record 8«2
In 1908 from dally record 858
In 1904, from dally record 844
In 1906, from dally record ^ »40
In I90tt. from dally record 869
In 1907, from dally record .-. 8tfl
In 1908, from dally record ., 886
In 1009, from dally record 889
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STATE CHARITIES AND C0RR1CCTI0N8.
FARM AND GARDEN.
The following table shows the quantities of farm and garden
produce raised at the School hy the larger I)oys :
Apples, hand picked 44 bblH.
Apples, windfalls !»o bvi.
AspanMCUs 8fl2 lbs.
Beaus, Lima „ 12S l>u.
Bfaiis. Rliell 9 bu.
Beana, string 81'. 2 bu.
Beets, bunches im doz.
Beets, cattle llrt8 bu.
Beets, table iSOo bu.
Blackberries ill* qts.
UablNifre (isis hds.
Carrots l.VJ'i i)u.
Oaullttower 15rt hds.
Oelery 1057 bun.
Oorn. fodder "20 tons.
Oorn, sweet lOJW do/..
Corn, sweet ears i^ bu.
Oucuml»ers 1.^ doz.
Kiftfplant 170
Ksrgs 2(J1H=*4 doz.
Grapes li» l)u.
Hay .V) tons.
lettuce 76.SO hds.
Melons. niusk„ imn
Melons, watnr 7S
Milk 3*21i« qts.
Onions ivil bu.
Peai-ljes 19 bu.
Pjirsnlps 41^2 bu.
Pears 'M bu.
P»>as, green HM bu.
Peppers 4 bu.
Pork 7I.T« lbs.
Potatoes Urt'i bu.
Poultry '.'i:il> lbs.
Puni pklns (ivi
Radishes \'^\t) Inin.
Rareripes HHi doz.
liuspberrles 107 qts.
RhulMirh «J0') lbs.
Hplnaeh 1.5 bu.
Squashes 47
Strawl>erries 1307 qts.
Straw, rye 14 tons.
Tomatoes, ripe 115 bu.
Tomatoes, green 12 bu.
Turnips 117 bu.
THE SCHOOL OF TRADES.
The daily numbers receiving instruction in trades, as well
as the totals for the year, are as follows :
Printing Department 11
Blacksmith do
Machine do
Carpenter do
Mason do
8hoe do
Engineering do
Tailoring do
Ikfifv Arcniar.
11
Whole y
Dtirino tin
uwIht
YuiT.
.... 14
12
... 24
16
... 21
VI
. . 19
. H
.... l»i
... 15
.... 16
... 5
f>
24
. 42
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OAKLAWN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
^uperinUmiienif Mr8. OlaRA F. FoRBUSH.
T^airon im cAarye of ihe Eastman Coiiayo.' MrS. FRANCES R. KeENE.
The new Cottage, begun in 1906 and completed, as to con-
struction, in 1908, was occupied September 20, 1909. It has
been named Eastman Cottage in memory of the late James H.
Eastman who was for several years Superintendent of the Oak-
lawn School for Girls.
Fifteen girls were sentenced to the School by the courts in
1909, one more than in 1908. The number in the School is
eleven larger than the number December 81, 1908. Two girls
were admitted by the Board of State Charities and Corrections.
One girl was sentenced for vagrancy; three for lewdness; six
for disorderly conduct; one for theft; three for truancy; and
one for concealing the birth of a child in such manner that it
could not be known whether it was born dead or alive.
The ages of the girls at the time of sentence, or admission,
were: One, eleven years; one, twelve years; two, thirteen
years; five, fourteen years; three, fifteen years; four, sixteen
years and one, seventeen years.
Mrs. Forbush, Superintendent, reports as follows:
''The girls have been employed as usual in the different de-
partments of the School, namely, general house-work, laundry,
kitchen and sewing-room, in which last named department an
extra amount of work was done preparatory to the opening of
the new cottage spoken of in previous reports."
''This new cottage, named in memory of our late Superin-
tendent, James H. Eastman, was opened September 20th. It
is fitted with all the modern improvements, including electric
lights, and the furnishings are in keeping with the building.
Quite a number of beautiful and interesting pictures adorn the
walls of many of the rooms and the lower hall of the cottage.
In the school-room hangs a picture of Mr. Eastman which was
presented by Mrs. Eastman at Christmas time."
"An organ has been placed in the school-room and an upright
piano in the sewing-room."
"The younger girls and those without immoral history were
selected and transferred to Eastman Cottage, the number being
twenty- three."
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''They are under the care of a matron, Mrs. Frances R. Keene,
two assistants and a school-teacher, the last mentioned having
been transferred from the old building."
''The religious service, conducted by Chaplain Ewer, is held
in the sewing-room of the old cottage, on Sunday afternoon, as
in the past, and the Catholic girls assemble for Mass at the
same place, on the second Sunday of each month."
"The sisters of mercy made their usual visits to the School
the past year, and have done a great deal of good, bringing
literature and attending to the spiritual needs of the girls whom
they instruct."
"A class in physical culture is still maintained in each cot-
tage."
"All holidays were observed at the School in much the same
manner as in previous years. Underthedirectionof the teach-
ers, entertainments were given by the girls on Washington's
Birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas."
"A clam-bake was prepared for the girls on the School
grounds, as in past years."
"Kind friends have donated books, periodicals and other
gifts during the year."
"The discipline of the School has been kept up to the usual
standard."
"Each girl has her flower bed, as in years past, money being
furnished by a friend in Providence to purchase seeds and plants
for these beds."
"All the vegetables consumed at the School through the sum-
mer were raised in the school garden, except potatoes, and the
work, except the preparation of the ground, was done by four
girls under the direction of a matron."
"The following is from the report of Dr. Jones, regarding the
health of the girls:"
'During the early winter months of the past year the School
was visited by an epidemic of influenza, that was characterized
by unusual severity, and accompanied by a bronchial affection
that was profoundly prostrating in its effects and most resist-
ant to medication of every sort.'
'The matrons and teachers were much more prostrated than
the inmates by this disease, one matron having it in such a
severe form that she was compelled to obtain a long leave of
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61
absence from duty ere she regained her usual health.'
*One case was transferred to the Almshouse for operaticm
and treatment. This case, a young girl, remained there near-
ly one month before she was cured.'
'Apart from the epidemic alluded to, the health of the in-
mates has been good.'
Respectfully submitted,
OLARA F. FORBUSH,
Superintendent.
The statistics of the year are as follows:
Average number In 1HH2 {six months)
" 1HH8 "
" 18M (dally average)..
•* 1H87
.. j^^
.. j,^
.. j,^
" MM
.. ,^
•• 1««
•• 1«W
" 1806
" 1890
" 1000
.. ,^j
o 1002
" 1004
•• 1006
« 1006
" 1007
.. 1008
•• 1000
21»
HI
9^
85
25
an
8(
5{7.5
8H
*<.7
20.0
21.0
2n.8
26.n
84.2
40.4
61.4
54
44
45
40.1
4«.6
4nj)
4«
40
44
42
68.2
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STATE CHARITIE8 AND CORRECTIONS.
Garden Produce raised at tlie Oaklawii School for Girls dur-
ing 1909 is as follows.
AsparaffUH 84J2 bu
Apples «'4 bu.
Beets 1H^4 bu
ReAn8 U bu.
BlHckberrles W qls.
Celery H.VJ bunches
C^ucumbers K?<i bu.
Corn, sweet 11« 1-12 doz.
Currants SH qtn.
Carrots 2->i4 bu.
Cabbaice 181 heads
CHUliflower -21 heads
Dandelions Sl'a bu.
Grapes V^ bu.
Lettuce HMV4 doz. hviu\>
Melons, water wn
Melons, musk 18N
Onions liH bu.
P«'ars 7% bu.
IVas XI4 bu.
lVpf>ers xU bu.
IMunis 2^4 bu.
IVaclie.s ft qts.
Ci ilnre 1 pk.
llhulMirb 2i>S>4 bu.
Uadlshos 42}^ doz.
lta,splHMTies 28 qts.
SphiHcli 8l!a bu.
StrawU-rrles llVj bu.
Turnips 14 bu.
Tonialoes 48^4 bu.
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68
KENT COUNTY JAIL,
ZTo iJk& ^oaref o/ Siaie Charities and Correci/ons.***
I havo visited the Kent County Jail and found everything,
including the sanitary conditions, very satisfactory. I recom-
mend, as in my last two reports the purcliase, by the State, of
a strip of land adjoining the Jail, as the buildings upon said
land cause the rooms on one side of the Jail to be very dark.
The statistics for the year 1909, furnished by the Keeper are
as follows :
Keinaii)ln»r in Jail, Jan. 1, IMK^.
rouiinltted diirtnjr tlie year
DlscharjrcHl during the year
KonialnlnfiT In Jail January 1, li'lO..
Assault
As.«ault with daufreroust wrapon...
Burtrhiry
Breaklnpr and entorlntr
Bolner a common drunkurd
KtliiKa lewd and wnnton person..
Kolnff an Idle person
C'arryintf concealed weapons
Cnielty to nnlmals
Drunkenness
Larceny
Malicious mischief
No visible means of support
Non-support of family
SetlinK fire to woods
Threats
Violation of the bird-law
Unlawful sale of liquor
Committed for safe keeping..
Civil commitments
Surrendered by bondsman....
Mm.
1
185
i:w
188
8
0
18
18
12
1
RomainlnfT January 1, !«)»..
So.
14
7
1
10
8
4
8
8
m
12
2
8
«
1
8
1
2
186
A
8
8
148
1
no
Di^poml of Cof'cif.
Hentenced to Slate Piison
Sentenced to Providence County
Jail
nischarKed on writ of Habeas (Cor-
pus
DIschartrcd by order of plaintiffs
attorney
nischnrfired, line and cost paid
DlscharKed, flneand cost remitted
Released on ball
Released on probation
Escaped
Remaining January 1, 1910...
ToUU,
1
148
145
yo.
2
11
38
»
7
145
4
149
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES F. McCUSKER,
PoNTiAC, R. I., January, 1910,
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STATE CHARITIBB AND COKKBCTIONB.
NEWPORT COUNTY JAIL.
ZTo iAe ^oarti o/Siaic CAan'ii&s and Corr^citonsi
1 have the honor to hand you, herewith, a report of commit-
ment and disposals of cases at the Newport County Jail, for the
year 19()9.
In my examination of the Jail, I found everything in excel-
lent condition. This Jail has no padded cell, which is needed
very much at times.
Max. Womoi. Total.
Renialnlnir In Jail, Jannnry 1, IWW 1 0 1
Committed durlntr the yi»ar 784 W Hio
J>I«fharKod durlnsr the year
UeniHlnliitf In Jail. Jan. 1, ll»lo
Offnirffi.
AKsault
Arson
H<*irtrinfr
Bcintr aeonmion drunkard
Helncran Idle peraon
Beincr lewd and wanton
(^nrrylnjj concealed weapons
Cruelty to dumb animals
PefacinR buildlntr
I)runkene»8
Kxpo«inir person
Kvadinir lobster law
Korfcery
Kornicntion
Having carnal knowlcdfirt*
Having concealed human l>ody
Joy ridlnfr
Keeping house of ill fame
KeepinfT n nuisance
Larceny
Malicious mischief
Murder
NlKht walklntr
Non support of family
OI»structln(r officer
Refusing to pay for food
Revel llnpr
Selllnut without license
Tampering with automobile
Truancy
UslnK bicycle without owner's con-
sent
Usinu profane laniruatre
Vairrancy
Walklnic on railroad
786
7»1
76
76
115
8
27
'21
Irt
8
2
17
4(H)
1
1
11
7
2
5
1
8
1
7»
2
6
4
4
8
1
II
14
1
1
1
2
1
4 1
Confined as Insane
Committed as Coronor's witness..
Committed for .-afe keeplmr
Committed for debt
RemalnluR In Jail Jan. 1. 1000..
Committed to State Hospital
for Insane
Discharged on hall
IMscharjred by order of the com-
mit tinuT officer
lUschartred by order of plaintiff.....
l>l.schnrKed by order of the Sheriff
Dlscharjred by writ of Habeas Oor>
pus
Fines and costs remitted „
Fines and costs paid
Sentenced to Providence County
Jail
Sentenced to Reform School
Sentenced to Sockunosset School..
Sentenced to Workhouse and
House of Correction
Sentence served and cost paid
Sentence served and cost remitted
Remaining In Jail. Jan.l. 1910..
811
ws
6
%
810
1
Kll
yo.
4
80
14
1
1
IfiO
S06
78
ISl
4
1
61
18
SO
808
6
TiVBRTON, R, I., Jan. 1910.
700 811
Respectfully submitted,
GEORQE R. LAWTON.
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66
WASHINGTON COUNTY JAIL.
ZTo iA& S9&mrtf of Siaio CAariiUs mmti CorrooHon^t
I have the honor to hand you, herewith, a report of the com-
mitments and disposals of cases at the Washington County Jail
for the year 1909.
Remalnlnir in Jail. January 1, 1000..
Commltt<»<1 during the year
Dlacharired daring the year
Remalnlnff In Jail, Jan. 1, 1010..
Assault with a danfrerous weapon
Belntr a common drunkard
Bastardy
Belnv a lewd and wanton person..
Breaking and entering
Carrying a concealed weapon..
Conveying tools to a prisoner..
Carnal knowl<>dge
Defacing a building
Drunkenness
Exposure of person -
Forgery
Illegal sale of liquor
Keeping victualing house with-
out a license -
Larceny
Non-support of family -
Maintaining a common nuisance..
Obtaining money under false pre-
tence
Perjury ^
Threats ^
Vagrancy
Remaining In Jail. Jan. 1. 1000...
Mefi.
Wcmcu.
TdUk.
0
0
0
87
8
80
W
8
80
84
3
85
8
0
8
Ho.
4
4
1
1
0
1
6
8
1
21
1
5
10
8
8
0
4
8
2
1
1
80
0
80
Digpom! of Com*.
Committed to Btate Prison
Committed to Providence County
Jail
Committed to Reform School
Discharged by order of Town
Council of South Kingston
Released on ball
Released on expl ration of sentence
Released on writ of Habens Corpus
Remaining In Jail. Jan* h 1010...
No.
2
6
1
1
2
8
78
88
8
80
Respectfully submitted,
ROBERT ¥. RODMAN,
Allbnton, R. I., January, 1910,
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STATB CHARITIK8 AITO CORRICnom.
BRISTOL OODNTY JAIL.
ZTo M# SSoarti of Siaie Chariii^s and Corr^Hi^msi
I have the honor to hand you, herewith, a report of the com-
mitments and disposal of cases an the Bristol Oounty Jail, for
the year 1909.
Mai. Womeh, TaUU.
RemalninK In Jail, JanuHiy 1, 1900 10 1
Committed duriiiK the year 146 6 160
140 6 161
DlscharKOd during the year _ 146 6 160
Remaining In Jail, January 1, 1010 10 1
Offnuus.
Assault
Assault, violent
Bastardy
Breaking and entering in night-,
time
Breaking and entering in daytime
Being a common cheat
Being a common drunkard
Being an Idle person
Being a disorderly person
Being a lewd and wanton person„
Carr3rlng concealed weapon
Defacing a building
Drunkenness
Killing, Illegally, three hogs
Larceny
Larceny from the person
Murder „
Non-support of wife
Revelling
Illegal sale of intoxicating liquor
Threatening to kill _
Vagrancy
Oommltted for safe keeping..
Olvll oonunltmentB
Remaining In Jail, Jan. 1, 1000..
No.
1
15
2
0
2
2
ti
1
1
1
5
1
17
1
10
S
6
1
0
6
S
7
114
8t
8
160
1
161
DitpoKd of Quet.
Discharged by Town of Bristol
Discharged by Jailer
Released on writ of Habeas Cor-
pus
Remaining In Jail. Jan. 1. 1010
No.
8
114
160
161
Respectfully sabmitted,
HARRY H. SHEPARD,
Bbibtol, R. I., January, 1910,
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FINANCES.
RESOURCES.
AppropiiBtlon for Maintenance of State Institutions passed at
January Session. 1«» 1880.000 00
Appropriation for Permanent Tmprovenients at State Institu-
tions—Bond Issue— passed at January Session. IWW 300.000 00
Balance of Appropriation for Repairs and Improvements ut State
Institutions, available January 1. 11>«»„ 486 88
Balance of Appropriation for Rmenrency Hospital at State In-
stitutions, available January 1, 1909 ^ W 86
Balance of Appropriation for Industrial Training at Sockanosset
Scnool, available January 1, 1«)» 146 11
Balance of Appropriation for Purchase of Land, available
January 1. 1«0» $882 18
Appropriation for Purchase of Land passed at January Session,
1900 _ 1.<W>00 1.882 18
Balance of Appropriation for Construction at State Hospital for
Insane, available January 1, 190ft MS W
Balance oi Appropriation for Bulldinfr at State Institutions,
available January 1, 1909 «8.288 88
Ba]anc*9of Appropriation for Construction at Sockanosset School
and State Hospital for Insane, available January 1, 1900 81,000 Oo
ym90in0 mfSiai^ JiPospdiai /or iAo ^msamo/
From board of Inmates _ ^ 1X^081 82
" sale of produce „ 881 88
" board 88 00
sale of Junk > 400 44
sale of sundries ^ 118 91 88.48© 46
From board of Inmates 18.181 40
sale of produce
tale of junk „ ^
sale of sundries ..^
labor ^ ^ „
sale of cruflhed stone „
Smommo mf Triton am«l yaii {/moiatti/my 6//is dato fmr iaSmr
amti 60mrwl, 7>0e0mS0r 3/, /SOS)/
From labor of inmates
" board of inmates ^
'* Jail fees and bonds „
** sale of produce.^
*' sale of Junk ^
'• sale of souveni rs „ _ ^
" sale of cruBhed stone
•* rent „
ym90in0 o/ SocAanos90i S0AO0//
From printing department
" labor in shops
*' sale of produce
'• sale of Junk „ „
'* sale of sundries „
•* board ^ _ ^ „
18.18140
1.886 74
80 97
108 41
147 06
460
7.722 05
187.294 01
7.708 81
468 15
1.077 88
878 47
887 40
48 88
844 00
87.664 44
1118 10
118 04
84178
87 96
47 60
88100
888 85
Interest „ ^ ^ 88 06
Goal on hand undiyided. January 1, 1909 8,446 18
Due from sundry parties for labor and board at State Prison. January
1.1909^.,., ^ 6,487 71
$817,248 28
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8TATB CHABiniB AHB CORRSCTIOVB.
EXPBNDITUREB.
Land
CottaffeNo. S. Oaklawn School, (prevloasly, |28,88S 28;
total 188,221 02) „
Monrae. etc., Btate Fann.( prevloasly $2,880 68; total
$6,881 24)
Superintendent's House. State Farm
Hen bouses and Brooder House. State Hospital for the
Insane ~.
Reception Hospital. State Hospital for the Insane
Repairing Fence. State Hospital for the Insane. ^.
Repalrina Tent Floor. State Hospital for the Insane...
Boilers. State Prison
Shed. State Prison
Temporary Dining Hall, State Prison
Gold Storage. Sockanosset Sohool...„
Sewerage System. Sockanosset School
Ohaplain*8 House
$1.887 40
4J88 74
2.041 61
786
481 40
264 60
82n
47 68
4.282 24
166 20
114 41
708 04
264 70
2 40 $16.684 42
Curr^mi 0jip0n*09 mf 3iai0 .^f^MpHai /^r iA^ Smsam^i
Subsistence:
Meat. . .
$11,760 06
1.084 76
2.116 12
2.664 24
188 96
1.612 66
616 08
2.020 76
640 20
1.607 00
1.0ri64
10.068 20
62 22
816 60
868 10
680 86
0.806 18
$2.080 86
788 00
64 06
8.600 86
608 07
246 04
$1.008 60
80100
166 64
Fish
Butter
Butterine
Cheese „
Tea
OofTee ^^
Molasses
Soap !
Tobacco ^
Flour. .,
Crackers
•
Beans — — „
Cereals .-
Sundries
—
$47,160 06
Farm expenses:
Manure
FertiUzer _.
Seeds «... „.„
Sundries ^
Farm stock and tools:
Stock
7.228 27
Farm tools, etc. —
Sundries...^
1.467 08
Salaries
Digitize
47.474 46
MAdlftfil flunnllAfl
1.188 75
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RBPORT OF THK BOARD.
69
Clothing and bedding
Fnmlture ~ .
Fuel
Repairs and Improvements...^ ,
Tiiffhts
Postage
Stationery ....
Books, perlodloals. etc
Telephones, electric and fire apparatus
Expenses returning escaped inmates
Transportation of inmates .
Miscellaneous
Add amount charged by Htate Farm
Add amount charged by Bookanosset Bchool ^
811.U7 00
0.266 89
12346 96
6.468 66
8,0tin
100 00
882 18
144 07
684 28
19 80
06
807 86
8144.ni 96
746 29
117 70 1146.676 97
Subsistence:
Meat „
19.612 61
783 60
1.010 27
1.896 tiQ
476 62
1.047 84
828 81
1,688 67
802 46
1.068 28
846 11
11.890 76
2*7 74
609n
816 14
224 66
6.782 40
622 00
206 49
4.679 00
618 70
868 79
Fish -
Butter „
But.t<^r<ne
Cheese ... „
Tea _
Coffee
8ugar.......„ ...««. .. ............
Molasses -. ^
fVMip ,. ,_
TobAcco ....X.. a X.,*-. ...
Flour
Crackers ......
Beans „/—,„,„„.„, ...,.„ „.
M<MLl
Cereals . .. ... .... ... .,
Sundries „
Farm expenses:
Manure
FertlUser _
Ashes
Qrain
186.928 91
Sundries...... .................... ............. . .........
94126 47
Farm stock and tools:
Stock „ .....
1094 60
699 89
287 81
Sundries.
1,681 70
Salaries
81.690 46
Medical supplies _ ..
Clothing and bedding «..« ...
Furniture
Fuel
Repairs and ImprovemenU
Lights ..„
PO«tRg«. „... „
1.862 18
7.964 01
1.688 41
7.162 29
2.(^78 16
1,641 78
110 00
•Utiooery
287 04
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STATB CHAKITIB8 AiO) OORUkOTIOKS.
Books, perlodioals, etc ,....
Telephones, electric and llreappttratui
Expenses returning escaped Inmates...^ .^
Traniportatlon of Inmntes „
MisoellaneoQs
Add amount charged by Bockanosset School
Deduct amount charged to the following Institutions:
State Hospital for Insane ^ »
Htate Prison «
Bockanosset School
Oaklawn School ^
S68«S
au 28
%<M)
n 10
aw 71
$10«.708 «7
148 61
$106,852 18
I74«sy
1,<M<)36
6,(W8 40
8.047 18
11.183 81
Curr^ni 0Mj»mm909 mf^iai^ ^ritmnt
Subsistence :
Meat
Fish.
Butter.^
Cheese ^.
Tea. „
Coffee
Sugar
Molasses ...
Soap „
Tobacco
Flour
Crackers ...
Beans
Meal
Cereals
Sundries.^
110.400 09
724 JM
87U 2S
199 (W
09 07
105 28
805 50
077 98
814 21
2.167 16
0.698 HO
12 22
580 64
807 82
99 18
6.586 29
|29.6?7 19
Farm expenses:
Manure
Fertilizer
Grain
Seeds
Sundries
82.248 82
448 00
2.266 28
422 48
682 91
6,907 94
Farm stook and tools:
Stock
Farm tools, etc..
Sundries
1156 00
251 92
296 86
700 78
Salaries
Medical supplies
Clothing and bedding
Furniture..
• Fuel
Repairs and improvements..
Lights
Postage
Stationery _
Books, perlodioals, etc,
Telephones, «leotrlo and Art apparatus..
27.267 86
778 77
6.844 61
1.478 80
8,610 01
2.403 05
1,556 90
16100
188 97
172 n
186 70
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71
TimnsportAilon of inniAtat...^
Dltch»rg6 money U> InniAtet..
Mlioell*neoii8
BxpenK68 of returning escapes „
Add aoMMint eharsed hj State Farm..
114 07
IHOOO
666 80
?1 66
$8U.U60 82
1,640 86 $82.676 07
Cmrrmmi 0Jip0ms0S 0/ ^••kmmmssH fSeJko^i.'
Subsistence:
Meat
PUh....
Batter.
Bntterlne
Oheese
Tea.
Farm expenses;
Manure.
Fertiliser..
Grain
Seeds
Sundries .^
$18,610 87
8376 14
Farm stock and tools:
Stock ...«.
Farm tools, etc..
Sundries
Salartes .._
Medical supplies .
Olothlnff and bedding
Furniture ..,^^ ^
Fuel
Repairs and Improvements
Lights
Postage.
Stationery
Books, periodicals, etc
Telephones, elect rlo and fire apparatus..
Bxpenses returning escaped inmates
Transportation of Inmates
Printing supplies
MUo^Ummoqi —
$608 00
286 00
106 07
908 07
21.H78 01
280 45
H.006 88
1.414 80
8.047 12
2.621 08
1.116 66
180 76
896 48
440 41
258 70
146 20
26 78
841 47
70180
180,71171
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72 STAtB CttARITtBB AlTD CORRBOTtOKB.
Add amount charged hj State Farm S6.608 40
Deduct amount charged to Htate Farm $148 61
Deduct amount charged to Oaklawn Bohool..^..^ ... Itt SO
Deduct amount charged to Btate Hospital for Insane 117 70
n6 41 IM.144 81
Cmrr^mi 0Jip0ns0S 0/ Oakiamn <f#il##//
Subsistence
Salaries
Farm expenses, tools, etc..
Medical supplies
Clothing and bedding
Furniture
Fuel
Repairs
Lights
Postage
Stationery
Books, perlodlcaU, etc
Telephones, electric and lire apparatus..
Miscellaneous
Add amount charged by Btate Farm
Add amount charged by Sockanosset School..
1184 M
8,181 84
87 08
88 4S
awn
47 88
614 17
66 OP
64 31
10 00
8rt70
»1 78
04 86
SOOA
14.600 21
8.047 18
10 90
^60
Sxp€ns9S 0/iJk0 Xomrdi
Travelling expenses:
Walter A. Etead
James F. MoOusker
Philippe Boucher
Robert F. Rodman
Harry H. Bhepard ^
George R. Lawton
Horace F. Horton
8. Wlllard Thayer
Francello O. Jillson
116 48
60 00
60 00
60 00
60 00
60 00
60 00
90 00
16 00
ISQ0 48
Expenses of James F. McOusker to National Oonfer-
ence of Charities and Corrections, BuflTalo. N. Y.... 70 00
Expenses of Philippe Boucher to same 70 00
Expenses of Horace F. Horton to same 70 00
Travelling expenses of E. B. Gardner to same 26 40
1886 88
Office expenses:
Salaries of Secretary and Clerks
Postage stationery, etc
6.068 80
698 60
8.187 78
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ttlt^ttT OV TSB BOAllD.
78
£xp0ns0S 0f r0tmo9in^ paupers from iho Siaio/
Halarles of Affent and Olerks
Bundry expenses
Sxponsos of iProbaiiom Work:
Salaries of Offlcers
Sundrj expenses ^
Paid indebtedness of 1908 -. _
S3.814 80
1,481 80
IS.SM10
I8.0S5 00
608 2S
4.4tt 88
li.tt86 88
Dr.
Btate Treasury, account of appropriation for Perma-
nent Improvements at Htate Institutions— Bond
Issue ^^ „ ^ ^ 1295.498 84
State Treasury, account of appropriation for dou-
structlon at Btate Hospital for tlie Insane„ „ 968 91
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Industrial
Trninlnflr at Sockanosset Scliool „ 145 11
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Bulldint;
at State Institutions 59.709 94
State Treasury, acoount of appropriation for an
Emergency Hospital, at State Institutions „ 12 26
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Con-
struction, at Sockanosset Hciiool and State Hospi-
tal for Insane 81,00u 00
Goal on hand, undivided 9.i*79 74
Due from sundry parties for labor and board at State
Prison. December 81, 1909 „ 5,628 78
$402,888 02
Due sundry parties, maintenance acoount, December
81, 1909 ^ $28,889 91
Duesundry parties, special account, December 81, 1909 84119 28,08110
879,160 92
$817.242 28
tDa/iy aoorayo numbor of /mmaios/
Btate Hospital for Insane...
Btate Farm , «.
Btate Prison and Jail
Sockanosset School ^
Oaklawn School
1,068
771
619
8S9
58
2750
Gross cost of the Institutions $894,682 91
Gross cost per year for one Inmate * 14;j 52
Gross cost per week for one Inmate 2 76
Net cost of all the Institutions „ 821,995 67
Net cost per year for one Inmate ^ 117 09
Net cost per week for one Inmate .«^ ^ 2 25
ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITURES.
It is estimated that the Board will require for the main-
tenance of the expected number of inmates in the Institutiops
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H StAtB CttARtttlfl AKD CORElOTtOHS.
the coming year and for necessary repairs, the sum of
$365,000.00, in addition of their receipts.
The estimate in detail is as follows:
For deflcleacy. 1W9 „ _ t a.000 00
For the support of the Htate Hospital for the Insane ^- IW.OOO 00
For the support of the Workhouse and Almshouse „ 8ft,000 00
For the support of the Prison and Jall„ • 4«,000 00
For the support of the Bockanosset School _ ~ afttOOO 00
For the support of the Oaklawn Hchool — S4»0 00
For the expenses of the Board of Htate Charities and Corrections inoludlns
salaries of Secretary and Clerks „ 7.000 00
For expenses of removal of paupers Including salaries of Asent and ClerkB
and probation work „ ^ ~.-~ 10.000 00
tM6.00D00
The sums named for the several Institutions are the esti-
mated expenditures less the estimated incomes.
Respectfully submitted by the Board of State Charities and
Corrections.
Jambs F. McCuskkr,
Fhilippb Bouohsk,
Waltbk a. Rbad,
Harbt H. Shbpabo,
Frahobllo G. Jili^oh,
Georqb K. Lawtok,
robbbt f. rodmak,
S. WiLLARD ThATBR,
HORACB F. HOBTOH.
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REPORT
OF THE SECRETARY.
Stf M# SS^ard ^/Jiaie CkariiUs anti Corr^eiions:
The Secretary respectfully presents the following report:
The regular semi-monthly meetings of the Board have been
held alternately at the Institutions and at their office in
Providence. Two special meetings were held during 1909.
^Amd0 Jsiand Jimim ZTr^asatry in aoe^umi miiA S^oarti 0/ Siaim CAmr/i/0s
anti C0rr00ii0M9f
Appropriation for maintenance of State Institutions:
Dr, Or.
To appropriation made for 1000 IMO.OOO 00
To raon«7 paid Into th« Treasury In 190»..^ 72,601 2A
By payments apon the orders of the Board ^ $408,601 W
I4O8.&01 26 $402,501 26
Appropriation for Permanent Improvements State Institutions :
Dr. Cr.
To appropriation made 1000 $»00.000 00
By payments apon the orders of the Board $4,601 66
By balance undrawn December 81. 1006 ^.480 84
$8n0.000 00 $800.000 00
Appropriation for Construction at State Hospital for Insane:
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1, 1000 » $068 01
By balance undrawn December 81. 1000 $068 01
$068 01 $068 01
Appropriation for purchase of Land at State Institutions :
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1. 1009 $282 18
To appropriation maJe 1009 ^ « 1.600 00
37 payment! upon %h% orders of the Board $1,888 IS
$13ttl8 $1,882 18
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76 STATU CHARtTTKS AlH) COtlRBCTtOVS.
Appropriation for Industrial Training, at Sockanosset School :
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1, 1«J» ^ _ $145 11
By balance undrawn December 81. h*W „ tl46 11
1146 11 tltfll
Appropriation for Building at State Institutions :
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1. mw - |fl8,»H 80
By payments upon orders of the Board ^... $8,588 4S
By balance undrawn l)eceml)er«l, IWW W.70B M
Appropriation for Repairs and Improvements at State
Institutions :
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1. ivm |4i5 J»
By payments upon the orders of the Board |4S6 86
Appropriation for Emergency Hospital at State Institutions:
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1, lyoy $12 26
By balance undrawn December 81. 1009 W 25
118 2^ tUtf
Appropriation for Construction at State Hospital for the Insane
and Sockanosset School for Boys :
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1. 1909 ^ 181.000 00
By balance undrawn December 31, 1909 $81,000 00
181.000 00 181.000 00
State Auditor's Oppick,
Providence, R. I., January 1, 1910.
This is to certify that the books of this department verify
the foregoing statements of accounts with expenditures.
CHARLES 0. GRAY,
State Auditor.
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STATEMENT OF MONET COLLECTED.
The sums collected and paid into the General Treasury are
in detail as follows :
1909.
From B. K. Gardner, collected at Hockanosset School > $44 8S
'* A. H. Harrington, collected at Btate Hospital for Insane 106 04
A. J. Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison B.J80 H
" W. R. WlfiThtraan. collected for board of Insane - 1684 97
*' W. R. Wlffhtman. collected for board at Almshouse „ 1.240 47
*' W. R. WlKbtnian. collected for Interest 1 66
*• Executive Oommlttee. collected at Htate Farm 166 16
" B. B. Qardner. collected at Sockanosset Bohool 89 7S
" A. H. Harrington, collected at Htate Hospital for Insane 96 7i
•* Kxecutlve Committee, collected at Htate Farm 98 *J
W. R. Wiffhtman, collected for board of Insane l.WO 80
W. R.Wlghtman, collected for board at Almshouse 247 78
W. R. Wlffhtman. collected for Interest 2 88
A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2,R4« 07
W. R. Wlffhtman. collected for board of Insane - 2,89ft 9u
" W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board at Almshouse 107 68
•• W. R. Wlffhtman, collected for Interest 2 29
•* B. B. Gardner, collected at Hockanosset School 82 Oft
A. H.Harrington, collected at Btate Hospital for Insane 128 88
" Bxecutive Committer*, collected at State Farnu 87 61
A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2,ft07 88
'* A. H .Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane 107 0ft
'• Bxecutive Oommlttee. collected at State Farm 86 28
'* B. B. Gardner, collected at Sockauosset SchooL ~. 4ft 28
W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board of Insane ^ 2,821 02
*' W. R. Wlffhtman, collected for board at Almshouse 1,071 26
*' W. R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest 1 74
A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 8.81« 71
*• W, R. Wightman, collected for board of Insane 1.489 41
•* W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board at Almshouse 218 87
** W. R. Wlghtman, collected for Interest - 8 76
*' A. H. Harrington, collected at Btate Hospital ^or Insane. 171 00
** Bxecutive Oommlttee. collected at State Farm « - 88 84
A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison - 2,884 98
" B. B. Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School :._ 77 1ft
** W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board of Insane I,7ft7 7ft
" W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board at Almshouse 87 44
W. R. Wlghtman. collected for Interest 2 08
" A. H. Harringt'On, collected at State Hospital for Insane 88 60
" A.J. Wilcox, collected at State 'Prison „^ 2,84ft 97
•• B, E. Gardner, collected at Sockanosset SchooL - 168 8ft
F. B. Jewett. collected at State Fai-m l«8 82
** W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board of Insane.. „ - 2.ft82 71
•• W, R. Wlghtman, collected for board at Almshouse 1.18ft 1ft
W. R. Wlghtman. collected for Interest - 1 «8
** A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane. 67 86
*• F. B. Jewett. collected at State Farm 858 11
A. J Wilcox, collected at State Prison ^ - 8.818 7ft
" B. B.Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School.- - 64 60
" B. B. (Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School _ 19 60
" A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane.^. 72 89
A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison — 2,67ft 89
•* F, B. 49W§t^, QOll©c^«<^ a^ Bt^t« Farm..... ,„....,,^.„^.,„ \^ ^
Jan.
80,
••
80.
*•
80.
•*
80.
"
80.
««
8U.
Feb.
1.
'•
27.
«t
27,
«.
27,
"
27.
*•
27.
««
27.
*•
27.
Mar.
81.
••
81,
••
81,
*'
81.
««
81.
**
81.
April 8.
"
80,
•*
80.
*•
80.
««
80.
••
80.
••
80.
**
80.
May
28,
*•
28.
(«
88.
**
28.
*'
28.
**
29,
••
29.
June 80.
*•
80.
«•
80.
••
80.
*«
80.
••
80.
••
80.
July
81.
•*
81,
••
81.
*•
81.
"
81.
i«
81.
««
81.
Aug.
80.
*'
81.
««
81.
H
81,
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78 STATB CHARITIES AKD COBRBCTIOVB.
Aug JJl, From W. K. Wljrhtmftn. collected for board of Intane $1,118 0©
*• 81, •• W. R. Wlirhtmaii. c«>llected for board at AlmshouM 186 88
•• 81, •• W. R. WlKhtman. collected for Interest 8 08
Bept.ao. " A. H. HarrlnRton. collected at Htate Hospital for Insane. 85 15
" 80, •• F. B. Jewett, collected at State Farm ~. TO 8»
" 80. *• K. K. Gardner, collected at ftocknnowet SchooL - «6 S6
" 80. " W. R. Wlghlman, collected for board of Inwine - 1.787 01
" 80, •• W. R.Wlffhtman. collected for board at Almshouse 77 87
•• 80, ** W.R. Wlffhtman. collected for Interest 8 18
Oct. 1. •• A. J. Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison ^ 4.44» »
*• 80, •' W. R. WlKhtman. collected for board of Insane J.MI (*S
•• 80. " W. R.Wl»rhtman, collected for »)oard at Almshouse 84« «>
•• 80, " W. R. WlKhtinan. collected for Interest — 1 80
" 80, •• E. E. (Gardner, collected at 8ockano88**t Hchool ^ IM 60
" 80, " A. H. Harrl nff ton. collected at Htate Hospital for Insane. WW
Nov. 1, '* A. J. Wilcox, collected at Bt ate Prison ^ «,688 76
4, " F. B. Jewett, collected at State Farm — 112 8»
" 27. *' A. H. HarrlnKton. collected at Htate Hospital for Insane- 180 87
" 80, '* E. E. (Gardner, collected at Bockanosset School « 60 60
•• 80, " F. B. Jewett. collected at State Farm 8» 08
•• 80. •• W.R.Wl»rhtman. collected for board of Insane l.HOO 00
" 80, •• W. R. Wlsrhtman, collected for board at Almshouse - 810 20
•' 80, " W. R. WlKhtman. collected for Interest ^ 2 «7
Dec. 1, •• A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison S.tNM 22
•• 28, *• W. R. Wlffhtman. collected for board of Insane - 2.201 83
•• 28. •• W. R.WlBhtraan. collected for board at Almshouse ...» 642 16
" 28, •• W.R.Wlghtman. collected for Interest -. 2 46
" 2», '* E. E. Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School - 76 11
" 80, " A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane. 286 87
" 80, " A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2.808 47
" 80, •* F. B. Jewett. collected at State Farm „ ^ 218 58
173.601 96
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EKPOBT or 9HB BOARD.
SiUL ARIES.
79
The names and salaries of persons appointed or employed by
the Board of State Charities and Corrections, during 1909,
(Chapter 860, Section 18, of the General Laws of Rhode Island,
1909) are as follows :
All are furnished with board, lodging and washing, excepting
those against whose name an asterisk is placed.
OFFICERS AND CLERKS OF THE BOARD.
Names.
Qglest.
Sate.
Time.
Amount^
James R. Read* —
Sec. Board of 8. Char-
ities A Corrections.
do do
Clerk do
do do
do do
do do
Agent State Charities
A Corrections
Per year
12.600.00
8.000.00
1.000.00
750.00
««0.00
750.00
2.600.00
750.00
Per month
50.00
Per day
2.00
Per month
100.00
100.00
60.00
60.00
26.00
100.00
10 months
$2.068 80
do do
2 mouths
500 00
Emily M.NichoIsV
Carrie E. Oatley*
1 year
1 year „
2 months
1.000 00
76000
Harriet E.Nichols*
100 00
do do
10 months
<V25 00
tW»lterR.Wightmftn*
1 year
1 year ^
10 months
2.500 00
Louise H. Purkis*
Nora F. MoCormick*...
Clerk do
do do
do do
Probation Officer
do do
do do
do do
do do
do do
760 00
600 00
do do
8 days
AGO
William J. Wallace*...
Margaret H. Dennehy*
ft months
1 year.^
60000
1.20000
George L. Smith*
1 year
1 year
60000
Jehu Downes*
60000
Theophllus Topham*
9 months
22600
Charles B Mulhearn*...
7 months
700 00
STATE INSTITUTIONS, ETC.
Natnes.
Qfflceg.
Sate.
Time.
Amouni.
Artbar H. Harrington
Consulting Physician
State Institutioos
Per year
11.000.00
1.800.00
2.000.00
1,800.00
1.800.00
840.00
40000
5 months
9 months...
8 months
1 year
1 year
$41666
Henry A. Jones...
do do
Charles H. Ewer*
Resident Physician
do do
Religions Instructor
Catholic Clergyman
Registered Pharmacist
l>ental Surgeon
1.860 00
600 00
1.80000
Matthew J. Harklns*..
1.800 00
Bverett P. Corliss.
Edwin A. Randall*
1 year
18 day .
84000
19 86
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STATE GDARITIES AND CORRBCTIOVS.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE IN8ANS.
Name$.
OffleeM.
RaU. 1 Time.
AmonU.
Arthur H. HarrlnKloii
HuDerlntendeiit
Per year
I2.O0O 00 5 months
8,000 00; 7 months
|8n85
do do
do
1.750 00
Georfre E. Blmpson
Deputy Hupt.
1.400 00
1,500 00
1.000 00
1,200 00
6 months
700 00
do do
do do„
I'hyslcian, Ass't
do do
• months
760 00
BdfTArl. Hanhcuni„
BUsha H.Oohoon
1 year....
0 mos. 6 days
1000 00
910 It
William B. Tread way
do do
800 00 1 year
480 00 8 mos.5days
800 00
Tom Mack
do do
1M46
do do
do do
000 00
Per month
26 00
4 months
900 00
Oliver A. MenireK
Interiio.
4 mos. 7 dftTH ...
106 05
Howard T. Child
do
26 00 1 mo. M days
60 00 11 mos.lftdays ..
flOOOli mos. 19day8_.
50 0o'llmo8. »days_.
87 Oo| 9 mos. 80 days...
85 00! 8 mos. U% days..
48 88
Helen R. Putnain
Wlllard Putnam
HNek'per & DlotlUan
Hupervlsor
098 00
096 00
William H. Follett
do Ass't
682 20
Charles H. Getty
do do
809 44
Phillip W. McDermott
do Nljrht. .
182 21
Georsre H. Delaney
do do
28 00
80 00
2 months
60 00
do do
do do
8 mos. 94 days...
118 28
do do
do do
do do ..
82 00
84 00
40 00
85 00
80 00
86 00
80 00
27 50
40 00
80 00
25 00
80 00
80 0<t
80 00
600
10 00
Per day
2 00
SOO
8 months...
90 00
do do
2 mos. SO days.....
8 mos. 2 days
9 months
89 72
May Hchurman „
Martha Scott
Hupervlsor „
do Ass't.
122 07
316 00
Edith 0. Sylvester
do do
1 year
800 00
Mary 0, Beckett„
do do . . ..
rt mos. 27 days...-
II mos. 19 days.....
11 mos. todays.....
11 mos. 97 days
4 mos. 7 days»...
8 mos. 0 days
8 mos. 11 days...
11 mos. 16 days
1 year....
i5H days „
24160
Oarrle Murch ^
do NIsrht
848 18
Arlle Mclntyre
do do Aas*t,
Olerk - '...
Olerk Ass't
820 94
Abble M. Peckhara
Ruth 0. Meneres
470 00
190 n
A. Maud Gorton
do do
78 62
Minnie B. Oook
do do
10100
William H. Oarr
Musician
844 09
Olara W. Harry
do
Pianist
do _
800 00
Llewellyn D. Ohandler
Irene Oolllns «
Lars Anderson ^
977
1 year
4 days
190 00
800
May Johnson
1 day
900
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 81
STATE HOSPITAL FOB Tl^B INSANE.— Coilttnttwf.
Names,
QtHees,
Rate,
Time.
Amount.
Florin© »earll „
do do .
Pianist
Per day
11 60 2 days .-.
18 00
1 00 20 days ....
20 00
William Eccles . ..
Ejarl 0. Lane
Storekeeper -
do
t 00 1 day
Per month 1
80 00 0mos. 18 day 8 —
80 00,l(Jday8 —
200
197 42
William Tompson.
16 48
do do
do
40 OOi 1 month .-
40 00
do do
Henry Zwaasstra
do
Baker, Service Bids....
fO OOi 4 months
200 00
60 00, 4 months
200 00
Bert J. Marston —
do do
' 60 00 7 mos. 19 days —
880 06
do do
Oook do
60 00
1 mo. 4 days
66 46
John Lyons -
do do
60 00
2 mos. 2«)^days.-
142 74
Oha»'l©8 Walker
do do
do do
do do
do do
60 00
60 00
Per week
12 60
Per month
40 00
8 days
1 mo. 22% days...
8 days
1 mo. 29 days
484
Georffe E. Bucklln
H. Percy Mliia
Jessto M. Steel ^
87 60
14 29
77 41
do do
do do
60 00
2 mo. 8 days
118 88
NelUe OolUns
do Hospital Kitchen
26 00
8 months
76 00
do do -
do do
do do
do do
27 60
5 months
187 50
80 00
4 months
120 00
Phoebe Williams
do Supt^s. House
88 00
8 months
84 00
do do
do do
Matron. Kitchen
80 00
26 00
9 months
2 mos. n% days..
270 00
Sarah Taylor
William H.Silloway-...
64 07
Supervisor Laundry...
86 00
9 months
816 00
Duncan G. Mayes
do do ...
Matron do ...
86 00
26 00
2 mos. 18 days ...
1 year
88 66
Elva L. Patton -
800 00
Josephine Marceaux...
Laundress -
28 00
11 mos. 19 days
287 67
Sarah Donahue
do
do -.^
28 00
20 00
28 00
6 mos. 80 days —
4 mos. 28 days —
28 days
187 26
Nellie Forrest
98 06
Susie H. Thurber
Matron. Sewing
20 77
Nellie Forrest
do do
do do
20 00
26 00
20 days ^.
1 mo. 12K days ^
12 00
Mary P. Dwelley
Martha Scott
Bertha A. Brooks
88 64
do do
86 00
2 mos. 12 days
88 61
Dressmaker
80 00
6 mos. 16 days —
166 00
Addle M. Gove
Annie Blesslngton.
do
)5Q0inHava
888
do
26 00
2 mos. 6^4 days...
66 89
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82 STATS CHARITIB8 AND OORRBCTIOirB.
8TATB HOSPITAL FOB THB IN8ANB.— COTlfcTMied.
Names.
Oglces,
Rate,
Time
A^
Mary A. Fltta
Dressmaker
Per month!
120 00 6H days .„
1 865
Harry K. Butterfleld...
Engineer _
76 00
1 year....
900 00
Herbert R. Elmer.
do Asst
86 00
86 00
1 year
1 year
420 00
Everett L. Waihburn..
Liewls (4. HocraD
do do
Fireman. Day
420 00
26 00
aooo
1 month -
26 00
do do
do do
1 mo. 26 days —
64 19
Robert E. Dagprett-
do do
80 00
80 00
1 mo. 7 days
1 day
87 00
William F. Barclay
do do
100
James McQrath
do do
do do
80 00
80 00
1 mo. 8 days
8 mos. 7 days —
88 00
Joseph Nichols _
107 74
James McGrath
do Night
86 00
86 00
5 months
8 mos. S days.....
176 00
William 8. Gardner^
do do
112 00
John M. Simpson
do do
1
80 OOi 2 mos. 80 days...
89 81
John 8. Ooyne
do do
80 00
Per week
15 00
2 mos. llM days..
11 weeks 4 days.
71 18
Edward W. Oolton
Steam Fitter
178 58
Matthew J. OumminKH
do do
15 00
Per montli
46 00
1 weeks 2 days..
8 mos. 4 days —
22 50
Hazen A. Blckford
Oarpenter.. „
806 00
William A. Polk
do
40 00
2 mos. 24 days....
116 9r
BUott G. Broadwell
Painter
40 00
1 year
480 00
William E. Underwood
Barber
86 00
11 mos. 26 days....
414 86
William T. Rowe
Porter
82 00
6 mos. 27 days...
188 80
James Qululan
do
80 00
8 mos. 7K days„
97 26
Sterling R. Arerell
Boss Farmer
82 00
66 00
8 months ....~..
96 00
Ashford A. Sampson...
1 year
660 00
Frank H. Olementt
Gardener
86 00
11 mos. 2^ days.
411 26
William E. MoLellan...
Teamster
86 00
11 mos. 18K days
406 89
James G. McOormack..
Barn Officer
40 00
86 00
1 year
480 00
George E. Goodspeed...
Officer No. 1, Outside...
11 mos. 27 days...
416 48
John F. Beaney ....
do No. 2, do ...
do No. 2. do ...
do No. 2. do
80 00
82 50
80 00
6 months
180 00
do do
1 mo. 17 days....
4 months
50 82
Oharles Draine
120 00
Alanson J. Bryant
do No. 8t do
80 00
4 months
120 00
Ellis L. Walker
do No. 8. do
do No. 8, do
do No. 8, do
Attendant
25 00
28 00
80 00
80 00
1 month
1 month...
26 00
Hush Geoffhegan.
28 00
do do
6 months
180 00
WilUam T. Rowe«..
8 mos. 22 days.
112 00
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RVPORT OV THB BOARD.
BTATB HOSPITAL FOR THB INS AVB.— Continued,
Namet,
Offlcet,
Rate,
Tim«.
Amtmnt.
Ohrla.G. Hill
William H. Htevenson
Marshall H. Bushey
do do
William Headley.^
Maurice L. VinaL
do do »
William H. Billoway..
Stephen L. Murch
Raymond G. M^Intyre
Roy Btableford >
do do
do do
James Kilffare. .
Parker L. Gates
Joseph Ballon
Harold H. Jones
do do
Daniel Mc Kenney
John J. Sweeney
James A. Qui n Ian ^
Edward Dean
Guy Jackson
do do
Wilbur M. Thompson.
David O. Judd
do do
Lars Anderson >.
Oornelios M. Oapron
Ernest L. Jones
do do
do do
James F. Prowse
John W. GalUsan
do do
Harry F. Ray
Attendant.,
do
do
do
. do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Per month
123 OC
1 mo. 2% days...
r^86
iB 00, 1 mo. S9 days.....
46 84
» 00| 2 mos. 8 days.....
48 80
s&oc
1
1 month _
85 00
»oc
1 8 mo. 1% days...
70 10
» Oo| 2 mos. 10 days...
57 87
86 OO
j 2 months
60 00
86 OC
1 8 months
105 00
88 50 9 mos. 29 days...
822 10
82 fiOll mos. 80 days
878 47
26 OOi 4 months
100 00
28 00
8 months
84 00
80 00
4 mos. 19 days...
188 86
28(10
8 mos. 11^ days..
88 87
28 00 21>4 days
88 47
28 00
1 mo. aj^ays
89 78
28 00
2 mos. 80 days...
0188
26 00
4 months
100 00
28 00
2 mo. 7 days
60 46
28 00
13^ days
10 88
28 00
8 mos. 1 day —
09 74
82 60
11 mos. 11 days...
878 40
28 00
8 mos. 1 day —
40 74
25 00
8 months
76 00
26 00
1 mo. 0 days
80 80
28 00
2 mos. 25 days.^
07 80
26 00
6 mos. 14 days...
186 99
86 00
9 mos. W% days
888 60
86 00
11 mos. 17 days...
404 70
28 00
4 months
98 00
28 00
8 months
84 00
80 00
4 mos. 20 days...
189 18
86 00 11 mos. 19K days
406 61
28 00
8 months ...
40 00
26 00
8 mos. 8K days..
78 81
88 00
1 mo. 11 days —
81 08
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84 STATi cHABims Aim ooBmscnoHB.
8TATB HOSPITAL FOB THB INBAlf ■.— CMilUMd.
Karnes.
Offices.
BaU.
Time.
AmomU
William H. Park.
Attendant.^
Per month-
tSOO Smofl. IS days...
847 74
Perdval W. Patterson
do
U 00|» days
8162
Hobert Headley
do
n 00 9 mos. 11 days
66 88
do do
do
86 00 1 mo. »K days...
46 96
Louis M. Olark „
do
do .
88 00/S months..
86 00 t mofl. 0 days. .
66 00
do do - -
118 00
John E. Mc LauRhUn...
do
» 00 9 mos. 14H days-
««
do do
do
» 00 t mos. 7 days
66 88
Euffene L. Hill ^
do
a 00 4H days
884
Wm. B. T. Irvlnff.
do
do
do
88 00 1 mos. 8 QdaTs ...
60 96
John D. Campbell
80 00
1 month
80 00
Frank W. Madden.
88 00
1 mo. 8^ days...
48 00
Eugene W. Lamb
do
88 00
88 00
88 00
86 00
1 mo. 0>^ days....
2 mos. 88H days.
8 mos. 17 days
8 months
80 44
Edward Heald
do , -,
do
do
68 44
do do
68 71
Thomas W. Locke
60 00
Refflnald Mc Gllvery...
do
88 OOj 8 mos. IS days...
47 88
do do
do
do ..
86 00
88 00
ftSdays...
488
Timothy R. BulUvan
8 mos. lOH days..
66 91
Daniel Thomas
do
88 00
1 mo. 17H days...
86 00
James Mc Nulty
do
88 00
1 mo. 7H days.
88 80
Earnest A. Wallace
do
88 00
I mo. 96 days
48 06
Daniel Grant.'.
do
88 00
1 mo. llH days...
89 46
George L. Perry
do
88 00
80 days
98 80
Ronald Y. Rankin
do
88 00
9mos. 9lHdays.
6106
do do ..-
do
86 00
80 00
9 months .. ...
60 00
do do
do «.
9 mos. 1 days
60 07
Gerard Dlkmans
do ..
80 00
11 mos. 96 days ..
866 16
George 8. Burnette
do
88 00
9 mos. 27H days.
66 40
do do
do
86 00
9 months
60 00
do
86 00
1 month _
96 00
do do
do
80 00
9 mos. 7H days...
67 60
WlUlam Thompson —
do
88 00
11 mos. 88 days
64a
do do
do
86 00
16 days
19 10
LesUe B. Smith
do
80 00
0 months
180 00
do do
do
88 60
6 mos. 80 days
180 66
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Rl^ET 01^ TfiS BOARD.
8TATB HOSPITAL FOBTHB IN8ANB.— Cblrfmitfd.
86
Name$.
Q0leet.
RaU.
Time.
AmomU.
Prank W. Bryant.^
Attendant
Per month
4 months
1100 00
Fred L. Law
do
»00
8 mos. IK days...
80 46
Oharlea J. Butler>
do
S8 00
4 days
267
Walter P. Smith
do -
S8 00
2 mos. 27^ days..
08 40
do do
do
do
S6 00
»00
8 months
76 00
Mark N. Jackson^
14H days
10 70
Willard J. Dunham......
do
»00
2 mos. 10 days
66 88
James J. Black
do
88 00
THdays
676
WInfred 8. Reed
do
S8 00
4 mos. 7/^ days
67 08
Amos L. Purdy...
do .
28 00
1 mo. 12H days...
82 68
do do
do
28 00
1 month «...
26 00
do do
do
S8 00
80 00
1 month... »
28 00
George M. Oroton
do
6 months
160 00
do do
do
82 00
6 mos. 18 days —
210 41
Charles H. Simmons
do
28 00
a(^days
21 16
do do
do
26 00
1 mo. ITH days...
44 87
do do
do
28 00
80 00
27Kdays
1 month
26 87
do do
do
80 00
Kverett R. Smith
do
28 00
1 mo 21 days
80 10
Dexter H. Follett
do
25 00
4 mos. 18 days
110 48
do do
do ..
28 00
1 mo. 5K days..
83 67
Alexander Mc Master^
do
28 00
2 mos. 1% days...
61 27
Harold B. Kaler
do
do
28 00
82 00
14 days .-
10 78
L. Bdffar Thnrber
28 days
28 60
Michael Mc Manus
do
28 00
2 mos. 4 days
49 88
Robert B. Hawkins
do
28 00
22 days
10 87
Charles Dralne
do
28 00
1 mo. 8>^ days
26 68
do do
do
26 00
28 00
1 month
1 month..
26 00
do do
do .„ .
28 00
do do «..
do «... ..
80 00
1 month
80 00
Ernest H. Malkson
do ... .
80 00
5 mos. 10 days
180 00
Theodore P. Butler
do
28 00
1 mo. 2 days
24 04
Daniel Tewhran...
do
do „
28 00
28 00
28 00
22 days
10 42
Carr F. Grant
2(^ days
2«Hdays... —
16 80
Edward M. Babln
do
20 18
LmIIa At Payson.
do
»00
1 mo. 18 days —
84 08
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86
STATE CtiAftlTIKS AND CORlllECTlONS.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. — Continued,
Names.
Qjricet,
Rat§,
I
Time.
Amount.
Harry W. Phelps..^
Attendant
do do
do
do do
do
Earl Mclntyre
do
Ellis L. Walker
do
do do -
do
do do
do
Llewellyn D. Uhandler
do
Urban R. Nagle
do
Hugh 0. Cjeoffhegan
do
Htearllng R. AverelL...
do
John M. Hlmpson
do
Frank P. Morgan
do
Hamuel F. Evan8„
do
do do
do
do do
do
do do ^
do
Everett 8. Hook..
do
do do
do
do do
do
Jesse 8. Reed «
do
Lewis H. BrownelL
do
do do
do
Arthur Watts >
do
James F. Breen
do
Austin J. Rold
do
Fred D. Burns ^...
do
do do
do
Walter Welghtman
do
John Gordon
do
do do
do
Leslie J. Davis
do
Walter I. Newman
do
Jesse M. Steely
do
do do
do
do do . ..
do
Per month;
$X& 00 1 mo. 80>^ days...
25 ool 2 mos. 7 days..
80 00; 5 months |
28 00, 3 mos. 18 days — I
28 00 24 days i
28 ooi 1 month "
80 00; 9 mos. 21 days....^
28 00 1 mo. 6 days !
28 00 28Kday8 _...
26 00 1 mo. 28 days —
80 00 0 months I
25 00 1 mo. 27 days... J
28 00 1 mo. IK days.....!
28 00 I mo. 4K days.....
25 00 2 months '
28 00 1 month j
80 00 16 months j
28 00 1 month
26 00 1 month — J
80 Ool 8 mos. 4 days.....!
28 Oo' 2 mos. 20 days —
28 00 1 mo. lOK days-!
28 00 2 mos. SH days-
I I
28 00 12 days I
28 00
28 00
25 00
1 mo. 12)4 days...'
4 days !
4 mos. 27 days '
28 00 I mo. 8 days..
28 00
9 days
28 00
2 mos. 11 days-...
25 00
1 month-
28 00
25 days
28 00
1 mo. 21)4 days..
80 00
1 month-
82 50
8 months
85 00
2 months —
145 68
66 25
160 00
57 06
18 40
28 00
81 00
27 20
2148
42 44
270 00
49 U
28 69
26 84
60 00
28 00
150 00
28 00
25 00
86 17
60 84
86 24
55 18
920
82 59
2 97
12177
son
6 76
54a
25 00
19 17
89 48
80 00
97 60
79 00
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REPORT or THB BOARD.
STATB HOSPITAL FOR THB iNBAVB.— Continued.
87
Name*,
QffUxM.
MaU.
Timt.
Amount.
H«nr7 0. SalYldge
Attendant
Per month
IS8 0U
8 days
$2 71
Prsiik M. Kenyon_
do
28 00
1 mo. 2 days„
25 67
Edwin P. Sullivan
do
8»00
29 days
2192
ThomAs E. Bherlock^...
do
S8 00
2 mos. 28 days
68 00
do do
do
S6 00
1 mo. 80 days
48 28
Albert J. Van Hlyke
do
8»00
11 days
8 16
Walter B. Johnson
do
8»00
1 mo. 0 days
27 58
Bernard H. Greenwood
do
28 00
at^days ^..
22 68
JamM E. Andrews
do
ssoo
28 days
18 65
Ordbry V. Stevens —
do ^
»00
1 mo. 26 days
44 86
Hamnel Thomas
do
28 00
1 mo. B% days —
29 61
WilUam Llzotte
do
28 00
6 days^
877
Elwln 0. WllUanis
do
28 00
lmo.25Hdays...
42 46
Thomas W. Bradley
do
28 00
1 mo. t}i days....
27 82
James B. Barnes
•do
28 00
22H days
16 69
James P. Bradley
do
28 00
2mos.25>^days.
64 89
William A. Pine
do
28 00
1 mo. 20K days...
88 72
Bernard E. WllUami...
do .„
28 00
1 mo. 22H days...
89 69
do do
do ^...
do
25 00
28 00
1 month
26 00
Walter B. Montleth
1 mo. 2lH days...
89 48
Wllford H. Mlnkler
do
28 00
5 days. -
8 74
Ralph E. Davis
do
28 00
1 mo. 21 days
88 68
do do
do
85 00
C8 00
1 month
1 mo. 12 days —
26 00
James 8. GUdden^
do -.
82 20
RalDh A. Smith
do ..
28 00
12K days „.
9 49
Charles 0. Twltty
do -,
28 00
1 mo. 2^ days...
46 62
John W. Btapleford
do
28 00
12>^ days _
927
Wm. H. Mc Kessey
do
28 00
2<J days.
19 66
Frank W. Mo Glnnls-...
do
28 00
4 days
297
William H. O'Dell
do
28 00
27 days
i 2008
Clarence J. Oolby
do
28 00
I mo. 14 days
88 78
William Hamilton
do
28 00
26V^days
20 04
Henry 0. Rosa ^
do
28 00
1 mo. 9K days
80 24
Charles Newman
do
28 00
1 day
74
AnnaQulnn
do
28 00
18 days
965
Alberta F.Hook _.
do
20 00
2 mos. 27 days —
67 84
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(■ItAtB OHARtTtBS AHl> OOftllBOTtONS.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.— G97tfWIIMi.
Names.
Qffkfs.
Rale.
Time,
\Amouni.
Kitty A Langton Attendant .
Huslo A. Tralnor
do
Minnie RoKers
do
Isabolle H. Htableford...
do
do do
' do
1
do do
do
do do
do
May A. Patterson
1 do
Marjorle M. Watts
do
Pliylls A. Pelaney
do
do do -
do
Frances Hardest
1
do
AblileK. Gates
do
Kate T. Averell...
do
Bessie Oarson-
do
Mai-ffaret Bowers
do
do do ~
do
do do ~
do
Luoretla Kilfrare^
do
Tressa Russell
do
Ethel B. Bkinner^
do
Helen B. Hlmelraan^...
do
Emily Barns
do
OUve M. Hill
do
do do «
do
Bessie M. Yates
do
do do
do
Mary A. Oarrlsan
do
do do
do
Sujle N. Hook
do
do do -.
do
Bertha 0. Maxwell
do
Agnes E. Bolivar
do
Kva P. MoLellan^
do
Irene OoUins.
do
EmmaO. Oarter
do
Per month
$20 00 1 mo. lOK days.
ao ool 1 mo. 4 days..
» 00 6 days „
88 00 2 months |
»00) 1 mo. 10 days i
M 00 8 months i
28 00 2 moB. 11 days — .
20 00 20 days j
20 00 12 days I
22 00 0 mos. 34 days.....
26 (M) 4 mos. 20 day8.....|
22 00 8 mos. 6 days
20 00 1 mo. 8^^ days j
22 00 I mo. 28 days
20 00 2 mos. 6 days
28 00 2 mos. 22 days.....:
25 00 8 months >
20 00 0 months {
90 00! 8mos. 17days...-i
20 00l7Kday8
20 00 lis days...
20 00 6 mos. 6S days...
26 oo' 5 mos. 20H days..
20 00! 2 mos. 26 days
22 001 2 months ^....
22 ooj 2 months
25 oo! 4 mos. 1 days
20 OOi 1 month
22 oo' 6 mos. 1 day
10 00^ 2 mos. 80 days
22 OOj 2 mos. 4 days
20 oo' 2 mos. 20H days..
SOOolllmos. 14days.„.
I
80 00 11 mos. 18H days.
20 00
25 00
1 year
8 mos. 18 days..
190 78
92 66
838
60 00
20 46
78 00
65 94
12 W
800
149 08
118 «7
70 40
26 85
42 68
48 18
88 74
76 00
168 00
72 41
1129
7 48
88(17
148 7»
68 77
44 00
44 00
100 81
20 00
110 71
6U86
40 98
68 28
848 10
847 90
240 00
85 88
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lllt^RT OF THtE BOARt). 89
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.— Con/inW«i.
— - -
—
yamrg.
Offlcejt.
nnte.
Time,
Amount,
Minnie A. Ileardon
Attendant _
Per month
«26 0U
8 mo8. 27 days^...
f»7 60
Margaret A. Davis
do
SO 00
1 mo. 12 days
88 75
Mary 11. Beckett
do
20 00
2 mos. 18 days...
40 80
Nina 8. Spalding
do
ao 00
1 mo. 7 days ... .
85 00
Alice Htevens
do
aooo
22 00
1 mo. SO days
8 months
88 07
Mary E. Devaney
do
00 00
do do
do
do
do
28 00
95 00
20 00
2 months
7 months
40 00
do do
175 00
Rebecca C. Merrill
2 mos. 17 days.....
60 87
Etta B. Moultrop
do .-
20 00 IS days
1178
Lulu M. Ijamb
do „
do
20 00
2S0O
80 00
25 00
1 mo. 20H days...
2 months
88 07
Mary A. Bcott
60 00
do do ...„
do
9 mos. 8 days
5 mos. 20 days.....
881 68
Asrnes R. LaFleur
do
14107
Florence P. Butler
do
20 00
1 mo. 2 days..
80 00
FJIzal^etU G. Prescott...
do
20 00
22 00
8 mos. SO days^..
2 mos. 2W days„...
73 83
do do ...
do
04 68
Lulu Dagsrett
do
20 001 8 mo8.8(^day8„
70 08
do do
do
do
22 00
20 00
4 months
88 00
Ella M. Manwarrlnff...
8 mos. 80 days.....
77 88
Ethel L. Ames
do
20 00
8 mos. 8K days ....
78 15
Edith M. Herman
do
do
20 00
28 00
25 00
86 00
86 00
1 mo. 80 days
4 mos. 85 days —
7 months
88 00
do do »..
105 74
Rhoda Oashman „
do
do
175 00
do do
4 mos. 17H dayb..
5 mos. 10 days.....
110 04
LIbby M. Malkson
do
188 88
Ethel M. Brlghtman.....
do ..„ „..
20 00
1 mo. 12 day..
88 00
do do
do
22 00
4 mos. 14 days —
07 04
Bertha Boardman.^
do
28 00
4 mos. 86 days —
105 74
Dora Noblet
do
28 00
25 00
1 month
4 mos. 80 days
88 00
do do
do
110 18
do do -
do
2«00
20 00
22 00
6 months
160 00
Ethel L. Maxwell
do „
do
8 months
00 00
do do
8 mos. 18 days
87 67
Belle McLaurln^
do
20 00
8 mos. 4>^ days...
08 00
do do
do
82 00
8 months
44 00
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90 STATE CHARITIfiS AND C0KKKCT10H8.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.— CORlmUMJ.
Names.
Offlcfs.
Bate,
Time.
Amcuntt
Alice Herman Attendant.
do do
Kate K. Taylor i
do do ...-
Myrtle Hoag
Julia S. Murston
do do
do do -,
Amy M. Lane
do do
do do
do do
Wllhelmlna B. Vtnal...
do do ...
Margaret Barboar.
do do „
do do
Lenora McKenney..
Olara Law
Bessie K. Oassldy
Harlle Keaney
do do
Kdlth M. Averell
do do
Julia L. Desmond
Joanna M. Hayes
Georgia K. Elklns
Bessie B.Andrews
Hattle M. Ball
do do
Jessie Hamilton
Hilda M. Garner
Vera M.Olay
Charlotte K. Beane
lElla M. Wlney
do do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
r month
126 00
6 mos. 16 days —
28 00
6 months i
aooo
9 months ^.|
KOO
2 months 1
80 CO 18 days .
28 00 1 month
28 00 28 days
26 00, 7 mos.lWdays^.
20 00
I mo. 8K days....
22 00 1 mo. 87 days
I
28 OOj 4 months
86 00 8 mos. 18 days...
20 OOj 2 mos. 16 days.
82 00 1 2 months..
86 00
28 00
80 00
20 00
20 00
8 months
4 mos. 28 days...
8 mos. 86 days...
3 mos. 10 days...
8 mos. 1% days.
18 00,11 mos. 81 days...
88 00
26 00
20 00
22 00
20 00
20 00
80 00
6 dayg
1 mo. W^ days.
8 mos. 16 days.
5 mos. 88 days....
8 mos. 9 days...
1 mo. 18 days..
18 days
22 00 28 days
28 00 1 mo. 17 days...
80 00 8 months
80 00 Sl54 days
20 00 1 mo. 8K days..
90 OOj 8 mos. 26 days..
20 00 1 mo. 4 days
20 00. 1 mo. 87 days....
i
88 OOj 2 months
S187V0
166 OU
40 00
44 00
810
22 00
60 00
10012
26 67
41 16
0SOO
64 62
44 00
76 00
180 10
86 00
45 81
60 80
210 10
8n
40 78
70 82
186 88
66 00
87 61
880
16 82
48 20
240 00
14 00
28 61
87 10
22 66
88 00
44 00
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RB^OllT Of THE BOARD. 4)1
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.— C(?n/inM«l.
yames.
Office.
JesslP L. MoKenzle
Attendant
do do -
do
May Patterson
do
Helen Albrljrht -
do
Bessie M. Bushey —
do
Bertha O. MaxwelL
do
Badie G. Sharpe
do
do do ~
do
Annie Hlattery
do
do do ^
do
Lilly B. Hill
do
Bmina I. Wlney
do
Carolyn Bradshaw
do
Catherine M. Kelley....
do
Bessie Campbell
do
Kthel P. Irving
do
do do -
do
Avis G. Reed
do
Mary McPhall
do
do do
do
do do ^
do
Minnie Nearhood
do
do do
do
Jessie I Moody
do
Hattle M. Jackson^
do
do do
do
Lottie M. Payson
do
Helen A. Foley «
do
Madee A.Gretrary
do
Jennie Cunningham
do
do do
do
Grace F. Haben
do
Nellie Keene
do
do do
do
Alice Blelcher
do
Carolyn G. HaskelL
do
Bate.
Time,
Amount,
Per month , ^ '
|:j0 uo 2 mos. 21)4 days,
2S00j 8 months |
aooo'lwV^ days_
SO 00 2 mos. ny% days
ao 00, 8 mos. t days„...
ao Oo| 8 mos. ao>i days,
S mos. 10 days..
8 months
1 month
20 00
22 00
2000
2S00 8 mos. 19 days....'
I I
28 00 1 mo. 2H days.....!
I
20 00 8 mos. 27 days.....
20 00 18 days
20 00. Wi days
20 OOl 1 mo. 29 days
20 00 2 mos. 2 days
22 00' 2 months
10 oo| 4 mos. 9>^ days...
20 00 1 mo. 9 days —
22 00 2 mouths
28 00 8 mos. \^/i days
20 Oo| 2 mos. 22>^ days„
22 00 8 months
I
20 00> 1 mo. 2>^ days....
20 Oo| 1 mo. 8 day;)
22 OO' 2 months
20 00 1 mo. 10 days
20 00 27 days
20 00
20 00
22 00
20 00
20 00
1 mo. 17H days...
2 mos. 29H days.
2 months
27H days
2 mos. 18 days...
22 OOj 1 month
20 OOj 2 mos. 28 days
20 00 28 days «..
168 87
44 00
12 68
64 00
02 00
68»
60 82
00 00
20 00
90 82
21 01
78 00
1190
100
89 99
41 29
44 00
80 88
10 00
44 00
88 96
64 62
00 00
21 06
26 88
44 00
80 16
17 70
81 97
69 08
44 00
18 17
52 00
22 00
64 19
14 84
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StATE CHARtTtKS Al^D OOttRSOTIOlre.
8TATK HOSPiTAii FOR THE iNSAffis.— Continued.
Mamr».
Office,
Sate.
Time,
A^.
Emma L. Houthwlok...
Attendant
Per month
120 00
2 mos. 18 days —
IB2 00
do do
do
28 00
1 month
22 00
Mary O'Brien ^
do
90 00
8 mos. 7H days...
ft4M
do do
do
do
22 00
20 00
1 month
16 days
22 00
908
Mary J. T^piere
Mary K. Hills
do -
20 00
5>^days ..
866
Annie Thompson
^«
20 00
4 months
80 00
Mary Grady
do
do
20 00
28 00
8 mos. 8 days
1» days
01 t»
Marlon J. Tewhram„...
12 28
Katherlne A. Bpellman
^o -
20 00 8 days
5 16
Mary K. Bpellman
do ^
20 00
6 days
887
Mary B. Qulsrlfy^
do -
20 00
1 mo. 17 days....
80 SS
Delia Butler
do
20 00
20 00
20 00
4 days
2 mos. 80H day8„
2 mos. 10 days
268
45 00
Loona M. Bawyer
do
do
Kuln Davis
6161
Lucy Mitchell
do
do
20 00
20 00
20 00
15 days
9<»
Phllomena O'Oonner...
4 days
1 mo. 8H days....
288
26 61
Emma OlarK
do
Bessie M. Lowe
do
20 00
1 mo. 12K days...
28 02
Daisy M. Bucklln
do
20 00
1 mo. 4 days-
22 87
Mary G. Judd
do
20 00
27 days
17 42
Jennie M. O'DelL
do
20 00
27 days
17 42
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RBPOBT OV THK BOARD.
BTATB WOBKHOUSB AND HOUSB OF CORBBCTION.
Ntme*.
Qffiees,
Rate. 1 Time,
Amount.
Fred B. Jewett. M. D.,~
Superintendent
Per year.
».000 00 7 months
ll.lrtO 00
Timothy P. Dodge
Deputy Sup*t
1.800 00 i 1 year
1.200 00
Ira B. Hlfffflns „ ».
Clerk
Per month
T6 00 11 mo^. 28 days...
802 74
Muriel Haslam
do Ass*t
80 00 0 mos. 24 days...
16 OOi 8 mos. 7 days
2Mt 18
Aaffostos K. Hammond
do do -
48 GO
Harold E. Jewett
do do
15 00
1 mo. 10 days^...
20 00
Amy R. Lopez
do do -
16 OOJ 2 mos. 1 daT
80 50
Mary B.Wood
Matron
flO 00 10 mos. 25 days...
«49 86
Ellen G. Johnson
Matron. Asst
80 OOjU mos. 24 days...
868 23
Ada J. Bunker
do do ^
do do
26 00
80 00
2 months
50 00
do do ~...
& man. 14 daVH
288 56
Catherine M. Gallery...
do do
25 OOj 7 mos. 14 days...
186 20
Caroline Kron
do do
do do
80 00
1 year
800 00
Mildred A. Lawrence...
60 00
1 mo. 21 days.....
88 87
do do
do do
80 00
2 mos. 16 days...
44 08
Joanna 8. Farr
Housekeeper. Supt^s
80 00
8 mos. 20 days...
260 00
DaTld F. Presoott
Overseer
do
A5 00
60 00
1 year
780 00
Francis A. Bunker..
U mos. 80 days...
608 80
Charles L. Payson
do
60 00
1 year
600 00
Osoar C. Wentworth
do
46 00
46 00
1 year
540 00
Stanley Hlirfflns
do
1 year
640 00
Patrick F. Shields
do -...-
46 00
1 year
640 00
PUny W. Lausdell
Wlnf red C. Gallup
do -
46 00
1 year
540 Q^
do ~.
86 00
4 months
140 00
do do ..M.....
do
40 00
8 months
820 00
William B. Bums
do
80 00
8 mos. 14 days...
106 56
do do
do
86 00
6 mos. 2 days....
177 20
James B. Mathewson —
do Cook Room..
60 00
1 year
000 00
John M. Whlteomb
Watchman. Outside...
46 00
« mos 2 days....
272 00
Henry L. Jordan.
do do
25 00
8 mos. 20 days...
01 20
WUUam M. Peck
do do
25 00
28 days
11 50
James CNell
do Inside....
80 00
10 mos. 25 days...
824 10
do do .^ _
do do ....
82 60
1 month
82 60
Garrlt Reltsma.^
Baker
60 00
46 00
1 year
000 00
Clarence Kenney
Teamster
11 mos. 7 days
604 48
Charles E. Gallery^
Storekeeper. AssH
26 00
2 months
60 00
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94 STATE CHABTTIBS AND OORKEOnOHB.
STATE WORKHOUSK AND HOUHB OF CORRECTION.— CoiUmM^.
Xameg,
Offirf^.
RaU,
Time,
Amount.
Charles E. Oallery„ 8toreki»eper, Ass'l
Hamael 8. Wilson Painter
Henry M.Whipple Carpenter
Patrick I«amb Mason
William T. Douglas Plumber .. ._
John F. Callery Blacksmith
Arthur C. Walker |Knffhu*er
Edward Kllbane^ Fireman
Kdwln J. Collamore i do
Andrew L. Deerlns Soap maker
do do do do
Per month I
IW ao{ 0 mofi. 20 days..
«6 OOi 1 year
I
6fi OCVll mos. 19 days...
50 00 2 mos. 1 day..
rtO 001 1 year.,
ay I
Per day
2 50i;n8days
Per month
n6 ooill mos. 80 days...
86 Oo| 1 year
80 oolll mus. 25 days
25 Ool « months
80 00 A months
t2W)00
780 oa
fl68 17
100 17
720 00
770 00
777 90
420 00
864 19
160 CO
180 00
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RSPORT or THE BOARD.
STATB ALMSHOUSE.
96
ifaiMM.
Offlcet.
BaU.
Time.
Amotint.
•Asa L. May
Thomas F. Moarnlnff-
han»
Deputy Supt.
Interne
do ^
Per year
ILsnooo
Per mout)t
SS 00
1 year
11.200 00
1 year
800 00
George A. AndertoiL....
25 00
« mos. 1» days
1«5S2
RaiDh O. Acbarn^
do
MBtron.
26 00
50 00
4 mos. 28 days....
1 year
118 66
Oalvena T. Norton
fiOO 00
nhArlefl A. Norton.
Attendant
86 00
1 year
420 00
Mark A. Rolerson
do
85 00
11 mos. 2fl days...
414 86
Alliert B. FrankUn
do
85 00
0 mos. 8K days...
819 08
James A. A verelL
do
do
80 00
2 months
WOO
do do
82 50 10 months
826 00
John Q. Olark ^ ..
do
80 00 1 mo. 18 days
43 98
Leonard K. Ooon
do
20 00
20 00
8 days
5 1«
John T. OUkerson
do
1 mo. 19% days..
28 88
Henry W. Dlckerson...
do
20 00 1 mo. 22 days^...
84 «7
Percy W. Stevens
<»o
26 00
2 months
60 00
do do
do
80 00
4 mos. 28 days.....
148 50
do do
do
86 00
6 months
175 00
WUUam E. Farrell
do
26 00
4 mos. 29 days.....
138 89
Robert B. Oox
do
20 00
8 mos. 4% days...
08 00
do do
do
do
26 00
20 00
1 mo. 19 days ......
1 mo. 29 days
40 88
RU W. Ross
89 83
Nathan E. Walker
do
25 00
8 mos. 8 days
81 87
Marshall H. Bushey....
do
20 00
8 mos. 3 days
82 00
do do
do
26 00
26 00
18 days
10 48
Harry L. Jackson
do
1 mo. 7 days
81 26
Herman Gross
do
20 00
2 mos. 21 days....
68 56
do do
do
do
25 00
20 00
2 months..
60 00
John Qolnlan
1 mo. 24 days
86 48
James H. DrtscoU
do
20 00
2 mos. 7 days
44 52
Wm. H. Hollaway
do
20 00
28 days „
16 0rt
George Blay.
do
20 00
2 mos. 29 days.....
68 71
Thomas J. Foye
do
20 00
86 00
20 00
2 months
40 00
do do
do
A mos. 18 days....
1 mo. W days
186 00
George W. Gllkerson...
do
80 82
do do
do
26 00
20 00
1 monttu
26 00
John W. Hunt
do «...
8 mos. 16 days.....
60 f»
•Tl
lis ai^o^nt Inoliides sa
lar^ of housekeeper
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96
STATB 0HARITIB8 AND OORRVCTTOHS.
STATE ALMSHOUSK.—Cmfe'nKed.
Names.
Offices
Rate. Time,
AmoMt.
John W. Hunt „
Walter J. Warren
A.ttondaut
do
Per montlj
$25 uo 2 months
20 00 2 mo«. 7 days
too 00
44 fn
William T. Tobey
do ^..
Attendant, Relief
do
20 00
500
25 00
Udays _ ..
7 10
Charles Mc l>ermott„...
1 year
no 00
Lllla M.Trowsdale
5moH. 2 days
150 80
Fanny Ward
do
1
20 00; 2mo4. 15 days ..
49 AS
do do
do
25 00
25 00
2 months
60 00
Hattle MessAr
do ....
1 vflKr
800 00
Julia Ooon
do
i '
30 00 11 mos. 80 days.....
25 00 1 year
25 00| 1 year
25 OOi A moH. 2 davs .
850 08
Jennie F. Blmond8„
do
800 00
Rmma Bradstreet
do
300 00
Lela Hlsiilns
do
141 29
do do
do
27 50
80 0<)
25 00
5 months
187 W
Ida E. Averell
ao ::;::
1 year
860 00
WInrletta K. Rolerson
do
11 inoH. 24 dav8. ..
294 35
Bessie K. Olark
do
20 OOi 1 nin. 18 davH
29 29
Phebe Orabb
do
20 00
25 00
SO 00
25 00
26 0(»
20 00
20 00
20 00
25 00
25 00
20 00
.3 mo«. 5 days
2 mos. UK days.
1 mo. 2y days
11 nios. 28j^ days
l» days..
68 88
do do
do
61 60
Laura E. Rosi
do
80 88
Laura W. Stevens
do
298 75
Edna Davis
do
15 32
Ernestine Qulnlan^
do
1 mo. 24 days
2 mos. Sdays
8 months
85 48
Ethel B. Wilson
Rebecca 0. MerrllL
do
do
44 47
60 00
do do
do
8 months
76 00
Mary RawUnson^
do
1 year
800 00
Ida T. Hawkins
do
80 days
19 85
do do
do
25 00
20 00
25 00
20 00
86 00
20 00
25 00
20 00
25 W
2 moH. 20 days ..
66 67
Bessie M. Bushey
do
8 moH.Sdays
18 days
62 00
do do . . .
do
10 48
Annie 0. Benson ..
do
2 mos. 26 days
8 months
66 18
do do
do
75 00
Sarah RawcllfTe
do
1 month „..
(J mos. 7 days
2 mos. 21 days
2 months
20 00
dp do
do
156 59
Edna Gross
do
58 55
do do ~
do
50 00
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REPORT OF THB BOARD.
STATE ALM8HOU8B.~C«mimi4«d.
97
Same.
Qglces.
Bate.
Ttme.
I
Florence M. Hant„ Attendant..
Amount.
do do
do
Auffusta WiiKbt
do
Harab Taylor ^
/lo
Bessie M. Yates
do
do do
do
Rose M. Warren
do
Mary CJonley.^ ,
do
lOninia Dloklnson i
do
1
Gertrude A. Oolwell
do
tSO Ool 8mo8. 12H days.
S5 00| 1 mo. 80 days.....
20.00{ 4 mos. MH days.
» OOJll days
90 001 8 months
K 00; 1 month
SO 00| 2 mos. 7 days.
90 00. 1 mo. 8 days
20 00, 1 mo. 28 days
20 00|28 days
107 42
40 10
100 00
788
AOOO
26 00
44 07
25 10
88 07
14 64
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STATB CHARITIB8 AND CORRECTIONS.
STATE PRISON AND PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL
Namci.
Cffieet.
Rate,
Time,
Amatnt,
Asst..
do ..
do ..
Andrew J. Wilcox^ Warden
8. Edmund Slocum Deputy Warden.^..
Frank O. Vlall Olerk
Robert E. KlnK.._ do
do do do _
Wldmer T. OurtIa„ : do
Robert K. Klnsc — do
Edwin J. Rubin „...| do
George W. Spencer^ Overseer
Thomas O. Henry ' do
Oscar E. Kemp I do
Aimer J. Davl8„ do
Wells 8. Hannon t do
I
Henry 8. 8paldin(; do
Rufus W. Partridge Hall Keeper..,
do do j do do
Egbert W. Lowe i Steward
George L. Holmes 'Oook
Richard F. Falqulst | do
Edward Fltzpat rick.....! do
David Pyne _ i do
Lena BJallth HouKekeeper .
do do do
Clarence N. Oram Engineer
J.Albert Millerd lOfflcer. Day....
William O. Thompson-
George O. Flanders
do do
Albion M. Ramsdell
Herbert A. Kinsley
George A. Woodbury...
do do
James A. Ourtis
Manley A. Gardner
Manley D. Tibbetts
Henry O. Deerlng
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do ^
do
do
do
do ^ ^
do
do
do
do
do
do
Per year'
12,800 OOl 1 year..
1,H00 00;
1 year..
1,500 00! 8 mo8. 17 days..
Per month,
60 00; 1 month
75 00' 8 months
85 00 8 mos 4 days ....
36 00 4 mos. 10 days.. '
36 OO' 2 mos. 18 days...{
76 OOj 8 mos. 88 days...
76 0011 mos. 2414 days
75 oo' lyear '
76 OOj 7 mos. 28 days...
76 00| 0 mos. 18 days...
75 00,iimos. 1« days....
76 OOj 0 month*
WO OOj « months
76 OOj n mos. 27 days...
60 00| 1 mo. 1(^ days.
60 Oo| 2 momths
60 00 2 days .„
50 00
26 00
30 00
fiOOO
A6 00
4 days
4 mos. 0 days..
2 months
1 year „
11 mos, 20 days.-.l
«6 OOj 7 mos. 15>^ days!
flO 00 4 months j
7o 00 8 mos. 22 days....!
<» 00. 7 mos. 22 days...!
flOOOii mos. a(^ days'
eooo
(10 00
00 00
(10 00
no 00
60 00
11 mos. 26K days
2 day«
1 year
11 mos. 2(^ days
7 mos. 28 days...
10 mos. lAH days
12.600 00
130O00
1.070 84
50 00
225 00
109 «7
1(12 17
84 (»
2SS47
87«fi7
900 00
580 50
737 50
800 78
460 00
640 00
892 60
07 00
100 00
888
007
105 00
00 00
720 00
771 01
487 50
240 00
278 28
400 04
719 08
718 87
282
720 00
081 22
474 45
402 14
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RBPORT OF THE BOARD. 99
STATE PRISON AND PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAlIj.—CarUinued.
Names.
Offices,
1
Rate.
Time.
Amount.
Ernest L. Hilt
do do
Gustave Duhamll..
do do
do do
. Officer, day
.| do do Extra .
do do
do do Extra^.
do do
Frank A. Crosby Watchman
do do I
do do :
John F. Soaney I
John F. Hlchard9on„...
Frederick C. Nel«on„...|
Harry McPhall
do do
do do „ J
do do
Herman J. Richardson
do do
Chester S. Hanson
William H. Tucker
do do I
do do I
do do
Charles O. Hardlson....'
do do
do do
Edward E. Hunt
do do „ '
do do '
Fairfield Butler ^
do do
Georne L. Holmes^
do do „
George B. Cottrell
RlchardF . Falqnist |
Frank T. Duchlne |
Edward Hanaford i
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Extra..
Extra..
Extra..
Extra
Extra....
Extra„
Extra_..
Extra....
Extra..
Extra....
Per month
$60 00 7 mos. W days..
.10 00 1 day
41 «7j 7 mos. 4 days....
41 67 1 dar
50 00 2 mos. 83^ days.
50 00 8 mos. iyi days.
50 00 2 days^
flO 001 1 mo. 14 days^.
85 00 1 mo. 6 days.....
06 oo' 0 mos. 3 days...
41 67 8 mos. 18 days.
85 00 1 mo. 12 days...
85 00 8 days
41 67,16 days
41 67; 1 day
85 00 4 mos. 28 days
85 no 6 days
85 00 4 mos. 16j^ days
85 00| 6 mos. 9 days
85 00, 12 days
41 67' 5 moo. 20 days...
I
41 67 4 days
85 00 7 mos. 29 days...
86 00 14 days
41 67 1 1 mo. 28 days
85 00 10 mos. 28 days..
41 67 80 days
41 67 1 day
86 OO! 7 mos. 4 days
85 00 8 days
85 00 2 mos. 19 dasrs...
85 00 4 days
85 00 8 months _
85 OOJ 1 mo. 7 days
35 00 3 mos. IK days.
i
85 00 2 days
1882 26
1 61
290 61
134
104 04
404 16
323
88 00
41 66
687 58
8^19 19
50 00
3 51
28 81
1 49
164 84
6 02
157 50
220 60
13 91
234 83
6 47
277 74
16 20
80 57
882 67
40 88
1 89
248 39
985
92 17
4 56
908
42 90
105 56
296
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100 8TATK CHARITIB8 AND CORRECTIONB.
STATK PBI80N AND PROVIDBNOB COUNTY JAIL.
Nameg.
Omcf*,
JiaU.
Time.
Amount.
L
Andrew K. Myers
Euclyd I-Arocque
Wm. J. Kane «
do do ^
Raymond O. Oonn^
Julian J. Plgnolet
Georsce I^rroiL
Robert Henry
Earl A. Potter
Frank W. Hasklns
Frank E. MoKenna
do do
Arthur H. Hill
Alexander Johnson
Edward E. Marsh „
do do
Michael J. McDonough
Frank P. Llttlelleld
WilUam M. Peck
WllUam 8. Davis
Henry H. Dickinson...
Wm. O. Llttlelleld
do do
Oharles O. Whlttler.....
do do
Arthur W. Vlgent
do do
George W. Wall
do do
Fred Wight
Olarence W. Adams.....
Ralph A. Smith
George B. Oottrell „
Richard F Falqul8t»...
Frank T. Duohlne
Andrew K. Myers
Watchman
do
do
do Extra...
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do Extra....
do
do
do
do Extra ..
do
do
do
do
do ^
do _
do Extra ..
do
do Extra „
do
do Extra ..
do
do Extra ..
do
do
do
Watchman and Guard
do do
do do
do do
Per month
$85 00
86 UO
86 00'
1 mo. M days.....
S days ^ .,
8 months
86 00 8 days —
86 00 8 months.....* i
35 00 1 mo. 7 days ,
86 00 8 days I
85 00 3 months
85 go; 9 days I
85 00 22J^ days I
, I
85 00 1 mo. \7% days..
I
86 00 1 day
85 00 1 day
86 00,15 days
85 00 1 mo. 85M days.j
85 oo; 1 day I
as 001 2 mos. 18 days.
«6 00 2fl days _
85 00 5H days .
86 00.11 days....
88 0022 days ....
I
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
85 00
2 mos. 18 days...
8 days „
1 mo. 28 days..._
8 days -
1 mo. 21 days_...
8K days
86 00 1 mo. 21 days..
86 00 8 days
85 OOj 7 days
86 00, 9 days
85 00 18 days .
Per day I
2 00| 7 days „
2 00 80 days .
I
2 00 80 days .
2 00,80 days .
106 00
880
106 00
42 18
850
106 00
10 lA
25 42
55 41
I 18
1 18
1H90
A3 48
lis
88 08
«21
12 42
25 14
84ffi
8 46
«1 88
889
60 50
895
m 50
889
8 17
10 27
Ut»
14 00
flOOO
flOOO
flOOO
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RIPORT or 9HB BOARD. 101
STATE PRISON AND PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL.
— _
,
Names
Offices,
BaU,
Time,
Amtmnt.
Kaclyd Larocque
Watchman and Guard
Per day
t2 00
7 dliVB
$14 00
James Armstrong
do do
J 00 22 days
44 00
William J. Kane
do do
« 00 » days .-
62 00
Raymond O. Oonn~
do do
2 00 Sfi days
60 00
jQllen J. Plfrnolet
do do
do do
2 00
'U dRVS
48 00
Georse Xjarroo-
2 00 24 days
48 00
Robert Henry „
do do
2 00 21 days
42 00
Isidore W. Gudaltls....
do do
2 00 81 days ..„
02 00
Earl A. Potter
do do
2 00121 days
42 00
Frank W. Hasklns
do do
2 00 » days
18 00
Frank E. McKenna
do do
2 oo; 8 days
10 00
James W. Lyons».
do do
2 00 8 days.
«00
James F, Prowse-
do do
Attendant, Hospital
200
2 00
9 days ^.. . .
18 00
John M. Simpson
9R dAVH
60 00
Albert E. Franklin
Aimer J. Davis
do do
School Teacher
2 00 » days _
Per hour 1
261«2 hours
25 70 hours
178 00
40 60
Herbert A. Kinsley....
do do
17 60
Manley D. Tlbbetts
Rufus W.Partrtdfce
do do
do do
26 « hours
Per month'
16 00' 4 months
1 60
04 00
Egbert W. Lowe
do do
16 OOl 1 mo. 87 dATH
2y W)
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STA'tK CHAttlTUES A1ST> COttRkOTIOiTS.
80CKAN0S8ET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
Names.
Offices.
Rati. 1 Tims.
1 Amount.
1
Ezeklel E. Gardner
Superintendent
Per year
$2.dOU 00 11 mos. 16 days.....
^»i5 10
do do
Deputy 8
Clerk.
upt.
1,500 oo' l« days
6151
George (\ Oampt^ell
Per month
Ou 00 1 year
1 T»W
Abble F. Blcknell
do Superintendent
25 00 1 year „
800 00
Fred M. Howard.
Overseer,
do
SO 00 1 year
, 60000
Doty K. Sheldon
56 00 U mos. 283^ days..
644 U2
Weslej Kenney
do
56 00 11 mos. 8 days
60U88
John Goodell ^
do
do .
do .
60 00, lyear
1
eo 00 1 year...„
00 00 10 mos. 11 days
' 720 00
Dwight 8. Austin
i
7200C
Fred E. Adams „
62187
CUarence W. Adams
Engineer.
75 00 1 year
800 00
Edward W. Foster„
Instructor „
70 00 11 mos. 80 days
837 75
AlphldaBouthllUer
do
7u 00 11 mos. 30>i days..
'838 88
Howard H. Dawley
do
65 00|llmo8.K)>^days..
50 00 lU days
778 06
do do
Extra duty
86 67
Hoy E. I^ayman
do
do
60 oo' 1 month
06 00 10 mos. 3034 days..
86 00 11 days
6000
do do
Extra duty
71H 95
do do
12 42
George (Chambers
do
do
do
do
IK) 00 6 mos. 29 days
65 00 * mos. 81) days„..
60 00 S months
65 00 4 months
41S00
do do
822 «0
Nathaniel J. Pottle
4JO00
do do
'
2«K)W
do do
Extra duty
;i5 00 6 days
6 65
John M. M'hltten
Barn & Relief Officer..
Teacher
55 00 1 year
27 50: 2 months
ti60 00
Mabel K. L. Dawley
55 00
do do
supervising Teacher..
35 Qk) 10 months
850 Ot»
Ethel M. Campbell
Teacher ..
27 50 1 year
880 00
do do
Extra duty
20 00 U days
»l*7
Winifred M. Combs
do ....
26 00 1 1 mos. 86 days
25 00 8 mos. 21 days....
27 50, 1 mo. 17 days
2»5»:
Alice E. Pottle
do
21V 16
do do -
do ....
48 OU
Evelyn F, Austin..^
do ....
80 OOj 1 year
860 00
Eliza J. Delaney-
do
26 00 1 year
800 00
Jennie J. Chambers
do ...
do ....
25 00; 0 months
226 00
do do
27 50 8 months
82 50
Jessie A. Howard
Matron....
20 00 11 mos, 17 days
1
210 98
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SOOKANOS8ET SCHOOL FOR BOYS— Continued.
108
Namet.
Omces.
Rate.
Time.
Amount
Ldzzie H. Hheldon
do do -...
Alice A. Sherman
Lura K. Ooodell
Mary L. Whltten
Delia J. Qraham^
Alice R. Boring
do do
do do „
do do
Leola 8. Adams
Annab F. Bates
do do
Fred Baldwin
Frederick H. Bishop...
Ella Baldwin
Leah O. Bishop
Delia J.Graham
Mal)elle H.Hlayton
do do
. Matron «
Rxtra duty
do
do
do
do
do
Extra duty
do do
do do
Matron -
Housekeepe r— 8upt 's..
do do
Steward
do
Oook i
do j
do » I
Nurse and Matron.,
(Chapel '
do do I
Mary K. Thurber Extra Nurse..
Anffle K. Htover Matron. Bewlnff |
Lillian O. Oreasey do Laundry
do do - Extra duty|
Charles E. Perkins (Watchman ,
Herbert Heselton do '
Andrew I. Dennegan...! Military Instructor...!
Fred F. Driscoll do do I
Mabel R. L. Dawley Pianist 1
Per month'
lao 00| 1 year..
S6 ooi 6 days..
1 year..
1 year..
1 year..
SO 00
20 00
SO 00
SO OU 11 mos. ac^days..
SO 00
80 00
86 00
40 00
20 00
11 mos. 2 days
7 days
14 days
7 days
20 days -
20 OOi 1 month
26 00 11 month
45 00 10 mos. 22 days....
40 00, 1 mo. 2 days
I
I
26 001 10 mos. 22 days.....
i
25 00' 1 mo. 2 days„
25 00< 6 days
Per month
85 00 6 months .
40 00 6 mos. 28 days
Per week
18 no 4 weeks I d«ys....|
Per month I
30 00,11 mos. 24 days...„'
30 00 lyear |
40 00 2 days i
40 00 4 months
40 00 8 months
86 00 1 mo. 12 days....
85 Ool H mos. IH days...
I
6 OOi 1 year —
1240 00
408
240 00
240 00
240 00
289 08
221 27
«77
16 88
006
18 78
20 00
275 00
486 (J7
48 67
207 68
20 07
600
210 00
228 80
74 68
868 28
800 00
2 68
160 00
820 00
60 00
801 00
00 00
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StAiB CtiARITlBS AKb OOltitKOTtOKd.
OAKLAWN SCHOOL FOR GIBLS.
Name$.
Office*.
Rate,
Time.
Ammni.
-r
Clara P. Porbuah Superintendent. '
do do I Deputy Bupt
Agnes O. amlth. JTeacher
Affnes B. MoNauffhtoni do
Peryemr
fwooou
llmo0. 16 days.
MOOD 10 days
Per month t
80 oo! 1 year ..^
I
Rose N. Marwood Matron
Alice D. Reynolds^ | do
Katberlne A. E. Pldse' do
Mary P. Dwelley ' do
do do » I do - ,
Abble J. Olements J do _
Frances R. Keene do - ,
Joanna K. Farr I do
I
J» 00 1 year
80 oo: 1 year ...^
80 Oo| 7 m08. 12 days...
tt 00, 10 days
S5 00 a mos. 95 days...
80 00 8 mos. 11 days...
80 00, 1 year ^
80 OOi 8 mos. 11 day8„..
80 00 8 mos. 10 days...
SS81
800 00
800 00
800 00
sstu
806
S5 96
10100
80000
10100
100 00
Respectively submitted,
JAMES R. READ,
Skcrrtaby.
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HEtOBT OF TOR BOARD.
106
REPORT
OF THE
STATE WORKHOUSE AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
Z7o iAe SSoarti o/^iaie CMariii^s and Corr^eiions/
Gkntlbmkn: — I have the honor to present herewith the sta-
tistical tables of the Workhouse and House of Correction for the
year ending December 81, 1909.
(Jommltted
Discharged 66«
K8caK>ed
Attempted to escape
Keturned to Reform School ^
Transferred to Reform School „
Transferred to Providence County Jail
Died
Number of Inmates January 1, IWH*
(Committed during 1»09 „
Escaped Inmates recommitted
Attempted to escape recommitted
Committed for fine and costs
Transferred from Providence County Jail-
Totals...
Discharged during 1W» «
Kscaped
Attempted to escape
Died
Returned to Reform School..
Totals..
Remaining Jannary i, mo..
PW.
Pmimnfly.
Total.
M
2M0tt
24J02
kw
216tf7
28186
LS
14»7
1460
2
»
80
1
<H»
70
0
8
8
0
an
02
4
itftt
107
km.
Womm.
Total.
2:M
68
ta
4«6
122
688
8
1
4
S
0
3
1
0
1
1
0
1
697
170
878
4«2
100
608
Vi
1
18
t
0
3
4
0
4
0
1
1
481)
108
688
117
06
386
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STATJ: CHARITiKS AiTD CORRBCTIOlfS.
Men
STATISTICS OP PERSONS COMMITTED.
SKX.
1909.
47H
Prerimifiy.
ITWN
5008
SMOO
Prfvimtdv,
mad
10
Trial-
UMU
Women
la
67»1
White
Totals -....
RACE.
6M
1909.
Ml
Total.
ami
Colored
15
751
Indians
0
10
Totals
5tW
MaOS
United States
Ireland
1909,
JW4
97
Prev.
18578
Mm
England
m
2015
Scotland
Wales
(^anada
H
2
28
571
28
8Wi
Nova Scot'a
2
184
New Brunswick
P. E. Island
New Foundland
Germany
France
8
1
2
1
3
76
7
51
120
44
Holland
Norway
Sweden
0
1
8
8
13
187
Switzerland
Prussia
Hpaln
Austria
Armenia
0
0
0
0
0
10
9
10
2
(ireeee
Denmark
0
0
1
4
Portugal
1
13
BIRTHPLACE.
Total. 1909. Frer. Total.
18W2 Italy U « 72
67W Mexico 0 1 1
2074 South America 0 4 4
679 Cuba 0 2 2
26 East Indies 0 4 4
921 Calcutta 0 1 1
186 Cape Verde Islands n 8 8
78 St. Helena 0 1 1
8 Western Islands^ 0 5 5
58 Africa 0 2 2
121 At Sea 0 tt «
47 Russia 4 17 21
8 West Indies 0 5 5
LS Turkey o 1 1
110 Finland 8 6 8
9 Belgium 1 8 4
10 Syria 0 8 8
9 Poland 2 21 28
10 Lapland 2 o 2
2 Unknown 0 19 19
J Totals 596 28d0« 24202
14
BIRTHPLACE OF PARENTS.
1909.
United States 125
United States and England rt
United States and Scotland 0
United States and Ireland 1«
United States and British America «
United States and West Indies „ 0
United States and Germany ^ 1
United States and South America 0
United States and Portugal „ 0
United States and Poland 0
United States and Western Islands 0
United States and Holland 1
United States and Sweden „ 0
United States and Cape De Verde Islands 0
Pre^^imitiy.
Total.
5809
5481
115
121
41
41
SliO
4O0
86
91
8
18
14
2
5
1
2
0
2
1
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BIRTH PLACK (*V PARENTS.— Con/mwrrf.
1909. Prerinudy. Total.
United States and Italy 0 1 1
United States and St. Helena 0 » «
United States and Denmark Oil
United States and at Sea 0 i %
United States and Wales 10 1
Italy tt «6 74
Knjfland 61 1810 1861
KnKlandand Scotland o JM 84
Knsriand and Ireland « 268 25l»
Knjrland and Wales 2 12 M
England and Oermany 0 8 8
Entrland and Prance 0 8 8
England and Brttlsh America 2 «6 27
England and Sweden Oil
England and at Sea 0 4 4
England and Holland 10 1
Scotland » »« 647
Scotland and British Ameiica o 18 18
Scotland and Spain ; Oil
Scotland and at Sea oil
Ireland 2«7 12852 12Wl»
Ireland and Spain 0 2 2
Ireland and Germany 10 1
Ireland and Brttlsh America 1 84 86
Ireland and Norway Oil
Ireland and Scotland 1 156 lo«
Irelaiid and Wales Oil
At Sea 0 1 1
Sweden 8 141 144
Germany 1 180 181
Germany and Switzerland 0 2 2
(iermany and Ireland 0 13 18
Gernumy and British America 0 4 4
Germuny and France Oil
Greece 0 2 2
France 1 58 64
France and America 0 21 21
Fi-anceand Ireland 0 4 4
France and Belguim 112
France and British America 0 11 11
France and West Indies 0 2 2
France and Scotland Oil
Brttlsh America <J0 1262 1822
Lanland 1 o 1
Wales 1 13 14
Labrador and New Foundland 10 1
Prussia 0 8 H
Spain 0 7 7
Switzerland o 11 11
Syrta „ 0 2 " 2
Denmark 0 2 2
Denmark and England Oil
East Indies 0 4 4
West Indies 0 7 7
Mexico oil
South America ^ 0 4 4
Africa Oil
Western Islands 8 y 12
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STATB CfiARITtSB AKD CORRECTIONS.
BIRTH PLACK OF PARENTS.— rwi//i».W.
1909.
Portugal 1
Portugal and Western iHlands 0
Poland 2
Cape Verde Islands 0
BelKlum 2
Austria 1
Austria and Russia 0
Norway 1
Russia 4
Russia and Ireland 0
Russia and England 0
Lapland and Finland 1
Turkey 0
Finland 8
Armenia „ 0
Unknown 8
Totals «»
AGKH.
1909.
Under ») years of age «)
From a) to ao years 116
From a) to 40 years Hi*
From 4() to ») years 146
From W to m years 1(W
From (H) to 70 years 8S
From 70 to m years 11
Over HO years 1
Unknown 0
Totals 5Wi
inutiv.
Tolnt
17
18
1
1
28
3G
8
S
8
6
18
14
1
1
11
1«
lii
2S
8
3
1
1
0
1
1
1
e
9
2
i
8W
9t
2:M0«
24302
Prrrimuftv.
Toua.
IIHO
1210
6078
61>«
earn
7071
5217
3*«
2K41
2W7
1072
1110
251
202
24
25
28
2S
28606
24202
OCCUPATIONS.
19(t9.
Agents 1
Actors 0
Artists „ 0
AwninfT makers 0
Bakers 1
Barl>ers 4
Basket makers 0
Bleachers 1
Boiler-makers 0
Book-keepers 1
Book-makers 0
Box-makers 1
Brakemen 0
Brass workers 0
Broom-makers 0
Burnishers _ 0
Bootblacks 0
Butlers „ 0
Bartende rs « 0
Brokers 0
Butcher 8
BrtckUyeri J
'••r.
Total.
6
7
tf
9
1
1
1
1
181
182
206
210
9
«
20
21
55
55
69
70
7
7
17
IS
HI)
HO
11
11
1
1
2
2
4
4
2
2
H
H
4
4
OT
70
04
W
1909,
Brussels carpet weaver 0
Bell Imnsers 0
Blacksmiths 6
Button-makers 0
Boatmen 0
Book-binders 0
Brewers 0
Belt-makers 1
Confectioners 0
Cabinet-makers 0
Car Inspectors 0
Carpenters „ 10
Cigar-makers 0
Cloths cleaners 0
Cloth examiners 0
Clerks S
Comb-makers 0
Cotton folders „ 0
Cooks 11
Coopers „ 1
Core-maker s 0
Oobblera I
10
10
8
8
266
272
1
1
6
6
2
2
1
1
12
13
8
3
22
23
1
1
56H
878
46
46
2
2
1
1
220
228
4
4
I
1
800
811
22
28
1
1
9
8
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REPORT OF THE BOARD.
109
1909.
Ciiriiers 0
Cutler 0
Concreters„ 1
Cbasei*8 0
Carrlaffe-trlmniers 1
Carrlaffe-iimkers 0
Coppersmiths 0
Corn doctors ^ 0
Designers 0
Die sinkers 0
Drauichtsme« 0
Dyers »
Dressmakers 1
Klectricians „ 1
Blectroplaters 1
EnflTiueers 1
Engravers 1
Engine turners 0
Farmers 12
File cutters 0
Fishermen 8
Firemen «
Furniture polishers 0
Gardeners 4
Gas fitters 0
Gas makers 0
Grocers 0
Glaziers 0
Glass makers 0
Hair dressers o
Hair drawers 0
Hatters 0
Harness-makers ._ 1
Hotel keepers 0
Hostlers 17
Housewives _ 22
Hackmen 8
Iron workers 0
Jewelers 12
liaborers 162
Lapidary „ 0
Loomflxers 0
Ijawyera 0
Leather Japaners 0
Locksmiths 1
Laundrymen 0
Jjaundresses 1
Lathers 1
Leather cutters^. 0
Lecturers 0
Linemen _ 1
Machinists 18
Masons «
Marble workers..™ 0
Menders of china o
Merchants „ 0
Manufacturers „ 0
Mill hand8.„ 117
OCO U PATION 8.— ConWnuerf.
Prrt'. Total. 1909.
12 12 Motormen 1
1 1. Moulders ^ 5
0 1 Musicians 1
5 6 Music teachers 0
S 8 Mea% cutters 2
7 7 Nail maker„ 0
8 8 Nurses 0
1 1 Oystermen „ 0
4 4 Painters 17
8 5 Peddlers 5
10 10 Photoflrraphers 0
78 HO Physicians 0
S8 H9 Piano polishers 0
20 21 Piano turners 1
1 2 Polishers 1
75 7« Plumbers 2
80 81 Preachers 0
1 1 Printers 1
402 414 Pearl workers 0
4fl 4« Policemen „ 0
88 41 Plasterers 1
178 17» Paper-makers 0
8 8 Paper box-makers 1
91 »6 Paper hangers o
28 28 Pattern-makers 1
2 2 Quarrymen o
5 5 H. R. Conductors 0
8 8 Roofers 1
2 2 Rubber workers 8
2 2 R«*ed-makers 0
1 1 Reporters 0
14 14 Rule maker _ 0
89 40 Salesmen „ 4
7 7 Slaters _ 0
880 <M7 Sailors 4
181« 1888 Saloon keepers 0
46 48 Sail makers 0
8 8 School teachers „ 0
588 rtOO Seamstresses 1
7029 7181 Servants and waiters^ 60
1 1 Ship riggers 0
27 27 Ship carpenters 0
5 5 Silver polishers 0
2 2 Silversmiths 0
0 1 Steam pipe workers 1
4 4 Stone cutters 0
218 219 Soap-makers 0
81 82 Stucco workers 0
1 1 Soldiers 1
1 1 Shoemakers „ 5
4 5 Stenographers 0
681 644 Silver pUters 0
294 800 Tailors 2
14 14 Tailoresses 0
1 1 Tanners 0
10 10 Teamsters 88
8 8 Telegraphers 0
8281 8898 Toolmakers 8
Pret'.
Tfdal.
I
2
2M
269
2«
27
16
16
24
26
1
1
18
18
20
20
A40
668
184
189
18
18
22
22
2
2
8
4
29
80
46
48
2
2
107
108
1
1
15
16
8
9
7
7
0
1
2
2
0
1
20
20
9
9
20
21
81
84
2
2
6
6
1
1
92
96
4
4
224
228
9
9
10
10
14
14
168
169
1888
1898
6
6
9
9
22
22
7
7
48
49
88
88
8
8
5
6
8
9
281
286
2
2
4
4
160
162
fl
6
10
10
799
887
9
9
0
8
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110
8TATB CHARITTES AHD CORRECTIONS.
Tinsmiths „ I
Upholsterers 0
Wax w<irkcrs o
Whltewfishers o
WheelwrlBhts 1
Wlredrawcrs o
Prrr. T»fol . JP^!).
«2 en Wlreworkers 1
18 IS Wool sorters 1
2 2 Wood turners 0
21 21 Unkiiov^n n
11 12
7 7 Totals sum
Prrr.
Totn\
0
I
22
28
A
A
SB
5S
SWW 2421)2
January
TIMK OF COMMITMENT.
mXi. Prrr. Tttfnl.
1909. Prrr, T'*tn t
:«1
15.V> ISKo Autrust .
71 . 25:11
March »»
April :W
May 57
June 60
July 37
15JI0
Ht2»
IflOl
Item
1>*«»
IWft
2048
2noK
2527
25H4
2«tt
February ;15 l:W« lJt« September 47 2:«1 28(W
Orlol>er 57 225fi '^iV^
NovemiMM- 57 isiw* 2nrirt
December 5s liiH4 2rM2
Totals 5SW aSftin 21202
OFFKNOKS FOR WHICH COMMITTKD.
1909.
Assault 0
Attemptlnir to escape 2
AlMndonlnR their chlldr«»n 0
Belnv a common drunkard 2i»5
Belnira lewd and wanton person 27
Belnff a vairrant lv»7
Belnfra tramp I
Belnv a common prostitute 0
Belmra rallerand brawler 2
Belnir a disorderly person 7rt
Belmr « cheat and swindler 2
Beinffa sturdy beKffer 81
Cruelty to animals o
Exposure of person i»
House breaklnsr o
Intent to commit rape 0
Intoxication In violation of town ordinance 1
Larceny 0
Malicious mischief o
Maintalnlntr a nuisance o
Night walking 7
Neglect to support family 40
Obstructing an officer o
Revelling 0
Returned from Reform School 0
Returned from Providence County Jail „ 0
Transferred from Reform SchooH Incorrigible) 0
Transferred from Providence County Jail 1
Wilfully escaping 4
Totals 6»S
Pre Hon fly.
Toial.
5
5
27
29
l«
1«
KWKi
10HP2
25a
2»4)
AlfVt
rt*W
5»4
53'>
11«2
1W2
«1
2S:{
1122
lli«
18
SO
lOHU
1120
1
1
2
2
9
A
1
1
62
6S
15
16
1
1
0
P
682
68P
821
8A1
1
1
A
A
»
U
A
A
120
12«)
1
2
749
753
28A0A
«4»2
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REPORT OF THE BOARD.
Ill
PLACB FROM WHICH COMMITTED.
/
Bristol
1909.
... 13
4
4
... 10
2
... 19
... 40
Pr«'.
674
260
48
946
76
278
684
8
140
1848
4
60
12
478
4
757
1
1
829
1888
Total.
687
864
47
966
77
292
624
1
8
158
1898
4
62
12
481
4
770
1
1
829
1488
North Klnffstown
1909,
8
2
0
m
82
1
1
0
1
4
8
0
19
22
17
fl
24
0
608
Ptrr.
(V>
100
15
9895
8662
1
7
122
7
80
125
4«
74
812
609
889
488
10
Ti)lal.
m
Barrlllvllle
Barrlnirton
Narrairansett
North Bmlthfleld
102
15
Cranston
Coventry
Cumberland
Central Falls
Providence
Pawtuoket
10089
8784
Portsmouth
Providence County Jnll
Reform School
Richmond
Hmlthfleld
Houth Klnffstown
2
8
Charlestown
Kxeter
Kast Greenwich
Kast Providence
0
0
4
48
122
8
84
128
Foster
Glocester
0
Scltuate
Tiverton
Woonsocket
Warwick
Westerly
Warren
West Greenwich
Totals
44^
98
Hopklnton
Johnston
Jamestown
0
H
0
834
53rt
896
Lincoln
Little Compton
... 18
0
4A2
10
0
0
... 60
Mlddletown
North Providence
Newport
23808
24202
TERMS OF SENTENCE.
1909,
Three months 0
Six " 468
Seven '* „ 0
Eljcht " 0
Nine •• „ 49
Ten •• 0
Eleven " „ 2
Twelve *' „ 70
Thirteen " 0
Fourteen *' 0
Fifteen '* 0
Sixteen " 0
Elijhteen " 4
Two years 9
" " and five months 0
" " and six months 0
Three years 2
" *' and sit months 0
PurtnK minority from Reform School 0
Returned from the Reform School 0
Returned from Providence County Jail 0
Fine and costs 1
Fine and costs (transferred from Providence County
Jain _ 1
Awaltln« trial 0
Totals 598
rrioHiflv,
Total
2
2
1842:&
18880
72
72
124
124
821
871
66
65
4
6
3147
3217
1
1
2
2
19
19
2
2
162
168
896
406
1
1
15
15
170
172
. 1
1
114
114
3
3
6
6
64
55
1
2
2
2
28606
24202
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112
STATE CHARTTTE8 AND C0KRKCTI058.
RKrOM M ITM KNTS.
Has been committed once .
twice .
«« «•
three tlineH
four " ~
five **
six '*
seven '*
elsrht '*
nine " „
ten "
eleven '* „
thirteen "
fourteen **
fifteen "
sixteen "
seventeen "
elKhteen *'
nineteen "
twenty "
twenty-one **
twenty-two '*
twenty-th ree '* „
twenty-four "
twenty-five " „
twenty-six ** „ „
twenty-seven **
twenty-elsrht *'
thirty-one *' „
thirty-nine "
forty-two "
forty-three '*
never before 280
Total 9»
EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS.
Number of inmates In 1909 who can read and write 484
" •• •* '* ** " '* read only 11
" " " ' '* neither read nor write 101
Total K»
m
ft
3S
1«
12
18
A
((
4
4
5
1
4
i
2
8
8
8
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
SOCI AJ. CONIMTION.
Married 900
Sinffle 8H7
Total 606
RKLIGION.
Protestants 101
Catholics 404
Jews : 1
Total &»
Respectfully submitted,
FRED B. JEWETT, M. D.,
Superintendent,
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REPORT OF THK BOARD. 118
REPORT
OF THE WARDEN OF THE STATE PRISON.
ZTo iA^ Xoard of ^Siaio CAar/i/os and Correci/ons/
The undersigned. Warden of the Rhode Island State Prison
and Keeper of the Providence County Jail, respectfully pre-
sents the following account of receipts and Expenditures and
statistical tables for the year ending December 31, 1909:
Kxpendltures 182,581 17
Rocelpta 87.584 44
Kxce^s of expenditures over receipts S44,JW6 73
Age, sex, etc., of persons committed to the State Prison,
since its first institution in 1888:
Under 30 years of affe „ lift From 50 to 60 years of apce ^. 108
From auo 80 years of ase IJfiW *' HO " 70 82
•• 80 •• 40 " ** " 5W» ** 70 •• 80 ** " '* . ^ 4
•• 40 " 50 *' " '• «5 Over 80 0
Total 2726
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114
STATE 0HARITIK8 AND C0RRK0TI0V8.
Nativity of persons committed to the State Prison, since its
first institution in 1888 :
Maine 38
New Hampshire 10
Vermont > 2?
MasHachusettB 814
Rhode Island 1182
Oonnectlcut « 10»
New York ^ IW
New Jersey 15
Pennsylvania ». 87
Delaware 2
Maryland ^.. 14
District of Columbia >. W
Virginia 47
Ohio 11
Illinois 10
Kentucky 6
Tennessee 2
Arkansas 2
Wisconsin «. 7
North Carolina _. 8
South Carolina 5
Mississippi 2
Ivouislana ^. 2
Florida > 2
Texas „ 8
Michigan 2
Iowa 2
GeorKia 7
California «
Nebraska I
Missouri ^. 8
Idaho 1
Alabama » 1
Canada ^ 89
Poland ^ >. 8
Nova Scotia 17
Newfoundland „ „ _ 8
New Brunswick > 9
Bermuda _ 1
Santa Cruz 1
Peru _ 1
Ensrland 12B
Ireland 240
Scotland - 15
Wales ^ ^. 1
Gibraltar _ _ 1
Germany _ 22
Austria « 6
Prance _, 11
Italy 80
Sweden „. 18
Switzerland „ ». 2
Denmark _ 1
Holland I
Spain 1
Turkey „ _ 8
West Indies _ 7
Barbadoes , I
Mexico ^ 1
Russia 7
Azores or Western Islands 4
Belf^um ». 8
Armenia - 6
Prince Edward Island 1
Cape Verde Islands...^ — 9
Norway 1
Finland „ 2
Portugal - 1
Australia 2
Total 2721
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REPORT OF THE BOARD.
115
Number of convicts in prison, committed, discharged, pardoned,
died, escaped, and returned, in each year, since the establishment of
the Institution in 1838:
YEAR,
1888
_In^son^
'5
0
16
26
24
28
10
10
10
21
27
80
42
40
46
40
u
64
m
70
67
67
86
60
47
41
48
72
60
60
80
Jl
71
S
67
56
86
02
88
112
82
81
04
06
110
124
106
02
120
186
108
112
124
170
186
166
106
181
178
106
108
178
187
188
176
144
110
UO
124
120
Committed,
6
6
0
18
7
18
6
8
8
11
8
14
20
21
17
26
28
27
14
84
26
23
20
80
18
12
10
22
40
26
26
42
25
26
80
88
24
24
56
61
47
66
25
80
46
80
65
53
46
42
60
82
40
W
64
00
48
88
87
60
60
80
74
61
66
68
72
66
45
87
60
48
Diseharged.
Rirdoned,
Died. I Escaped^
L„.
R§tumed,
1880
1840
2
8
2
6
10
6
6
5
6
2
4
6
2
17
8
IS
18
20
10
20
18
27
18
88
20
18
11
0
27
20
16
26
81
16
26
20
20
22
88
87
81
48
20
26
81
81
48
62
46
80
«0
78
60
80
88
78
61
40
78
77
64
72
64
61
61
72
81
64
82
80
80
1841
1842
2
8
2
2
8
8
1
1
2
1
1848
1844.!..!.
1846
1846
1
1847
1
1848.
1840
1850
6
11
10
4
14
4
2
2
2
2
8
8
1851
1
1
1852
1858
i
1854
1855
8
1
1
1856
1857
1858
8
5
1
1
1
1860
1860
8
1
8
6
4
2
?
0
6
8
6
2
6
1
8
8
4
8
2
0
4
1
8
6
6
2
8
6
2
4
4
1
8
2
6
1
1861
1862
1868
" i
1
1
1864
1865
1866
1
1
1867
1868
1860
1870.. .
2
"""2
r
1
1871
8*
1
1
2
8
""4
2
2
8
1
4
1872
1878
2
"" i'
1874
1876
1876!!!!!.
1877
— ~
1878 * *
1870
18H0
1881
2
2
1882
1888
1
1884
5
8
1886
1886
1
1
1887
8
1
1888
1880
1800^....
2
1801
1802
2
••-
1808
1804
1806
8
""i
1
1806
1807
1808
1800.
1000
1001
1002
lOOB.
1054.
i
2
7
8
6
7
2
4
4
8
4
8
1
1
2
6
2
1
!!!!!!.'!!I!!!
1
1006.
1006
1907
6
2
1
8
1008
lOOO.
1010
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STATE CHARITIB8 AND CORRBCTIOHB.
Crimes for which persons have been committed since 1888:
Accessory to murder 1
Abortion ^ -'
Adultery II
Arson •'»
AHsault and battery J«
Attempt to burn dwelling bouse _ 2
Attempt to burn Imrn 1
Attempt to have carnal knowledge of
a Rl rl under 14 years of age 1
Attempt to have carnal knowletlge of
a girl under 1« years of age «
Attempt to commit larceny from p«*r-
son if
Attempt to commit rape 1
As.sault and larceny '2
Assault with Intent to kill 5«
Assault with a dangerous weapon 174
Assault with intent to commit rape .. «fi
Assault with Intent to commit sodo-
my 2
Assault with Intent to rob IJ*
Assault on the warden i
Assault against nature 1
Being common gambler I
Bigamy J«
Breaking and entering a liank 6
Breaking and entering a church 7
Breaking and entering a church and
larceny ; 1
Breaking and entering a henhouse *2
Breaking and entering henhouse
and larceny .. 1
Breaking and enterlnga schoolhouie 3
Breaking and entering a vessel H
Breaking and entering an engine-
house 1
Breaking and entering an office x
Breaking and entering a barn 18
Breaking and entering at night and
larceny 21
Burglary 18A
Breaking and entering shop at night IS
Breaking and entering a barn at night
and larceny 10
Breaking and enterl ng a post offlce„... 8
Breaking and entering dwelling and
larceny 8
Breaking and entering „ 2
Breaking into parish-house at night
and larceny 1
Breaking toolhouse at night and
larceny 1
Breaking and enteiing a shop with
Intent to commit larceny 8
Breaking and entering a shop at
night and larceny 102
Breaking shop at night and larceny... 68
Breaking shop In day-time and
larceny ^., , „ „„.. (|
Breaking a storehouse in day-time
and larceny _ 1
Breaking a shop and larceny 4
Breaking and entering a building in
day-time and larceny 4
Breaking and entering and larceny... i«
Breaking and entering shop in day-
time and larceny ^
Breaking Hud entering clubroom at
night 1
Breaking and entering shop In day-
time 1
Breaking and entering dwelling-
bouse in day-time 8H
Breaking building at night and
larceny ^
Breaking dwelling-house and lai-ceny
in day-time ^
Breaking and entering dwelling-
house In day-time and larceny 88
Breaking and entering dwelling-
house In day-time with intent
to commit larceny I
Breaking an unfinished dwelling In
day-time and larceny I
Breaking and entering unwcupled
house at night •*
Breaking and entering an unoccupied
house at night and larceny 8
Breaking and entering an unoccupied
dwelling In day-time and larceny„... 5
Burning a building „ 1
(Conspiracy *
Conveying tools to prisoners 8
Counterfeiting ?
Circulating obscjne llteratui*e. 1
Carnally knowing a girl under 14 years
of age ~ <
Carnally knowing a girl under 1«
years of age ^
Depositing obscene literature with
express company for interstate car-
riage 1
Defacing a building 2
Destroying a dam „ 1
Exhibiting obscene Uterature..... 1
Embezzlement 38
Embezzlement of letters from the
post office 8
Enteiing storehouse in day-time and
larceny ~ 1
Entering shopat night and larceny... 8
Entering a barn at night and larceny 1
Entering dwelling-house in day-time 11
Entering dwelling-house In day-time
and larceny _ 45
Entering dwelling-house in day-time
With In^ntiU) poiotn^t l^rceRjr„.,,.,. \
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117
Crimes for which persons have
Continued,
Entering bulIdinR In day time nnd
larceny 1
Knterlng unoccupied bouse at nlsrht
and lurceny 1
Rnterlng dwt*lllnf{-house nt night nnd
lurceny 9
Kntering dwelling-house at night to
commit larceny.. .„ ai
Knterlug dwelling in day-time and
larceny 7
Entering dwelling with intent to
commit murder I
Entering shop in day-time and
larceny _ 4
Escaping prison „ H
KaUe pretenses 11
Forgery H4
Forging and uttering „ 7
False representation 6
Fraudulently taking letter from post
office 1
FaUely changing and altering a cer-
toln money order 1
House breaiclng 58
Having and passing counterfeit
money 18
Horse stealing 2
Inciting another to commit perjury
Inciting another to commit larceny
Incest
Incestuous adultery
Indecent asaault and battery
Indecent exposut-e of person 0
Larceny 4tf5
been committed since 1838: —
liiirceny and receiving stolen goods... 3
I,4irceny from the person 185
Malicious mischief 4
Murder 61)
Manslaughter 71
Mingling poison with drink 3
Obtaining goods under false pretense<) 5
OlMtructlng a railroad 4
Perjury 17
Passing counterfeit coin _ tt
Rape 18
Receiving stolen goods 26
Robbery 98
Receiving a Jail prisoner 1
Hending obscene matter through U.
H.mall i
Hettlng llres 81
Hettlng lire to lumber 1
Hettlng fire to and burning a barn 1
Hodomy 1
Htore breaking 261
Tearing open and injuring a certain
mall bog 2
Treason 1
Unlawful cohabitation 2
Using mall for obscene publication^... 1
Uttering a forged order 4
Uttering counterfeit coin 8
Violating a pension law 8
VlolaMng the U. H. mail laws 8
Violating the U. H. naturalization
laws 8
Violating the U. H. l>ankruptcy laws 2
Wounding a horse 1
Total 2721
Average number of convicts in 1909:
MalcH. Frmnlf-s. Total.
There were in Prison Dec. Slst, 1909:
Males 127 White 112 Natives U. S 82
Females 2 (Colored 17 Foreigners 47
Total 12» Total 12*i Total 129
ANDREW J. WILCOX,
Warden.
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118
StATK CHABIrm AND COBRfeOTlONSt
REPORT
OF THE JAILER OF THE PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL.
IN JAIL JANU
ARY 1. 1909.
Maks.
FemaJefi,
Total
By the State
815
; 1
' 26
2
; 1
8
4
5
1
2
1
1
2
8
3
870
I 18
0
1
0
0
0
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0
0
0
0
4)
0
1 1
16
1
838
" *■ (Mty of Provkleiu'e
" ** '• *• Pnwtiu'kt»t
1
37
** ** *• Woonsot'ket
*' '* '* " Out ral Fulls
** *' Town " liliK'olii
" " ** ** Kast Providence
* " Warwick
** ** *• " CransioM
" ** " '• liun-lllvllle
" •* ** ** Coventry
" •* " " Sclluate
** ** •* ** Snilthileld
" *• United StHtes
" Debtors
886
rOMMITTKD DURING THK YEAR.
1 Male*,
ti
8
69
6
26
8
9
7
2
8
8
1
2
1
1
7
m
1927
1 Femalr*.
88
0
0
2
16
0
0
0
0
7
0
?
!!
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
9
124
' Totd.
By the State
1294
** " " Escaped and returned
8
" Transferred from Hockanosset
" (Mty of Providence
School
1
24
** *' ** ** Pawtucket
45H
«• •• >voon8ocket
21
*• •• ** " Central Falls
2
*' " Town *' Lincoln
2
** •* " •* (Cumberland
8
** •• " ** Kast Providence
70
*• Warwick
«
** " ** ** Cranston _
26
" •* •* •* Glocester
4
•* Burrlllvllle
9
.. .. • M .< jjQi-tjj Providence
7
" " *• "Coventry
2
" •• " •* Smlthfleld
8
•• " •• *• Scltuate
8
.. .< •• •( ^Vfti-ren
1
" *• ** " North Smlthfleld
2
*' " '* ** Johnston _
1
•• •* *• *' Richmond „
1
•• •• United States
8
'* Debtors ^
m
»61
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RS^RT OF THE BOARD.
DISCHARGED DURING THE YEAR.
^r
the State
Transferred to Sockanosset School
" State Prison
*• '* Escaped
" •* Transferred to State Hospital for the Insane-..
•• W. H. A H. of C
•' " Pardoned
•• Died
•* " Reprieved
•' VAtj of Providence
4. .. pawtucket
•' ** " Woonsocket
*• " Central Falls
*' Town" Lincoln ~
" ** •* Cumberland
'* " '* East Providence
Warwick
*' *• " Cranston
•* ** '* Glocester
.. M M Burrlllvllle
" *• ** North Providence
*• " ** (.'oventry
** " '* Smlthfl«>ld
** '* *' Scltuate
" ** Warren
** " ** North Hmlthtteld
'* Johnston „
'* Richmond
•* United States
Debtors
Malf^.
Females.
REMAINING DECEMBER 81. IflW.
1202
89
1291
14
0
14
80
0
89
2
0
2
I
1
2
1
0
1
I
0
1
8
0
8
0
1
1
28
8
25
480
17
447
21
0
21
2
0
2
6
0
5
2
0
2
78
7
80
11
0
11
22
0
22
:)
1
4
11
0
11
6
0
tf
8
0
8
»
1
10
4
0
4
1
u
1
2
0
2
1
0
1
1
0
1
9
1
10
i *»
»
89
1
..—
■
! ltW2
129
2111
119
Total.
By the State
*^ •* CItyof Pawtncket
** Woonsocket
.. .. .. .. (-.^ntral Falls
*• "Town " Cranston
.. .. .. .. H„,ith|ieid
** *• " ** North Providence
•* *' *• *' Cumberland
'* ** United States
" " Debtors
Maleg,
260
8H
2
1
6
1
1
1
1
8
818
Females,
Total,
11
271
0
88
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
6
18
826
AVERAGE NUMBER IN JAIL DURING 1909.
By the State -...
" City of Providence
" Various Cities and Towns,
" *• United States ^
" " Debtors -.
Males,
im
asm
ifii
miii
Femalit. Total
ill*
jii:
m
893fjf
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120 STAT£ CfiARITliBS A^D OORkkcTtONS.
COMMITTKl) ON SKNTKNCK BY THE STATE FOR:
Mnl'fH. Femalfi'. Tt>tah.
A>MiuU
A^s.iuli aiul IttiltHiy
A'.-'iiuIt Willi adaii^rertnis weiiptm
AUultery „
AI»HiuIouliiK a child
AlU'iKitiiK tt dnnee on Suiidiiy
Allowing child to tt-^^orlttle witli liiiniorHl persons -
Ha-^tardy
Brenkiim and eiiteiiiiK l>ulldin»r at nlpclit and larceny
Brcaklntr and enterlnfcf iNiiMiand larct-ny
Breakhifcf and entering Iiouhc In ilay-llinc and larceny
Breaklnjr and enterUm shop at nlxht and larceny
Breaking; and entering in day-tlni© and larceny
Break! n»^ and entering;
BreakinfT and entering dwelling with Intent to conrt larceny
Btjtfus signature i
Contempt of (7ourt
('arrylnsr concealed weapon 1
Cruelly toanimalH i
CarryinK toolH to prisoners i
Carnal know led pre
CurshiK and «wearlnur I
('onnnon drunkard I
Cuttlu»f eleclrlc wire?*
l)efa"lnff huildlntr I
Defacliiif property
Disorderly conduct '
Kiiterlnt? a freight car
Knterlnjf dwelling day-time and larceny
Knierlng dwelling nlKht-tlm*' and larceny
Entering shop day- time and larceny
Eml>ey,z lenient
Exposure of person
Evadlmr fare
Escaping Jail
Fornication i
Klrlng gun in street
False pretenses I
Having underslze lol)-.iers in his possession !
Horse stealing
Keeping liquor for sale I
Keeping cfnnmon nuisance '
Keeping unlicensed dog : I
Larceny !
Larceny from person 1
Manslaughter
Malicious mischief
Non-support I
Nt»t sending child to school j
Ohstructlngottlcer '
Peddling without license |
Playing dlc« on Sunday
Playing cards on Sunday '
Refusing to stop automobile after accident
Receiving stolen goods '
Refusing payment for meals [
Refusing to assist an officer i
Selling liquor
Stealing fowls ;
Selling oleomargaiine without labels
Setting fire to woods i
Setting fire tol)ulldlng i
Selling cigarettes to minors ,
Threats 1
Theft ,
Tresspassing on railroad }
Throwing glass In street ,
Vagrancy '
21»»
S
218
2
0
«i
21
0
2I
0
s
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1
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V65
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KktH)RT Oi^ THE BOAtto.
STATK SKNTKNCKS. l'.4M*.
1^1
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2 (i»
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S (»i»
10 »«»
1:> (10
•A) 00
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11
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year
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fined |l(X) 00
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riiied $ao «mC.^^^^ Z. '.".'. ..... ][../^^.Z'.'.'.Z'.'.'.
tll8
i;
fined 120 J>o
•*
and l>«>nds
.'
'•
R»»d lM)nds .
JfO/M.
Ftmnles
Total.
1
1
2
8
1
1
f>
0
5
101
1
10-,
211
22
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11
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14
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4
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'£\
0
28
5W I
WtV5
(^OMMITTKI) ON SKNTKN(^K BY THK (MTY OF PROVIDFNCK. 1',j0«.
Drunkenness..
Males.
21
Females.
Total.
28
riTY OF PROVIDKN(^K SKNTKNCKS
Fined $2 00 .
Males. Females. TtttnL
21 2 28
COMMITTKDON SKNTKN(^K BY OTHKR (MTIKS AND TOWNS.
Drunkenness..
Keveliintr
Matei'.
671
8«
em
Femnlen. Total.
24 d»5
0 8«
081
Digitized by VjOOQIC
122
BtATB CHARtTtES AKD OORRSOtlOKS.
SKNTKNCKS BY OTHER CITIKS AND TOWNS.
Males. Pemalet. Total.
Finea Hi 00
8 (H)
4 00
6 00
fl 00
7 00
10 m
" 11 00
16 (K)
ImprlRoned H days..
10 days..
Total..
4iOi
HH
5
i<i
1
6
18
1
1
7
607
17
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
419
96
5
82
1
6
IS
1
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1
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NATIVITY OF PKHSONS (M)MMITTKl) ON SKNTKNOK.
Arizona
Oiilifornia
('onn*»ftloul
1>Hlnware
Dlstiicl of roluinbla..
OeoiKia
IiKliniiii
Illhu>ls
KentiU'ky
liinil>iana „..
Mnin*^
.Mary laiul
MasMU-hussetts
1
4
52
1
4
1
1
S
8
-is
7
281
Missouri
New Hampshire..
Nhw York
N»'W Jersey
Nortii Carolina
(Oregon
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Khode Inland
Soutli Carolina
Vermont
VlrtriniB
\Vlsoon>ln
Total. United States..
NATIVITY OF PERSONS (^OMMITTKD ON SKNTKNOK.
Knprland
Ireland
Scotland
Canada
Nova Seotia
New Brunswick..
Fmnce
Germany
Sweden
Portugal
Italy
Austria
Russia
China
112
JJIKS
81
lOS
8
2
rt
12
17
15
(»
«
24
1
Poland
Prince Kdward Island
Turkey
Switzerland
A rmenla
Greece
Holland
Rou mania
Finland
Wales
Barbadoes
Cape Verde IsIandE
Azores or Western Islands..
West Indies
2
14
72
10
V
1
4
IH
448
8
7
16
8
25
1
5
2
2
6
1
1
tf
5
1
7
2
2
Total, Foreign Countries „ ©78
AGES, SEX, ETC.. OF PERSONS COMMITTED ON SENTENCE.
Under
20 years <
Between
20 and 80
80 " 40
40 " 60
50 •• 60
flO " 70
70 •• HO
HO " 90
re ^ 140
20 and 80 years of aire 482
*• " 487
.168
...49
8
1
Males 1684
Females „ 86
Totals 1,619
White 1628
Colored 91
1.619
Total 1.619
Married 484
Single „ 1186
1,619
Digitized by VjOOQIC
tll^RT OF TtilC 60Atlt>.
128
AGKS, 8KX. ETi:.,OF PKRSONSOOMMITTKD ON SKNTENOK.— tVwi/fnM«rf.
Total number of persons who can read and write - 1,887
** *• ** ** *• ** but not write „ 1»
** •* *• ** " ** neither read nor write SMJJ
Total ^ l.ttW
Total number of persons committed 2,0W
'* " ** sentenced 1,619
NATIVITY OF PARKNTS.
Fathers.
United States ^ l(W
Unffland l*s
I reland «ia
Hcotlund ^ ^ 4<i
Wales „ 5
Oanadu 175
Nova Scotia H»
New Brunswick 1
Newfoundland 0
Prince Kdward Island i
Fnince 10
Gernuiiiy Irt
Hweden :*0
PonuKal 17
Italy 70
Ausirla rt
Russia lN
Poland 25
Armenia '2
Hpaln 2
Turkey 6
Switzerland 1
Brazil 1
Greece „ 5
Finland tt
Oape Verde Inlands 5
Azores or Western iHlands... 7
Rounianla „ 1
China 2
Barliadoes 2
Holland _ I
St .Helena 1
Gibraltar 0
Total 1,6J9
Mothers,
United States 411
Kntfland 128
Ireland OUtt
Scotland 46
Wales 4
Canada 183
Nova Scotia „ 18
New Brunswick 2
Newfoundland 1
Prince Edward Island 4
France 8
Germany 15
Sweden Itt
Portugal 1<
Italy 71
Austria «
Ku«.sla 28
Poland 24
Armenia 2
Spain 1
Tu ike V 6
Switzerland 1
Brazil 1
(Greece ^ 6
Finland «
Cape Verde Islands 5
Azores or Western Islands...^ 7
Roumanla I
(nUna 1
BarlMidoes 1
Holland 1
St. Helena 0
Gibraltar 1
Total 1,«W
AVERAGE OF PARENTS.
Fathers. Mothers.
AmericanB 25V^o"ff Americans „. 25^*0^^
Foreigners 74iVff Foreigners 74xJi
ANDREW J. WILCOX,
Jailer.
Digitized by VjOOQIC
l24 AtAttB OliAKtTtM AKt> OOilttKOTtOlnl«
REPORT
u( thf
SUPKKlXrENDENT OK THE SOCKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
ZTo M# ^oard o/Siaim Charities anti Corr&ci/ons/
Gkn'tlkukn": — I have the honor to present herewith the
statistical tables of the sehool ftir th*f year ending December
31, 1909.
Whole numiH»iln Hcliool l)ecenilH»r 81, 1W8 872
Numlwr since received 448
Nuinl)er since disebarKed 4yC
Number In Keliool December 81. IWW 8I«
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RRPORT OF THE BOARD.
125
TABLE I.
Showing the number received and discharged, also the
number remaining in the Sockanosset School for Boys at the
close of each year, since its opening (November 1, 1850.)
TKAR.
The iHt yeHr...,„
RKCRIVRD. DI8CHAROED. KRMAININU.
ft3.
45
3c1
Sd
4th
6th
Ath
7th
8th
9th
H>th
nth
mh
mh
14th
15th
l«th
nth
IHth
Iftth
:?Oth
21*«t
22d
2«d
24th
25th
2rtth
27th
2Hth
»)th
80th
81«t
88d
84th
' 85th
' a«th
87th
8«th
' 8»th
' 40th
' 4Ut
' 42d
' 48d
' 44th
' 46th
' 4«th
' 47th
• 48th
' 49th
' 50th
' 6lMt
' 52d
' 58d
• 54th
' 55th
' 5«th
' 57th
•asth
' 50th
•Twenty Hr|t tq^nsfrrrefl 19 9ftfcH^^fi ^^2^^> ^.^^J W^: ^W
«5
81
- 79
W
69
101
86
80
106
• W
68
142
87
86
148
1»
91
181
Ill
Ill
181
112
106
187
97
115
169
128
110
187
188
116
?0l
IWJ
179
208
198
188
218
16«
155
216
156
IM
207
157
166
199
169
184
Jttt
184
185
i>28
Its
1H4
282
117
188
211
118
181
198
188
m
206
1«8
149
22«)
128
1831
215
12l>
184
205
158
141
218
148
118
2:i8
119
126
281
121
118
?89
158
208
•is-o
148
199
188
194
159
178
188
ITT
16*
180
128
169
124
101
189
168
188
214
117..^
181
200
150
120
230
181
176
195
151
161
185
224
174
225
196
171
260
190
196
242
196
178
265
299
280
284
289
212
811
296
248
869
274 ,
804
SJ29
286
279
885
2rr
248
^... 864
818
822
860
826
849
887
828
881
829
861
846
845
447
454
888
566
627
877
462
467
872
448
496
819
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126 BTATl CHARITTES AND CORRECTIONS.
TABLE II.
Showing the number received for each month during the
past year.
MONTH. BOT8.
January 3»
February "JT
March ri
April ~. 28
May i«
June ix
July 81
AURUSt ^ 3«
September - 28
October „ «3
November „ 83
December.^ 8P
Total 443
TABLE III.
Showing the number discharged for each month during the
past year.
MONTH. BOT8.
January 48
February iJH
March 88
April 37
May „ « 45
June 46
July ^ 42
Auirust „ 27
September 86
October „ 51
November 52
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mXPORT OP THE BOARD.
127
TABLE IV.
Showing the disposal and employment of those discharged
the past year and previously.
Ptut Year.
Prev.
Total
Bout.
Boys.
Delivered to fiiends ^
" Court « ^
•* Overseer of Poor _
Dlscharfped on expiration of sentence
22«
218
0
17
0
0
0
0
0
7
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
11
!!
0
0
0
0
1
10
0
0
444A
20VKi
10
85S
85
6
40
52
14
216
247
8
9
228
624
115
1
78
25
2
860
27
1
'J
«
1
8
1«8
67
1
4672
2814
10
N76
** to (TO to sea
85
** as Insane
6
Died
40
Enlisted In the army
52
Escaped not returned
14
222
absent more than one day and returned or re-
taken t.
262
** retaken and sent to Jail under new sentence.
" previously retaken and sent to Jail on alter-
native sentence
8
9
*' from Rhode Island Hospital, havlnpr been
Injured In attempting to escape from the
Bchoitl
1
Indentured „
Placed at farmlnff
228
524
** " vaiious trades ^
" " Asylum for Deaf and Dumb
115
1
Bent to St«te Workhouse and H. of 0
78
Rent to Htute Prison „ „
Dlscharired on payment of fine and costs
25
2
Released on ball
861
Discharged by order of Oourt
27
Mayor
1
** " " ** Attorney General „
*' Boardof BtateOhar. and Oorr.
to Probation Officer
14
8
6
Placed with Children's Friend Hoclety
1
Transferred to Jail on alternative sentence
Transferred to Btate Almshouse
9
7
Returned to Jail
198
Error In report of 1881
67
Discharged to Court ^ ^
1
Totals ^
496
9660
10162
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128 RTATK rHARirrKP AND CORRKCTIONS.
TABLE V.
Showing tho length of time spent in the Sockanosset School
by those disrharg(Ml during the past year and previously.
TIME.
Less than one month
Ont' month and less than five
PIvf months and less tluin ten \
Ten months and less than fifteen
Klfteon months and less than twenty
Twenty months and less than twenty-five
Twenty-five months and less than thirty
Thirty months and h'ss than thirty-five
Thirty-five months and less tluii\ forty
Forty months and less than forty-five
I
Korty-flve months and less than fifty
Fifty monthHand less than fifty-five
Fifty-five months and less than sixty
Blxty months and more
Krrorin report of l>wi
Totals
Past year.
Prev.
Total
Bova.
Boys.
m^
ffloa
2428
82
1157
118P
17,
754
771
18
K7«
SSP
j 111
1«54
\m
77
1K18
i*m
18
&«)
5J8
4
«0N
;n2
2
28i>
241
0 j
nm
100
I
77
7«
0
47
17
0
16
45
0 ;
1
flt
Vi
(»
57
57
4iM
I» .V
10152
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BEPOKT OP THK BOABD.
129
TABLE VI.
Showing the authority by which commitments have been
made the past year and previously.
But year.
Prn.
Total.
AUTnORITT.
Bout*
Boys.
Court of Mafflstrates, Providence ^
Justice (^ourt. Providence ^
Justice Oourt. North Providence^
0
0
0
0
0
n
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
0
0
60
8
0
0
0
0
0
14
274
14
11
10
24
7»1
800
4
8rt
«1
5H
40
170
103
351
8rt7
51
1(M
410
815?
0
90
S
8
1018
148
7
A
1
804
7
101
242
48
70
180
72
2W8
177
156
80
2(»
188
212
02
701
4
(^ourt of Mafristrntes, Pawtucket
80
Justice t Jon rt, Pawtucket
Al
Court of Maiflstralcs, Woonsocket
1 68
Justice Court, Woonsocliet
40
Police Court, Providence »
Supreme Court
170
102
Common Pleas Division of Huprenie Court
2A1
(U>urt of Common Pleas
8A7
C^ourt of Justices, Newport
61
Justice Court, Newport
104
Justice of Peace, In difre»*ent towns
410
C)rder of Trustees, Ixmrders
812
Order of Board of Btate Charities and (Corrections,
iHMirders „
0
Order of Board of State Charities and (Corrections, (Gen.
Laws, Chap. aSQ. Sec. 7.)
Order of Mayor, for safe keeping
07
2
From Overseer of the Poor
8
•Keturned for cause
10A8
Returned voluntarily
151
Surrendered hy surety
7
Order of Mayor :
A
Ofderof (^Ity Marshal, for safekeeping
1
Justice Courts of other towns
8(H
Held for Prolmtlon officer
7
Transferred from Jail hy Board
205
Fl rst District Court
240
second ** **
44
Third •* '• „ „„
71
Fourth ** *•
18H
Fifth
76
Sixth •• ••
Seventh ** "
3212
101
KiKhth •* "
162
Ninth " " ..
Tenth " '*
41
272
Eleventh *' '*
104
Twelfth " " ^
Superior ** "
222
UA
Totals
448
1002b
10471
•This Includes all escaped in previous years, retaken or returned.
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8TATB CHARirnOI AHD OOBBKCTIOHB.
TABLE VII.
Showing the number committed from each county and town
during the past year and previously.
1 But year.
Prev.
Totai.
PBOVIDBNCK COUNTT.
\ Bovs.
Boys,
6417
118
887
166
41
1
126
ao
2«
fl
32
288
8S8
281
.5
10
6
0
0
; a
1
( 2
1
H
18
10
6
ProTldence
North Providence
6TI4
128
\^roonKOC'kGt —
847
OrRDston — - '
160
Smith field |
41
1
North Hmithiieid I
Johnston
128
Burrlllville
61
Scltnate
81
Glocester „
Ouniberland . '
88
Rftflt Providence ,
261
Pawtucket »
808
Lincoln
286
Totals ^
NEWPORT COUNTT.
Newport
6
0
1
0
0
71rt8
4fl0
14
10
rt
7581
466
FallRlvor
14
Tiverton „
20
Portsmouth ,
Little Com pton
6
2
Totals
7
4
8
0
1
501
70
306
28
8
608
KENT COUNTY.
Warwick..
Bast Greenwich..
74
209
Coventry
West Greenwich
28
4
Totals «.
8
6
6
802
111
88
810
BRISTOL OOUNTT.
Brtstol „
Warren ^
116
88
Totals .,
WASHINGTON COUNTT.
Oharlestown... „
10
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
144
7
7
rto
10
6
80
0
164
8
Richmond
7
Bouth Kingstown.. „
North Kinffstown..
61
10
Exeter
Westerly
Ho{>klnton.. „ .
5
80
0
Totals
From other States.. ^. ^
2
0
800
12
41
8817
028
788
108
6
Whole number committed ^.. ........
8707
Recommitments
086
Returned from places
820
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TABLE Nll.-C»nt/mm,a.
181
RECAPITULATION.
Providence County
Newport County
Kent County
Bristol County
Washington County
Other States
ReconmnitnientN
Returned from places
Totals
Prev,
TatoL
Boi/s-
71W
7581
601
««
802
BIO
144
154
19«
108
A
ft
»38
066
7H8
829
10028
KMH
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STATE CHABITIEB AHD COBIBOTIOKB.
TABLE Vm.
Showing the cause of commitment the past year and previ-
ously.
A^rson
Assaalt
Assault Hiui Iwitti'ry
Assiiult with Inteiil to kill
Assault with Ititciit to cornnilt rope
Assault with Intent to rob
Burglary and theft „
Burnin»{ a ImildlnK
Contempt of court
Cruelty to animals
Carrylnpr concealed weapons
Carnal knowledge
Defadnj? a buiidlnt;
Defacing property
DestroyliiK property „
Disorderly conduct on tlie street
Disturbing school
Driving ofT a horse and carriage
Drunkenness ^
Kmbe/yJeinent
Exposure of person
False pretenses in writing...-
Forgery
Fast driving
Held for Probation <)fllcer„
Housebreaking
Housebreaking and theft
Housebreaking with Intent to steal
Incorrigibility
Larceny
Lewdness
Malicious mischief
Obtaining goods under false pretenses ...
Obtaining mone.v under false pretenseg..
Passing counterfeit money
Placing obstruction on railroad track ...
Receiving stolen'money or goods
Returned for cause
Returned voluntarily
Revelling
Robbery
Bhop-breaking
Stubbornness and truancy
Surrendered by surety-
Sturdy beggar
Taking and using boat
Theft from the pei*son _...
Theft..
Threatening to assault
Threatening to kill _
Throwing stones at a train
Transferred from Jail by Board of State Char, and Oorr
To await trial
Truancy - „
Using profane language
Vagrancy
Totals..
Aut year.
Prev.
TUaU
Boys.
1 ' " "'o
BOUM.
A
ft
1 2
131
ISS
0
28
28
0
8
3
0
A
ft
0
2
2
0
21
21
0
18
13
0
1
1
0
4
4
0
5
5
0
9
9
2
51
68
8
5
8
1
K)
11
11
125
13ft
0
H
H
1
72
78
0
1ft
1ft
1
Ift
17
0
1
1
1
1
2
0
A
ft
0
1
1
0
7
7
0
80
80
0
57
67
0
16
16
0
4
4
8
0
8
0
1
1
0
M
90
0
6
6
0
5
6
0
1
1
0
1
1
4
21
28
60
1011
lOftl
8
148
161
0
«
ft
0
2
2
6
2»ft
241
7
407
414
0
2
2
0
1
1
0
8
8
0
14
14
40
2728
2771
0
1
I
0
1
8
0
8
6
14
191
90«
221
28PR
2617
60
017
062
0
2
2
15
1836
1250
10028
10471
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TABLE IX.
Showing the terms of sentences of those committed the past
year :
TRRMS. BOYH.
Minority „ « 1«8
Twoyeare ~ 88
Three years „ ^ 8
To await trial 221
Transferred from Jail ~.^ — _ H
Four years ~ 2
Five years 8
Hlx years — 2
Klght years 1
Nine yeai*8 1
ToUl 448
TABLE X.
Showing the ages of those committed the past year :
AGRR. BOYB.
Btx years 0
Heven years 0
BlKht years 4
Nine years 18
Ten years „ 22
Eleven years „ 88
Twelve years „ tt5
Till rteen years „ - 76
Fourteen years 74
Fifteen years 76
Sixteen years 4»
Seventeen years _ 20
Eighteen years 8
Nineteen years 1
Twenty yeai*s 8
Total 448
Statement of expenditures and income for the year ending
December 81, 1909.
Expenditures $86,144 81
Income _ 882 a5
Balance
- J65,282 46
Respectfully Submitted,
EZEKIEL E. GARDNER,
SUPEBIKTEKDENT,
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134 STATE CHAttlTTiS AND OORUkctloMi
REPORT
OF THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTOR.
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to present my report for the
year ending December 31, 1909 :
Nothing has occurred during the year to affect unfavorably
the religious work at the State Institutions. The services con-
tinue to be held in the order established many years ago, and
no reason has yet appeared to warrant a change. The singing
is excellent, especially in the larger gatherings for worship,
due to competent leadership and frequent rehearsals.
These services are useful every way; not only in mitigating
the severity of close confinement in the penal institutions, but
also in the encouragement of those who feel that they are ''down
and out," having no friends and no future.
For my colleagues as well as for myself permit me to ac-
knowledge the friendly good-will and cooperation of the gov-
erning Board, expressed in response to our requests for litera-
ture and other requisites of our work. Permit me to say that
our Prison and Jail library needs replenishing by adding
a considerable number of recent and readable publications. 1
would also recommend the admission of the daily newspaper,
under proper conditions and restriction. The reading of the
daily press might suitably be made a premium for good behav-
ior.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES H. EWER,
Reliqious Instructor.
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RB]»OBT OF THK BOARD. 186
REPORT
OF THE DENTAL SURGEON.
Zjo M# ^oarti of Siaio Chariiims and Corroeitonsi
Gentlemen: — I have the honor to present my first report.
The office of Dental Surgeon at the State Institutions was created
by the Board December 10, 1909.
Previous thereto, dental service had been rendered at casual
intervals. When I entered upon the duties of the office, I
found the oral conditions to be such as to show conclusively the
need of a dental surgeon and the great usefulness of such an
officer, if his duties be conscientiously performed. It is my aim
thus to perform those duties and to make material improvement
in those conditions.
For the most part, attention is required at the Institutions
for the boys and girls. It is my purpose so to treat the various
cases that the inmates who are first to leave shall have been
cared for when they go out from the Institutions, due con-
sideration being given cases requiring immediate attention.
Respectfully submitted,
ERVIN A. RANDALL,
Dbntal Surgeon.
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186 STATE OHARiriBS AKD CORRECTIONS.
REPORT
of the
AGENT OF STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
Office of the Agent of State Charities and Corrections,
Providence, R. I., January 1, 1910.
7jo M# ^oard o/Siaie Chariiies and Correeiionsf
Gentlemen: — The undersigned respectfully presents the re-
port of his department for the year 1909 :
State hospital for the insane.
3/r?». Women. 7o\al.
Numberof patients January 1, IWH* 553 481 1U84
Adnilttod during the year 2in» 152 861
Keturnod from parole 22 55J 46
Ksi'upod patients returned 1« 0 16
Total W«) tt5<^ 1456
Discharged durlnff the year 22 7 29
Died during the year 75 4M 133
Paroled during the year »5 ^ ISO
Escaped during the year 22 0 ^
Left voluntarily 10 1
Total 215 140 855
Number remaining December 81, 1909 5S5 616 1101
Of the 361 patients admitted to the State Hospital for the
Insane during the year, 802 were committed by the District
Courts, fifty-five were admitted by order of the Board of State
Charities and Corrections, two were admitted voluntarily, and
two were removed thereto by order of a Justice of the Supreme
Court.
Of the patieuts admitted in 1909, thirty-seven died, thirty-
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isY
six were discharged, twenty-two of whom were removed from
the State, and fifty-eight are out on parole. Thirty-nine had
been in the State Hospital for the Insane before, not counting
those returned from parole.
The sum of $25,061.82 was collected during the year for the
board, care and medical attendance of patients supported at the
State Hospital for the Insane by their relatives or friends.
The State Hospital for the Insane was opened for occupancy
November 7th, 1870, and from that date to the first day or Jan-
uary, 1871, there were received 118 insane persons, of whom
sixty-five were received froin Butler Hospital, twenty-two from
the Vermont Asylum at Brattleboro, four from the Asylum at
Worcester, Massachusetts, two from the Asylum at Taunton,
Massachusetts, and twenty-five from the Town Poor-houses in
this State.
The following table shows the number remaining January 1,
1910, of the patients admitted each year since November 7,
1870:
Vrnr,
Admimnns,
187«>...
1S71...
1S7-J...
18?.i...
I'tTl...
1S75...
1H7«...
1H77...
1H7S...
1S71>..
ISST)..,
1V<1..
1Hn2..
IHS}..
1HS4..
1KS5..
!>««..
1HS8..
1S89..
18W)..
«W .,
58 .
58 .
a» .
59 .
7« .
58 .
44 .
Hi .
70 .
m .
72 .
m .
187 .
m .
148 .
Ittl .
14(» .
108 .
Remaining
Jan. 1, 1910,
8
2
1
2
1
5
8
4
8
1
8
8
8
6
4
16
8
11
10
4
6
Year.
Admifitifms,
Remaining
Jan, I. 1909
1><4>1
1«7
12
lsj)2
188
17
18i>8
214
25
18W4
198
28
1SW5
199
28
1MJ«
2«»5
. 27
lSt*7
243
20
ISHK
199
21
ISW
21«
27
1WM>
277
84
im
297
41
1»02
823
84
1W«
840
51
HH>4
824
52
H>05
846
68
IWW
«7«
86
im
890
89
1»08
845
127
1909
861
280
7.176
l.lUl
STATB ALMSHOUSE.
Number of inmates Jan. 1, 1909..
HecGlved darlnfir the year
Born during the year
Totftl
Men.
Wnrnen.
Bogn.
Girls.
Total.
242
216
41
28
527
218
121
18
21
878
10
9
19
400
68
m
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8TATK CfiAmtTIftS AND COKHISCtlONfi.
DlscliarKOd duiinfr the year....
Died durins the year
Total
Remaining Jan. 1, 19lo
Men.
Wotnmi,
Buvt.
(iirl9.
Totak
IIV
<W
«
18
2U
119
66
6
2
182
sw
1^4
«»
21)
412
tii
213
8y
88
512
The following table shows the nuniberof inmates, adults and
children, of each sex, in the State Almshouse, on the first day
of January of each year, since the institution was opened for
occupancy in August, 1874.
Nuiiilier of Inmates January 1, 1H75 53
" lK7rt «1
" 1X77 «8
" 1N7H 61
*' 1K79 76
" 1HH(> 71
INSl 7«
IWJ HS
" isxt yi
1SS4 M«
•• isHT) m
lH»<«i lll«
" 1MH7 k")
IHHS !()!)
" i^Hi) iir,
isi*) im
" \x^\ nw
iMrJ KSJ
" IHI^I 110
IMW ll:{
l*<w:> m
" 1*<WJ 137
isi»7 122
*• 1S»K 152
ISW 147
" iy»H) 1(J7
IWH 174
1W)2 1W>
mw iv(»
" IWM 196
UKiG 225
" 19<M 219
" 1907 - 215
1W18 > 211
" 1909 „ 242
" 1910 - 222
Wirmm .
Bnvf.
GiHs.
Total.
49
IH
21
141
«2
2l»
21
164
fll)
6
K
142
(M
9
4
140
71
25
12
1H4
m»
14
8
Hi2
77
21
4
17S
m
12
5
171
79
29
22
221
rt9
:*»
15
2O0
72
32
21
2<W
♦W>
13
12
IW
71
15
9
190
72
14
19
206
H>»
12
iJ
2:fl)
10-2
17
a>
255
l(i()
11
22
SW
110
9
13
2:t5
127
14
m)
271
1*1
12
19
277
12«
19
IH
277
14rt
2S
18
329
i:W
2s
23
309
155
29
81
367
!»«»
31
23
361
Itt9
29
11
376
17«
33
13
396
175
36
19
420
191
31
23
435
192
88
28
458
201
34
24
484
216
37
29
601
dil
34
28
508
211
86
26
484
216
41
28
B27
«1S
80
88
612
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tl^PORT Ofr THK BOARD. Ififi
The number received from the cities and towns of the State
and from other sources were as follows : — ^
From Burrlllvllle 7 From Providence 202
•* Bristol a •• Portsmouth 2
•• Central Falls „ „ 18 •• r. i. s. P. O. to U 2
•• Coventry „ 1 .. uhode Island Hospital 1
Cumberland H .. ^,. * «r . . i tr #
'* Exeter 1 State Workhouse and House of
" East Greeiiwlch V.^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 2 Correction 1
•• Kast Providence lo ** South Klnsrstown 2
" Glocester 1 " Sockanosset School 1
" Johnston „ 1 " School for Feeble Minded 4
** Jamestown 1 " Tiverton 2
" Lincoln 4 *' Warren 6
" North Providence 1 " Warwick 29
" Newport 5 " Woonsocket 3M
•• North Smlthneld 2 " ^'^«t Greenwich 4
" New Bborehani 1
•* Pawtucket 42 Total 897
The above table includes the children born at the Almshouse
who are counted as coming from the same place as their moth-
ers.
The sum of $6,181.40 was collected for the board of several
of the inmates from the cities and towns of their legal settle-
ment.
REMOVAL OF PAUPERS.
There were removed, during the year, 481 persons. Of this
number, 419 were sent away from the state, fifty-nine of whom
were sent to foreign countries, and sixty-two were sent to places
within the state.
Fifty-two of the whole number had been inmatesof the Work-
house and House of Correction; thirty-one, of the State Alms-
house; thirty-one, of the State Hospital for the Insane; eight,
of the Providence County Jail; one of the State Prison; and
one of the Oaklawn School.
Included in the above total, 481, there were thirty-five in-
sane persons, of whom thirty-one were from the State Hospi-
tal for the Insane and four from places where they had been
cared for temporarily.
LICENSED BOARDING PLACES FOR INFANTS.
Under the provisions of the law licensing and regulating the
receiving, boarding and keeping of infants, thirty -one licenses
were issued the past year, forty infant inmates were recorded
and eighty-two visits to licensed places were made by represent-
Atives of this department.
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l40 StATK CtiARtTll88 A!rt> OOftRBCTtONd.
The number of licenses in effect December 81, 1909, was
twenty-two, distributed as follows : Six in Providence, three
in East Providence, six in Cranston, one in Pawtucket, one in
Harrington, two in Newport, and three in Foster.
We recommend that the following provisions be added to
the present law : —
All places where infants under the age of four years are
boarded should be subject to inspection by the Board of State
Charities and Corrections, or an agent of said Board, except
such institutions as have been or may be chartered by special
acts of the General Assembly and are exempt from such in-
spection by provisions in their charters to that effect.
Maternity hospitals, so called, or places where pregnant
women are boarded and delivered of children, should be re-
quired to be licensed in the same manner as are persons who
board infants, and should be subject to inspection in like
manner, except such as are specially chartered by the General
Assembly and are exempt from inspection by charter.
Persons should be allowed to board a single infant without
a license, but such persons should be required to report the
name, age and birthplace of an infant taken by them to
board and other information required by the Board of State
Charities and Corrections, on blanks furnished by the Board.
The law should be amended in Chapter 141, Section 1, so as
to read four years instead of two years. At present persons
may take to board infants above the age of two years without
license and without inspection.
The following table shows the sums collected each month
during tlie year ending December 31, 1909, on account of the
several departments of the Agent's work :
staff Staff Biiflrr Trniinpnr-
H'tK])ltal. Aliufhinntf. Htn^iUit. PrnbntUm. tatitm. hiintM.
January |2.6h4 VI |1,24() 47 $12 8rt m 17 $15 U> $1 65
February !.«»)») 247 78 W 68 116 H4 8© 07 2 8S
March 2,!«W 2l» 1()7 58 12 <M> 87 75 14 72 2 2»
April 2.82L(tt 1.(17120 18 29 «1 80 174
May „ 1.4HW 41 218 H7 12 H6 28 08 52 82 « 75
June 1.7«»7 7« 87 44 18 2» 4» 10 7 22 2 («
July 2,«e 71 1.18« 1« 12 8« 72 77. 20 8S 1 (W
Auprust 2.11K0H 286 88 18 29 27 47 8 25 8 08
Sept»nuber 1.787 01 77 87 13 29 » W 6 U) 8 13
Octol)er 2,208 08 84« W 12 Hrt 15 00 1 80
November 1.8W) 00 81© 2» 13 2» 6144 2 «7
December 2,2V1 82 642 Itt 12 8C 4« 67 2 46
MOttlW I6.UU4U 1100 88 fB^TW tlflrStt |»0i
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RIP0R9 09 TRl BOARD. 141
The sum of 125,061.82 in the foregoing table was collected
during the year for the board and medical attendance of pa-
tients supported at the State Hospital for the Insane by their
relatives or friends. The increase in the collection for board,
care and medical attendance of the patients at the State Hos-
pital for the Insane this year aggregates nearly $6,000.00 due
in part, at least, to the change in the law authorizing the Board
of State Charities and Corrections to receive private patients
without limitation as to the cost of their maintenance.
PROBATION WOKK.
During the past year, 1148 persons were placed in the cus-
tody of the several probation oflBcers, divided as follows: —
Men, 246; women, 860; juveniles, 587.
The reports herewith submitted show the details of each
probation officer's work during the year.
KBPORT OF CHARLES K. MULHBARN, PROBATION OPFICKH FOR MEN AND
BOYS OP THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE.
During the year 1909, in the Sixth District Court, five hun-
dred and ninety-one persons were placed in the custody of the
probation officer as follows : — Men, two hundred and one ; boys,
three hundred and ninety.
The following table shows the offences charged against the
probationers from th^ Sixth District Court: —
210 were chrtrired with Larceny. fl were charRed with Sottlnpr fire.
•• " Track wnlklnR.
** *• Malicious mis-
chief.
*• *' Evadlnf; pay-
ment for meal.
*• '* Embezzlement.
•• ** Revelling.
" '* Sending In false
Are alarm.
" •* Selling clRarettos
to minors.
*' " KeeplnR store
open Sunday.
" *' Receiving stolen
(roods.
*' '* Playlnpf dice.
** •* Carrying conceal-
ed weapon.
" ** Playing cards on
Sunday.
•' •* Selling adulter-
ated milk.
" Assault.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES E. MDLHEARN,
A88I6TANT PBOBATION OfFIOBB.
190 ••
" Tiniancy.
6
64 ••
** Non-support.
6
46 ••
*• Vagrancy.
86 "
*' Being a common
drunkard
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4
dren to school.
4
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** Defacing proper-
ty.
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ly person.
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wanton person.
6
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mals.
8
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" Stoning rail-road
trains.
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" Street walking.
10
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beggar.
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" Evading rail-road
fare.
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142 STATE CHARITIES AKD OORRECTIOHS.
REPORT OF MAROARKT H. DKNNKHY, PROBATION OFFICER FOR WOMEN
AND GIKL8 OF TUB TITY OF PROVIDENCE.
During tlio year 1909, two hundred and seventy-four women
and girls wore arraigned in the Criminal Division of the Sixth
District ( ^ourt and twenty-two juveniles were arrainged in the
Juvenile Court.
One hundred and two women and girls were committed to
the charge of the Probation Officer for Women from the Sixth
District Court, twenty girls from the Juvenile Court, and two
from the Superior Court.
Tliree juveniles and four adults, who had violated the con-
ditions of their probation, were surrendered for sentence to the
Court.
Seventeen adults and six juveniles were placed in private
institutions, for at least a part of their term of probation, one
juvenile was sent to her home in Ireland, and four were placed
in private families where they have good homes, Christian in-
fluence, and fair remuneration. It is unfortunate that domes-
tic service does not appeal to the majority of these girls, as there
is a constant demand for their services. Twenty-three were
sent to their homes in other states, most of whom were accom-
panied to this city by men well known to the police as having
criminal records. The remaining twenty-six women and girls
live with their families and those not attending school are
working to help support their relatives.
The captains of the different precincts placed in the care of
the Probation Officer for Women, forty-three women and girls
arrested as suspicious persons. Seventeen belonged in this
State and twenty-six were sent to their respective homes, two
of whom were eighteen years of age and crippled, who had been
brought to this city from Philadelphia for the purpose of begging
to support the man who brought them. He was arrested and
sentenced on a vagrancy charge ; the girls were held a few days
pending investigation before sending to their homes.
The Probation Officer for Women works in cordial co-opera-
tion with all agencies of a charitable nature, the Overseer of Poor,
and the Providence Lying-in Hospital, and during the year ad-
mitted from the said hospital sixteen young mothers and their
infants to the Maternity Annex of the Providence Rescue Home.
Eighteen unfortunate young women »bout to become mothers
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KBPORT OF THE BOARD. 148
were received into the Providence Rescue Home, three of whom
were later sent to institutions in Massachusetts.
Respectfully submitted,
MARGARET H. DENNEHY,
Probation Opficbr for Women and Girls.
REPORT OF GEORGE L. SMITH, PROBATION OFFICER.
During the year 1909, in Bristol County, twenty-eight persons
were placed in the custody of the probation oflScer, divided as
follows: Men, eleven; women, one; juveniles, sixteen.
The disposition of cases was as follows:
Oases discontinued, twenty; cases pending, seven; surren-
dered for sentence, one.
In thecountiesof Providence, Washington, and Kent, eighty-
eight persons were placed in the custody of the probation officer,
eleven of whom were subsequently surrendered for sentence.
Twenty-six of these probationers paid their cost in Court, and
the remainder are paying their costs of Court in small install-
ments.
One boy was sent to his home in the Western Islands and
several were sent to other states from which they had recently
come.
Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE L. SMITH,
Assistant Probation Officer.
REPORT OF JEHU D0WNB8, PROBATION OFFICER FOR THE CITIES OF
PAWTUCKET and central falls and the towns of CUMBERLAND
AND LINCOLN.
During the year 1909, two hundred and three persons were
placed inthecustodyof the probation officer of the above named
cities and towns under the jurisdiction of the Tenth and Eleventh
Judicial Districts, as follows :
Men, one hundred and fourteen; women, thirty -four; juve-
niles, fifty-five.
The disposition of cases was as follows ;
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144 STATE OHARiriBS Aim CORRECTIONS.
Cases discontinued, forty-eight; cases pending, sixty-three ;
surrendered for sentence, fifteen.
Respectfully submitted,
JEHU DOWNES,
Assistant Probation Officer.
REPORT OF THEOPHILUB TOPUAM, PROBATION OFFICER FOR THE CITY OF
NEWPORT.
During the year 1909, in Newport County, one hundred and
nine persons were placed on probation as follows:
Juveniles, thirty-six; men, fifty-three; women, twenty.
The disposition of cases was as follows:
Cases discontinued, seventeen; cases pending, seventy-five;
surrendered for sentence, seventeen.
Two men and nine women were sent out of the State.
One girl was placed at the Sophia Little Home, for which she
was very grateful.
One hundred and sixty-one dollars were collected in small
installments for the payment of costs of court.
During the year, seven hundred and forty-six dollars were
collected from non-support probationers, for the benefit of th<Mr
families. There are others on probation for non-support who
are living with and supporting their families according to their
means.
Of the old cases, fifty-nine are still pending; fifty-eight have
been discontinued ; and ten have been surrendered for sentence.
On January 1, 1910, there were seventy-two men, seventeen
women, and forty-five juveniles on probation ; total one hundred
and thirty-four.
Respectfully submitted,
THEOPHILUS TOPHAM
Assistant Probation Officer,
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REPORT OP THE BOARD. 145
BUTLER HOSPITAL.
Mm. If'^>7n^. Total.
Number of patients January 1, 1«09 «9 75 141
Admitted during the year ^ M 68 107
T«)ial under treatment durlnjj the year ISJ 12S 251
DIscharKed duiiuK the year 57 51 UW
HemalnlngJanuary 1. 1910 W 77 148
Of the number discharged, twenty-two had recovered, thirty-
fi ve were improved, twenty-seven were unimproved and twenty-
four had died.
STATISTICS OF STATE PATIENTS.
Uemalnlnflf January 1, 1W)0. State patients 24
Ht^malnlng January 1, 1W)9, State beneflclarios 20 44
Admitted durlncc the year, State patients 17
Admitted during the year, State beneflciuries 4 21
Discharged during the year 17
Died duiing the year 5 22
Uemainlng January 1, 1910 4;i
Divided as follows:
29 State patients at $70 00 per quarter.
11 State beneflclaries at $25 00 per quarter.
8 State beneflciiirles at $89 00 per quarter.
The total amount paid for1:he support of the
State patients for the year ending December ;U,
1909 was $7,611 12
The total amount expended for State benefi-
ciaries was 1.911 1 1
$9,555 21}
Of those discharged, nine had recovered, four were improved,
four were unimproved and five had died.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER R. WIGHTMAN,
Agent of Statb Charities and Corrections.
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146 STATE CHARITIES Al^D CORRECTIONS.
OFFICERS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OVERSEERS
OF THE POOR.
President J Edmund Walker. Vice President, John H. Brown.
Secretary and Treasurer, Thomas B. Maymon.
Executive Committee,
John B. Bkown, M. J. Cummings, L. H. Pbabody,
Timothy Andrews, Philip Bbady.
Arbitration Committee.
John T. Barber, George B. Carpenter, Charles E. Frost,
Elijah Anthony, Walter R. Wightman.
OVERSEERS OF POOR OP RHODE ISLAND WITH THEIR P. 0. ADDRESSES.
Barrington William S. Martin _. Barrington Center.
Brisrol Philip Brad^' ^ Bristol.
Burrillville Gilbert S. Taft Pascoag.
Central Fall^ Leoiiidas P^ranklin Central Falls.
Charlestown EliBha S. Card Shannock.
Coventry Warren M. Greene Washington.
Cranston John A. Hamilton Cranston Print Works.
Cumberland Edward Halloran Valley Falls.
East (ireenwich Timothy Andrews East Greenwich.
East Providence Frank T. Caley, M. D fEast Providence.
Exeter William C. Hathaway Slocum.
Foster G. P. Lyon Greene.
Glocester Seth H. Steere North Scituate.
Hopkinton Geo. B. Carpenter Ashaway.
Jamestown Amos L. Peckliam Jamestown.
Johnston James F. Nichols Thornton.
Lincoln Job Ashworth ^ Sayleeville, Town
Farm.
Little Compton Wm. H. Briggs Little Compton.
Middletown Joseph A. Peckham Pres. Town Council,
Newport.
Narragansett.^ William Sherman Narragansett Pier.
Newport James B. CottrelL_ ^ Ch. Overseers of Poor,
Newport.
New Shoreham Charles Littlefield Block Island.
North Kiiip-stown... Geo. C Cranston Lafayette.
North Providence.. J. W. Naylor ^ Prov., North Station.
North Smith field.... W. Chester Thayer „. Woonsocket.
Pawtncket William M. Peckham Pawtucket.
Providence M. J. Cummings Providence.
Portsmouth John B. Cornell Portsmouth.
Richmond Rev. Warren Dawley Kenyon.
Scituate Ashton Slater North Scituate.
Smithfield Emor H. Mowry Smithfleld.
South Kingstown.... Edmund Walker Wakefield.
Tiverton A. L. Hambly (acting).... Tiverton.
Warren Charles H. Bliss Warren.
Warwick Elihu R. Shippee Centreville.
West (]^reenwich George W. Fish Noos^neck Hill.
Westerly Ellery Barber _... Westerly.
Woonsocket A. D. Roberts.- Woonsocket.
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APPENDIX.
ACTS AND RESOLVES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED
AT THE JANUARY SESSION, 1909, RELATING TO THE
BOARD OF STATE CHARITIES AND CORREC-
TIONS, ITS OFFICERS AND THE STATE
INSTITUTIONS IN CRANSTON.
Chapter 371.
AN ACT to authorizb the issuance of bonds to be known as
The penal and reformatory institutions loan.
(Passed Feb. 12. 1009.)
Si is enaeied 6y iA& S^n^rai jfgsemdiy as /oiiomsf
Section 1. The general treasurer is hereby authorized and
directed to issue scrip or certificates of debt in the name and
behalf of the state, and under its seal, and countersigned by
the governor to an amount not exceeding three hundred thou-
sand dollars, to be designated the penal and reformatory in-
stitutions loan. Said scrip shall be issued as registered bonds
or with interest coupons attached ; shall mature not more than
fifty years from the date of issue ; shall bear interest at a rate
not exceeding 8i per centum per annum, payable semi-an-
nually in gold coin of the United States of the present stand-
ard of weight and fineness ; shall be redeemable at maturity
in gold coin of the United States of the present standard of
weight and fineness ; and shall be sold as soon as may be, at
such time as shall be fixed by him, to the highest bidder, after
public advertisement, but at no less than the par value thereof.
Said bonds shall be exempt from taxation in this state.
Sec. 2. The general treasurer shall, on issuing said bonds,
establish a sinking fund, and apportion thereto from year to
year an amount sufficient with its accumulations to extinguish
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the debt at its maturity. The amount necessary each year to
pay the interest and sinking fund requirements of said bonds
shall be included in and made a partof the annual appropriation
bill for the expenses of the state government ; and any premium
over the par value of said bonds received on the sale thereof
shall form a part of the sinking fund for their redemption.
Sec. 3. The amount received from the sale of said scrip,
less the premium received over the par value thereof, as pro-
vided in section 2, is hereby appropriated to provide for per-
manent improvements at the state institutions located at
Howard, in the town of Cranston, to be expended under the
direction of the state board of charities and corrections; and
the state auditor is hereby authorized and directed, upon the
receipt of vouchers properly authenticated by said board of
charities and corrections to draw his order upon the general
treasurer for the payment of such expenditures.
Sec. 4. The general treasurer is hereby directed to deposit
the proceeds from the sale of said scrip, less the aforesaid pre-
mium, in one or more of the depositories in which the funds of
the state may be lawfully kept, and the interest accruing
thereon shall be added to and make apart of the general funds
of the state.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect upon its passage,
AN AOT appropriating the sum of $1,600 for the use of the
Board of state charities and corrections in the purchase of
land.
Xesoiued, That the sum of $1,600 be and the same is hereby
appropriated from any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, to be expended by the Board of State Charities
and Corrections for the purchase of land adjacent to the lands
occupied by the state institutions in Cranston which may be
deemed advisable for said institutions that the State should
own; and the state auditor is hereby directed to draw his or-
der upon the general treasurer in payment for land so purchas-
ed; iProvid^d, that before any payment is made as hereinbefore
authorized, the title of any land purchased shall be examined
by the attorney-general or his assistant and the deed thereof
approved in writing by said officer or his assistant, as the case
may be, both as to title of the land and as to the form of the
deed.
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
' BOARD OF'
STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS
OF
RHODE ISLAND
1910.
OFFICE. State House. (Room 126) Providence.
HOWARD, R. 1.
PRINTED AT SOCKAKOSSET SCHOOX- FOR BOYS.
1911.
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State of Rh()cle Island and Providence Plantations.
FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF
STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS
OF
RHODE ISLAND
1910.
Office. State House. (Room 126) Providence.
HOWARD. R. 1.
PRINTED AT SOCKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
1911.
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BOARD OF
STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS OF RHODE ISLAND
chairman:
WALTER A. READ.
sbcbbtabt:
CHARLES POTTER.
MBMBRR8 OP THB BOABD, WITH POST OFFICE ADDBRS8E8:
WALTER A. READ. Pbovidbnce _ Term expires Feb. 1, Iftll.
JAMEHP. McOUHKER. PoNTiAC Reslffncd Nov. 1«. 1910.
GEORGE R. LAWTON. Tiverton „Terni expires Feb. 1, 1916.
ROBERT F. RODMAN, Allknton Terra expires Feb. 1. 1914.
HARRY H. HHKPARD, Bbistol ^ Terra expires Feb. 1, 1918.
HORACE F. HORTON, Providkncb Tonn expires Feb. 1, 1918.
8. WILLARD THAYER. Pawtucket - Tonn expires Feb. 1, 191«.
KRANCELLOG. JILLHON, Providence ^ Term expires Feb. 1. 1912.
JOSEPH JALBERT, Woonbocket Term expires Feb. 1, 191«.
Agent of State Charities and Corrections:
WALTER R. WIGHTMAN. PROVIDENCE.
Superintendent, State Hospital for Insane:
ARTHUR H. HARRINGTON, M. D.
SvfHtiniewieiU, Workhouse and House oj Correction and Stale Almshouse:
FREDERICK B. JEWBTT. M. D.
Warden, State PrUon and Keever nf Providence County Jail:
JAMES F. MoOUSKER.
Superintendent, Soeftanosset School for Bous:
EZEKIEL E. GARDNER.
Superintendent, OaJOaum School for Girls:
CLARA F. FORBU8H.
Deputy Superintendent, State Hospital for the Insane:
GEORGE E. SIMPSON. M. D.
Deputy Superintendent, Almshouse:
ASA L. MAY.
Deputy Warden, State PriMon:
ALMER J. DAVIS.
Resident Physician, State Institutions:
HENRY A.JONES, M. D.
Assistant Physicians at the State Hospital for the Insane:
NORMAN A. JOHNSON. M. D. BLISHA H. COHOON. M. D.
ALVAH £. MILLS. M. D. EDMUND A. EHLERS . M. D.
Internes, State Institutions:
JOHN F. BYRNE, M. D. H. BARTON BRYBR. M. D.
Pharmacist:
EVERETT F. CORLISS.
RsUgious Instructor, State Institutions:
CHARLES H. BWBR.
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CONTENTS.
Report of the Board: Page.
AliushouBH « 99
Appointment of nieinlM^rs and ohsnffo of ofllcors 9
f
(Construction— Reception Ho8pitul. State Hobpital for the Insane 18
Hchool building for HockanoHset Hcbool for Boys 12
Oottaffe for Superintendent of 8tato Farm 12
New Building In Alnishuuhe yard - W
OoNt of maintenance ~ .«. «8
Orops raised at Hospital for the Insane ^ «. 88
Crops raised at State Farm ^ . 87
Crops raised at Pi*l8on and Jail 46
Crops raised at Hockanosset School 64
Crops raised at Oaklawn School ^ 67
Dally average of Inmates „ «W
Estimate of expenditures for 1»10 ^ 69
Finances « „. fIS
Hospital for the Insane „ 14
Oaklawn School for Girls 56
Prison and Providence County Jail 48
Report of Washington County Jail fK)
Report of Bristol County Jail „ „ „ 61
Report of Kent County Jail 58
Report of Newport County Jail . 50
Sockanosset School for Boys 47
Workhouse and House of Correction 34
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MeetlDfra of the Board „ _ - ~ 70
Statement of appropriations, etc. — 70
Statement of money collected 72
Statement of salaries _ 74
Report of the Airent of State Charities and Oorrections 187
Report of the Providence County Jail, statistics Ifl
Report of the Dental Sorjceon IW
Report or the Probation OfBoers „ 141
Report of the Relifrioas Instructor 187
Report of the Sookanosset School, statistics _ 117
Report of the Stale Prison, statistics lOT
Report of the Workhouse and House of Correction, statistics.^ «. VI
Appendix A.—Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly passed at the Jan-
uary Session. 1010. relatinir to the Board of State Charities and
Corrections, etc IM
Appendix B.— Description of proposed bolldinRs to be erected at the State
Institutions in Cranston, by Messrs. Martin A Hall. Archi-
tects 1«1
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FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Board of State Charities and Corrections.
To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Rhode
Island, at its January Session, 1911.
The Board of State Charities and Corrections respectfully
present their report for the year ending December 31, 1910, as
required by Chapter 860, Section 18, of the General Laws of
Rhode Island.
Mr. S. Willard Thayer, of Pawtucket, was reappointed mem-
ber of the Board for six years, January 12, 1910, by His Excel-
lency, Governor Aram J. Pothier.
Mr. Joseph Jalbert, of Woonsocket, was appointed member
of the Board January 12, 1910, by His Excellency, Governor
Aram J. Pothier, to succeed Mr. Philippe Boucher, whose term
expired January 81, 1910.
Mr. Francello G. Jillson resigned his membership, January
U, 1910, and was reappointed, January 14, 1910, a member of
the Board, by His Excellency, Governor Pothier. Mr. Jillson
had been appointed member from the County of Newport
through an error which was rectified by his reappointment as
member at large.
Mr. George R. Lawton, also, resigned his membership, Jan-
uary 12, 1910, and was reappointed, January 14, 1910, as a
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10 STATE CHARITIKS AND CORRECTIONS.
member from the County of Newport, instead of member at
large, by His Excellency, Governor Pothier.
Mr. James F. McCusker resigned his membership on the Board
November 16, 1910. On the same day, Mr. Harry H. Shepard
was elected Temporary-Chairman, the office of Chairman hav-
ing been made vacant by the resignation of Mr. McCusker.
At the first meeting of the Board in December, Mr. Walter
A. Read was chosen Chairman of the Board.
The following resolution was passed by the Board, December
1, 1910:
Whereas, Col. James F. McCusker, who has been a mem-
ber of this Board for about twelve years and its Chairman for
nearly five years, has retired from the Board to take up the
office of Warden of the State Prison of this State.
As a token of appreciation of his relationship with his asso-
ciates. Be it
S^0soi»0d, That Col. James F. McCusker has been an exceed-
ingly faithful and efficient officer of the State as a member of
the Board of State Charities and Corrections, devoting a great
deal of time and attention to the institutions in his charge, and,
as Chairman, has served with dignity, courtesy and uniform
fairness. It has been a great satisfaction and pleasure to
serve with him, and he retires with the warmest friendship
and best wishes for success and happiness in his future career.
Mr. James R. Read, Secretary of the Board since August 2,
1907, died on June 23, 1910.
At a special meeting, June 24, 1910, Miss Emily M. Nichols,
chief clerk in the office of the Board, was appointed Acting-
Secretary of the Board.
Senator Charles Potter, of Glocester, was appointed Secre-
tary of the Board, September 15, and assumed office October 1,
1910.
The Board passed the following resolution, July 7, 1910.
Whereas, Mr. James R. Read died June 28, 1910, in the
66th year of his age, having been connected with the office of
the Board for nearly ten years, and for nearly three years last
past as its Secretary, Be it
Xesoiveti, That by the death of Mr. Read the Board has lost
a faithful and efficient officer, the State a good citizen, and the
Country a veteran of the Civil War of 1861-1865, with an excel-
lent record as a soldier. His relations and doipgs with tbQ
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 11
Board have always been cheerful and satisfactory, and very
pleasant memories will be cherished of the same.
Xesoive€f, That an engrossed copy of the foregoing be sent
to the family of Mr. Read and also copies of same to the daily
newspapers in the Oity of Providence.
Mr. Andrew J. Wilcox resigned the position of Warden of the
State Prison on September 16, 1910, the resignation going into
effect at once, Mr. Wilcox having been appointed SheriflF of
the County of Providence by His Excellency, Governor Pothier.
Mr. Wilcox was appointed Warden June 25, 1908, to succeed
General Nelson Viall. During Mr. Wilcox's administration
he maintained the high standard established at the Prison by
his predecessor.
On June 17, 1910, Mr. S. Edmund Slocum resigned the position
of Deputy Warden of the State Prison, to take effect not later
than July 16, 1910. Mr. Aimer J. Davis was appointed Mr.
Slocum 's successor September 1, 1910.
Mr. Timothy P.Dodge, Deputy Superintendent of the Work-
house and House of Correction, died on September 12, 1910;
since then, the office has been filled temporarily, no person
having been nominated by the Superintendent of the State
Farm to the Board for appointment.
Mr. Dodge had served continuously at the State Institutions
in Cranston for thirty years, and previously was Deputy War-
den of the Prison, before the removal of that institution to
Cranston in 1878.
P. S. Mr. Walter A, Read, of Gloeester, was reappointed member of the Board by
His Exeelleney, Governor Aram J, Pothier, January 10, 1911, and the appointment was
confirmed by the Senate Janvary 12, 19 IL
Mr, James F. Freeman, of East Greenwich, was appointed member of the Board by His
Exeelleney, Governor Pothier, January 18,1911, to succeed Mr. James F, MeCusker, re-
signed, and the appointment was confirmed by the Senate January 24, 19 lU
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12 STATK CHARITIES AND COBBBCTIONS.
CONSTRUCTION.
RECKPTION HOSPITAL FOR THE STATK HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
The appropriation of $800,000., made by the General Assem-
bly at the January Session, 1909, *'for permanent improvements
at the State Institutions at Cranston, to be expended under
the direction of the Board of State Charities and Corrections,"
will be used for this building, with the exception of about
eight hundred dollars expended for other construction. The
building is described in a report of the architects, Messrs. Mar-
tin and Hall, that may be found in an appendix to this report.
The architects report as follows regarding the contracts made
and the progress of the work :
''The contract for the general construction of the Reception
Hospital was awarded on the 19th day of May, 1910, to David
J. Barry, in the sum of $216,000. Active work on the struc-
ture was commenced immediately and has proceeded rapidly
to the present time. The building is entirely roofed-in and
the exterior is nearly completed ; the interior work is progres-
sing so that the building may be lathed and plastered early in
the spring.''
''The contract for the plumbing system was awarded January
9, 1911, to the Tierney-Colgan Co. in the sum of $26,082.00,
and for the electrical system on same date to the H. B. Rust
Co. in the sum of $11,994.00. These systems are now being in-
stalled and the contract for the heating system will be awarded
in the near future.''
"The building will be completed and ready for occupation by
January 1, 1912."
SCHOOL BUILDING FOR THE 80CKAN0S8ET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
The purpose of this building is stated under the head of
Sockanosset School for Boys and a description of it may be
found in an appendix to this report, where several buildings
planned by Messrs. Martin and Hall are described by them.
COTTAGE FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE STATE FARM.
(Having charge of the Workhouse and House of Correction
and of the Almshouse, and of so much of the territory of the
Institutions as has not been set oflF to the other Institutions.)
The architects, Messrs. Martin & Hall, thus describe this
Cottage :
"This building will be located well back,^ bordering ou Pon-
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RBPORT OF THE BOARD. 18
tiac Avenue and immediately opposite the Almshouse. It will
be a shingled structure, 81 feet by 46 feet, two and one-half
stories in height, with a hipped roof."
*'The entrance is at the center, facing Pontiac Avenue, and
opens into a hall with a large living-room on the west side of
the first story, and a dining-room with china-closet and pan-
try on the east, adjoining which is a kitchen with rear entrance
on the southerly side."
*'A front stairway extends through to the attic. In the sec-
ond story are four chambers and a bath-room, and in the third
story are located three chambers and a bath-room adjoining."
^^The building is simple in design and of substantial charac-
ter, and will be equipped with a modern system of heating,
plumbing and lighting."
The excavating for the foundation and the grading, the con-
struction of the building in part, and the plumbing, the instal-
lation of the steam-heating apparatus, the gas-piping and the
wiring for electricity were done by mechanics of the Institu-
tions.
At the close of 1910 the Cottage was almost completed at a
cost of $5,886.29.
NEW BUILDING IN ALMSHOUSE YARD.
This building commenced in 1908 and described in the report
of the Board of that year, is so far completed that the smoking-
room on the first floor has been occupied. The dormitory above
will soon be ready for occupancy. The cost of the building to
date has been $6,816.12.
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14 STATE CHARITISS AND CORRBCTIONS.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
Jtipen'mi^mtfeni Dr. ArTHUR H. HARRINGTON.
^eptiiyJttpi. Dr. George E. Simpson.
In presenting below the report of Dr. Harrington, the Board
call attention to the requirements of the State Hospital for
the Insane as shown by the Superintendent. The increase of
daily average number of patients during the past year was
jiixty-six, and the total number, December 31, 1910, was 1,146.
The increase for a number of years has been provided for by
using the day spaces as sleeping-rooms, but this resource has its
limit.
The new Reception Hospital, referred to above under the
head of Construction, and now largely under contract, will ap-
parently not relieve the present crowded condition of the old
buildings, according to Dr. Harrington, who says in his report,
referring to the need of additional accommodations: '*It must
be borne in mind that the Reception Hospital does not furnish
any direct or lasting relief to the crowding of the main hospi-
tal plant."
Speaking of the old wooden structures, he says that they
are ''fast falling into irreparable decay and contain equipment
long since obsolete. Physically the buildings are unsafe and
insanitary.^ ^
''The need of an Adminstration Building is greater than ever;
our pmall office space is crowded and cramped beyond meas-
ure.''
In regard to the laundry Dr. Harrington says: "We need a
new laundry this year. We cannot properly keep up with the
demand upon the laundry at the present time and I fail to see
how we can open the new Reception Hospital without this de-
mand for increased laundry facilities being met,'' and he adds:
"I would moMt respectfully urge that renewed efforts be made
during the session of the General Assembly of 1911 to have
these matters presented anew and that the representatives of
the people be invoked to remedy these conditions without any
delay."
A full description of the Reception Hospital will be found in
a report of the architects in an appendix to this report of the
Board.
Z7o ike Sioarti of fSiaio CAariiios mnti Corroci/ons.'
Gentlemen : — ^I have the honor herewith to present for your
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consideration the following report of the State Hospital for the
Insane and such matters as seem pertinent thereto, for the
year ending December 81, 1910/'
'*0n January 1, 1910, there were 1,101 patients present in the
Hospital for the Insane. The number of admissions during the
year wa8€<42; the number returned from parole was 46; the
number returned from escape was 25; making the total num-
ber of cases for the year, 1513."
'*The number of patients discharged or paroled was 226 ; there
were 29 escapes during the year ; the number of deaths was 112 ;
leaving the total number remaining at the close of the year,
1,146.''
*'The daily average number of patients for the year was 1,183,
which is larger by 66 than the daily average for the previous
year.''
^'As to nativity, 125 patients of the 342 admitted, were born
in Rhode Island and 75 in other parts of the United States.
The birth places of four were unascertained; 188 were natives
of foreign countries; of the latter number 28.9% were born in
Ireland; 18.1% in England; 20.2% in the British Provinces;
6.5% in Italy; 5.7% in Portugal; 2.8% in Russia. Of the 888
patients admitted, whose birth-places were known, we find
that 40.8% of this number were born in foreign countries. Of
the 342 patients admitted it was ascertained that the fa-
thers of 48 and the mothers of 44 were born in Rhode Island.
The fathers of 33 and the mothers of 86 were born in other
parts of the United States. The fathers of 222 and the moth-
ers of 217 were of foreign birth."
"The problem of assigning the causes of mental disease in
the 342 cases admitted is so complicated that we will submit
only some of the data, of which we feel assured. We believe
that alcoholism in the patient in 16.3% of the ca&es was the
direct cause; that acquired syphilis was the cause in 3.5%.
Attention is called to what seems to be a fact, that taking the
sum of these percentages, 19.8% of the persons admitted owed
their mental disease directly to causes which are avoidable.''
"The hereditary factor in mental disease is potent, but we
believe that conservatism should be exercised in invoking this
cause without the most positive evidence. In individual cases
the problem may not be diflicult, but when dealing with a
group of a year's admissions we believe that it is unwise to
make sweeping assertions,"
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16 STAT£ CHARITI£S AND OORRSCTIONS.
''We prefor to state the case as follows: A clear family his-
tory was obtained in 260 of the cases admitted. In 44A% of
these cases, there was insanity in parents or grandparents.
In 24.4% there was insanity in uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters
or cousins.'^
'*The sum of all the hereditary factors, so called, was 190.
Thtit is to say 250 of the persons admitted had 190 blood re-
lations who were suffering with, or who had had attacks of,
mental disease.''
*'The number of persons who were given a final discharge by
your Board and otherwise was 167: of these 41 were recovered,
making the percentage of recoveries, based upon the number
of discharges, 28.9%. The percentage of recoveries based on
the total number of admissions was 12%. The number of per-
sons sent from the State to other states or countries to which
they belong was 26."
'*The number of deaths was 112. The average number of
mouths of liospital care of those who died was 66.6% ; 19.6%
of those who died were over 70 years of age. There were ten
cases of typhoid fever among the patients during the year,
with one death. We were unable tu trace the typhoid infec-
tion to its source. We are confident that we have discovered
the presence of the disease pellagra in five patients, two of
whom have died."
'"Further detailed information of a statistical nature will
be found in the tables which accompany this report."
VIOLENT DRATHS AND ACCIDENTS.
''An event to be deplored was the death of a patient from
fracture of the skull while in charge of an attendant."
"The proper authorities were notified, the arrest of the at-
tendant followed and he is now awaiting trial on the charge of
manslaughter." *
''One patient, an epileptic, who had been in the hospital for
twelve years, committed suicide by hanging himself to the
transom-guard of his room, in the night."
"Another patient seized the opportunity when the attention
of her attendant was distracted by a violent patient, to run
upon the fire-escape and to throw herself to the ground with
suicidal intent. The attempt at suicide was not successful, but
the patient sustained a serious fracture of the leg."
•The trial took place Feb. 14, 1911 and the attendant wxs acquitted.
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GIFTS.
**We are indebted to the following named persons for vari-
ous gifts which we desire gratefully to acknowledge.''
"'Through Mrs. A. R. French we have on several occasions
received from the Women's Temperance Union flowers and
fruit for the sick ; from Miss S. E. Pollard and Mrs. R. H. I.
Goddard, reading matter; from Mrs. H. N. Reynolds, Christ-
mas wreaths; from Mr. W. H. Bailey, records for the Victor
Talking Machine; from Miss Ethel Munro, confectionery; from
Mrs. Lydia Oooper, flowers; and from Miss Helena Hynds, two
dozen pairs of men's mittens."
AMUSEMENTS AND ENTERTAINMENTS.
'"Weekly dances have been held in the Assembly Hall for
the patients, except in the summer months. Other entertain-
ments have been the following: March 10, through the kind
offices of the Rev. 0. Oonal McKay, a musical entertainment;
March 19, two friends of the Hospital provided a musical en-
tertainment and reading; May 80, u clambake was given to a
number of the patients who assist in the general work of the
Hospital; June 10, Rev. Mr. Alger gave an entertaining lec-
ture; June 28, through the kindness of Rev. Charles D. Crane,
a musical entertainment with readings; July 10, a vocal con-
cert by the well known artists, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Martin ;
Aug. 16 illustrated lecture on aviation by Prof. Charles L.
Harrington ; Aug. 25, an outing and shore dinner at Palace
Gardens attended by 160 patients: Oct. 81, Halloween party,
games and short play given by officers of the Hospital; Nov.
25, sheet and pillow case party."
**Several local musicians have from time to time assisted our
regular orchestra. To them and to all who have contributed
in any way to the entertainment of our patients we desire to
express cmr grateful acknowledgements."
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
'*A new toilet-room has been put into the office-building.
There have been renewals of a few of the old toilet fixtures in
the wards. By means of 1&) feet of steam piping, returns and
necessary coverings, a new steam supply has been carried to
one of our buildings. A new sectional-boiler and hot-water-
tank and heater have been installed in the night-watch cot-
tage. 258 feet of piping of various sizes, with fittings and cov-
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18 STATE CHAKITIES AND CORRECTIONS^
erings, have been used in renewing the steam supplies in this
building. A new bath-tub and toilet have been installed here
also. '
''214 feet of 8 inch galvanized iron piping and fittings have
been used in connecting some of our buildings with the high-
pressure water service. '^
**We have made and installed two dish-washing machines."
'*A new night-watchman clock has been installed.' '
THE RECEPTION HOSPITAL.
''At the time of this writing the outer walls of the Recep-
tion Hospital are completed and the building is roofed-in.*'
"For the information of the public who read these pages it
is appropriate to state here the purpose of this structure. '^
"In previous reports we have presented the necessity,* if we
are to carry out our duty as a Hospital for the Insane, to the
patients committed to our care, of providing every facility,
which experience has shown to be practicable, for the early
observation and treatment Mthe new and acute cases of men-
tal disease. This building has been planned by the architects,
Messrs. Martin & Hall, with the sole purpose of meeting these
needed requirements. We also gratefully acknowledge our in-
'♦ebtedness to Dr. Charles P. Bancroft, Superintendent of the
New Hampshire State Hospital, for his courtesy and valuable
assistance in placing at our disposal the results of his own
thought and practical experience and his valuable observations
both in this country and abroad relative to the desirable feat-
ures of construction and equipment of reception hospitals for
mental cases.''
"The capacity of our Reception Hospital will be 184 beds."
A CROWDED HOSPITAL.
"The providing for the first care of the acute insane in our
new Reception Hospital, when it shall have been finished, will
dispose of but one of the important phases of our work. It
must be borne in mind that the Reception Hospital does not
furnish any direct or lasting relief to the crowding of the main
hospital plant. We have at the present time 1,146 patients,
which is one to each 482 persons of the present population of
the State. Unless there should be some exceptional change in
our social conditions, we are destined, on the most conserva-
tive calculation, to have at least one person as a patient at the
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State Hospital for the Insane for each 600 persons in the popu-
lation. On this basis the number of our patients will increase
in this ratio with the growth in population of the State. In
the period of three years, ending Dec. 3i, 1910, our daily aver-
age number has increased 141 patients. At the beginning of
the three-year period of which I speak we were already begin-
ning to feel stress from lack of space for patients. We have
managed to hcmse the additional accumulation of 141 patients
by filling the proper day spaces with beds ; we are fast approach-
ing the 1200 mark.'^
''Another fact which must be borne in mind is that some of
our buildings are wooden structures, fast falling into irreparable
decay, and containing equipment long since obsolete. Physi-
callv these buildings are unsafe and insanitary; add to these
two latter facts the crowded state of these wards, as described
above, and we have a condition created to which we may well
h>ok with apprehension."
*'I am aware that your Board is well acquainted with these
conditions and that your efforts have been put forth to remedy
them, but I would most respectfully urge that renewed efforts
be made during the session of the General Assembly of 191J
to have these matters presented anew and that the represent-
atives of the people be invoked to remedy these conditions
without any delay."
''I, respectfully, in this connection repeat my former recom-
mendations, the urgency of which increases fnrni day to day."
''These recommendations are, that we replace these delapi-
dated wood buildings with proper modern construction. Our
laundry facilities are entirely inadequate. We need a new
laundry building this year. We cannot properly keep up with
the demands upon the laundry at the present time and I fail
to 5ee how we can open the new Reception Hospital without
this demand for increased laundry facilities being met."
"The need of an Administration Building for the entire
Hospital for the Insane is greater than ever. Our small office
space is crowded and cramped beyond measure."
MEDICAL STAFF.
"We are pained to be obliged to record the death of Dr. Ed-
gar Ivory Hanscom, who has been a member of the Medical
Staff for over five years. His death occurred Keb. 19, 1910,
and was due to septicemia, acquired, without doubt, through
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20 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
infection from a surgical case under his care in the Hospital.''
''Dr. Hanscom's loss is deeply deplored by his associates, by
patients and by that portion of the public who came to know
him in his official capacity, while his untimely demise, taking
into account its origin, offers a lamentable instance of the
toll which is sometimes exacted of the physician in the dis-
charge of his medical duties.''
*'Dr T. F. Mack, after a service of eight months as interne
and substitute during the illness and absence of two regular
meml)er8 of the Medical Staff, resigned January 29, 1910."
**Dr. William B. Treadway, after an acceptable service of
over two years, resigned April 8, 1910."
''Dr. Alvah V. Mills, Dr. Norman A. Johnson and Dr. Ed-
mund A. Ehlers have been appointed to positions upon the
Medical Staff."
''In closing this report I desire to refer to the recent act of
the General Assembly making a provision for insane criminals.
If provision for insane criminals is comprehensively planned
and developed, we shall have made a most important step in
advance, for it is of vital interest to the State Hospital for the
Insane that the final solution of this question of providing for
insane criminals shall be the doing away with the necessity of
mingling at the State Hospital for the Insane two classes which
require such widely divergent methods of care and custody."
"Another feature, the significance of which I trust will be
fully realized, is that this act opens the opportunity for the in-
troduction in the State of a psychiatric service for those held
for crime pending adjudication or already sentenced, whose
mental condition is at all in question."
"This matter of providing for the insane criminals will bo of
great importance to the State in the future and is so closely
interwoven with questions of justice to the individual that it de-
serves a broad and comprehensive treatment."
"I desire publically to acknowledge my indebtedness to the
officers and employees who have conscientiously aided me in
carrying on the work of this Hospital the past year and I trust
that I may merit your confidence in the future."
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR H. HARRINGTON, M. D.,
SUPERINTINOBKT,
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l-K^BNBRAL 8TATI8TIOH FOR THE YEAK.
21
Number of patients January 1. 1910..
'* admitted during the year..
•• returned from parole
** escaped Inmates returned .
Total numl>er of cases duiing the year..
Number discharged duiiuK the year
** paroled during the year
'* escaped during the year..
'* died during the year
Total number leaving the Hospital..
Number remaining December 81, 1910..
Dally average number of patients..
-
-
Males.
Females.
Totals.
586
51«
1101
ise
149 !
ai2
22
28
46
25
0
25
826
688
1518
28
9
82
lOH
m
194
2fi
0 1
29
tt4
48
112
224
148
8«7
601
596.441
646
1146
687.800 1138.241
2— AGES OF PATIENTS ADMITTED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
AOE PISBIODS.
Less than fifteen years
Fifteen to twenty years
Twenty to twenty-five years .
Twenty-flve to thirty yeai-s ...
Thirty tothirty-flve years .....
Thirty-flve to forty yeara
Forty to fifty years
Fifty to sixty years
Hixty to seventy years
Seventy to eighty yeai-s.„
Eighty years and over
Unknown
Totals
Average of known age
Males.
Females.
Totals.
2
1
8
4
8
12
17
14
81
16
17
88
16
20
86
27
14
41
88
20
58
24
11
36
9
10
19
12
11
28
7
4
11
3
0
8
174
180
804
41.5
41.2
41.4
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4— RKSIDENCK BY COUNTIES OF PATIENTS ADMITTED.
OOUMTIES.
Bristol „.
Kent
Newport
Providence .
Washington
Totals .
Males.
Females.
Totals,
18
4
17
28
16
»0
11
18
24
188
118
261
8
8
11
106
140
842
5-OIVIL CONDITION OF PATIENTS ADMITTED.
CONDITION.
Single
Married
Widowed ...
Divorced....,
Unknown...
Totals
! Males.
Females.
Totals.
1
60
08
17
6
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65
55
28
6
0
134
153
40
12
8
j 108
140
842
6— EDUCATION OF PATIENTS ADMITTED.
Males.
Females.
Totals.
College
1
15
78
70
0
10
0
10
87
84
17
1
1
Hlsrh School ,
25
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110
Primary School ■
168
None
26
Unknown
17
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140
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STATK CHARITIKS AND CORRECTIONS.
7— (K^OUPATIONH OF PATIKNT8 ADMITTED.
MAI.KS.
A vent I
Uakor^ 1
HlHckMmlth 1
Boilermaker I
BoArdlnK housekeeper 1
Bookkeeper ^
Brakenien 1
Butler 1
("nrpenlerH 10
(Memynien 8
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roinmerclal traveler 1
<'oachinan „ 1
Cook I
hentitit 1
Knuliieer, marine 1
KiiKliieers, stationary ^ 2
Fttrmers 10
Firemen 3
Fisherman 1
IfarneKH niakir 1
Hosemaker 1
Jeweler 1
liHborers „ 42
l^jttt-r carrier ^ _ 1
Machlnigts _ 10
Masons ~ 8
Moulders S
Operatives, mill _ S8
jewelry „ 9
" rubber _... 4
Optician 1
Painters — 4
Peddler ~ ^. 1
Physician _ 1
Plumber I
Reporter „ 1
Bailor 1
Bhoemakers —.. *>
Htenoffrapher„ „ I
Htone cutters 8
Htorekeepers 8
Tailor 1
Teamsters X
Bt. railway conductors^ 2
No occupation «
Unknown 7
Total - .. li«
FKMALKH.
At home „ 10
Bookkeepers 2
bootmaker 1
Brushmaker 1
<:ierk8 4
Domestics 24
Dressmakers 5
Housekeepers > 6
Housewives „ 62
Music teacher 1
Nurses 8
Operatives, mill lo
•* Jewelry 9
Htenographei-s 2
Storekeepers 2
Teacher — 1
None - !•
Total 14»
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S-PATIENTS RKOEIVKI) ON FIRST AND SUHSKQITKNT COMMITMENTS.
NUMBER OF COMMITMENTS.
First to this Hospital
Second to this Hospital...
Third to this Hospital
Fourth to this Hospital...
Fifth to this Hospital
seventh to this Hospital.
Totals
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1
Totals.
174
1»)
m\
11
17 1
2S
5
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1
2
0
0
2
198
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9-PROBABLK OAUSKS OF MENTAL DlSEASKS OF PATIENTH ADMITTED.
Alcoholism In parents
Nervous diseases In parents-
Insanity In parentH
Insanity In srrand parents
Alcoholism In patient
Syphilis
Defective mental basis
ChlldbearlnR
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Puberty
Apoplexy
Arterio sclerosis
Hurfflcal operation
Oldajre
Morphinism
Not insane
Undetermined
Tnsufflclent history
Tfiinh.
Totals..
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11-FORM8 OF MENTAL DISEASES OF PATIENTS ADMITTED.
roBMS.
Males.
1. Infection Psychoses
S. Exhaustion Psychoses
Acute Con fusional Insanity..
(b)
(0)
<d)
Intoxication Psychoses
(a) Chronic Alcoholism
Acute Alcoholic Psychoses
Acute Alcoholic Hallucinosis..
Delirium Tremens
Chronic Alcoholic Psychoses
Alcoholic Hallucinatory Dementia..
Alcoholic Paranoia
Kors8akofT*8 Psychoses
Morphinism
Totals..
Dementia Precox
Hebephrenic Form..
Catatonic Form
Paranoid Form
Totals..
14
7
1
1
4
1
.
Fentalea.
Totals,
S
6
17
R
0
6
1
1
84
28
0
17
51
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14
22
69
6. Dementia Paralytica
20
7
7
4
7
0
0
0
Demented Form
J7
Depressive Form
7
Expansive Form
7
Agitated Form
4
Totals
88
7
46
6. Organlo Dementia.
2
8
0
0
2
0
2
1
Apoplexy
4
Arterlo Sclerotic Insanity
8
Cerebral Syphilis _
Tabetic Psychosis
2
1
Totals
5
5
10
7. Involution Psychoses
0
0
18
8
1
SO
Melancholia
8
Presenile Delusional Insanity. .
I
Senile Dementia
88
Totals
18
24
42
8. Manlo Depressive Insanity
Manio States
4
12
1
18
18
2
17
Depressive States
25
Mixed States
8
Totals
17
28
46
9, Paranoia
14
0
1
5
5
1
0
1
1
10. Epileptic Insanity
19
11. Psychogenic Neuroses
Hysterical Insanity
12. Constitutional Psychopathic States „
18. Psychopathic Personalities
Unstable
1
1
14. Defective Mental Development
ImlMOllity
0
Idiocy
1
Totals
5
2
7
16. Not Insane
1
9
1
5
2
W. Undetermined
14
Totals
106
149
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STATE CHAHITIKS AND CORRECTIONS.
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33
The product of the farm and garden of the State Hospital for
the Insane in 1910 were as follows :
Apples 118>^ bu.
A¶gas „ 876 lb«.
Beans, lima 66% bu.
Beans, shell 2 bu.
Beans, string ^ 871 bu.
Beet, greens 68S bu.
Beets, mangle wurxle 820 bu.
Beets, table 4* bu.
Blackberries OSd qts.
Cabbage _ 46 tons.
Carrots ^ _ 287 bu.
Cauliflower 268 hds.
(Jelery „. . 6800 hds.
Chickens ^ 88«^ lbs.
Corn fodder, dry 24 tons.
Corn fodder, green 86j^ tons.
Corn, green 18806 ears.
Corn, on ear _ 72 bu.
Corn, pop, on the ear„ _. \9]4 bu.
(Cucumbers 116 bu.
(Cucumber pickles „ 22 bbls.
Dandelion greens „ 166 bu.
Ducks 66 lbs.
Kggs _ 808 doz.
Gooseberries ^ 8 qts.
Grapes 2 bo.
Hay, flrst crop 70 tons.
Hay. second crop 7>i tons.
Lettuce 142 bu.
Melon, musk - 1817
Milk W0»6H Qts.
Millet, Hungarian 4 tons.
Oat fodder 66^ tons.
Onions ^ 4H7 bu.
Parsnips 218 bu.
Pears 40 bu.
Peas, green 164 bu.
Peppers 21>^ bu.
Pork ^ 2682 lbs.
Potatoes 8680 bu.
Poultry 176 lbs.
Pumpkins ^ 8460 lbs.
Quinces „ 7 bu.
Radishes 86 bu.
Rareripes 1278 doz.
Rhubarb.. 4W6 lbs.
Rye 166 bu.
Rye straw _ 28 tons.
Hage 27K lbs.
Hpinaoh _ 116 bu.
Squash, summer 1287 lbs.
Strawberries 4046 qts.
Tomatoes 428 bu.
Tomatoes, green ^. 8lK bu.
Turnitw, flat — 172 bu.
Turnips, ruta baga 420 bu.
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STATE WORKHOUSE AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
6mp9rini0mti9nt- FrED B. JeWETT, M. D.
9^airont MrS. MarT E. WooD.
The number of persons committed to the Workhouse and
House of Correction in 1910 was 597, an increase of nine com-
pared with the number committed in 1909.
The daily average number in 1910 was 249; in 1909 it was
240.
Of the 697 persons committed in 1910, 224 were common-
drunkards.
The Board call especial attention to the needs of the Work-
house and House of Correction as regards facilities for the care
of the sick. Both the Superintendent, Dr. Jewett, and the
Resident Physician, Dr. Jones, in their reports, show the great
need of such accommodations.
The Superintendent reports to the Board as follows :
'^ZJo M# SSoard offSiai^ Charth'^s and Corr^ci/oms/
^'Gentlemen: — I herewith present for your consideration
the report of the State Workhouse and House of Correction for
the year 1910. Little has occurred out of the ordinary in the
general running of the institution, a condition which can obt^ain
only with a faithful and conscientious corps of officers."
**Every institution that has existed for any considerable
length of time must, of necessity, have conditions that appear
more or less undesirable. These conditions arise from changes
within the Institution, from changes in the character of the
inmates or otherwise, or the conditions may seem undesirable
when compared with those in newer and better equipped build-
ings."
^^As an instance, we find that the average age of the men
committed has increased during the past fifteen years from 87
years to nearly 45i years, and, consequently, the inmates we
now have are older and more broken in health. They need
more care and are less efficient as workers, and they deserve
more consideration in regard to restraint and physical treat-
ment."
'*The question of restraint requires deep consideration ; that
of physical treatment can be more easily disposed of."
^^For the last six months there has been an average of about
seven persons a day unable to work and under the doctor's care,
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while during November and December there were as many as
twenty-one sick ones a day. The diseases ranged from grip to
pneumonia, with occasional fractures of different bones, and
insane cases, largely of alcoholic mania.''
"To take care of these we have one room Hi x 16i with beds
for three patients; the others have had to receive their atten-
tion in the wards or in the cells, or to be transferred to the
Almshouse."
'"On the female side we have no sick-room and any case at
all serious mast needs be transferred also to the Almshouse.
This is by no means desirable. My suggestion for a remedy is,
as suggested last year, an addition of two wards in the rear
centre of the main building that would accommodate both men
and women, a ward for each sex."
'*The results from the farm were, on the whole, better than
in 1909, in spite of a dry summer. This was accomplished with
a force rather more crippled than usual, as two gangs, with the
requisite teams, spent practically all their time from January
to July excavating, building foundations, and grading for the
new Reception Hospital for the State Hospital for the Insane
and for the Superintendent's House."
'*At various times during the year, about three months in
the aggregate, the entire force was thus employed."
**An approximate estimate of the value of the farm produce
at wholesale prices is $2,000. By keeping individual records
of the cows, we have endeavored to weed out the least profit-
able ones, and the fact that considerably more than half gave
from 6,000 to 8,700 pounds of milk during the year, including
the time they were dry, shows that we have good material to
build upon."
'In addition to the work on the grounds and foundations of
the Superintendent's house, above mentioned, the building
itself was erected and brought to the point of interior finished
work by the employment of outside labor, combined with our
own; the plumbing, heat-installation, gas-piping and wiring
were done by us."
**A gravel roof over the storehouse and kitchen, that leaked
quite badly, has been put in good condition."
''The wash-room begun last year has been finished, and the
washers changed, and a new all-metal washer installed, thus
giving a much needed additional capacity."
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36 STATE CHARITIES AKD CORRBCTIOKS.
""The need of punishment has been comparatively slight,
there having been weeks at a time when nothing more harsh
was required than a change of one kind of work to a less desir-
able kind."
**There have been few gifts of reading matter, not so much
as we desire, nor, I believe, so much as would be given were
our wants better known. Our thanks are due for these gifts,
and also to those persons who by their talents have furnished
entertainment to the inmates."
*'I cannot close without the introduction of a note of sadness.
September 12, 1910, our Deputy Superintendent, Mr. Timothy
P. Dodge, while fishing in company with his brother-in-law,
was taken suddenly ill and died but a short time after being
brought ashore. For about thirty-three years, Mr. Dodge
served the State, first at the Prison and afterwards at tlie
Workhouse and House of Correction. During fourteen years
acquaintance with the Rhode Island State Institutions, I have
known no one more conscientious and punctilious in the per-
formance of his duties, nor has anyone been more universally
liked and looked upon with higher regard than Mr. Dodge. I
feel that the State has lost a valuable employee and also that
it is a privilege to be able to testify to his worth."
**Finally, I desire to thank the entire corps of officers for
their desire and effort to advance the interests of the institu-
tion to the best of their ability. Also, my thanks are due to
the Chairman and Members of the Board for their ready will-
ingness to sanction all attempts for the betterment of the in-
stitution."
Respectfully,
FRED B. JEWETT, M. D.,
SUPKRINTKNDKNT.
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The crops raised at the State Farm during 1910 were as
follows :
Apples _ 4(H) bu.
Apples. crab> ^ bu.
Alfalfa, ffreen -« 83 tons
Asparagus 007 lbs.
Beans, dry shells IH bu.
Be^ns, lima 107 bu.
Beans, lima, dry shell 8 bu.
Beans, shell 45 bu.
Beans, string 4«8H bu.
Beef, fresh _ 2788 lbs.
Beets «05H bu.
Beets, manfflewurzel 8740 bu.
Blackberries ^ 1482 qts.
Cabbage 22600 hrts.
Carrots ^ 40^ bu.
Cauliflower flO hds.
Celery ^ 2800 hds.
Cellerlfic 1ft bu.
Cherries _ _ 246 qts.
Corn, field. shelled „^ 407 bu.
Corn, fodder, f^reen 18 tons
Corn, sweet 2S84 6-0 dos.
Cucumbers, ffreen 2488)^ doz.
Cucumbera, pickles...- 17 bbls.
Cucumbers ripe 0 bu.
Currants 272 qts
Dandelions 144 bu.
KBffs 1886 1-0 do».
Gooseberries 118 qts.
Grapes 10% lbs.
Hay 21S tons
Lard 1041 lbs.
Lettuce.. 2171 hdi.
Meloni. moik 2610
Melons, water.. 1811
Milk 24n»i gals.
Oat fodder, trreen 27 tons
Onions _ 8fl^ bu.
Pamnlps -. 120 bu.
Peachet 44 bu.
Pears - 60% bu.
Peas ^ 110 bu.
Peppers 6 bu.
Plums 14 7-8 bu.
Pork, fresh lOiOO lbs.
Pork, salt 20 bbls.
Potatoee - *)W bu.
Potatoes, tweet ^. 4 bu.
Poultry 802 ••10 lbs.
Radishes ., 896 dos.
Raspberries 875 qts.
Rareripes 1014 do».
Rhubarb -. 1014 lbs.
Rye straw 8 tons
Base 78 Ibe.
Sausage meat 440 lbs.
Spinach «. ^ 1020 bu.
Squash 464 lbs.
Strawberries ^ 2142 qts.
Tomatoes, ripe 08(^ bu.
Turnips .^ 466 bu.
The statistics for the Workhouse and House of
for 1910 are as follows :
Number of Inmates Dec. 81. IWO- „
" committed during the year..
*' committed for willfully escaping
" committed for attempting to escape
'* committed for fine and costs «
transferred from Prov. County Jail
'• transferred from Reform School
discharged during the year..
" escaped during the year.
attempted to escape during the year
transferred to Reform School
died during the year
remaining Deo. 81. 1010^
ouse
) of Correction
Men,
Women,
To(al.
217
08
286
488
114
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The average numbers taken from the monthly rei>ort up to
1886 and since then from the daily record have been :
Men. Women. ToUA. Men. Women ToUsL
InlWl 106 48 IM In WW « ITO
•• IflfTS 14« «2 »8 " IfM 17»
" 1874 180 00 a08 *' 1804 ^ 178
" 1W8 160 M M8 " 1806 - 172
" 1876 IM M 8W •* 1800 - 188
'* 1877 _ 146 M JW " 1807 104
" 1878 14« 74 HO " 1808 - 100
" 1870 1S5 00 101 " 1800 180
•• 1880 1«7 68 106 •• 1000. 188
•• 1881 140 68 207" 1001 ^ 106
" 1882 ^„ « 164 60 218 " 1002 180
'* 1888... «. 156 60 214 *' 1008 ^ ^ 188
*• 1884 170 64 288 " 1004 215
*• 1886. ^ 106 00 226 •• 1006 207
•* 1880 188 80 100 •• 1000 ^. 217
•• 1887 110 40 150 " 1007 181
•• 1888 100 66 216 " 1008. 302
" 1880 „ 178^ 67^ 280 ** 1000 186
•* 1800 101.0 00.6 228 " 1010 102
•• 1801 187 68 240
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REPORT OP THE BOARD. 89
STATE ALMSHOUSE.
6Mp9rimi9md0mtf FrED B. JewETT, M. D.
7>0ptiiy Svpti Asa L. Mat.
Oonditions at the Almshouse remain about as they have been
for a number of years past. A new building that has been for
the past three years under construction, will soon be completed,
and the crowding In the men's wing will be relieved, in a
measure, by the removal of some of the men to the dormitory
in the second story of this building.
This seems to be, however, almost the only means of relief
at present in sight, for there is apparently no prospect of relief
through the return to the Hospital for the Insane of the pa-
tients who have been from time to time discharged therefrom
and admitted to the Almshouse because of lack of accommoda-
tions at the Hospital for the Insane.
The State School for the Feeble Minded has taken some of
the boys and will take some of the girls, but as only those chil-
dren who may be benefited at the School will be received there,
the number of children at the Almshouse will not be material-
ly diminished, and the same may be said regarding the remov-
al of any considerable number to the State Home and School
for Children. Dr. Jones in his report refers to these children
and the Board would be glad to do more for them had they the
means of so doing.
The hospital character of the Almshouse, to which the Board
has often referred in its reports, continues. Dr. Jewett in his
report, given below, says that fifty-one of the patients ad-
mitted the past year died in less than a month, remaining
alive an average of ten and one-half days; fourteen lived less
than five days, and seven less than twenty-four hours.
Dr. Jewett calls attention, also, to the unavoidable inter-
mingling of the tubercular with non -tubercular inmates, a
condition the Board would be pleased to remedy were the ac-
commodations at the Almshouse sufficient for the pur];)08e, and
Dr. Jones, Resident Physician, in his report, calls attention to
the need of additional accommodations for the proper care of
tubercular patients at the Almshouse.
Dr. Jewett reports as follows :
"Vo ik0 SSomrd of Jiaio CkariHos amti Correciiomsi"
* 'Gentlemen: — I herewith present the report of the State
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40 STATE CHARITIBB AND CORRBCTIONS.
Almshouse for the year 1910.''
^'During the year, 405 inmates were admitted and 889 were
discharged, making a net increase of 16, with 528 remaining
Dec. 81, 1910.''
*'The number of deaths was slightly larger than in 1909, hav-
ing been 194, as compared with 182 in 1909. Again allow me to
call your especial attention to these facts, that 107 of those
who died were admitted during 1910; that 51 of them were
with us less than a month, or an average of lOi days; that
14 lived less than five days and seven less than 24 hours."
"The new building at the rear centre, tentatively called the
'*Annex," has been in partial use the entire year, while the
upper part, consisting of a dormitory, with its toilet and
clothes' room, an attendants' room and a dining and serving-
room, on the first floor, has been finished, so that by February
it will be occupied. This will provide sleeping accommodations
for fifty men and relieve the male side just so much. There is
another subject I dislike to mention, inasmuch as I believe
cognizance has been taken of it, but it is so insistent that 1
feel I must call it to your attention again. The subject is that
of a separate building, or buildings, for the tubercular patients
away from other institutional buildings. It is absolutely im-
possible to prevent the intermingling ofthetuber<5ular patients
with the non-tubercular under present conditions. Invariably
during the winter we have to lodge several tubercular patients
in the ward with non -tubercular inmates; mild cases they are,
to be sure, but yet tubercular. The tubercolosis question with
us will be changed little, if any, by any decision to provide
chronic tubercular hospitals elsewhere in the State, so that we
must prepare for the presence of a certain number of these
cases at all times."
**By the addition of an all-metal washer to the Workhouse
and House of Correction laundry, it has been possible to trans-
fer a large amount of filthy washing from the Almshouse and
relieve us from a very undesirable task."
"The painting and kalsomining of part of the basements, to-
gether with a few other minor repairs, have been sufiicieut to
keep the buildings in good condition. About 450 square
yards of new concrete and top dressing were laid, largely
around the new building."
"During the year the patients received much pleasure
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through the kindness of friends. Members of the W. C. T.
Union brought them flowers and candy from time to time and
gave a short entertainment for them. Mrs. French, of Kingston,
brought them flowers, and Mrs. Paye, candy ; and the Sun-
shine Olub, of Auburn, under the supervision of Mrs. Eddy,
gave them a pretty scrap-book and pamphlets. Others have
sent magazines. For these kind attentions we return our
hearty thanks."
**The past year Dr. Morninghan and Dr. Achorn left us, the
former to establish himself in Providence, and the latter to go
to the Soldiers' Home at Chelsea. Dr. Byrne and Dr. Bryer
have taken their places."
'*My thanks are due the officers as a whole, and especially
the older employees, for the conscientious performance of their
duties."
Respectfully submitted,
FRED B. JEWETT, M. D.,
SUPBRINTKNDBNT.
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42 STATK CHARITIKS AND CORRECTIONS.
The statistics of the State Almshouse for 1910 are as fol-
lows:
Men. Women. Bam. Girlt. Total.
Number of inniatos Dec. 81, 190ft ^ „... 2« 218 8» 88 512
admitted duiinff the year 20ft 130 38 18 »«
** born darlnff the year 18 12 26
discharfred durinff the year ft2 <y7 19 21 Iftft
died during the year 104 «« 10 10 IftO
remalnlnff Dec. 81. 1910 285 210 4« 87 628
The average numbers taken from the monthly reports up to
1885 and since then from the daily records have been :
Men, Wmnen, Btntf. Girls. Total.
In 1H76 4« 56 17 14 182
•• 1«7<» 55 W 18 12 14«
•• 1H77 „ 60 65 10 9 144
•• 1H78 OT 71 14 ft 1«1
*' 1S79 ^ 68 TT 16 9 lf»
" 1880 n 71 18 7 167
•• 1881 70 rtH 1ft 7 IW
*• 1882 ^ 85 78 1ft 13 190
" 18>«J 90 78 28 14 20O
" 1884 86 rt9 28 18 195
" 1886 00 71 24 15 200
•• 1888 96 rtfl 14 10 186
•• 1887 88 7rt 20 17 201
"1888 102 75 II ~ 28 211
" 1889 109.6 H7.2 11.6 28 231
*• 18fl0 100.7 94 11.8 20.2 22rt.7
*• 1891 „ 100.8 1(M 10 16.8 22fl.9
" IMtt 98 118 10 16 284
•* 1888 105 128 16 17 283
" 1894 107 :81 17» 21 278
•• 1805 124 137 22 18 301
*• 18118 125 144 29 22 320
•• 1897 134 149 24 28 880
" 1808 150 160 81 25 868
•• ISftft 154 174 80 22 380
•* 1900 180 175 32 14 401
" IftOl 186 178 36 18 417
*• l\^ 187.4 192.8 31.7 22.9 434.3
" 1908 193.1 U»5.1 36.9 25.11 460^
" lft04„ : 210 206.6 84.6 26J) 476.6
** 1905 228 217 35 27 507
•* IftlW 225 223 88 26 612
" m>7 214 22W 87 28 507
*• IftOa ^ 237 213 89 26 615
" 1909 „ 285 228 40 88 681
•• 1910. 287 226 44 41 &I8
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STATE PRISON AND PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL.
Ward^Mf
Mr. Jambs F. McOuskbr
J^€^p€r o/ iPro»tti0nc0 County ^aii:
7>opMiy Ward0nf Mr. AlMBR J. DaVIS.
The Board once more calls attention to the lack of adequate
accommodations at the Prison and Jail, lest, by omitting to do
so, it may be thought that the Three Hundred Thousand Dol-
lar Bond Issue of 1909, for the benefit of the State Institutions
in Oranston, is to supply their present needs. The bond issue
will be used for the Reception Hospital now in progress of con-
struction for the State Hospital for the Insane, as said before.
The story of the needs of the Prison and Jail has been told
in the reports of the Board for many years, especially, with
ample details, in the report of 1908. In 1894 the General As-
sembly listened favorably to the pleading of the Board and
made an appropriation for a new jail, to cost about $800,000.,
and then, later, when the Board was asking for proposals from
contractors, the appropriation was rescinded.
A plan for a new jail, much like the plan of 1894, described
in the report of that year, was prepared a year ago. It is re-
ferred to on page 18 of the report of 1909 and is described in an
appendix to this report. Both of these plans include a depart-
ment for the criminal insane. For the present, until definite
arrangements for this class are made, they are confined in two
of the largest of the cells of the Providence County Jail, num-
bers 51 and 52, which have been set apart by the Board as the
''Prison Insane Ward."
The Warden reports as follows:
Tjo iko Jfonoradie SSoard ofSiaiw Ckariites and Correci/ons/"
Gkntlembn: — ^I herewith present to your Honorable Board,
the Annual Report of the Rhode Island State Prison and Prov-
idence County Jail, with the ascompanying statistics, for the
year ending December 31st, 1910."
POPULATION.
"During the year 1910 there were 58 persons committed to
the Rhode Island State Prison, 82 discharged and two (Pardoned ;
the total number in the State Prison on the 81st day of De-
cember, 1910 was 148."
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44 STATE CHARITIRS AND CORRBCTIONS.
*'There were committed to the Providence County Jail dur-
ing the year 1910, 1980 prisoners; there were discharged 1969,
one was pardoned, three died, one was reprieved and six es-
caped. The total number in Jail, December Slst, 1910, was
887/'
*'The total number of prisoners committed to the State Pri-
son and Providence County Jail, together, during the year 1910
was 2,088; the total number discharged was 2,008; three were
pardoned and three died. The total number in the State Prison
and Providence County Jail, together, December 31, 1910 was
485.''
*'There were tive prisoners more committed to the State
Prison during the year 1910 than during the year 1909, and 71
prisoners less committed to the Providence County Jail during
the year 1910 than during the year 1909, making a total of 66
less committed to the two institutions during 1910 than dur-
ing 1909."
INDUSTRIES.
"There was no change in the industries the past year; they
are divided between the manufacture of shirts and wire goods,
farming and care of the buildings and property, the same as
before."
LIBRARY.
**The library is in its usual good condition, having been
slightly increased during the year by magazines and other per-
iodicals that accumulated here or were donated by outside par-
ties. These have been bound, making useful reading for the
inmates,"
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
* 'During the year 1910 the COW barn, wagon shed and horse
stable, which had been in the Prison yard, were moved across
the street to the State's land opposite the Prison and were re-
erected and greatly improved in design and convenience. As
much of the old material as was fit for the purpose was used,
and the necessary new materials were purchased by order of
the Board."
DISCIPLINE.
''The discipline for the past year has been good,"
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45
INCOME AND EXPENDITURES.
**Our income for the past year was $494.84 less than that of
the year 1909 and our expenses were $1,773.81 less than for the
year 1909. Our expenses for the year 1910 in excess of earn-
ings were $48,713.76, whereas our expenses for the year 1909
in excess of earnings were $44,992.23, which makes a better
showing for the year 1910 than for 1909 by $1,282.97.'^
HEALTH.
**The health of the inmates of the two institutions the past
year has been good, there having been only three deaths, one,
that of a woman, who was transferred to the Workhouse and
House of Correction, as are all of our women prisoners, and
died while there. There were no other serious cases of illness."
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES F. McCUSKER,
Warden.
Farm and garden produce
Apples M bus.
Asparasua 7«>^ lbs.
Beets, turnip »17 bus.
Beets, Ions red 69 bus.
Beef _ 530 lbs.
Beans, string 18 bus.
Beans, shell (J bus.
Cucumbers 5J4 doz.
Cabbage «1 tons
Carrots 185 bus.
Chickens ItHiYz lbs.
Chickens hatched SfiiX)
Ducks 1759K lbs.
Kg«9 ^. »07« 6-12 doz.
Fodder, corn 15 tons
Fowl 1177 lbs.
aoose..._ 12« Uw.
Guineas ^ 111% Hw.
Ornpes 4 bus.
Hay au tons
Lettuce 76 doz.
Mangle wurzles 258 bus.
for 1910.
Milk m.HW qts.
Millet 4 tons
Onions 47^ bus.
Potatoes lOON bus.
Pears 5H bus.
Pens, green 45!^ bus.
Pork ^ lO.WOVi lbs.
Pigs raised iWO
Parsnips „ 175 bus.
Khuberl^ 125 1»^.
Radishes 88 bun.
Ruspbt^rrles H qts.
Rareripes 87 do/..
Rowen 1 ton
Spinach 2** bus.
Straw, rye - 80 tons
Sweet corn 2288 doz.
Tomatoes (JW bus.
Turnips, round 82 bus.
Turnips, French 975 bus.
Turkeys 22*/^ lbs.
Veal lauK lbs.
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The statistics of the Providence County Jail for the year 1910
are as follows:
Main.
Number In Jail January 1. li*l() 818
committed during the year 1846
" transferred from SockanosHet Hehool 0
escaped and returned during the year 0
2150
Disposal of Oases:
Number discharged during the year 1761
transferred to Sockanosset School SS
" " " State Hospital for the Insane 1
" State Prison 40
*• State Workhouse and House of
Correction 2
died during the year 2
escaped during the year 6
pardoned during the year 1
reprieved during the year 1
Id Jail. January 1, IVll..
Femalff,
Tntol.
is
820
138
187»
fl
0
1
1
147
2800
180
1891
0
28
0
1
41
0
1
0
0
0
182
1909
16
887
1837
, 822
2160 147 2800
Providence County Jail, men only:
In Jail January 1, 1»10 818 January 1, 1911 _ 822
Commitments 1009: Commitments 1010:
By the state 1200 , In 1910 1192
By the City of Providence 22 In 1910 17
By the other Oltles and Town^ JHW In 1910 ^ _ 049
By the United States and debtors 87 In 1910. 98
Total 192« Total 1950
Average number In 190W 879 In 1910 846
Maximum number In 1909 899 In 1910 ^ 887
Minimum number in 1909 807 In 1910 800
The statistics of the Prison for the Year 1910 are as follows:
Number in Prison, January 1, 1910
committed during the year .
Mnlss.
Femaleit.
Total-
127
2
129
62
1
68
81
1
82
2
0
2
146
2
148
179 • 183
Disposal of Cases :
Number Discharged during the year
pardoned during the year
** in Prison January 1, 1911
179 8 18^
STATE PRISON, MKN ONLY:
In Prison January 1, 1910 127 January 1, 1911 146
Committed In 1909 48 In 1910 62
Average number in 1909 122 Iq 1910 182
Maximum *' " 1909 129 lu 1910 _ 146
Mipimam *' " 1909.« « 116 In 1910 120
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REPORT OP THE BOARD. 47
SOOKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
Superini^ntiemif Mr. Ezekiel E. Gardner.
In 1908 an appropriation of $25,000 was made by the General
Assembly for the erection of a graded school-house at the
Sockanosset School. The school-rooms were then, as they are
now, in the Cottages, one in each Cottage for the boys lodging
there. The graded-school would set free the school-rooms in
the dijfferent Cottages which could then be used as dormitories.
There are at present normal accommodations for lodging 250
boys, fifty in each of the five Cottages, and there were on Jan-
uary 1, 1911, 340 boys in the institution.
The Board are contemplating a change in the disposition of
the graded-school building, above mentioned, using it as an
industrial-school instead of a school-of-letters, and using the
present Main Building, where most of the industrial teaching
is now carried on, as a graded-school-of-letters. In either case
the lodging capacity of the institution will be largely in-
creased. The boys who are learning mason's work have already
constructed the greater part of the basement of the new school-
building.
The change here suggested will add nothing to the cost of
the building, which will not exceed the appropriation of $25,000.
A description of this building, as it is proposed to rearrange
it, may be found in the report of the architects, Messrs. Martin &
Hall, at the end of the report of the Board.
The Superintendent of the Sockanosset School for Boys re-
ports as follows :
7j0 ike SSoard of Siaie Ckariiies anti Correeiions.*"
**Gentlemen: — ^I have the honor to present for your consid-
eration a general report of the Sockanosset School for Boys,
for the year ending December 81, 1910, containing a review of
the work accomplished and a few suggestions regarding the fu-
ture.'^
'*In our school-of-letters we employ seven teachers, one of
whom is supervisor of school work, who conducts a meeting of
teachers once each month, supervises outline work and prepares
examinations."
*'In reviewing the work of this department for the past year,
I find results that, as a whole, are most gratifying; especially,
wbeu I coaaider that the majority of the boya have been of
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somewhat lower mentality than in previous years. I find a
large percentage of our older boys have not attended school for
three or four years previous to their commitment, and it is not
unusual to find a boy of seventeen who has not advanced be-
yond the third or fourth grade, yet claiming to have attended
school regularly up to the working age. This is but one of the
teachers' problems. ''
''After the boys enter here it is a matter of several weeks to
decide as to the capabilities and limitations of the lad; how-
ever, it is an exception where the boy does not readily and
cheerfully accept work laid out for him, and only a short time
before he shows some ambition."
''In dealing with our class of boys, we find that, especially
with the older ones, the fewer "set rules", the better. We
rather appeal to their sense of manhood and self respect, as
individuals, and find far better results are obtained."
"With these older boys, we keep the idea ever before them
that in all probability these are their last school days, and they
must make the most of them to lay a foundation for what is to
be their future, and, with the younger lads, that they are to re-
turn to the public schools, and that they must be up with their
fellows and not be considered drones."
"It is unfortunate that from lack of school accommodations
we are obliged to place more than forty, in some cases more
than fifty, boys under one teacher, but this must be endured
until a school-building is provided. The school-rooms are now
in the Cottages."
"One change forcibly suggests itself for the coming year in
our school schedule, and that is, that more time be given to
language work and perhaps less to geography. The inability
of the boys to converse correctly is very noticeable. Our idea
will be to have language work, both oral and written, more
frequently, as a regular lesson, a course of study-outline being
in preparation that will be adequate. The success of this par-
ticular work depends largely upon the originality of the teach-
er in its presentation."
"Our object here is so to fit the boy that when he leaves the
school, and is of a working age, that he can make a start in life.
Can he be any more handicapped than to present himself per-
sonally for a position and be unable to speltk openly, frankly
and correctly?"
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^'The results of our written semi-annual examinations have
been very satisfactory, and are kept on file always for inspec-
tion.''
''Industrial training is an important feature in an institution
of this kind. Many are skeptical when we say that we succeed
in teaching a boy to earn a livelihood who has shown no previ-
ous inclination to support himself. And yet the school has
brought this about in hundreds of cases in years gone by, and
the past year has been no exception. The branches of indus-
trial work taught are as follows :''
PRINTING DEPARTMENT.
''In the printing department, a lad gets actual practice in
setting type, and in job and cylinder-press work, having plenty
of work and instruction of the most practical nature from an in-
structor who is a finished workmen in all the branches taught.
Eighteen boys have been employed here during the past year,
with a daily average of eleven. The work produced is largely
for the different institutions and for the OflSce of the Board of
State Charities and Corrections and is of a widely diversified
nature. Besides this, "The Howard Times'' has been isfiued
bi-weekly, as in previous years."
MACHINE SHOP.
"The machine department has employed twenty-one boys
during the year, with a daily average of twelve, and has been
very successful in its results. Mr. Howard H. Dawley, who
had been instructor in this department with marked success for
the past four years, resigned in July of this year, and Mr. Arthur
F. Banan was appointed to the position, and is continuing the
work in a perfectly satisfactory manner. The teaching outline
in this department includes the technical, the theoretical and
the practical, the boys learning enough mechanical drawing in
their theory practice to draw or work from any drawing neces-
sary in the department. We are very busy at all times on work
for the different institutions, and, at this writing, are busy on
two hundred bedsteads for the State Hospital for the Insane.
Construction of machinery used and tools are also the object of
this department."
CARPENTER SHOP.
"The Carpenter Shop employed twenty-one boys during the
je%t, with a daily average of twelve. Besides doing the repair
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work required about our institution andothers, the boys of this
department constructed the wooden part of the cold storage-
room and the piazza in front of the Main Building; also thirty
large window frames for the New Industrial Building; the
wooden portion of the brooder and incubator house, thirty by
twenty ; three new brooders ; three tables ; two hall trees ; three
chiffoniers and several chairs and book-cases of mission furni-
ture. These boys receive instruction in architectural drawing
and they work from drawings as they would have to do in the
outside world."
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
*'The Blacksmith Shop employed twenty-one boys during the
year, with a daily average of ten, and the work accomplished
here is of the most practical nature. We do all of our own
horse shoeing, ox shoeing and wagon repairing, and make all
the iron work incidental to an institution of this sort, — a rug-
ged occupation that appeals to the kind of boys ^elected for
this department."
MASON SHOP.
**In our mason department we employed fifteen boys during
the year, with a daily average of nine, and the result obtained
was most satisfactory. Beside the repair work required by this
institution, such as plastering, patching and white-washing,
we have completed the construction of the porch and cold stor-
age room in front of Main Building, the outside having a cut-
stone effect, to harmonize with the foundation of the
building. The steps leading thereto are of cobble-stone con-
struction with cement treads. Besides this, the mason class
construced a brooder house at the hennery, of stone-grout mate-
rial, measuring thirty by twenty feet, and cemented a large base-
ment at the State Hospital for the Insane. Moreover, we have
almost completed the basement and foundation construction of
the New Industrial Building, eighty-four by one hundred and
thirty-four feet, which included the laying of some one hun-
dred and fifty cords of stone above the concrete footing."
SHOB SHOP.
'*In the shoe department, we employed twenty-five boys
during the year with a daily average of fourteen, and a large
volume of work was accomplished. Besides our own shoe re-
pairing, we do that of the State Hospital for the Insane, and
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some for the Almshouse; besides which we repair our harnes-
ses and do all such work required at the School.''
BNOINEERING DEPARTMENT.
'*The engineering department employed twelve boys during
the year, with a daily average of six, and the work done by
them is of much importance, inasmuch as it includes the pow-
er and steam heating, the steam, gas and electric fitting and
repairing of the same, and is of a widely diversified nature."
TAILORING DEPARTMENT.
*'The tailoring department employed forty-six boys during
the year, with a daily average of twenty-six. In this depart-
ment we make everything the boys wear, except socks and un-
derclothing, and also do all repairing, including the socks and
underclothing mentioned.''
LAUNDRY.
'*The laundry employed twenty-one boys during the year
with a daily average of fourteen, the work of which may be ap-
preciated, when we consider what it means to do the washing
and ironing for this large family without many of the modern
conveniences for so doing. The machinery of this department
is antiquated, and, in many instances, almost beyond repair.
The spirit of industry and honest effort under such adverse con-
ditions are indeed commendable."
BARN AND FARM DEPARTMENT.
*'In our barn and farm department, we employ all boys not
otherwise detailed about the institution, and the evidence of
effort is illustrated by the production of vegetables, etc., an
account of which is shown elsewhere in this report. The dairy
is in a fairly good condition. No milk was bought during the
year. Our herd consists of sixteen milch cattle, eleven of
which are thorough bred Ayrshires lately purchased."
**Oonnected with this department is the greenhouse, which
continues to serve its purpose by its instruction in floriculture,
not only interesting and refining, but always pleasing to the
eye and ever helpful and soothing to the sick. The hennery,
too, has served its purpose in supplying the entire institution
with eggs throughout the year, none having been purchased.
Its flourishing condition shows careful and painstaking work
by the overseer of the primary cottage aod his boys, A report
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52 STATE CHARITIES AKD CORRECTIONS.
of the production will be included in that of the farm depart-
ment elsewhere in this report."
MILITARY AND BAND DEPARTMENT.
'*Much physical and moral benefit has been derived during
the past year, as previously, from our military department,
and we find in it the requisite for up-building the boys' health
from an emaciated condition to that of a robust manhood; it
causes increased pride in personal appearance and also an
avoidance of confusion in concerted movement about the
grounds and in the buildings. The dress-parade and review
at 6 p. m. each Sunday evening, from May 1st to October Ist,
has been continued, and in them we find much to increase the
interest of the boys to appear as well as their fellows. The
first duty of the soldier is to obey orders, which in itself is a
good thing."
''Associated, in more or less degree of help and refining in-
fluence, is the band. Excellent results have attended our
band-work, and we have been fortunate in having, as instruct-
ors, men whose heart has been in the work. Our regular in-
structor was absent on sick leave six months during the past
year and his place was acceptably filled by Ernest L. House, a
capable musician from Providence, for the time intervening."
*'We are very glad to note that the health of the boys during
the past year was exceptionally good which was in no small part
due to the eflScient services of our resident physician and the
nurse in charge of the hospital. The report of the resident
physician will be found elsewhere in the report of the Board."
''The discipline of our boys in general compares very favor-
ably with that of other years. I find that there is a general
disposition of obedience brought about by a uniform and zeal-
ous attention to the proper guidance of these lads by every of-
ficer in the institution."
"I am fortunate in having associated with me a corps of offi-
cers, men and women, who would be a credit to any institution,
and I am free to say that they have added materially to what-
ever success I have attained in this work."
"In conclusion, let me say that the ever ready advice, encour-
agement, broad-mindedness, leniency and patience that you
have shown me have made my associations with your Honor-
able Board a pleasure and have given me the courage nec-
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essary for the continuance of my duty in this great work of
trying to uplift the unfortunate boys, in whom our State and
its people are showing such an interest."
Respectfully submitted,
EZEKIEL E. GARDNER,
SUPBRINTEKDKNT.
The statistics of the year are as follows :
Number in the School. January 1, 1910 „ „ 819
Number committed by Courts - ^ — 882
Number admitted by Board of State Charities dkOorrections (Sec. 7, Chapter
290. General Laws of R. I.) ^ „ _ 9
Number returned or retaken, bavins escaped „ „ 18
Number returned from places, surrendered by bail, etc. ^ 48
Number transferred from Jail by Board of S. O. A O . 19
" •* " House of Correction ^ . 1 427
746
Number discharged _ 886
Number escaped „ ^ - 86
Number returned to Jail ^ ^ .....^ 22
Number released on bail 22
Number transferred to Almshouse - 1 406
Number remalniugr January 1, 1911 840
The offences for which boys were committed from the Courts were: Assault, four;
defacing buildlnff, two: destroying property, two;drunki*nne88, one; disorderly con-
duct on the street, ten; embezzlement, two; larceny, five; obtaining goods falsely,
one: shop breaking, twelve: theft, sixty-eight; surrendered by surety, one: truancy
sixty-six: vagrancy, nineteen; one hundred and thli*ty-elght were committed to
await trial.
The average numbers iu the School were :
In 1888, approximately.^ ^ 168
In 1884. approximately „ 171
In 1885, from dally record ^ 166
In 1886, from daily record „ _ 179
In 1887, from daily record 208
In 1888. from dally record 200
In 1889. from dally record 204
In 1890. from daily record „ 211
In 1891. from dally record .....171
In 1892, from dally record ^... 192
In 1808. from dally record „ 280
In 1894, from daily record - .- 247
In 1896, from dally record „ 249
In 1896. from dally record „ 271
In 1897, from daily record „ 801
In 1898, from daily record „ : ». 860
In 1899, from dally record 862
In 1900, from daily record ^ 885
In 1901^ from dally record , ^....•., ^. ^ , . „ .866
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54 STATK OHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
The average number in the School were — Cmniimw^.
In l»02, from dally records „ « « ***
In IJWJ. from dally record — — "^
In 1904, from dally record •**
In l«V>, from dally record - — JMO
In lOOrt, from dally record ^ - — — — ~~ ••
In U<07, from dally record -**1
In l«»?. from dally record *•
In 1909, from dally record - — *••
In 1910, from dally record ^ « -WI
THE SCHOOL OF TRADES.
The daily numbers receiving instruction in trades, as well
as the totals for the year, are as follows :
Dailu Avcrxuit. Dwina the Year.
Printing Department 11 W
Blacksmith
do
Machine
do
Oarpenter
do
Mason
do
Rhoe
do
Engineering
do
Tailoring
do
Laundry
do
FARM AND GARDEN.
The following table shows the quantities of farm and garden
produce raised at the School by the larger boys :
Apples, hand picked 86 bbls. Melons, rousk^ WS
Apples, windfalls lao bu. Melons, water „ 420
Asparagus „ 29« lbs. Milk M188 qU.
Beans. lima 19 bu. Oat fodder ^ 5 tons.
Beans, shell ^ 21 bu. Onions ^ 66K bu.
Beans, string 98 bu. Peaches 27 bu.
Beeti, small ^ 2« bu. Parsnips 20 bu.
Beets, cattle 1S45 bu. Pears. _ 69 bu.
Beets, table 201 bu. Peas, creen 82S bu.
Blackberries fiO qts. Peppers 8*i bu.
Oabbage tt480 hds. Pork M75 lbs.
Carrots 6V4 bu. Potatoes 1«80 bu.
Celery 76 bun. Poultry 1809 lbs.
Corn, fodder^ 24 tons. Pumpkins ., 496
Corn, iweet 1661 doz. Radishes ^ 870 bun.
Corn, iweet, ears 20 bu. Rareripes 820 doi.
Corn, pop ^ 28 bu. Rhubltrb 874 lbs.
Cucumbers ^ 842 doz. Bplnach ^ 89 bu.
Dandelion 28 bu. Squashes - ^ 9«
Eggplant ~ ^ 40 Strawberries^ 1190 qts.
Kggs 818«8 doz. Straw, rye « 1« tons.
Grapes 12 bu. Tomatoes, ripe . 182 bu.
Hay 51 tons. Tomatoes, green 10 bu.
Lettuce ~ 980 hds. Turnips ^ 121 bu^
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OAKLAWN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
^ttpertmi^mtiemif MrS. ClARA F. ForBUSH.
^airon o/£asiman CoHaye/ MrS. FRANCES R. EbENE.
The report of the Superintendent of the Oaklawn School for
Girls, given below, tells the storyof the School during the past
year. It is pleasing to note that one institution, among the
State Institutions in Oranston, has ample accommodations for
its inmates and has no special wants that have not been abun-
dantly provided.
'^Z^o ihe SSoarti o/^iaie Chartiies anti Corr^oiionsi"
''Gentlemen: — I have the honor to present my report for the
year ending December 81, 1910."
''At the beginning of the year, there were fifty-seven girls,
twenty-three of the younger ones being at Eastman Cottage.
The girls have been employed in the forenoons in the different
departments, namely; kitchen, laundry, sewing-room and at
general housework, the work being changed three times during
the year. The work in both cottages is carried on in practical-
ly the same manner. Two schools of letters are maintained,
one in each cottage. It is impossible to grade the schools to
any great extent, although the work of the public schools is
followed as nearly as possible. Every girl attends school three
hours, five days in the week."
"The general health of the girls has been up to the usual
standard, there having been no serious cases of illness during
the year. One girl, when committed, was in a very nervous
condition and, under the advice of the visiting physician, was
removed to the State Hospital for the Insane for observation,
from which place she escaped."
"The usual Sunday service under Chaplain Ewer has been
held in the afternoon of each Sunday. Mass is celebrated once
a month. Sabbath-school is held every Sunday morning."
"As in years past, a clam-bake was provided for the girls on
the schoo) grounds in August. Washington's birthday. Fourth
of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas were observed in the
same manner as before."
"The usual discipline has been maintained."
"There has been but one change of teachers throughout the
year."
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'*I desire to thank all kind friends who have remembered
the girls during the year.''
'*The statistics for the year are as follows :
RemAliiiiig In the School. January 1. IWO 57
Committed by the Ooarts daiins the year 18
Admitted by the Board of State Charities and Corrections 6
Returned from places „ S
Committed, awaiting trial 2 87
84
Discharged on probation to go home — 17
Discharged to live In families ^ S
Transferred to State Almshouse ~ ~ 2
Released for trial - - *
Discharged on expiration of sentence « ^ 7
Escaped ~ ^ 1 81
Remaining In School January 1, 1911 68
Twenty girls were committed by the Courts during the year
1910, five more than in 1909.
Two were committed under sentence as idle persons, three
as disorderly persons, one as lewd and wanton, two for theft,
one as an habitual school disturber, one for malicious destruc-
tion of property, one as a common night-walker, two for having
illicit intercourse with a married man, one for living with a
married man, and six for truancy.
The ages at the time of commitment were: one, nine; two,
eleven ; one, twelve ; two, thirteen ; two, fourteen ; three, fif-
teen; eight, sixteen and one, seventeen."
** About 65 pounds of chickens and 426 7-12 dozen eggs were
produced from the poultry plant during the year."
Respectfully submitted,
OLARA F. FORBDSH,
SlTPERINTBKBENT,
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The statistics of the year are as follows :
Average namber In 1882 (six months) „ 22
1888
.. .•
81
1884
••
80
1886 (dally average)
^ - 86
ifm
•• *•
- 28
1887
" *• „.
80
1888
'* " ^ „.
84
1880
" "
~ 87^
18P0
M »•
88
1891
••
- 28.7
1802
«« *•
:. 20.0
1808
*• ••
..-^ 21.0
1804
*« «l
28.8
1806
• • i«
28.6
180A
•• •*
84.2
1807
• • <<
40.4
1808
.. ..
61.4
1800
«.
64
1000
*. ..
. 44
1001
"
1002
l( (1
40.1
1008
*•
^... 48.6
1004
• < ««
46.6
1006
..
- 48
lOOA
• « «(
49
1007
..
„ „ 44
1008
M .•
„ 42
1000
M ««
fW.9
1010
..
66
Garden produce raised at the Oaklawn School for Girls dur-
ing 1910 is as follows.
Asparagus 14J4 Ibci.
Apples 17 bu.
Beets 87 bu
Beans 10^ bu.
Blackberries 56 qts.
Corn, sweet 200 doz.
Ououmbers 80 bu.
Oabbaice 680 heads
Carrots loH bu.
Celery 284 bunches
Cherries 25 qts.
Currants 2% bu.
Dandelions 16>4 bu.
Endive 86 bu.
Gooseberries 2 bu.
Grapes 2% bu.
Lettuce 100 doz.
Melons, musk 15H
Melons, water 187
Mustard 4%
Onions ^
Okra _.. 40
Peas 8
Pnars 6K
Potatoes, sweet 894
Poppers ^
Plums 7
Peaches 2
Rhubarb 18754
Radishes 57
Raspberries 21H
Strawberries 66K
Squash, summer 88
Squash, hubbard 08
Spinach 14K
Sunflower seed 6
Tomatoes 86H
Turnips 6
bu.
bu.
doz.
bu.
bu.
bu.
bu.
bu.
bu.
Ibe.
doz.
qts.
qts.
bu.
bu.
bu.
bu.
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STATK CHARITIES AND C0RRKCTI0N6.
KENT COUNTY JAIL.
ZJo ih9 Xmar^ of ^iai^ CAan'i/es antt Corrooiions/
I have visited the Kent County Jail and found everything
very satisfactory. I recommend, as in my last three reports
the purchase, by the State, of a strip of land adjoining the
Jail, as the buildings upon said land cause the rooms on one
side of the Jail to be dark.
The statistics for the year 1910, furnished by the Keeper are
as follows :
RemalDlnft in Jail. January 1. 1010..
Committed during tlie year
Discbariced during tlie year
Romainincrln Jail Janunry 1, 1911..
Offerurg.
Assault
Assault with damrerous weapon...
Being an Idle person
Belncr a lewd and wanton person..
Beincr a pick-pocket
Breaking and entering and larceny
Cruelty to animals
Drunkenness
Having carnal knowledge
Ijarceny
Maintaining a nuisance
Non-support of family
No visible means of 8upport„
Oltstmcting an officer
Hhooting a cow unlawfully
Threats -
Vairrancy
Committed for safe keeping..
Civil commitments
Men
8
1H4
187
174
18
1
Remaining January 1. 1910...
So.
14
4
H
2
14
4
50
20
2
3
2
2
6
4
188
7
4
1P4
4
19H
Committed to Providence County
Jail „
Committed to 8tate Hospital for
Insane
Committed to Htate Prison
Committed to State Workhouie
and House of Correction-
Died
T>lscharged on bail
Discharged on writ of Habeas Cor-
pus
Discharged by order of plnintlfT ...
Discharged, fines and costs paid...
Discharged, fines and costs remit-
ted _.
Remaining January 1. 1011...
Total,
4
104
108
1»4
So.
2
10
1
m
72
8
0
50
184
14
108
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES F. McOUSKER.
PoNTiAC, R. I., January, 1911.
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NEWPORT COUNTY JAIL.
Z7o ih0 Xoar^ o/^iaie Chartiims and Corr&ciioms/
I have the honor to report on the following commitment and
(disposal of cases at the Newport County Jail, during the year
1910.
RemaiDlnK In Jail, January 1. 1010..
Committed during the year
Discharged during the year
Remaining In Jail, January 1, 1011..
Offencei,
Assault
Arson
Adultery >
Attempt rape.. ~
Begging
Being a common drunkard
Being an idle person
Being lewd and wanton
Being u common railerand brawl-
er ^ „ ^
Breaking and entering
Bastardy
Carrying concealed weapons
Defacing building
Drunkenness _
Exposing person
Evading fare
Embezzlement
Forgery
Fornication
Fast Driving
Having carnal knowledge
Having concealed dead body
Having received stolen goods
Having neglected child
Having short lobsters
Joy riding
Keeping house of ill fame
Keeping a nuisance
Keeping birds out of season
Larceny
Malicious mischief
Mayhem
Night walking
Non-support of family
Obstructing an officer
Refusing to pay for food
Revelling
Sleeping out -
Men.
A
640
&HI
54«
4
Women.
1
60
61
61
0
No.
87
1
4
8
A
20
10
0
8
21
1
7
tf
221
8
1
1
1
2
2
0
1
1
4
2
1
4
8
2
HI
1
«
4
2
1
1
18
14
Selling without license
Vagrancy
Wearing the U. 8. Uniform un-
lawfully „
Committed as insane
Committed for safe keepings
Committed for debt
Held as witness
Remaining in Jail, January 1. 1010
Digpoml nfCafCK.
Committed to State Hospital for
Insane
Discharged on bail
Discharged by order of commit-
ting officer „
Discharged by writ of Habeas Cor-
pus
Discharged, fines and costs remit-
ted
Discharged, fines and costs pnid...
Sentenced to Providence County
Jail
Sentenced to Sockanosset School..
Sentenced to State Workhouse and
House of Correction.. -
Sentence served, cost paid
Sentence served, cost remitted
Remaining in Jail, January 1. 1011
Total.
6
(101
607
4
0
1
1
681
6
2
6
2
806
6
flOl
No.
6
82
146
178
25
111
10
60
11
16
607
4
(H)l
Respectfully submitted,
Tiverton, R. I., January 1911. GEORGE R. LAWTON.
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STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIOKS.
WASHINGTON COUNTY JAIL.
ZJo ih9 SSmarti 0/^iaie ChariHes amti Cmrrmoiimns*
I have the honor to hand you, herewith, a report of the com-
mitments and disposal of cases at the Washington County Jail
for the year 1910.
Mtn, Women.
Remainlns in Jail, Janoarj 1, 1010..
Ooiiimltt«<1 duiins the year
Dlschartred during the 7<*ar
Remaining in Jail. January 1. 1011..
Offences.
Assault „
Assault with a dancrerous weapon
Arson
Relnir a common drunkard
Being an Idle person
Belnv a lewd and wanton person^
Burglary „
Bastardy
Carrying concealed weapons
Defacing a building
I) runkenness
Driving away team without own-
er's consent
Exposure of person
Krabezzlement
Having carnal knowledge ..._
Keeping a common nuisance
Keeping liquor for sale illegally...
Larceny
Manslaughter „
No visible means of supports
Non-support of family .,
Perjury
0
10
10
10
0
So.
10
7
16
4
lA
2
1
-i
9
2t
H
2
2
1
8
8
18
2
2
2
4
DiavomX of Casn.
Committed to State Prison.....
Committed to Htat^ Workhouse
and House of Correction.
Committed to Providence County
Jail
Committed to Sockanosset School
for Boys
Discharged by order of Town
Council of South Kingston
Discharged by order of Town
Council of Narragansett
Released on ball _
Heiensed on expiration of sentence
Released on writ of Habens Corpus
Remaining In Jail, January i. ion
%
184
187
1»
So.
2
S
15
A
ion
186
2
187
Civil commitments
Held as coronor^s witness.
120
8
2
Remaining in Jail. January 1. 1010
I84
8
187
Respectfully submitted,
ROBERT F. RODMAN.
Allenton, R. I., January, 1911.
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BRISTOL COUNTY JAIL.
Uo the SSmar^ 0/ ^iaie Chartiies and Corr—iions.*
I have the honor to hand you, herewith, a report of the com-
mitments and disposal of cases at the Bristol County Jail, for
the year 1910.
Men. Women. Total.
Remalnlnff in Jail. January 1, 1010
Oominltted during the year
Disoharired during the year
Remaining in Jail, January 1. 101I..
Offences.
Being a common drunkard
Being an idle person^
Being a disorderly person^
Being a lewd and wanton person.
Breaking and entering In night-
time
Defacing a building
Drunkenness
Illegal sale of intoxicating liquor
Obstructing an officer
Obtaining money under false pre-
tense
Larceny of the person
Murder ^
Non-support of family -
Carrying concealed weapons
Receiving stolen goods
i^teailng ^
Threatening to kill _..
Revelling ^ „
Rape _
Sellfng goods without license
Bhootlng on Snnday
Hunday card playing
Vagrancy
Violent assault „
1
300
aoo
1
No.
0
8
1
8
4
2
46
1
1
6
1
4
7
1
11
8
19
1
1
1
2
18
17
Oommlttedfor safe keeping
01 vil commitments
Remaining In Jail, January 1, Ittll
JHtpotal of Cams.
Discharged by Town of Bristol
Dlscharned by Jailer
Discharged on writ of Habeas Cor-
pus ^
Remaining in Jail, January 1, Ittll
1
HA
a06
20
40
4
1
W6
No.
104
4
m
204
i
206
160
Respectfully submitted,
HARRY H. SHEPARD.
Bristol, R. I., January, 1911.
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FINANCES.
RBBOUROEH.
Appropriation for Maintenance of State Institutions passed at
January Session, mo ^ 1850,000 00
Balance of Approorlatlon for Permanent Improvements at
State InstltutlonM— Bond Issue— available January 1, 1»10 »J6,488 »4
Balance of Appropriation for Kmergency Hospital at State In>
stltutlons, available January 1, IWIO It *
Balance of Appropriation for Construction at State Hospital for
Insane, available January 1, IWO ^... 9tH 01
Balance of Appropriation for Industrial Training at Sockanosset
School, available January 1, 1»10 146 II
Balance of Appropriation for Building at State Institutions,
available January 1. IWO 5W.7W W
Appropriation forOonstructlon at Sockanosset School and State
Hospital for Insane, available January 1, 1910 «l.0H0 oi»
ymomtmm m/Simi^ Jff0sj0/imi /mr iAm ymsmmmt
From board of Inmates..^ „ « |S5,621 4»
sal« of produce „ „ 964 77
board „ <W 00
sale of Junk 404 41
*' sale of sundries .^.. 187 78
money refunded „ 8 00 S7,0K6 4U
ymm^tmm m/Siaim «^
From board of Inmates 17.688 29
sale of produce «^ M8 28
sale of Junk „ „ „ 281 97
sale of sundries „ 155 22
labor „ 80 00
board of horse 158 70 8,872 5i
ymcmmm 0/ ^rismm mmti ^mii {imviutiim^ SMs €lu0 /mr imhmr
mmd h0arti, 7>0O0m^r 3/, /9/0)i
From labor of Inmates 127,098 8m
board of Inmates 0,660 24
Jail fees and bonds 441 20
•* sale of produce „ 1.407 59
sale of Junk „ _ 268 49
sale of souvenirs ^ ^ , 800 05
sale of sundries 128 70
'* sale of crushed stone 89 90
rents _ „ ^ „. 230 00
Interest „ > 17 46 87,089 00
ymc09m0 0/ S0oJtmm0Ma0i ScA00it ^
From printing department
labor In shops «
sale of produce _
*' sale of Junk
sale of sundries „
*' board ,
1107 62
180 04
229 41
25 98
100 42
19171
785 08
Interest „ 80 02
Goal on hand undivided „ 9,979 74
Due from sundry parties for labor and board at State Prison, December
81. 1909 ^ ^ _ 6.628 78
1836.700 04
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EXPENDITURES.
Cmmsirticiimmt
OottaireNo. % Oaklawa Bohool. (previously. I38.2S1 03;
total 188,241 02 )
Morgrue. State Farm. ( previously $5,881 %\\ total
18.816 12)
Superintendent's House, State Farm, i previously
r.86: total I6.886 2« )
Reception Hospital, State Hospital for the Insane
• previously $254 69; total $108,486 71 )
Water Oonneotlon, Reception Hospital, State Hospi-
tal for the Insane
Movlnic and settlna old boilers at State Hospital for
Insane
Tunnel to Reception Hospital
Repairs on barn. State Prison
Carriage shed. State Prison ^
Insane Hospital Ward, State Prison!
Cold storage, Sookanosset School, (previously $708.94:
total $971.87 )
Industrial Building, Sockanosset School
Administration Building, Board „ ^
$20 00
484 88
6,878 91
106.181 02
988
297 96
18 80
861 96
74 42
65 08
267 48
OT4 11
181 08 $110,916 59
Curr0ni mjtpcnams m/Siai» Jffosjfiimi /mr iAc ymammmt
Subsistence:
Meat $12,674 69
^ 1.201 21
2,680 82
2.821 50
178 59
1,182 66
426 86
.^ 8,281 18
^-. ^ 916 82
1,849 10
1.022 67
._ 7.688 01
58 01
904 18
.- 894 86
10.291 90 $46,94t 40
Fish
Butter „
Butterlne^ ^
Oheese
Tea „
OoiTee „
Sugar ^ „.
Molasses ^
Soap
Tobacco ^
Flour
O rackers
Beans ^ ,
Oereals
Sundries ^ _
Farm expenses:
Manure ^ $1,869 16
Fertilizer..
Aihes
Grain
Seeds
Sundries
740 00
70 00
8,208 85
401 80
474 66
0.809 47
Farm stock and tools :
Stock „ $1,200 00
Farm tools, etc 225 04
Sundries ^ 170 22
1.601 26
Salaries
I i<«^«<— < ••MMM
50,066 10
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Olothlnff and bedding ^ „. |14,8» 04
Furniture 4.188 W
Fuel ^„ 14,w»76
Repairs and Improvements^ «.i/r6 88
Uffhts „ _ 8.44S «
Postace 186 00
Stationery _ _ 857 J5
Books, periodicals, etc ^ 186 6i
Telephones, electric and Ore apparatus tW ft
Expenses returnlns escaped Inmates tS U
Miscellaneous „ 784 48
$160.(M« 11
Add amount charged by Btate Farm _ 861 W
Add amount charged by Bockanosset Hcbool > 241 86
|151.68» 88
Deduct amount charged to Hockanosset School tK) 70 $161,448 Cb
Curr0ni mMp^m^ma m/ Simim ^mrtmt
Bubelstence:
Meat ^
IU.OM iw
Fish _ ^
796 78
Butter
1.402 87
Butterlne
1.426 00
Oheese ^ „
470 W
Tea „
(188 26
188 61
Coffee „
Sugar — ., — —
1.720 94
Molassee ^
40S72
Soap
1,827 00
Tobacco.... .
772 04
Flour
11,611 61
Orackers _ „ .,
100 07
Beans „
020 44
Meal _. „
288 80
Oerealt
178 86
Sundries
6.78107
fW,178 78
Farm expenses:
Manure....
11.207 11
080 00
FertlUser „
Ashes ...
210 00
Grain «
4.064 86
Seeds
017 18
Sundries ..„
761 04
8,100 78
Farm stock and tools :
Stock
1782 86
Farm tools, etc
478 88
Sundries
275 60
1.680 78
Salaries
81.075 00
Medical supplies „ „
8.806 08
Olotblng and bedding
0.747 86
Furniture
1.001 14
Fuel
8.470 00
Repair* an4 impmve»n<»nti
4.060 62
Lights .
1,806 70
Pottagt -
120 00
•Ullontrf
100 48
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books, peiiodioals. etc „
Telephones, electric and fire apparatus
Expenses of returning escaped Inmates
Transportation of inmates
Miscellaneous -
Add amount oharsed by the following Institutions:
Htate Prison
Sockanoaset School
Deduct amount oharsed to the following Institutions:
State Hospital for the Insane -
State Prison
Sockanosset School „
Oaklawn School
181 40
280 M>
41 90
78 46
29«70
|107.K4« 59
tU 40
887 40
431 HO
1108,278 49
$651 »2
1.808 61
5,528 «4
8.077 09
11.120 80
Curr0mi mMpmns^a m/Siaim ^rismmt
Subsistence:
Meat
Fish
Butter ^ _
Butterlne
Cheese
Tea
Coffee^ „ „ „
Suirar
Molasses „
Soap...„ _
Tobacco ..^
Flour
Orackers
Beans ^
Meal ^
Oereals ^ ,
Sundries
$10,272 84
708 18
981 98
0 68
260 50
68 00
184 01
298 82
041 28
861 89
2.101 80
4.849 48
20 41
662 65
746 07
119 80
5.486 80
$27.684 67
Farm expenses :
Manure ^ $2,007 82
FertiU»er._ 618 00
Grain ^ 2,970 29
Seeds 881 76
Sundries 862 00
0,789 42
Farm stocjc and tools:
Stock
Farm tools, etc
Sundries _
Salaries
Medical supplies
Clothing and bedding
Furniture
Fuel „
Repairs and improvements..
Lights
Postage : ^
Stationery..
Book!. POrtCNllOftU.flO .
$206 00
284 07
204 08
758 76
20.477 71
610 92
4.482 40
1.088 16
4.860 67
2.004 88
1,702 82
106 00
200 28
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Telephones, electric and Are apparatus..
Transportation of Inmatet
Discharge money to Inmates
Miscellaneous
Expeu^eaof returning escapes ^
Add amount charged bj State Farm
Deduct amount charged to State Farm..
I7tfn
460
176 00
UMS7
260
178.979 16
1.808 61
I80347 70
44 40
180.808 W
Cmrr^ni mjepmnt^s #/ ^Smmimnpss^i fSmk^mi:
Bubslstenoe:
Meat
Fish ^.
Butter
Butterlne .
Cheese
Tea ^..
Coffee
Sugar
Molasses ...
Soap
Flour
Crackers ...
Beans
Meal „
Cereals
Sundries ...
16.740 18
4S»M
1.107 08
Sa64
804 8S
148 01
SIS 47
»47 15
174 48
46SS6
1W80
166 74
'8878S
87 00
117 88
8.168 86 $18.800 00
Farm expenses:
Manure ,
Fertiliser
Grain
Seeds
Sundries
Farm stock and tools:
Stock
Farm tools, etc
Sundries
9004 66
819 60
1.676 68
108 96
464 70
S811 86
800 46
888 69
8348 88
Salaries ^
Medical supplies „„
Clothing and bedding
Furniture
Repairs and Improvements. ^^
Lights
Postage ^
Stationery „
Books, periodicals, etc -,
Telephones, electric and Are apparatus..
Expenses returning escaped inmates
Transportation of inmates
Printing supplies
Misoellaneoot
88,178 66
874 64
7.816 66
2.667 96
4.740 18
8.nO 16
1.191 74
194 00
408 68
888 16
889 04
808 98
88 80
889 48
989 89
168*476 86
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Add amoant oharsed by State Farm >
Add amount charged by State Hospital for Insane^
S6.628 24
WTO
I68.0N9 80
Deduct amount charged to 8tate Farm ^^ 1887 40
Deduct amount charged to State Hospital for Insane 241 85
Deduct amount charged to Oaklawn School 18 40
«47 16 S07.442 If)
Cmrr^ni €Jtp9ns9t of Oakiamn ^cAooh
Subalstenoe „
Salaries —
Farm expenses, tools, etc .
Medical supplies
Olothlnff and beddlns
Furniture „
Fuel
Repairs
Lights „
Postage ,
Stationery..... ^
Books, periodicals, etc
Telephones, electric and fire apparatus..
Miscellaneous
Add amount charged by State Farm
Add amount charged by Bockanosset School..
$806 40
4.060 66
114 68
28 88
6a} 06
266 46
1.122 40
16 66
85 67
20 00
42 48
47 10
78 16
12 n
16,817 61
8.077 09
18 40
9.918 10
Cxponsos of iMo Sioartif
Expenses of James F. McOusker to National Confer*
ence of Oharitles and Corrections. St. Louis. Mo.. $168 00
Expenses of Joseph Jalbert to same 168 00
Expenses of Horace F. Horton to International Pris-
on Congress. Washington. D. C „.. 98 00
Expenses of Joseph Jalbert to same - 122 00
1686 00
Office expenses:
Salaries of Secretary and Clerks „ 6.489 99
Postage stationery, etc 881 87
6.907 86
Sjtponsot of rofmooin^ pampors from iho Siaio/
Salaries of Agent and Clerks
Sundry expenses
S8.860 00
1.201 86
5.051 86
Cxpontot of iProbaiion 2t/ork:
Salaries of OlHcers
Sundry expenses
Paiaindebtedoeas of 1909. ^
18.776 00
916 00
4.600 00
St.681X0
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STATK CHARITIR8 AND CORRBCTIONS.
Unexpended balance of appropiiatlon. balldlnff State
Hoepltal for Insane withdrawn Jan. Beulon, 19M)_
Dr.
Htate TreaauiT. account of appropriation for Perma-
nent Improvements at Htate Institutions— Bond
I8sue„ „ „ ^
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Industrial
Training at Sockanosset School
State Treasurj, account of appropriation for Building
at State Institutions ^
State Treasury* account of appropriation for an
Emersencj Hospital, at Stata Institutions
State Treasury, account of appropriation for Con-
struction, at Sockanosset School and State Hospi-
tal for the Insane « „
Goal on hand, undivided -
Due from sundry parties for labor and board at State
Prison. December tl. IWO _
Due sundry parties, maintenance account, December
IMS »1
I191.4W 45
146 11
68.48AM
ISS6
8ft.lW88
11.480 m
6.84»06
IS96.607 68
tl. IWO ^
Due sundry parties, special account.
. |24.fl6S SB
December tl.lMO l.lM 89 S6346 68 967.730 90
$886,700 64
2Vr/^ am^rmf^ mamd^r #/ inmai^st
Stale Hospital for the Insane..
Htate FArm
State Prison and Jail
Sockanosset School
Oaklawn School...
1.184
797
406
841
66
8.890
> mfSimim ynsiiimii^mMf
Groif cost of all the Institutions..^ 6406,764 98
Gross cost per year for one Inmate 144 84
Gross cost per week for one Inmate 8 77
Net coat of aU the Institutions 1878.968 81
Net coat per year for one Inmate 188 86
Net cost per week for one Inmate .....^ 9 64
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE:
Gross cost _ 1161.448 68
Gross ooflt per year for one Inmate 188 65
Gross cost per week for one Inmate ^ 8 fi7
Net cost 1149.948 77
Net cost per year for one Inmate ^ 188 88
Net cost per week for one Inmate 8 54
STATE FARM:
Gross cost ^ 887.167 68
Gross cost per year for one Inmate 181 90
Gross cost per week for one Inmate ^ 8 84
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 69
Net cost |fl6.W2 1«
Net cost per year for one Inmate 110 40
Net cost per week for one Inmate 1 12
STATE PRISON:
Gross cost — S80.80B M
Gross cost per year for one Inmate MB QO
Gross cost per week for one inmate t 16
Net coet..^ „ 150^80 00
Net cost per year for one inmate 101 W
Net cost per week for one inmate 1 M
HOOKANOS8ET SCHOOL:
Gross cost ^ •W.442 15
Gross cost per year for one inmate^ 1»7 78
Gross cost per week for ope inmate t 80
Net cost « |8«348 78
Net cost per year for one Inmate 19ft 04
Net cost per week for one Inmate —^ t 77
OAKLAWN SCHOOL:
Gross cost 10*018 10
Gross cost per year for one inmate ~ »« 180 S4
Gross cost per week for one Inmate 8 47
ESTIMATE OP EXPENDITURES.
It is estimated that the Board will require for the maintenance of the expected
number of inmates in the Institutions the coming year and for necessary repairs,
the sum of $875,000.00 in addition to their receipts.
The estimate in detail is as follows :
For the support of the Htate Hospital for the Insane I 180,000 00
For the support of the Workhouse, House of Correction A Almshouse^ 92,000 00
For the support of the Prison and Jail ^ 60,000 00
For the support of the Sockanosset School for Boys ^ 72,000 00
For the support of the Oaklawn School for Girls 12,000 00
For the expenses of the Board of State Charities and Corrections inoludlns
salaries of Secretary and Clerks - 8.000 00
For expenses of removal of paupers Includins salaries of Agent and Clerks^ 11,000 00
$876,000 00
The sums named for the several Institutions are the esti-
mated expenditures less the estimated incomes.
Respectfully submitted by the Board of St«te Charities and
Corrections.
Walter A. Read,
Harrt H. Shepard,
Robert F. Rodman,
George R. Lawton,
Horace F. Horton,
S. WiLLARD Thayer,
Franoello G. Jillson,
JOSEPQ JaLBERT.
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REPORT
OF THE SECRETARY.
ZTo M# 5Soard of Siaio Chariiims and Corrwci/oms,'
The Secretary respectfully presents the following report:
The regular semi-monthly meetings of the Board have been
held alternately at the Institutions and at their office in
Providence. Three special meetings were held during 1910.
Appropriation for maintenance of State Institutions:
Dt, Cr.
To appropriation made In 1910 S36Q,000 00
To money paid Into the Treasury In IttlO 78,747 70
By payments upon orders of the Board t43a.747 70
$123,747 70 |42S.7«7 70
Appropriation for Permanent Improvements State Institutions :
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1, 1910 |2«6.4«6 84
By payments upon the orders of the Board 104,087 sw
By balance undrawn 1191,400 45
|lttl.4») 4.5 «lP1.4Hn 45
Appropriation for Construction at State Hospital for Insane:
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1, 1910 $068 91
By balance withdrawn by act of General Assembly.
January Session 1910 „ $068 W
$968 91 $g«8 91
Appropriation for Industrial Training, at Sockanosset School :
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1, 1910 ^ $145 11
By balance undrawn December 31. 1910 $146 11
$146 11 $146 11
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REPORT OP THE BOARD. 71
Appropriation for Building at State Institutions :
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1. 1»10„ > . $60,700 M
By payments upon orders of the Board . 1,228 88
By balance undrawn December 81. 1910 ^ $68,480 fM
$58.486 60 $68.480 60
Appropriation for Emergency Hospital at State Institutions:
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1, 1910. $12 26
By balance undrawn December 81, 1010 12 86
$12 25 $12 26
Appropriation for Construction at State Hospital for the Insane
and Sockanosset School for Boys :
Dr. Cr.
To balance available January 1, 1010 $81,000 00
By payments upon orders of the Board 4.801 12
By balance undrawn December 81, 1010 $2«,108 88
$20.198 88 $80.198 88
State Auditor's Oppice,
Providence, R. I., January 1, 1911.
This is to certify that the books of this department verify
the foregoing st-atements of accounts with expenditures.
CHARLES 0. GRAY,
State Auditor.
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72 STATK CnARITIKS AND CORKBCTIONS.
STATEMENT OP MONEY COLLECTED.
The sums collected and paid into the General Treasury are
in detail as follows:
From K. K. (JardiuT. oolKn'ted at Hockanosset Hchool tW 04
F. B. Jevsett. ron«»ot«»d at Htnle Farm _ IS 9«
A. H. HHiiMriKtoii. collocled at mate Hospital for In8ane_ la »
A. J. Wilcox, rollet'ted si Htate Prison 4351 «
W. H. Wltflitman. collocted for l)oard of Insane 2,4«2 94
W. H. Wl^tlitinan. eoNpoted for lioardat Almshouse 1»018 74
W. K. W iKlitnian. colh«cted for Interest 2 06
A. H. Harrhitrton. colU'cted at Htate Hospital for Insane- 118 31
F. B. Jewt»li. collet-ted at Htate Farm _ „ 108 W
K. K. tijirdnor. oolU'Cted at Sockano8s«'t Hohool J» 30
• . W. R. WiRhtinan. collected for board of Insane _ _ UWfl W
W. H. WIfflilnian. collected for lioard at Almshouse - fi©l 47
W. K. WltfhtniHii. collected for Interest „ J 79
A. .1. Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison 2,»4« M
" K. K. tiardn«r, collected at Bockanosset Hchool «... 84 56
W. K. Wlk'litman. collected for board of Insane „ — 1,888 27
W. K. Wltfhtnnm, collected for Umrd at Almshouse 668 15
W. R. WlkTlituian, collected for Interest 2 90
A. H. Harrlntrton. collected at Htate Hospital for Insane^ «2 17
F. B. Jewett, collected at Htate Farm 56 W
A.. I. Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison _ 2.61161
W. R. Wltflitinaii, collected for l»oard of Insane „ 2.066 52
W. R. Wlffhtnian. collected for l)oard at Almshouse 1.2fl8 41
W. R. Wlifhtman, collected for Interest 2 9«
A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison - 8,120 80
F. B. Jewett. collected at Htate Farm 7190
K. K. (Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School „ 48 79
A. H. HHrrln»rlon, collected at Htate Hospital for Insane.. 86 44
A. H. Harrington, collected at Htate Hospital for Insane.. 838 21
F. B. Jewett, collected at Htate Farm 208 29
A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2,756 44
K. K. (Gardner, collected at Hockanosset Hchool 116 68
W. R. WlKhtman. collected for board of Insane 1,992 60
W. R.WlKhtman. collected for lx>ard at Almshouse - 196 01
W. R. WlKhtman. collected for Interest ^ 2 82
Philip A. Money, from refund on stock 205 00
A. H. Harrington, collected at Htate Hospital for Insane- 187 47
F. B. Jewett. collected at Htate Farm fiO f>R
A. J. Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison 2.608 62
K. K. (Mrduer, collected at Hockanosset School 89 49
" W. R. Wiffhtman. collected for tx)ard of Insane 1.887 58
W. R. WlKhtman. collected for Ijoard at Almshouse 110 S7
W. R. WlKhtman, collected for Interest 2 68
" W. R. WlKlttman, collected for board of Insane 8,080 88
W. R. WlKhtman. collected for board at Almshouse l.OW 99
" W. R. WlKhtman, collected for Interest „ 1 96
A, J. Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison 8.046 56
P. B. Jewett. collected at Htate Farm „ 82 80
" E. K. Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School _ 88 54
" A. H. HarrluKton, collected at State Hospital for Insane 71 40
A. J. Wilcox, collected at Htate Prison 4,688 68
F. B. Jewett, collected at State Farm 91 18
'* E. E. Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School 62 42
A. H. HarrlnKton, collected at State Hospital for Insane 86 68,
" W. R. Wlghtman. collected for board of Insane 1.746 77
1910.
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HEPORt OF TfiK BOARD. 78
From W. R. WlRhtman. collected for board of Almshouse ^ 447 44
W. R. Wiirhtman. collected for Interest - 2 7S
K. K. Unrdner. collected at Sockanosset Hchool 4» 52
F. B. Jewett. collected at State Farm 25 85
A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2,787 80
A. H. Harrington, collected at state Hospital for Insane.. »H) 61
W. R. Wlsrlitman. collected for »)oard of Insane l.XT* 84
W. R. Wlffhtman. collected for lx)>ird at Alinshouse lau 2»
W. R. WlKhtman. collected for Interest 8 10
A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane Ittt) 50
A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Prison 2.8W 41
K. K. Gardner, collected at Sockanoss^-t School «1 58
F. B. Jewett. collected at State Farm 68 48
W. R. WlKhtman. collected for Iwardof Insane 1,916 89
W. R. Wlghtman, collected for board at Almshouse 1,0U5 06
W. R. WlBhtman collected for Interest 1 W
A. J. Wilcox, collected at State Pnson 2,812 65
W. R. WlKhtman, collected for »x>ard of Insane 1,661 91
W. R. WUhtman. collected for board at Almshouse _ 272 59
W. R. W^ltchtman. collected for Interest - 2 62
E. E. Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School 61 02
A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane 181 49
F. B. Jewett, collected at State Farm 85 84
K. E. Gardner, collected at Sockanosset School 62 25
F. B. Jewett. collected at State Farm 472 99
W. R. WlKhtman, collected for board of Insane 8,106 15
W. R. Wlfchtman, collected for Ixxird at Almshouse „ 727 28
W. R. Wlffhtman. collected for Interest 2 09
J. F. McOusker, collected at State Prison 2.800 65
A. H. Harrington, collected at State Hospital for Insane 118 76
$78,747 70
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74
STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
SiUL ARIES.
The names and salaries of persons appointed or employed by
the Board of State Charities and Corrections, during 1910,
(Chapter 360, Secti(m 13, of the General Laws of Rhode Island,)
are as follows:
All are furnished with board, lodging and washing, excepting
those against whose name an asterisk is placed.
OFFICERS AND CLERKS OF THE BOARD.
Names.
OJBIIces. 1
Rate.
Time.
Ammint.
Janie8 R. Read*„
Sec. Board of H. (Ihar-
itles A (Corrections.
Act'g Hec'y do
Sec'y do
Olerk do
do do
do do
do do
Agent Htate Ohaiitles
A Oorrections
Per year]
Kmily M. Nichols*
tH.000.00
8,000.00
8.000.00
6 months
8 months
I1.60OOO
750 00
Charles Potter*
3 months
750 00
Emily M. Nichols*
luooo.oo
750.00
750.00
Per week
10.00
Per year
2.500.00
750.00
000.00
Per month
100.00
100.00
60.00
!i0.00
25.00
9 months
75000
Oarrie K. Oatley*
1 year —
1 year
7G0 00
Harriet K. Nichols*
75000
olarlbelB. P.Grlnnen*
IWalterR. WlKhtman*
24 weeks —
1 year „
1 year
2.500110
Louise H. Purkls*
Olerk do
do do
Probation Officer
do do
do do
do do
do do
750 00
Nora F. McOormlck*...
1 year
flOOOO
(Charles E. Mulhearn*..
1 year
l.SOOOO
Margaret H. Dennehy*
1 year ^„
1,90000
George L. Smith*
94 months
47500
Jehu Downes* ^
1 year —
1 year
600 00
Theophllus Topham*„..
80000
STATE INSTITUTIONS, ETC.
ynmffi.
Offire$.
Rate.
Time.
Amount
Henry A. Jones, M. D.
Resident Physician
Per year
12,000.00
1 veiir
S2.00000
Oharles H. Kwer*
Religious Instructor
Oathollc Clergyman
1,800.00 1 renr
1,800 00
Matthew J. Harklns*„
l.HOO.OO
1 year
1.800 00
Everett F. Oorllss
Registered Pharmacist
840.00
1 year
84000
Erwln A. Randall*
Pental Hurgeon
400.00
•
1 year
40000
IThlt amount inoiudes allauistanoe In removal of paupers.
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REPORT OF THK BOARD.
STATE HOSPITAL FOB THE INSANE.
75
Names,
Offices.
Rate.
Time,
AmouAt.
Arthur H. Harrlns-
ton, M. 1).
Superintendent
Per year
18.000 00
1 year
18.000 00
Geortre K. Hlmp-
son, M. I).
Deputy Supt.
1,600 00
1 year
1.600 00
Kdffar I. Hans-
corn, M. D. .
Physician, Ass^t.
1.100 00
MOOOO
1.200 00
flOOOO
voo 00
flOOOO
000 0()
2 months
188 88
William B. Trend-
way, M. I).
do do
2 mos. 20 days
1 year
189 28
KUsha H.Oohoon. M. 1).
do do
1,200 00
Alvab K, Mills. M. D.
do do
(J months
800 00
do do
do do
2 months
160 00
Norman A. John-
son. M. I)
Kdmund A. Khl-
ers. M. I)
do do
do do
7 months „.
2 mos. 22 days
860 00
185 48
Tom F. Mack, M. D....
Interne
Per month
26 00
00 00
1 month
26 00
Helen R. Putnam
H'HCk'per A Dietitian
Supervisor
do Ass't
1 year
720 00
WUlard Putnam^
(WOO
60 00
87 00
80 00
82 00
85 00
84 00
86 00
.50 00
82 00
11 mos. 24 days
1 year
708 00
WUUamH. FoUett
000 00
Uharles H. Getty
do do
8 mos. 28 days.....
8 mos. 28 days...
1 month
828 46
William T. Rowe
do do
287 10
do do
do do
82 00
do do
do do
do Night
2 months
70 00
George H. Delaney
4 months
186 00
Stephen L. Muroh
do do
7 mos. It days
1 year
11 mos. U\ days..„
S6V68
May E. Bchurman „..
Edith 0. Sylvester
Supervisor
do Ass't
600 00
867 47
Hattle M. Ball
do do
86 00 11 mos. 12 days...
80 00 11 mos. 12 days™.
80 00 11 mos. 20 days
40 00 11 mos. 28 days
.'» iX),llmos. 24 days
80 0011 mos. 27 days^.
80 00 11 mos. 20 days...
10 00 11 mos. 28 days
8W 00
Oarrle P. Murch
do Night
840 64
ArUe B. Mclntyre
Abble M. Peckham
Minnie B. Cook
do do Ass't.
Clerk
Clerk Ass't
849 85
476 18
868 28
WllUam II. Oarr
Clara W. Harry
Musician
do
Pianist
857 00
849 85
Irene Collins -
117 67
Florlnlne Searll
do ......
Baker. Service Bldg...
do do do
do do do
Cook do do
do do do
do do do
Per day
1 00
Per Month
50 00'
50 oo;
24 days
24 00
Bert Marston
4 mos. 4 days „
18 days
206 46
William F. MoGralL..
29 08
William Thompson
do do
50 00
50 00
50 00
40 00
7 mos. 15H days..
4 months
876 00
200 00
George E. Buck 11 n
Lawrence P. McCarthy
4 days
9i days
645
12 96
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76 STATE CHARITIKS AND CORRKCTIONS.
STATK HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.— Con/jm<^d.
Nairn's.
(Offices.
Time,
I Amtmnt.
Fred Patimude ilook, H«»r\iee Kldg. .
i'harles W. Walker , do
William J. Nye ' do
Thomas P. Wrlffht i do
Charles J. Tufts do
James McTj\uffliIln i do
John H. McDonald ' do
rarl K. Wlthey I do
Nellie Patnaude„ ' do Hospital Kltchenl
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do do do
do Supt's. House..
Nannie K. Collins
Phoebe ('. Williams..
Duncan G. Mayes Hupervlsor Laundry.
William F. McGrall do do
Klva L. Pntton | Matron do
Nellie D. Forrest^ Laundress
Margaret Joyce
do do
iUara B. Jones „
Josephine Marceaux...
Martha Hcott
Julia Branch
do do „
Mary P. Dwelley „
Harry K. Butterfleld...
Herbert R. Elmer.
Kverett L. Washburn..
John F. Coyne
Hensalear W. Clark
Daniel B. Clarke
James MeOrath
John F. Coyne
Michael H. liogers |.Steam Fitter
John O. Wood , do do
do
do
do
do
Matron. Bewlhff
Dressmaker _.,.
do
do
Engineer
do Ass't
do do
Fireman. Day....,
do do .-
do do
do Nlffht
do do
John F. Chrlstoph.„
Gustaf I. Johnson....
Plumber,
do
Per month '
J«) IM) H mos. 21^4 days_
^) <» 1 mo. i»days I
50 00 1 mo. 2*2 days
I
50 00 n>i days. |
50 (W 1 mo. U days ;
50 00 2 mos. 19 days
50 00 'J mos. I9days..„.l
50 U> .'.days „i
80 00 » mos. 80 days I
25 U)' 2 months ,...|
80 00,11 mos. 2 days- |
85 00 1 mo. 7H day8„..-I
86 (X), tt mo*i. 20 days j
25 00 1 year |
20 oo' H days
20 00 2 mos. 28S days
28 oo' 0 mos. 24 days..
20 00 2 mos. 24 day8„..
24 00 U mos. 25>^ days
86 OOi 1 year....,
20 00 2 mos. 21 days .„..
22 00 2 months
26 00 5 months
76 00 1 year
85 00| 1 year..„
86 00 1 year
86 00 9 months
86 00' 2 mos. 21 days....
80 00 5 days
35 oo' 9 mos. 18 days
:<5 00 8 months _..
85 00 25 days..„
85 (X) 1 mo. 4 days
5«) Oi» 0 days „. .
6t) 00 1 mo. 10 days
$481 29
so.>«
54 17
10 49
J«71
180 66
180 65
H 06
209 «5
50 00
881 89
48 87
8S8 I.S
88Q00
5 16
68 89
156 81
66 48
282 20
420 00
58 66
44 UO
126 00
900 00
420 00
420 00
816 00
gen
4 84
299 98
106 00
28 8S
60 61
9 68
66 67
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REPORT OF THE BOARD. 77
STATE HOSPITAIi FOR THE INSANE.— C(mfe»tt«rf.
Names,
Ojfleea.
Rate,
Time
Amount.
William A. Polk
Carpenter
Per month 1
145 00, 1 year
40 oo' 1 mo. 80 days..
40 00 5 mos. 25 davs
1640 00
Bllot G. BroadwelL
Andrew J. Oarlln
Painter ^
do
78 n
282 20
do do
do
46 00
86 00
82 00
80 00
66 00
86 00
80 00
88 00
80 00
80 00
4 months
180 00
William K. Underwood
Barber
11 mos. 26^^ days..
8 mos. 21 days
7 mos. 26 days —
1 year
418 79
Bterlimi: R. Averell:
Marshall H. Bushey
Porter
do
117 «8
286 00
Ashford A. Hamoson
Boss Farmer
MO 00
Frank H. Clements
Charles H. Simmons....
(iardener
Teamster ._
11 mos. 9 days-...
1 mo. 24 days
Imo. 11 days
8 mos. 6 days
2 mos. 0 days.
896 W
58 23
do do
do
46 10
Percy E. Wlcke8„
Amos Wills
do _...
do
94 18
68 71
Patrick LanKhlln
do
28 00
80 00
40 00
15 days
11 18
Clifton C. Polk
James G. McCormack
do „
Barn Officer
1 mo. 24 days
9 mos. 28)4 days..
64 00
890 82
Krank W. Bryant
do „..
Officer. (Ontslde
Per month
86 00
85 00
80 00
82 60
80 00
82 50
85 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
86 00
36 00
26 00
28 00
28 00
26 00
28 00
80 00
8500
86 00
2 months
70 00
Cveorire K. (ioodspeed
11 mos. l«5^days..
8 months
2 mos. 26 days
8 months
402 86
Charles Dralne
do do
90 00
do do
do do
92 08
Huffh C. Geoghenan
do do
do do
90 00
do do
8 mos. 24 days
11 mos. 19 days
1 mo. 4>4 days...
1 mo. 22 days
2 mos. 12 days
8 mos. 29 days.....
11 mos. 20 days
8 mos. 27 days.....
2 mos. 28 days.....
27 days
286 16
William E. Mcliellan...
do do
407 17
Tjoren C. Pooler
do do
2A 46
do do
do do
47 87
WllUs B. Bell
do do
54 80
Stephen Ij. Murch
Raymond G. Mclntyre
Maurice L. Vlnal
do do
Attendant -
do
do
do
do
187 74
407 68
99 11
75 87
Arthur S. Hall
20 21
Guv Jackson
do »
do
8 months
76 00
do do
4 months
112 00
do do
do ^
4 mos. 19 days .
11 mos. 24 days...
2 mos. H days
189 00
James K. Prowse
do „
416 16
Edward Pean
do
79 19
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STATE HOSPITAL FOR THH INSANE.— CMmued.
Namei,
Offlrtit.
I
Rate.
Time.
Frank Peva
Attendant
Martin McCann
do
Kdward R, Burke
do
Raymond A. Moody ...
do
do do
do
I^ars Anderson..
do
Walter P. Bmlth
do
do do
do
do do
do
Oornellut M. Oapron...
do
Wm. H. Odell
do
Oharles T. Woodward..
do
John 8. Burnette
do
do do
do
do do
do
do do
do
James 8. Glldden
do
do do
do
do do
do
John W. Stapleford
do
Gustavo W. Tldd
do
William M. 8tecle
do
do do
do
Firnost L. Jones
do
do <lo
do
Roy Stabluford
do
do do
do
Walter K. Johnson
do
do do
do
Peter W. Roberts
do
Alvln E. FoRir
do
Albert Brewster
do
Oscar K. Woodbury
do
Frank W. McGlnnis ...
do
do do
do
Georcre H. Delaney
do
Per month
moi)
8 mos. 5K days..
150 22
« 00 1 day
74
88 00 Irt days
12 87
28 00 2»K dayi
8La»
2«00
85 00
2 months
56 00
10 mos. 28 days
875 02
K 00
2 months
50 00
28 00
8 months
84 00
80 00
7 months
210 00
1
86 00 10 mos, If days
888 51
88 00
1 mo. 8K days-...
25 88
28 00
1 mo. 27H days„
48 40
28 00
1 mo. 20;^ days.^
8P84
85 no
n months
150 00
28 00
1 month
88 00
80 00
2 months
00 00
26 00
1 month
26 00
twoo
2 months
6A 00
80 00
8 mos. lb% days..
254 «1
28 00
2 mos. 26 days...
65 29
28 00 1 mo. 85 days
4141
28 00. 2 mos. 18 days
55 65
25 00, 5 months
125 00
82 00 5 mos. 28 days_...
188 68
i& 00 5 mos. 18 days.....
IW 80
«2 oo! 5 mos. 2« days
1W78
88 00 5 mos. 2« days.....
1W60
28 00 2 mos. flH days...
50 08
2r>H0 :{ nios.2ttday8_...
m 8P
28 oo' 1 mo. 8 days
28 1»
28 00 17K days „....
12 ge
28 001 2 mos. 11% days..
60 42
28 00 I mo. 8 days
25 80
28 0o| 1 mo. 80 days
46 26
25 oo: a mo8.2«day8_.
MI67
84 (X>
2 months
68 00
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STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.— Cowfenw^i.
Names.
Offices.
BaU.
Time.
AmowU.
Oeorae H. Delauey
Attendant ^...
Per month
185 00 5mos. ddays
I1H4 94
Charles J. Tufts ^
do
do „...
28 00
28 00
5 days „
b^u days
8 71
Sterling R. Averell
4 08
Amos Wills
do
28 00
1 mo. 2% days
24 03
Gerard Dlkmans
do -
do
]«)00
28 00
7 mos. 6 days
12 days
215 81
Henry O. Jay
8 00
Wm, H. Stevenson
do »
28 00
2 mos. in days
67 87
do do
do
26 00
1 mo. 4% days...„
28 68
John Gordon
do -
do
do
26 00
28 00
28 00
4 mo8» 90]4 days.
28>4day8
124 m
Hamael Hart „
21 87
R*»bert Headley
irV^dava
20 40
liOsUe B. Bmlth
do .,...
do
85 Oolll moa.5^dnv»
800 80
Marshall H. Bushey
2600
28 00
28 00
28 00
4 months
100 00
Ernest H. Divoll
do
do
do >
1 day
74
Robert K. Cox „
15 days
11 18
Alexander Mercy
22 days
1« 47
Arno Achorn
do
do „
do
28 00
28 00
28 00
8 mos. 28>^ days.
1 mo. 20J^ day8.„.
1 mo. 1« days
86n
Joseph B. Judson
88 13
Howard F. Schoefflln..
84 87
Ernest A. Wallace
do
26 00
8 mos. 29 days.
09 17
Robert 8. Hancock
do
28 00
2 mos, 27 days.
66 29
George M. Groton„
do
85 00
H mos. 20 days
802 40
Frank J. McCor mack-
do
28 00
1 mo. 2H% days....
44 16
do do
do
26 00
1 month „
26 00
Georsce 8. Burnette
do
25 00
2M00
2 mos. 27 days
1 mo. 17 days
74 11
do do
do
48 86
John D. 8alllvan... .
do
28 00
28 00
25 00
82 00
28 00
26 00
25 00
80 00
25 00
80 50
1
1 mo. A days
1 mo. 20 days
1 mo. 22 days
8 mos. 4 days
2 mos. 0 days
6 months
17 45
Howard A. Carr
do
87 84
do do „ . .
do
42 6n
Harry W. Phelps
do
100 27
James Rowe
do
60 00
do do
do ^..
do
do ^....
do
150 00
Harold H. Jones„
4 mos. 24 days —
<l mos. 2>^ days..
6 months
181 85
do do
181 45
Everett R. 8mlth ^
150 00
do do
do
5 mos. 26 days
176 00
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80 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
8TATB HOSPITAL FOR THE IVSAVE.—CotUmmd.
Namff.
f}fficf$.
Rate. Time. Amumnt,
Per inoiith ,
Si8 00 1 iiio. «»3^ da3r8„ I 88 «
25 00 3? moDths fiO 00
80 00 5 mo8. t% day8„ IfiS &
t&oa t ino«. i5 days-.. M 56
35 00 11 mos. 97 da78„ 415 48
ao Oo' 3 months » 00
I
»2 W rt months \9t 00
85 00 8 months 105 00
I
ix 00 3 mos. 15 dajs ' m oo
ffl on '.\\ days 2S 01
•28 00 :«) days 22 »
a 00 Irt dnys ' II K7
28 00 I months -.. « 00
?5 00j 1 month , « 00
25 00 8 mos. 25 day8„„ 104 48
I
28 00 1 mo. 2t>K days... 45 «i
26 00 2 mos. UM day8„i ni f»
28 00 1 mo. r>M days„... » 61
28 00 1 mo. 18^^ days..; 84 00
26 00 1 mo. 16 days 87 10
23 00 2 months ^ 4« 00
28 0015 days „ 11 18
28 00 I nio. 9 days »» flO
:J0 00 8 mos. 4 days tM 00
28 00( 2 mos. 12 days 54 Ifl
28 00, 1 mo. 1 day ' 23 74
28 00 2 nioh. loK days„ flO 47
25 00 I mo. 25S days.... 45 5«
25 00 1 month „... 25 00
28 00 N montlis 224 00
;J0 00 8 months 90 00
28 Oo| 1 month _ 28 00
26 00 1 month „ | 28 00
28 00 2« days 20 77
28 00 1 mo. ISHdays..., 82 05
I '
33 oo' 2 mos. 5daya 4P 71
do do _
do do _ •
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
d<»
do
Frank M. Averell j
William H. SUloway...'
Hamuel F Kvans
1
„ 1
do do '
do do !
David O. Judd i
And row P. Cnnnlnjr- 1
ham
1
1
I>awrenc(> H. Jackson..
:::::z::::::::: i
Charles W. Ifannan ,
1
Ohestcr W. Hannan
1
Ralph E. I>avls !
■
do do
'
1
James Harnlsh
1
do do 1
j
Frank T. Sullivan ,
Krncst Mcintosh |
1
do do 1
1
Joe Hmlth
William F. Waterman
"
Frank W. Bryant i
Amos L. Purdy |
AdolDh L. Klndlund ...1
Oharles H. I>yer |
Percy Karlo
do do „ 1
Oharles d. Twitty |
1
do do 1
do do 1
CJIarence J. Colby |
do do
1
do do 1
•
Henry A. Wliltmarsh|
Ernest McLeod
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STATB HOSPITAL FOR THE IHQANK,- -Continued.
Nam€t»
Cffiees.
Rate.
Ttnuf.
Afiumnt.
Ernest IfcLeod
Attendant
Per month
125 00
8 months
176 00
John J. Hherlock
do
28 00
26 00
1 mo. 2H days.-...
2 mos. 9 days
24 02
do do
do 1
OT2«
John E. McLauKhlin..
do
28 00
26 00
2 mos. 14 days.-...
1 mo. 17 days
60 80
do do
do -
88 71
Charles B. Dudley
do
28 00
2 mos. 0^ days...
56 56
Maynard H. Ware
do
20 00
15 days -
11 18
do do .. ..
do
do
28 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
28 00
1 month
10 days -
28 00
Walter 8. Montieth.
7 42
Walter I. Newman
do
10 days
1 mo. 15S days..
2 mos. 14 day
18 days
21 days
7 42
Alfred 0. Edgecombe.
do „
84 50
Oharles F, Morey
do
48 87
John G. Rowe
do „
0 A6
Bcott 8. Parcher_
do
18 40
Daniel D. Whitney..^.
do
1 mo. UK days...
41 18
do do
do
26 00
^00
28 00
25 00
28 00
4 mos. 4 days
5 days
2 mos. 14 days
2 mos. H day
7>^day8_^
108 88
Frank R. Moody
do
do
8 88
Russell L. Crofts
6A 89
Benard B. Williamson
do
50 40
Georire R. Rim?
do
6rt8
Charles F. Courteney„
do
28 00
1 mo. 2S days
24 85
Daniel M. Gusbee „
do
do
28 00
8H days
2 W
Carl E. Wlthey
28 00
2 mos. U\C dAVfl
56 40
John F. McAvoy
do
28 00 1 mo. fl dftvs
26 00
Robie A. Brawn ^
do
28 00
28 00
1 mo. 20}i days...
Ifl days
8«72
•
Reuben B. Upbam
do
11 87
Albert K. HofTses . ...
do
28 00
28 00
1 mo. 20 days
1 month
88 83
James 8. Clingen
do
28 00
Wm. M. Currier-
do .,
28 00
18 days
18 85
William F. Ames
do
28 00
28 days
17 06
Henry B. Larner
do
28 00
1 mo.2lKdays...
80 48
Percy H. Wood
do
28 00
1 mo. 10 days
87 57
Reginald W. Basrley ...
do
28 00
4 days ..-
297
Earle D. Whitney..
do
28 00
9 days .. .-
6 00
Ralph E. Merlthen —
do
28 00
1 mo. 18dayv
82 50
Henry L. Nickerson ...
do
28 00
1 mo. lA^ days.^
85 66
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82 STATK CHARITIKS AND CORRECTIONS.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE IN8ANB.— ConimiWtf.
Names.
(fffkes.
Sate.
TU^.
AnwiaU.
Ralph H. Bailey.
Attendant
Per month
$28 00
19 days
1 mo. 6H days...-
1 month... -
$14 10
John Newfeldt..._
do _
28 00
28 00
2S00
» 74
Patrick LauKhlln
do _
do _._
28 00
do do
1 month
25 00
Morle FldellDfrer
do _
do _
28 00
28 00
4 days
8 97
John J. Sweeney
17H days..
IS 08
Thomas J. Htanton
do _ .\..
do
28 00
28 00
28 00
M0I»
28 00
10 days >
7 42
Oharlea F. R088
1 mo. 14 dajrs
8 days
88 SP
4 William H. (Irowe
do
6 94
Charles F. Burns
do „
do „
12>i days
9 27
Elijah Waller
27 days
20 68
Daniel B. Olarke
do
28 00
1 mo. 21 H days„
4>i days „
88 96
Wm. B. Wlthlnjrton ...
do
do
28 00
28 00
22 01)
20 00
8 84
Clarence R. Fish
8>i days
7 days .. . .„
2 60
Kthel P. Irvlnjr
do _
do
4 07
Olara M. Canning „
2 mos. 25 days.
5fi«7
do do
do
22 00
(5 months
issoo
Jennie M.OunnlnKhani
do
22 00
0 mos. 27 days...
151 14
do do
do
25 00
4 mos. 24 days-...
119 85
Phylls A. Delaney
do „
20 00
8 mos. 22 days
97 07
Freda H. Wilbur
do
20 00
2 mos. SO days.
2 mos. i% days...
2 mos. 2»S days..
6 mouths
69 85
do do
do „....
22 00
46 77
Grace Moody..
do
20 00
50 06
Elizabeth G. Prescott..
do .,
do
22 00
25 00
110 00
do do
3 mos. ISdays-^.
89 27
Jessie E. Brewster
do
20 00
2 mos. 0 days
50 28
Eula Davis
do
22 00
4 mos. 10days...„
8 mos. 6 days
95 10
08 23
Donalda MacLeod..
do
20 00
do do .,
do
22 U)
22 00
2 months
44 00
WUhelralna B. Vlnal ..
do
« mos. 20 days
2 mos. 22 days
152 5K
Edith B. Greenwood ..
do
iN)00
64 19
do do
do
do
do
22 00
22 00
25 00
8 months
00 00
Kettle M. Jackson
8 months
170 00
do do
8 mos. 19 days
90 88
Dora E. Noblet
do „»...
27 00
8 mos. 19 days
97 40
do do „..
do
28 00
ft months
108 00
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REPORT OF THE BOARD.
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE ifi&AVB.— Continued.
83
Names.
QffUxs,
Rate.
Time.
Amount.
Emma I. WIney
Anna E. Leahej
do do
Minnie A. Nearhood
Barbara K. Horan.
do do
Madge A. Gregory
do do
do do
Asnea B. Bolivar
Amy M. Lane
Annie M. Peva
Elizabeth H. Qolsley.
do do .
Kva P. MoLellan
Edith M. Averell
do do
do do
do do
Isabel Thompson
do do ....^..
Olemlntlna D. Bmlth.
Margaret O. Bowers ...
do do ...
do do ...
Mary A. MoPhall
do do
Katherlne M. Horan...
Nannie B. Oolllns
Helen B. Hlmelman...
do do
Jessie L. McKenzle
do do
Bessie M. Lowe
do do
do do
Attendant.
I do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Per month
S22 00
8 mos. I day
SO OOi 3 mos. 25 days
I
» 00 7 mos. 28 days....
22 00
20 00
22 00
1 mo. Toays
3 mos. 14 days...
5 months...^^...
28 00' fl months
27 00 2 months...
80 00 8 mos. 26 days
80 00 1 year
26 00 2 mos. 80 days.....
SO 00 2 mos. 8 days
20 00 8 mos. 8 days......
22 00 8 months
80 00.11 mos. 19 days
20 00 1 mo. 17 days......
22 00
26 00
28 00
20 00
22 00
20 00
20 00
27 00
28 00
22 00
28 00
20 00
20 00
22 00
28 00
22 00
26 00
20 00
22 00
28 00
8 months...
8 mos, 21 days....
22 days
2 mos. 17 days_.
8 months „
1 mo. 18^^ days.
2 months
0 mos. SO days
8 months
2 months
4 mos. 13S days.
1 mo. 22 days
2 mos. 7 days
» months
2 mos. 20 days ...
0 mos. 27 days
8 months
1 month »
10 months
28 days
100 78
67 80
171 07
27 60
00 88
110 00
160 00
64 00
116 10
800 00
74 10
48 07
01 86
00 00
849 00
80 07
00 00
01 88
10 87
60 07
00 00
82 88
62 00
170 42
84 00
44 00
102 02
83 66
44 52
108 00
71 45
161 10
128 00
20 00
220 00
22 60
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84 RTATK CnARITIKS AND CORRECTIONS.
STATE ii<>si»iTAL FOR THE INSANE. — Continued,
A'rtm^«.
(tfflCfjt.
Jiait.
Time.
Amtmni.
Blla M. Wlney
Attendant _
do
do „
do
Per month
$22 00
26 00
22 00
25 00
30 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
22 00
20 00
^)00
22 00
22 00
20 00
20 (K)
20 a>
20 00
20 00
22 00
20 00
20 00
27 00
20 00
22 00
22 (X)
25 00
22 a)
25 00
20 00
22 00
20 00
20 00
22 00
25 00
27 00
28 00
H monthb
$170 00
do do _
Kmraa L. HoutliwU'k...
do do
1 mo.28day8
7 moB. 24 days_...
8 mo«. 26 days
1 year _
1 mo. 4 days „
4 days
2 mos. 25 days
8 months »
1 mo. 4 days
« mos. 8 days
5 mos. 28 days-...
6 mos. »J days
i\% days
44 85
170 30
06 lA
Mary A. Hcott
do
300 00
Emma Clark
do „
do
do
22 W
Kva E. Woodward
Margaret J. Moller
290
5A 18
do do
do
WOO
Jennie M. Odell
do „
do
22 Srt
Mattle W. Taylor „
86 }f^
do do
do
120 82
Belle McGlnnls
do
12»07
Helen Wrlsfht
do
4 M>
Maud B. Jay
do
12 days
7 74
Marfraret Waller
do
21)'^ days
10 28
fiadle O'Brien
do
2 mos. rt>4 days...
1 mo. 17 days...
8 months
44 Id
Olive M. Hill
do
mm
do do
do „
do „
do
170 00
Ruby M. Mercy
22H days
2 mos. 2 days
7 mos. 21 days
.S mos. 16 days
1 month „...
s months .
14 05
Lucy O. Hmlth
41 S»
Rhoda Y. dushman
do
207 20
Ruby M. Hiiunan
do ....
70 82
do do
do „
do
22 00
Mary A. O'BrleiL.
170 00
do do _
do
do
4 months
100 00
Vera M. rJlay_
0 months
108 00
do do „
do
do
8 months
76 00
Mary G. Judd
2 months
40 00
do do
^«
do
2 mos. ISdays.^..
2 mos. 7 days
I mo. 6 days _
8 months
83 00
Helen V. Nash
44 07
Annie Slattery^
do
S3 23
do do
do
OAOO
do do ^
do
1 month
25 00
do do ^
do
8 months
81 00
do do _
do
3 months
84 00
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REPORT OP THK BOARD. 85
STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.— (^(m/l/lM^I.
yinms.
Office.
Riiie.
I
Timi .
Ammnit.
Ailco K. Herman lAttenclnnt .
Flora E. Flower do
Alice O. Brennan ; do
Hadie O. Kharpe _ I do
BUzabetb L. Marshall do
JuUa I). HprlnKer do
Beatrice N. Nelson do
Mary A. Shlel do
Kmlly B. Fork do
Eva M. Moody do
Marie E. Devaney.i do
Daisy M. Buck 11 n „ do
do do - do
Sarah J. McMlllen do
Lillian M. Glover do
Bessie M. Busliy„ do
do do do
Irene Collins do
Bessie K. (Jassldy do
do do do
Julia 8. Marston- do
Grace Heldflre..^ do
do do do
do do „ do
Annie Thompson do
Sara M. McKenzle do
Amanda J. McKae do
Isal>el 8. Stapleford_... do
do do do
Nellie E. Keene do
Rachel S. Kermlston . do
Marsfaret Thompson...! do
do do ...' do
Bertha M. Hall | do
Genevieve Hchoepttln^I do
Edith M. Manning do
Genevieve G. DonovanI do .
Per month'
$27 <H) 5 mo8. 14 days..
A) m 2 mos.aiVidays
20 (J()i 8 mos. 7 days
22 o«»l 2 mos. 7 days
2(» it) 1 mo. SO days
20 00 1 mo. 22>^ days...
20 U)' 1 rao. 8H days
20 «io! 2 mos. M days
20 00 IS days
20 00 fi^a days
28 00* 6 mos. 125^ days.
20 ool 1 month
22 a» 2 mos. 2 days
20 m 3 mos. iy% days...
20 0<) 8 mos. 26 days
I
*22 00 S mos. M days...
2.'5 ool 8 months
SO 00 11 mos. 28 days.^
IH 00' « mos. 1» day8..._
20 00| 3 months
25 00 4 mos. 4 days
I
20 OOj 1 mo. 20 days
22 00 8 months
25 00 2 months
20 00, 15 days
2i» 00 2s days
J« 00 8 mos. 24 days.....
25 00, 6 months
2« Oo| 5 mos. 18 days —
22 00 2 mos. IbYt days
20 <io 3 mos. 15 days...
20 00 8 mos. 7 days
22 <I0 1 month
20 («) 22 days
20 00 3 days
20 00|17 days ._ >
20 ool 15 days
$147 00
53 06
&4 10
4y dO
89 79
85 00
23 88
45 10
11 61
8«7
179 29
20 00
46 47
62 26
78 67
196 07
75 00
285 88
155 40
60 00
106 28
21 88
66 00
60 00
9 ^
19 72
61 66
160 00
144 98
56 00
69 68
64 52
22 00
14 85
200
10 97
968
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86 STATK CHARITIES AND CORRKCTIONS.
STATE WORKHOUSE AND HOUSE OF OORRBOTIOM.
Namfg.
(ifTiees.
Rate,
Tim€,
AmemuL
1
Kred B. Jewett. M. I).,
Huperlntendent..
Per year.
|i.000 00
1,200 00
1 year
fi monthft
12.000 00
Timothy P. Dodtce
Deputy Hup't. . .
000 00
Ira E.HlRginH
Muiiel E. Haslam
Olerk
do A88*t...
Per month
76 00 11 mos. 80 day8.»
80 00| 9 mos. S6 days...
io 00, S mos. 6 days
m 00 1 year „
80 00 1 year
80 00 10 mos. 27 days...
30 00 1 year
80 00 « mos. S8 days
S8 00l25H days
S6 00 1 month
as 00 1 year
fiO 00 11 mos. 17 days...
W7SB
2M 19
Amy U. Lopez . ...
do do ....
a2i
Mary E.Wood
Matron >
do ArsH
do do _
720 00
Kllen (}. Johnson
800 00
Ada J. Bunker
126 78
Caroline Kron
do do _.
do do
800 00
Mildred A. Lawrence...
20SOO
Auffustlne Duchlne
do do
20 S6
do do
David F. Prescott
Francis A. Bunker„
do * do „
Overseer _
do
26 00
7H0 00
570 8S
Charles L. Payson
do
do
do „...
do
do »
&0 00
S6 00
46 00
26 00
46 00
40 00
46 00
46 00
10 mos. 22 days...
8 days
686 87
(jleorgeL. Holmes
645
Oscar C. Wentworth„...
Lewis K. Young-
11 mos. 16 days...
11 days .-
11 mos. 24 days...
6 months
7 months
11 moB. 20 dATs„.
616 48
887
Htanley Hlffgins
688 IB
WInfred C. Gallup
200 00
do do
do
do
816 00
Patrick F. Shields
588 SO
Herman Cross
do
do
do
25 00: 2 months
60 00
do do
80 00
85 00
6 months ......
150 00
do do
fi months...
175 00
Pliny W. Lanffdell
1
45 00' 11 mos. 2S days...
50 OOj 1 year
20 00 26 days
25 00' 6 months „ .
686 65
James B. Mathewson...^
do
000 00
John S. Baker...;.
do do
do Relief
do do
Watchman. Outside...
do do ...
do Inside
Baker
10 77
125 00
George W. Gllkerson ...
25 00
80 00
82 60
8 months
75 00
do do
James 0*Nell
8 mos. 28 days...l
11 mos. 80 days...
208 00
888 05
Garrit Reltsma.... „
60 00 1 rear „_
000 00
Clarence Kenney^.....,...
Teamster
46 00
80 00
20 00
1 year
8 mos. 24 days...
2 mos. 16 days...
540 00
Charles E. Gallery—
Andrew H.Qray
Storekeeper. Ass*t
do do
204 00
40 08
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STATE WORKHOUSE AND HOUSE OP CORRECTION.— Cbn<l»M6d.
Names.
Officeif.
Rair.
Tivfie.
AmowU,
Hainuel H. Wilson
Painter
Per montti
l«r>oo
ftoOO
fWOO
00 00
1 year
THOOO
Henry M.Whipple... .
Carpenter
1 year
000 00
William T. Douglas
Patrick Tobln
Plumber ..._
do
Blacksmith
8 mos. 21 days...
2 mos. 18 days...
5S0 46
145 1»
John F. Callery
Per day
2 60
Per montti
A6 00
:)07days
707 60
Arthur 0. Walker..
Engineer
11 mo«. 80 days...
777 90
Kdward Kllhane
Fireman
85 00
85 00
80 00
1 year
430 00
KdwlnJ. OoUamore
do
11 mos. 11 days...
1 year
8W H2
Andrew L. Deerlng
Hoap Maker
800 00
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STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
STATE ALMSHOUSE.
Names.
Office 9.
RaU.
Time.
Anumnt,
•Asa L. May Deputy 8up*t...
Thomas P. Mourning-'
ban, M. D Interne
John F. Byrne, M. I).... do
Ilftiphd.Achorn. M.I). do
i
H. Barton Bryer, M. I>.l do
Per year
$1,200 ooi 1 year
Per month'
$1,100 00
Oalevena T. Nor- i
ton. M. I) do >
Ubarles A. Norton -'Attendant.
I
Alliert E. Franklin
William F. Foley |
do do .-;
Mark A. Rolerson..
Philippe Roch |
do do I
James A. Averell '
Henry H. Dickinson...'
do do
Fred M. l)oufflas»
do do
Percy W. Stevens..
Ernest R. Thompson...
EU W. Ross
do do - ^
Kdmund R. Burke
Oscar W. Palmer..
George Blay
do do
Andrew Getty
do do
Kugene Lamb ,
Marshall B. Brown..
Walter M. Smith.
Oharles K. Carlson
Daniel B.Clarke
Oharles McDermott
Fanny Ward
do do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do „.
do
do
do
do
do
do - ^
do - ^..
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
; Attendant, Relief.....
do
do
S6 00
25 00
7 mos. 22 days
3 mos. 6 days.....
1U2 74
7» 17
25 00 8 mos. 11 days....
V» 17
26 00 4 mos. J days....
101 61
60 00
85 00
11 mos. 24 days....
11 mos. 21 days...
5W71
407 68
85 00
1 year
420 00
20 00
8 months
00 00
25 00
28 days
28 8S
85 00
1 month — _
85 00
20 00
8 mos. 7>^ days...
64 84
25 00
4 months
100 00
82 50
1 year
8W00
SO 00
1 month
20 00
25 00
3 mos. 6 days
79 84
20 00 2 mos. 22 days
54 07
26 00
16 days.
18 88
85 00
8 mos. 4 days
IWTO
20 00
1 mo. 0 days
88 40
20 00
1 month
20 00
25 00
10 mos. 7H days...
865 60
20 00
2 mos. 12>^ days..
48 69
20 00
1 mo. 28 days
88 00
25 00
7 months
176 00
27 60
6 months
187 50
20 00
8 mos. 9 days
06 00
25 00
5 months
125 00
20 00
5H days -
897
20 00
21 days
18 55
20 00
2 mos. 25H days..
66 47
20 00
1 mo. 2 days
20 77
20 00
28 days
18 06
500
1 year
60 00
26 00
10 months
280 00
27 60
2 months
65 00
'This amount inoiades salary of hooseketptr
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REPORT OF THR BOARD.
8TATB /LJjMQUOVHK.—Continued,
89
Name*.
Office)'.
Rate,
Time,
Hattle Messer
Attendant
Per month
$25 00
80 00
:» 00
1 year
$800 00
Julia Ooon
do
2 mos. 2 days
2 mos. 22 days ....
«1 94
Ilva T. Douglas
do
54 87
do do
do
1
26 00 12 days
10 00
AuGTUstlne Duohlne
do
26 00
25 00
20 00
25 00
4 months
100 00
Jennie F. Hlmonds^
do
7 mos. 17 days
2 mos. 27 day8„...
1 month-
188 71
Nellie G. Mltcbaern....
do
68 00
do do
do
25 00
Rmma Bradstreet. .
do
25 00
9 mos. 10 days ...
282 90
Lela HlgKlns
do
1
27 60 7 mos. 5 days
aj) ooj 2 mos 22 days
25 00 0 mos. W% days..
197 44
Alice M. Kills
do
54 87
Ida K. Averell
do
249 68
do do
do
30 00
25 00
2 months
flOOO
Wlnrietta E. Rolerson
do
1 month -
26 00
Sarah A. Sanderson.
do
20 00
26 00
26 00
20 00
85 00
26 00
20 00
2 mos. 22 days....
1 mo. 18 days
4 mos. 10 days.....
1 month -
9 mos. 18 days...
8 mos. 8 days.....
15 days...
66 71
do do
do
t5 8S
Irene W. Tajlor
do
1U7 24
Laura E. Ross „...
do
20 00
do do
do
286 88
Lura W. Stevens^
do
81 67
Horten»e B. Pope
do
10 00
Mary A. Smith
do
20 00
2 mos. 24 days„...
66 48
do do
do
25 00 2 months
60 00
Rebecca C Merrill
do
25 00
25 00
25 00
25 00
25 00
1 year
800 00
Mary RawUnson
do
11 mos. 80day«..._
6 months
299 19
Annie 0. Benson
do
125 00
Edith Hnynes
do
Tdays
6 81
Edna Cross ^
do
11 mos. « days
280 Iff
Augusta A. Wright
do
25 00 8 mos. 28 days.....
20 00 80 days „
219 17
May Carlson
do
19 44
Bessie M. W. Yates
do
25 00
20 00
26 00
8 months
75 00
Lula M. Lamb
do
5H days
8 07
Bdna Davis
do
8 mos. 9 days
82 84
Margaret Hunter
do
20 Oo| 4 days „
20 oo' 1 mo. 14 days.
20 00 1 month
258
Alice A. Wlmbush
do
29 06
Emma Dloklnson
do
20 00
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STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
STATE ALMSHOUSE.— C4mtmU6(J.
Same.
O0ce9.
Rnte, j Time. i AmoHta,
$26 00 8 mo8. « days I |7« h4
5» OU 2 mofc. 12 days- ..] 64» «H
2f) 00 8 mos. 1«S day8„j 70 85
20 00 2 months.^ | 40 OU
25 00 » mos. 29>s day8„, 248 7v
20 00 8 mos. ^0^1; days^l 7W 68
26 00; 6 mos. 23 days 114 17
25 00 2 mos. 9 days W 61
20 00 3 mos. 6S days... «8 «7
20 00 28 days 18 oc
Kiiima Dickinson Attendant..
Florence K. aar«ide„...| do
do do .....I do
Gertrude A. Oolwell [ do
do do -.. ! do
Mary A. Barnes | do
do do do
Nellie M. U.Jennlntcs..., do
Mary K. O. Rellly do
Alice A. Clark do
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8TATB PRISON AND PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL.
Names,
Offices.
Rate.
Time,
Amount,
Andrew J. Wilcox^ Warden
do do do Kx Officio..
James F. McCusker ' do
8. Edmund Hlopum Deputy Warden„
Aimer J. Davis.. do do
Robert E. King..... Olerk -
Edwin J. Rubin ...| do Asw't
Thomas O. Henry loverseor
Oscar B. Kemp..... | do
Henry 8. 8paldlng do
Aimer J. Davis i do
Rufus W. Partridge Hall Keeper
Egbert W. Lowe | Steward.,
Richard F. FalQUl8t-...'0ook „
Ellphalet Baker do
David Carpenter ,
Lena BJolseth.. ,
Clarence N. Cram....
do do ...
Henry Richard _
J. Albert MiUerd
do do
do
Housekeeper .
Engineer
do
do
Officer. Day....
do
I
William O. Thompson..! do
Herbert A. Kinsley
James A. Curtis
Hanley A. Gardner
Henry C. Deerlng
do do „..
Ernest L. Hilt
George A. Woodbury...
Frank A.Crosby „
Charles O. Hardison.....
William J. Kane_
do do I
do do
Chester S. Hanson
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do Extra .
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do Extra....
do .^
fiO 00
50 00
»0 00
dOOO
66 00
60 00
«5 00
f)6 00
t)5 00
00 00
00 00
Per year
$2,500 00 s months
2,500 OU 8 months -.
2,500 00 1 month -...
l.HOO 00 6 mos. 16 days...
1,200 oo' 5 months
Per niontlii
76 00 1 year
I
86 00 1 year
76 00 11 mos. 21 days...
75 00 1 year „
75 00 11 mos. 28 days...
75 00 5 mos. 28 days...
90 00 11 mos. 26 days...
75 00 11 mos. 25 days...
,50 00; H months
i mo. 16/^ days.
6 mos. 2t> days...
1 year „
2S days -
4 days
10 months
11 mos. 80 days...
1 day
1 yeoff.^ »
11 mos. 2UK days
1 year
60 0o|ll mos. 28Kdays
50 00 1 mo. 21 days.....
60 oo; u mos. 28 days...
60 00 11 mos. 26 days...
60 00 11 mos. 29H days I
60 00 1 year i
41 67 21 days !
.H5 OOj 7 mos. 22K daysi
41 67! 8 mos. 28 days...]
86 00 J^ day_ |
85 00 7 mos. 18 days...
1.
$1,666 M
624 W
208 87
«72 6tf
600 00
MX) 00
420 00
875 08
900 00
H«2 76
486 61
1,066 14
889 80
160 00
77 60
2V8 88
860 00
60 48
2 82
600 00
776 80
2 10
780 00
715 16
720 00
706 7V
87 50
6U6 66
708 89
716 00
720 00
28 28
27)68
168 85
60
200 69
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92 STATE CHARITIBS AND CORRBCTIONS.
8TATR PRISON AND PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL. — CcntOWed,
Name$.
Office:
RaU, , TUm,
Amoiaa,
Oliester 8. Hanson
Officer, day.„
Per month
141 07 4 mot. 14 days...
I1N6 50
Prank T. Ducblne
do do .„
85 00 7 moa. *ti days
871 V7
do do
do do Extra
do do
86 00
41 07
1 day-
1 l&
do do
4 mnfl. K^ dRTH
174 00
Raymond i^. (lonn-
do do
86 00 8 mot. 6 days
8H5 88
do do „
do do
41 07 8 mo«. « day8„.
86 00>i day
160 74
do do
do do Extra
60
William i). Llttletleld.
Watchman
86 00 6 mos. 80 days...
208 87
do do
do Extra „
86 00 4 days
46«
John J. Pierce
do
86 00 6 mos. 12 days...
86 00, 8 days
188 56
do do
do Extra ....
8 89
John P. Richardson
do .„
66 00 6 mos. 8H days...
86 00, fi moA. 4 dATB...
886 00
Kdward K. Hlsler
do
178 8W
do do ~
do Extra
do
86 00
41 07
60 00
1 day «.
1 17
Prederlck U. Nelson
8 months
125 01
David Carpenter
do
1 month - -
60 UO
do do
do Extra
do
50 00
86 00
86 00
J days
8 88
James K. Maher „...
1 mo. 18 days...-
IH days ^
8 mos. SSH days
am. IQOa
60 00
do do
do Extra.. ..
1 OM
Edward K. Hunt
do
4107
0 o;
875 08
William H. Tucker
do
0 07
do do
do
41 07 1 6 mos. 2»^« days
251 08
Arthur L. Munroe
do _
85 00 4 mos. 6 days...-
140 77
do do
do Extra..
do
86 00
7 days -
8 05
Andrew P. McDonald..
85 00
85 00
2 mos. 16 days...
5 days
HO M
do do
do Extra.
5 70
Rol»ert Henry
do
85 W)
3 mos. 29 days...
10S74
Thomas K. Dix>llnff
do
85 00
8 mos. 1 day....
100 18
do do
do Extra
86 00
7 days
805
Robert P. Pay _..
do
86 00
6 mo. 15 days...-
190 80
Clarence A. Adams
do
do Extra
86 00
85 00
8 months
105 00
do do ....
12 day s
18 HO
William J. White
do _..
86 00
3 mos. 6 days
111 60
do do -...
do Extra..
85 00
4 days
460
William J. Hunter
do
85 00
6 mos. 17 days».
1»4 10
do do „
do Extra
86 00
1 day
1 18
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STATE PBISON AND PROVIDENOB COUNTY JAIL.
Names.
OJfUxs.
Bait,
Time,
Amount,
Ralph A. Light
do do
John Kneller.^
Daniel J. Taylor^
do do -
Daniel H. Dutton
do do
Theodore E. RowelL.
do do ..
Frank W. Uasklns....
do do
John P. Badergrln
Dan Manning
Francis L. Qlblin
do do
Charles Lindsay
do do
Allen B. Thompson..
do do
Fred A. Hatoh
do do
Daniel Tewhran
<lo do
Joseph H. Morgan..
do do
Percy J. Wilson
do do
John Murray
Thomas C. Henry
Egbert W. Lowe
Herbert A. Kinsley.
Watchman ...
do Extra.
do
do
do Extra
do
do Extra
do
do Extra
do
do Extra
do
do
do
do Extra
do
do Extra
do
do Extra
do
do Extra
do
do Extra
do
do Extr^
do
do Extra
do
Hchool Teacher
do do
do do
Per month
185 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
88 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
86 00
16 00
16 00
Per hoar
26
11 mo. ISS days
6 days
1 mo. 8>^ days^..
3 mo. 11 days....
2 days
4 mos. 9 days
11 days
6 mos. 4 days.....
2 days
2 mos. 24S days
8 days -^ -
24 days
19 days
2 mos. 7 days....
2 days
2 mos. 19 days_
8 days «
2 mos. 14 days..
4 days
4 mos. 10 days
t days
1 mo. 18K days.
2 days
8 mos. 22 days..
8 days „
6 mos. 19 days
2 days
6 days
8 months
8 mos. 26 days...
294 hours
8A4 88
6 78
87 88
82 42
2 2A
150 16
16 00
214 07
226
100 68
889
17 78
2171
7«78
288
91 46
8 42
86 61
4 76
167 68
686
66 89
288
129 64
829
196 46
2 26
6 66
48 00
62 86
78 60
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STATE CHARITIBS AND CORRKCTIONS.
SOOKANOSSBT SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
Names,
Offices.
1 Rat9. ' Ttme,
1
AmaaU.
Ezeklel E. Gardner
Georsre 0. Ouinpbell
Huperlntendi'nt
Clerk
Per year
12.500 00 1 year
Per month,
«Vi 00| 1 year
\ 12.600 00
7»00
do do
Extra duty...
do Huperlntendent
86 00
' 2500
»H days .-„
4 14
Abble F. Keiiney
11 mos. ao days....
' »9 19
Fred M. Howard
Oversieo
do
r
, 5»>00
, 5600
1 year
1 year...>
000 00
Doty E.Sheldon
flflDon
do do
do
do
Extra
1
6600
56 00
1 day
1 1 77
Wesley Kenney
11 mos. 80 davs ..
1
058 2S
JohnGoodell
do
do
do
do
j rtooo
nooo
»» 00
50 00
1 year
1 year
1 720 00
Dwlfrht 8. Austin
1
1 720 OC
Fred E. Adams „
7 mos. 8 days
4 mos. 8 days
426 82
Ernest L. House
„
' 201 S8
1
(Clarence W. Adatns
EiiKinc<
Instruc
do
3r_
1 76 00
«6 00
rtd 00
I year
1 90000
Nathaniel J. Pottle
tor
1 year
780 00
Howard H. Dawley
7 mos. 10 days...-
476 97
Arthur F. Banan
do
55 00
3 mos. 28 days....
210 88
George Ohambers
do
rt6 00
11 mos. 28 days.....
776 07
Edward W. Foster^
do
do
"
70 00
70 tt)
1 year
H40 00
Alphida Bouthllller
1 year
840 00
Hoy E. Layman
do
fteOO
11 mos. 28H days..
7r«Jfl8
John M. Whitten
Barn «te Hollef Officer..
66 00
i 1 mos. 24H days..
05178
Mabel R. L. Dawley
Hiipcrvi
sinv Teacher..
Ho 00 rt mos. 19 days
197 00
Evelyn F. Austin
do
do
:K) 00 4 mos. 21 days
W8 71
do do
do
Extra duty...
6 ool i months
1
10 00
do do
Teachei
ao oo] 5 mos. 10 days ...
219 08
do do
do
Extra duty...
26 00
21 days ^
10 94
Ethel M. Oampl>ell
do
27 50
1 year
880 00
do do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Extra duty,.
26 00
5 days
4 17
Winifred M. doonjbs...
27 50
27 60
10 months
275 00
Alice E. Pottle -...
1 year
880 00
Eliza J. Dolaney
26 00
27 60
27 60
2 months
60 00
do do
10 mouths
276 00
Jennie J. Chambers
1 vear . .
880 00
Hattie E. Davis .. .
26 00| 1 mo. fO days
26 00, ^ nins. S5 davs
42 82
May R. Berth
06 88
Marsaret J. Morgan ...
25 00
2 months
50 00
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800KAN0SBET SCHOOL FOR BOY S^CoiUinued.
95
y antes.
Office*.
Rate.
Time.
Amount
Jessie A. Howard
Matron. ^
do
do
Per month
ISO 00 11 mos. 17 days
$280 07
Lizzie H. Sheldon
Alice A. Sherman
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
20 00
11 mos. 20 days...
1 year
28»88
240 00
Lara K. Ooodell
do
do „..
do
do Extra duty_...
do do do
do
1 year
240 00
Mary L. Whltten . .
1 year
240 00
AUoe R. Adams
7 mos. 8 days-...
14 days
10 days..
11 mos. 28 days.....
141 04
Ethel M. Campbell
Winifred M. Coombs...
Delia J. Graham„
008
ft«7
286 88
do do .
do Extra duty
do
do
Housekeeper— 8upt '8„
Steward
do
80 00
20 00
20 00
26 00
40 00
14 days
18 66
Abble House
4 mos. 2 days
2W>^ days
80 78
Ella V. Banan
20 16
Anna F. Bates „
Frederick N. Bishop
1 year
11 months
800 00
440 00
do do >..,
46 00
26 00
26 00
40 00
Per week
18 00
30 00
80 00
20 00
40 00
20 00
86 00
40 00
600
600
5 00
1 month «
10mos.27>$ days„
1 month
1 year
3 weeks 8 days„„
1 year
46 00
Ijeah 0. Bishop
Oook
272 18
Ella V. Banan „...
MabelleH.Slayton
Mary E. Thurber „
Nurse and Matron,
Chapel „ _
Extra Nurse..
26 00
480 00
01 71
Anffle K. Htover
Matron, sewlnsr
do Laundry.^
Extra duty„..
Watchman.
800 00
Ulllaa C Creasey
1 year
800 00
do do
Herbert W. Hcselton
7 days
1 year
4 07
480 00
Clarence H. Hill
do
14 days
18 07
Fred F. Driscoll
Military Instructor...
do do
Pianist „...
do
3 months
106 00
do do
0 months
800 00
Mabel R. L. Dawley
Hattle E. Davis
6 mos. 1 week
2 months
20 28
10 00
May R. Berth
4 mos. 3 weeks...
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STATE CHARITIB8 Ain> CORRECTIONS.
OAKLAWN SCHOOL FOR OIRL8.
yamfif.
Clara F. Forbusb.
Agnes C Hmlth...
Agnos B. McNauRbton
Frances R. Keene.
Mary P. Dwelley...
N.Grace Bently....
Joanna H. Farr
Rose N. Marwood.
do do
Alice I). Reynolds.
Abble J.Clements
Officfit.
Huperlntendent..
Teacber ,
do
Matron ,
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Rnte,
Time,
Per year*
$000 00, 1 year.
Per month
80 OOj 1 year
80 00, 1 year
80 00, 1 year —
30 00' 5 mos. 17 days...
80 oo! 6 mos. 10 days...
80 OOi I year
80 oo' 0 montbs
86 001 8 montbs
80 00| 1 year
80 Oo| 1 year
Avunint.
fRonoo
8(K)00
8fI0 OO
800 00
IWOO
190 00
800 00
270 00
105 00
300 00
8«0 00
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES POTTER,
Secretary.
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REPORT
OF THE
STATE WORKHOUSE AND HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to present herewith the sta-
tistical tables of the Workhouse and House of Correction for the
year ending December 31, 1910.
Oommltted
Discharged « Wl
Escaped
Attempted to escape
Returned to Reform School „
Transferred to Reform School
Transferred to Providence County Jail
Died ~
Number of inmates January 1, 1»10
Committed durlns IWO -
Escaped Inmates recommitted
Attempted to escape recommitted
Committed for fine and costs
Transferred from Providence County Jail..
Transferred from Reform School
Totals..
Discharged during 1910
Escaped ^
Attempted to escape
Died
Transferred to Reform School..
Totals..
Remaining Jammir^ 1, IVU..
no.
Previoudv.
Total.
M«
24202
24818
»i
22186
22726
2fi
1460
1476
8
80
88
0
70
70
1
8
4
0
«2
62
0
1«7
176
Men,
Women.
ToUd.
217
es
286
488
114
607
12
0
12
2
0
2
2
0
2
2
0
2
1
0
1
719
182
901
4M
126
601
2«
0
26
8
0
8
8
1
9
I
0
1
604
196
680
US
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STATE CnAKITlEP AND CORRECTIONS.
HTATI8TIOSOK PKRSON8 OOMMITTKI).
SEX.
1910. PretHoudif.
Men „ 502 1H411
Women 114 5791
Totalh _ rtl6 24302
Tnlnl.
IIWIS
2481«
HACK.
White ..
Colored
Indians..
WIO.
Prrt^oudv.
Tmnl.
5W
2»441
2403S
29
751
7W
0
10
10
Totals «1«
24302
3481«
VJKi.
Pn r.
Hnited Staten
m'l
I.«ftM2
Ireland
12S
ft7W
KnKlund
:»
2I»74
Hcotland
11
57U
Wales
1
25
Canada
JW
U21
Nova Scotia
2
]m
New Brunawlck
2
78
P. E. Island „ .
0
H
New Koundland
. . 1
M
Germany
2
121
France
0
17
Holland
0
li
Norway
1
m
Sweden
5
HO
Switzerland
0
ii
Prussia
0
10
Spain
0
w
Austria
a
10
Armenia . .
0
2
Greece
0
1
Denmark
0
4
Portujral
8
14
BIRTH PLACE.
T'^nl, 1910. /Ver. TntfU.
mm Italy » 72 «1
5W4 Mexico 0 1 1
2101* South America 0 4 4
5U» Cu»)a „ 0 2 2
2»l East Indies „ 0 4 4
SI57 Calcutta 0 i 1
iw Cape Verde Islands 1 S 4
.s«» St. Helena 0 1 1
H Western Islands Oft 5
hi Africa 0 2 2
128 At Sea 0 « «
47 Russia 4 21 95
a liounuinla 10 1
14 West Indies 1 ft «
145 Turkey 2 18
ft Finland 1 8 0
10 BelKlum 0 4 4
ft Syria 0 8 3
18 Poland 6 33 2S
2 I.apland 0 2 2
1 Unknown 0 19 IP
^J Totals rtlfl 24302 2481«
BIRTHPLACE OF PARENTS.
1910.
United States 188
United States and Spain 1
United States and Ensland 5
United States and Scotland 0
United States and Ireland Irt
United States and British America 2
United States and West Indies 1
United States and Germany ^ 1
TTnited States and South America 0
ITnlted States and Portuffal 0
United States and Poland 0
United States and Western Islands 0
United States and Holland 0
United States and Sweden „ 0
United States and Oape Verde Islands , ^ 0
PreviouMif.
Total.
ft484
fiSm
0
1
121
12«
41
41
40rt
422
91
98
A
9
14
15
2
2
5
R
1
1
2
2
1
1
2
2
1
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99
BIRTHPLACE fiF PARKNTS.-Con/imierf.
United Btatesand Italy
United States and St. Helena..
ITnlted States and at Sea
United States and Wales
Italy
Bnicland
England and Scotland
England and Ireland
England and Wales „
England and Germany
England and France
England and Biitlsh America...
England and Sweden
Denmark „
England and at Sea
England and Holland
Scotland
Scotland and British America..
Scotland and Spain
Scotland and at Sea
Ireland and Spain
Ireland W»
Ireland and Germany
Ireland and British America
Ireland and Norway
Ireland and Scotland
Ireland and Wales
At Sea
Sweden
Germany
Germany and Switzerland „
Germany and Ireland
Gerrriany and British America
Germany and France
Greece
France ,
France and America
France and Ireland
France and Belgulm
France and British America..
France and West Indies
France and Scx>tland
British Ameiica
I^apland
Wales
Labrador and New Found land..
Prussia
Spain
Switzerland
Syria
Denmark
Denmark and England..
East Indies
West Indies
Mexico
South America
Africa
Western Islands..
Portugal
910.
Total.
0
8
8
0
1
1
0
2
2
1
1
2
10
74
84
88
1861
1804
0
SI
34
10
280
980
0
14
14
0
8
8
0
H
8
«
27
88
0
1
1
0
I
1
0
4
4
0
I
1
8
647
666
0
18
18
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
2
2
too
12019
18200
0
1
1
1
86
86
0
1
1
0
168
166
0
1
1
0
1
1
5
144
140
5
181
188
0
2
2
0
18
18
1
4
6
0
1
1
0
2
2
2
64
68
0
21
21
0
4
4
0
2
2
0
11
11
0
2
2
0
1
1
64
1822
1878
0
1
1
1
14
16
0
1
1
0
8
8
0
7
7
0
11
11
0
2
2
0
2
2
0
1
1
0
4
4
0
7
7
0
1
1
0
4
4
1
1
2
0
18
12
3
}B
21
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BIRTHPLAOK OK PARENTS.— Con/ mitrrf.
1909.
PortQffal and Western Islands 0
Poland fi
rape Verde Islands „ 1
Bclfriuin 0
Austria 3
Austria and Kussla 0
Norway 1
Roumanla ^ 1
Russia i
Russia and Germany 1
Russia and Ireland „ 0
Russia and Kntrland 0
Lapland and Finland _ 1
Turkey 2
Finland 1
Armenia _ 0
l^nknown ^
PrrviouMv.
Tntal.
1
1
35
an
8
4
5
6
14
17
1
1
12
13
0
1
23
fl
0
1
8
B
1
1
1
2
1
8
0
10
2
2
08
9A
Totals «1« 24302 24818
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RKPORT OF THE BOARD.
101
AGES.
1910.
Under 20 years of age 28
From 20 to 80 years 114
From 80 to 40 years 171
From 40 to 60 years liH
From 50 to GO years 10<5
From (JO to 70 years 51
From 70 to 80 years 4
Over 80 years 4
Unknown 0
Totalfl (JUt
^imtfdv.
Total.
1210
1288
61H8
8802
7071
7242
r)863
5600
2W7
8058
1110
1101
202
200
25
2V
26
20
24202
24818
(KJOUPATIONH.
1910.
Agents » 4
Actors 0
Artists ^ 0
Awningmakers _ 0
Bakers »
Barbers > 0
Basketmakers „ 0
Bleachers 2
Boilermakers „ 1
Bookeepers ^ 1
Bootmakers : 0
Boxmakers 1
Brakemen „ 8
Brassworkers ^^ 0
Broommakers 0
Barnlshers ^ 0
Bootblacks ^ 0
Butlers ^ t 0
Bartenders 0
Brokers ^ 0
Butcber 1
Bricklayers 4
Brussels carpet weaver 0
Bellbangers^ _ 0
Blacksmiths 5
Buttonmakprs 0
Boatmen t)
Bookbinders 0
Brewers 0
Beltmakers „ 0
Confectioners „ 0
Car Inspectors 0
Carpenters s
Cigarmakers 0
Clothes cleaners 0
Cloth examiners 0
Clerks 7
Combmakers 1
Oottonfolders ^ 1
ilooks ^ „ 5
Coopers » 0
OoremAken 0
Oobbleri..^^ ..,^ 0
Prei\
Total.
7
11
9
9
1
1
1
1
182
141
210
210
»
9
21
28
65
50
70
n
7
7
IS
19
HO
S8
11
11
1
1
2
2
4
4
2
2
s
H
4
4
70
71
60
70
10
10
3
8
272
277
1
1
8
0
2
2
1
1
18
18
8
8
1
1
57H
586
48
40
2
2
1
1
228
285
4
5
1
2
811
810
28
28
1
1
8
8
1910. Prev. Total.
Cabinetmakers ^ 0 22 22
Curriers 0 12 12
Cutler Oil
Concreters _ 0 1 1
Chasers 0 6 5
Carriage trimmers _. 0 8 8
Carrlagemakers „ 0 7 7
Coppei-smlths 0 8 8
Corn doctors « Oil
Designers 14 5
Die sinkers » 0 5 5
Druggist 10 1
Draughtsmen « 0 10 10
Dyers „... 2 80 82
Dressmakers 2 89 91
Klectrlclans 1 21 22
Klectro platers 0 2 2
Kngliieers 2 70 78
Kngravers 0 81 81
Fingineturners Oil
Farmers 11 414 425
FUecutters 0 40 40
Fishermen _ 1 41 42
Firemen 12 179 191
Furniture 0 8 8
Gardeners ^ 8 96 98
Gas fitters 0 28 28
Gasmakers „ 0 2 2
Grocers 0 6 5
Glaziers 0 8 8
GIfissmakers ^ 0 2 2
Hairdressers 0 2 2
Hairdrawers Oil
Hatters „ 0 14 14
Harnessmakers „ 1 40 41
Hotel keepers 0 7 7
Hostlers 10 047 057
Housewives 18 1888 1860
Hackmen „ 8 48 61
Iron workers „ 2 8 6
Jewelers „ 21 600 621
Laborers ^ 168 7181 7844
Uipld»ry — «.„ I 1 i
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STATE CHARITIES AKB CORRECTIONS.
OrOU PATION8.— Crm/fniwrf .
1910.
Pm'.
Tot(a.
1910,
Prrr.
Total.
Lootntlxers
i
0
27
5
2y
6
Roofers . ,^
8
2
21
0
24
Lawyers
Ropemaker
2
Lentber Japaiiers
0
2
2
Rubber workers
4
M
8H
Locksmiths
0
1
Reedmakers
0
2
Laundrynien
«
7
Reporters
1
0
Laundresses
4
21»
22»
Rulemaker _.
0
1
Lathers „
1
82
88
Bslesmen >
1
m
97
Leathercutters
0
1
HIaters
0
4
Lecturers
0
541
1
6
557
Bailors
Haloon keepers _
7
0
0
228
0
10
285
Linemen
1
Machinists „
18
Hallmakera „
10
Masons
„ ft
0
0
HlJO
14
305
14
1
Bchool teachers
0
0
05
14
154*
INMB
14
Marble workers
Heamstresses „
159
Menders of china
Hervants and waiters...
1908
Merchants _
0
10
10
HhlprlgKers
0
5
Manufacturers
u
s
889S
2
H
8491
2
Ship carpenters
Sliver polishers ^
0
0
0
9
22
7
Mill hands
U8
♦*
Motormen
0
silversmiths
Moulders
- 7
259
266
Sleamplpe workers
2
49
61
Musicians
0
27
27
Stonecutters
1
88
H4
Music teachers
0
15
16
Soapmakers »
0
8
Meatcutters
0
2tt
2rt
Stuccoworkers ^
0
5
Nallmaker
0
1
1
soldiers „
0
9
Nurses
0
18
18
Shoemakers
2
280
3B8
Oystermen
1
2U
21
Stenographers _
0
2
Painters
ti
0(t8
«S6
SI 1 ver platers
0
4
Peddlers
5
m
m
Tailors 4^
8
162
166
Photographers
0
i«
18
Talloresses «
1
0
Physicians
U
22
22
Tanners
•)
10
10
Piano polishers
0
2
2
Wheelwrights
0
12
12
Piano tuners
0
5?
1
4
«)
4H
4
82
4»
WIreworkers
0
0
60
1
0
887
Polishers
Wood turners
Plumbers.
Teamsters
«*7
Preachers ^
(»
2
2
Telegraphers ,
0
9
Printers
2
ION
110
Toolmakers
1
8
Pearlworkers
0
1
1
Tinsmiths
1
08
04
Policemen
0
16
16
Upholsterers
0
18
18
Plasterers
1
7
1
10
7
1
Waxworkers
Whltewashers
0
0
0
2
21
7
2
Papermakers
0
21
Paper boxmakers ....
0
Wlredrawers
7
Paperhangers
0
2
2
Wool sorters
1
28
24
Patternmakers
Quarrymen
0
0
1
30
1
20
Unknown
0
58
68
K. R. (Jonduotors.....
0
0
9
Totals^
010
24902
24818
TIME OF COMMITMENT.
1910. Pm\ Total.
January 40
February 48
March „ ,
April
May
June
July
40
1585
1681
48
1888
188H
68
1029
1082
51
1089
1090
42
1940
1088
49
2098
2147
60
2584
2040
1910. Prev, Total.
August 71 2002 2678
September 49 SSW8 2417
October 56 2816 2870
November 64 2060 2110
December 42 2042 2l»4
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103
DFFKNOKS FOR WHK^H (?OMMITTKD.
1910.
Assault 0
Attempting to escape 2
Abandoning their clilldren 0
Beinff a common drunkard 224
Beinff a lewd and wanton person 2W
BelnK a vagrant IHO
Being a tramp 8
Being a common prostitute 6
Being a rallerand brawler 7
Being a disorderly person 50
Being B cheat and swindler 1
Being a nuisance _ 1
Being a sturdy begger 41
Being a pickpocket and thief 1
Oruelty to animals o
Kxposure of person „ o
House breaking u
Intent to commit rape 0
Intoxication in x'lolation of town ordinance 2
Larceny o
Malicious mischief o
Maintaining a nuisance 0
Night walking „ lu
Neglect to support family „ 85
Obstructing an officer 0
Revelling o
Returned from Reform School u
Returned from Providence County Jail o
Transferred from Reform School (incorrigible)..™ 1
Transferred from Providence County Jail „ 2
Wilfully escaping 12
Totals eitt
•ei'imisty.
Tfitai
5
5
2«
31
16
16
1UW*2
11116
2HU
309
«8«3
6558
535
538
1182
1137
238
240
lltfH
124«
20
21
0
1
1120
1161
0
1
1
1
2
2
6
6
1
1
58
65
15
15
1
1
y
9
58y
&19
M61
896
1
1
«
6
8
B
tt
6
120
121
2
4
758
765
24202
24818
PLACK FROM WHICH COMMITTKl).
Bristol
1910.
22
Pret\
5W
254
47
965
77
292
624
1
3
153
1396
4
52
12
481
4
770
1
1
839
1488
Tntnl.
609
256
50
976
81
809
666
1
8
168
1429
4
66
12
484
4
780
1
1
884
1401
North Kingston
1910.
5
7
0
201
102
1
2
1
1
1
12
0
2
14
11
12
25
0
616
Ptet.
68
102
16
10089
8784
2
8
128
8
84
128
46
98
884
526
896
462
10
S4809
Total.
78
Burrtllvllle
Barrlngton
2
8
21
4
17
82
0
Narragansett
North Hmithlield
109
16
Cranston
Coventry
Cumberland
Central Falls
Charleston
Providence _
Pawtucket
Portsmouth
Providence County Jail
Reform Hchool
10290
8886
8
10
12S
Kxeter
East Greenwich
0
5
Richmond
Smith field
Houth Kingston
Bcltuate
Tiverton
Woonsocket
9
86
East Providence
88
140
Foste r
Olocester
Hopklnton
0
4
0
8
0
46
96
848
Johnston
Warwick
687
Jamestown
Westerly
Warren
West Greenwich
Totals
407
Lincoln «..
Little Oompton
Mlddletown
Nortb ProYldenoe.^.
Newport ^ .
10
0
0
..... 6
^ 68
487
10
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STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
TERM OF SKNTRNCE.
Three months.
Six
Seven "
Kight "
Nine
Teo
Kleven '*
Twelve "
Thirteen**
Fourteen **
Fifteen *
Hixteen "
Eighteen **
Two years
•* and Ave months
** and six months
Three years .^
•' '* and six months _
During minority from Reform Hchool
Returned from the Reform School
Returned from Providence (bounty Jail
Fine and costs ^
Fine and costs transferred from Providence (Jounty
Jail _.
Ninety days and conts from Providence Oounty Jail
Awaiting trial _
Awaiting trial transferred from Reform School
1910.
0
483
0
0
6S
0
SH
0
0
0
0
1
6
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
i
1
1
u
1
Totals 618
PrerUmdy,
2
188H0
71
124
WD
65
0
*?17
1
3t
IV
IM
406
1
15
172
1
114
8
0
65
i
U
S
0
i4Mi
Total.
2
72
134
8375
1
2
1»
2
107
410
1
15
178
1
114
8
0
67
8
1
2
1
24418
RECOMMITMENTS.
Has been committed once...
twice.
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
eleven
twelve
thirteen
fourteen
fifteen
sixteen
seventeen
eighteen
nineteen
twenty
twenty-one
twenty-two
twenty-three
twenty-four
twenty-five
twenty-six
times..
tt2
60
90
21
15
11
18
9
6
4
5
4
8
4
2
1
I
0
1
2
1
2
2
3
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feBPORi! OF THB BOARD.
m
RECOMMITMKNTS.-Cfwi/inwKf.
Haa been oommltted twenty-seven times _
twenty-nine " „
'* " ** thirty-one " „
'* ** ** thirty-two " -
** ** *' thirty-three "
*' " '* forty-four '* ^
*• *' ** never before ^ 9Si
Total 016
Respectfully submitted,
FRED B. JEWETT, M. D.,
Superintendent.
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REPORT
OF THE WARDEN OF THE STATE PRISON.
Zj0 M# ^Soard o/Siaie Chariiies and Corr^ci/oms/
The undersigned, Warden of the Rhode Island State Prison
and Keeper of the Providence County Jail, respectfully pre-
sents the following account of receipts and expenditures and
statistical tables for the year ending December Slst, 1910.
Kxpenditures $803)8 J»
RecelpU «7,0N» flO
Kxcess of expenditures over receipts $48,718 70
Age, sex, etc., of persons committed to the State Prison,
since its first institution in 1888 :
U nder 20 years of age ^ 421 Prom 50 to 00 years of age 109
From 2U to 80 years of a«e....^ 1802 " 00 ** 70 " '* '* 82
•* 80 *• 40 657 " 70 *• 80 " ** '* 4
•• 40 " 60 " " ** 2»2 Over 90 0
Total ., 2777
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REPORT OP THE BOARD.
107
Nativity of persons committed to the State Prison, since its
first institution in 1838 :
Maine ^
New Hampshire
Vermont
89
20
22
828
1142
112
1(»
Newfoundland „
New Brunswick
8
10
Hanta Cruz
1
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Oonneotlcnt
New York
Bermuda
Peru
Kngland
Ireland ,
Hcotland
Wales
1
1
-. 126
248
New Jersey
15
15
Pennsylvania .
81>
2
14
10
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Gibraltar ,
Germany
Austria ^
Prance
Italy
Sweden
24
Virginia
Ohio
Illinois
50
11
10
5
2
2
7
8
11
96
IH
Kentucky
Tennessee
Arkansas
Wisconsin
North Carolina
Hwltzerland
Denmark
Holland
Hpaln
Turkey
West Indies
Barbadoes
Mexico
Russia
Azores or Western Islands
South Carolina
6
Mississippi
Louisiana
Florida
Texas*
2
2
2
4
2
2
H
Michigan.
Belgium.
Iowa
Armenia
Piince Edward Island
Georgia
7
«
1
V
California
Nebraska
Oape Verde Islands. ...„
Norway
^
Missouri
Finland
Portugal
Idaho
1
Alabama
1
Australia
Canada
.. . 92
Total
Poland
Nova Scotia ^
.« 17
2777
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108
STATB OHARITIBS AND GORRKOTIOKS.
Number of convictci in prison, committed, disctiarged, pardoned,
died, escaped, and returned, in each year, since the establishment of
the Institution in 1838:
YEAR.
In Prison.
Committed.
Duscharyed.
Pardoned.
Died.
Escaped.
Returned.
\HiiH ..
5
5
6
lsa»
2
1H40
9
9
8
1641
16
26
18
7
2
6
1842
2
i
_...
1848
24
18
10
8
I
1844
28
6
6
2
2
1
1846
19
8
6
2
1
....-^...~-.— ~.~
1840
19
8
6
8
1847
19
11
6
8
1
„,,^ _„
1848
21
8
2
.. -. «
1849
27
14
4
6
2
8
8
1850
80
29
6
11
1851
42
49
21
17
2
17
10
4
J,
1
1852
1868
46
49
26
28
8
18
14
4
1864
8
1855
62
27
18
2
1
.....«....—..-.
1866
68
14
20
2
1
1857
64
67
70
84
26
28
19
20
18
2
1868
8
6
1
1
186»
8
18«0
67
67
86
60
29
89
18
12
27
18
88
20
1
3
5
4
1
18«1
180J
I8rt3
1
1864
47
10
IS
2
1
1866
41
22
11
8
1
1
1
1866
48
40
9
7
...
1867
72
69
25
26
27
20
9
6
2
1868
186»
69
42
16
8
2
1
1
1870
80
76
66
28
26
30
25
81
16
5
2
6
1871
8
1
1872
2
1878
71
77
88
24
26
29
1
8
1
2
1
1874
1876
67
24
29
8
8
1876
66
66
22
4
1877
86
61
38
8
4
1878
92
47
87
2
2
187»
88
56
81
9
2
1880
112
25
48
4
8
2
2
1881
82
80
29
1
1
1882
81
46
26
8
4
1888
94
96
119
89
66
58
81
81
48
6
6
2
1
1884
6
8
1886
1
1
1886
124
46
62
8
1887
106
92
120
42
69
02
46
89
60
6
2
4
8
i
1888
1889
2
1890
186
108
112
49
67
64
78
60
89
4
1
8
1891
2
1892
1898.
124
90
88
2
8
1
1894.f....
170
48
78
6
1896.
186
88
61
1
1
1896
166
87
49
1897
198
181
178
69
69
89
78
77
64
8
1
1
1898
1
1899.
2
1900
196
196
74
61
72
64
2
7
2
6
1901
1902
178
66
51
8
2
1W8
187
68
61
6
1
1904
188
72
72
7
1906.._
176
66
81
2
6
1906
144
46
64
4
2
1907
119
87
82
4
1
1908
119
60
89
8
8
1909
184
1S9
48
68
89
82
4
2
1910......
1911......
148
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REPORT OF THE BOAIVB.
109
Crimes for which persons have been committed since 1888:
Accessory to murder I
Abortion ^ 2
Adultery 11
Arson 5
Assault and battery ~ 82
Attempt to burn dwelling house » i
Attempt to burn barn I
Attempt to have carnal knowledge of
a fflrl under 1* years of aire 1
Attempt to have C4irnal knowledge of
a girl under 16 years of age »
Attempt to commit larceny from per-
son 2
Attempt to commit rape 1
Assault and larceny 2
Assault with Intent to kill 56
Assault with a dangerous weapon 179
Assault with intent to commit rape... «6
Assault with intent to commit sodo-
my 2
Assault with Intent to rob Ifl
Assault on the warden ~ 2
Assault against nature 1
Being common gambler 1
Bigamy 88
Breaking and entering a bank 5
Breaking and entering a church 7
Breaking and entering a church and
larceny — .. 1
Breaking and entering a henhouse 2
Breaking and entering henhouse
and larceny 1
Breaking andenterlngaschoolhouae 2
Breaking and entering a vessel 8
Breaking and entering an engine-
house 1
Breaking and entering an office H
Breaking and entering aim rn 18
Breaking and entering at night and
larceny 21
Burglary „ 18«
Breaking and entering shop at night 18
Breaking and entering a barn at night
and larceny 12
Breaking and entering a post office 8
Breaking and entering dwelling and
larceny „ 9
Breaking and entering 2
Breaking into parish-house at night
and larceny 1
Breaking toolhouse at night and
larceny ^ ^ 1
Breaking and entering a shop with
intent to commit larceny 4
Breaking and entering a shop at
night and larceny „ 105
Breaking shop at night and larceny... 68
Breaking shop in day-time and
larceny ^ « 8
Breaking a storehouse In day-time
and larceny „ 2
Breaking and entering a building in
day-time and larceny ^ 8
Breaking a shop and larceny - 4
Breaking and entering and larceny... 2A
Breaking and entering shop in day-
time and larceny 8
Breaking and entering clubroom at
night 1
Breaking and entering shop In day-
time 1
Breaking and entering dwelling-
bouse In day-time 87
Breaking building at night and
larceny «
Breaking dwelling-house and larceny
in day-time 27
Breaking and entering dwelling-
house in day-time and larceny 89
Breaking and entering dwelling-
house In day-time with Intent
to commit larceny 1
Breaking an unfinished dwelling In
day-time and larceny I
Breaking and entering unoccupied
house at night «
Breaking and entering an unoccupied
house at night and larceny 6
Breaking and entering an unoccupied
dwelling in day-time and larceny 8
Burning a building „ 1
(lonspiracy ~. 2
Conveying tools to prisonere 8
Counterfeiting 2
Circulating obscene literature.™ 1
Carnally knowlngaglrl under 14 years
of age 4
Carnally knowing a girl under 10
years of age 41
Depositing obscene Iltei-ature with
express company for Interstate car-
riage — 1
Defacing a building „ 2
Destroying a dam 1
Bxhlbltlng obscene literature 1
Embezzlement 38
Embezzlement of letters from the
post office 8
Entering storehouse in day-time and
larceny _ 1
Entering shop at night and larceny... 8
Entering a barn at night and larceny 1
Entering dwelUng-bouse in day-time 11
Entering dwelling-house In day-time
and larceny 47
Entering dwelling-house in day-time
wlthhntent to commit larceny.. 1
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110
STATK CHAKITIKS AND CORRKCTIONS.
Crimes for which persons have been committed since 1838:
Continued.
Knterlnff bulldlnir In day time and
larceny 1
Knteiing unoccupied bouse at nlRht
and larceny 1
Rnteiinsr dwelllnff-hou8e at nltrhtand
larceny 12
Rnterlnff dwelling-house at nlffht to
commit larceny,..„ aj
Entering dwelling In day-time and
larceny ^
Entering dwelling with intent to
commit murder _ 1
Entering shop in day-time and
larceny > 4
R8caplng prison 8
False pretenses 11
Forgery 8ft
Forging and uttering 1(»
False representation rt
Fraudulently taking letter from post
oflBce 1
Falsely changing and altering a cer-
tain money order ^ 1
House breaking _ 68
Having and passing counterfeit
money 44
Horse stealing 2
Inciting another to commit perjury 1
Inciting another to commit larceny 1
Incest 2
Incestuous adultery I
Irdecent assault and battery 1
Indecent exposure of person 9
Intent to commit iiipe ^ 1
Larceny 497
Larceny and receiving stolen goods... 8
Larceny from the person IW
Malicious mlsobief «
Murder _ W
Manslaughter 72
Mingling poison with drink..... _ 8
Obtaining goods under false pretenses 5
OlMttructlng a railroad ^ 4
Perjury 17
Passing counterfeit coin - «
Rape ai>
Receiving stolen goods 2(1
Robbery ^ ^ m
Receiving a Jail prisoner I
Hendlng obscene matter through U.
B. mail ^ 2
Betting fires 81
netting Are to lumber 1
netting fire to and burning a barn 1
Hodomy 1
Htore breaking 261
Tearing open and injuring a certain
mall bag 2
Treason ^ 1
Unlawful cohabitation 2
Using mall for obscene publication^... 1
Uttering a forged order 4
Uttering counterfeit coin 8
Violating a pension law 8
Violating the U. 8. mail laws 8
Violating the U. H. naturalisation
laws 8
Violating the U. 8. bankruptcy laws 2
Wounding a horse 1
Total..
2777
Average number of convicts in 1910:
Mak^. Femnle^, Total.
182,% lui mm
There were in Prison Dec. 31st, 1910:
Males Un White 12ft Natives U. 8 , fl2
Females 2 Colored 22 Foreigners M
Total 148 Total 148 Total 148
JAMES F. McOUSKER,
Wardkn.
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REPORT
OF THE JAILER OF THE PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL.
IN JAIL JANOARY 1. 1910.
By the Htate
•• ** Oltyof Pttwtuoket ....
" " " " Woonsocket..
" " " •' Oentral Palls
" " *' '* Oranston
" " Town '* Smlthfleld ^
" " • ** North Providence..
'* " " '* Oumberland ,
" " United States
Debtors
Tot<U.
271
8Srt
ClOMMITTKD DURING THE YEAR.
Males.
Femalen.
Total,
By the Htate ..
1102
0
17
401
16
4
15
2
8
AK
0
2
4
16
6
4
7
01
- 1846
94
1
1
10
1
1
6
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
10
184
1286
' " escaped and returned
1
' Oity of Providence
18
* *• " Pawtncket
411
• " •* Woonsocket
17
" Oentral Falls
5
' " " Oranston
20
' Town " Lincoln
2
' ** ** Oumberland
8
' " " Bast Providence . . . ...
77
"Warwick
1
*' " Glocester „
•* BurrlUvllIe ^
' " " North Providence „
• •* *• Smlthfleld .-
** North Smlthfleld
2
4
15
6
4
' United States
7
Debt4
[)rg
101
1060
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112
STATK CHARITIRS AND C0RRBCTI0N8.
DISOHAHGKD DURING THE YKAR.
I Jfo/es.
By the State
" '* ** Transferred to 8ockano88et HchooL
'* *• " ** ** State Prison
" " *' KHcapwl
" " ** Transferred to State Hospital for the Insane^
•• •' •• •' W. H. A H. of C
.. .• .. Pardoned
Died
" " R«»prleved
'* *' City of Providence „
.. .. .J •• pawtucket
" '* ** *' '* escaped
" " •* *' Woonsocket
*' " " ** " escaped
.. .. .. .. (Central Falls „...
" '* " *' Cranston
" Town** (^uml>erland
** ** '* ** Ka«t Providence ^
*• " ** Lincoln „
•* * Warwick _
" " " '* Glocestwr
" " " '* Rurrlllvllle ^...
'* ** North Providence „
* •• Smlthflold
" *• " •• North Snilthfleld
•* ** United States
Debtors „ ^
Females, ToUd.
1104
'&
40
t
1
2
1
8
1
17
806
8
16
1
6
SI
4
m
2
0
2
8
m
A
4 .
8 I
RP
1887
88
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
1 >
'Si
l\
\\
0 I
12
0 I
V
?'
0 t
0 I
Jli
182 I
1102
91
41
2
1
2
1
8
1
18
40N
8
18
I
8
»
4
f»
2
1
2
8
18
7
4
8
100
IMO
REMAINING DKCEMRBR 81. 1910.
By the State
*^ •* City of Pawtucket ...
" " ** ** Woonsocket .
** "Town " Burrlllvllle...
Debtors „
MaUs.
278
88
2
1
6
822
FemaUt,
16
0
0
0
0
15
201
88
2
1
6
887
AVKRAGK NUMBER IN JAIL DURING IPIO.
By the State
'* fJlty of Providence
*• Various Cities and Towns
" United States «
Debtors -,
Milet.
846ift^
FemaiM,
T-HaL
SOSiff
lip
m
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REPORT OF THE BOARD.
COMMITTED ON SENTENCE BY THE STATE FOR:
118
Adnltery -
Assault
Assault aud battery
Assault with adanpcerous weapon
Attempt carnal knowledge
Bastardy
Breaking and enteiinf< freight car and larceny
Breaking and entering school at night and larceny
Breaking and entering henhouse at night and larceny .
Breaking and entering house In day-time and larceny .
Breaking and entering shop at night and larceny
Bogus signature
Carrying concealed weapon^
Cruelty to animals
Carrying tools to prisoners
Carnal knowledge «
Cruelty to child
Conspiracy to defraud
Concealing death of Infant
Driving off a horse »^
Defacing building
Defacing property
Disorderly conduct
Enticing away a child
Entering henhouse In day-time and larceny
Entering dwelling In day-time and larceny
Entering dwelling in night-time and larceny „
Embezzlement
Exposure of person
Evading fare
Fornication
Firing gun In street
False pretenses „
Keeping liquor for sale
Keeping common nuisance
Being lewd and wanton
Larceny
Larceny from person ^
Malicious mischief „
Mayhem „
Neglect of child „....
Non-support
Obstructing an ofUcer
Peddling without license
Playing dlc-«» on Sunday
Playing cards on Sunday
Passing worthless checks
Receiving stolen goods „..
Refnslng payment for meaU
Refusing to assist an ofHcer
Helling cocaine
Selling liquor
Stealing fowls
Speeding auto
Selling oleomargarine without labels
Setting Are to building
Threats
Theft .
Trespassing on railroad...
Throwing glass In street..
Unlicensed plumber
Vagrancy
Total..
Males,
Females,
6
7
Mr
6
18
1
14
0
1
0
8
0
1
0
18
0
8
0
8
0
8
0
6
0
54
0
14
0
1
0
8
0
2
8
1
0
0
1
2
0
15
0
18
0
S
0
0
1
0
8
0
8
0
88
0
8
0
10
0
6
9
4
0
12
0
4
1
5
2
1
2
14
0
A
0
7
0
1
0
1
1
10
0
8
1
4
0
8
0
fi
0
1
0
4
0
6
0
1
0
7
0
10
4
in
1
4
0
1
0
1
0
8
0
817
20
28
1
0
1
1
0
2
0
008
60
Total.
12
172
14
14
1
8
1
18
8
8
8
6
54
14
1
8
ft
1
1
2
16
18
2
1
1
8
8
88
8
10
14
4
12
5
7
8
14
7
1
2
10
0
4
8
fi
1
4
5
1
7
14
17
4
1
1
8
8H7
1
1
2
M8
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114
STATE CHARITIBS AND CORRECTIONB.
RTATK SKNTKNCES. 1010.
— - - - — ~"
1
t
Males.
ft
Ftmalet.
Total.
Flpo<i t^ oo
0
ft
8 no
5 00
10 (X)
16 00
20 00
t
1
78
14t«
84
148
0
1
20
2
13
1
74
j
160
88
m
25 00
t
W
8
100
' 80 00
50 00
H
28
0
6
8
t<
76 00
1
0
1
m 00.
' 100 00
1
8
0
0
I
8
' 150 00
1
0
1
25 00 and bonds
1
0
I
Imprisoned
10
days
!
4
1
5
'*
10
fined $a> 00
18
4
17
••
15
Hi)
••
2
73}
5
0
2
2
2
••
74
••
fined $100 00 1
7
(^
20
1
21
••
HO
••
1
17
0
17
••
PO
fined $20 00
17
1
18
*•
IHO
"
1
0
1
'*
I
month ^ \
8
0
8
:;
2
12
77
0
2
12
7»
"
8
"
and bonds '
8
0
8
••
4
••
8
0
8
••
ft
• •
87
8
40
•'
7
••
1
0
1
••
H
••
1
0
1
••
9
•■
t'':':::::::'::::::::::j::. ■;::.■::::;: 7::::::::;::::'i
13
0
18
•
J»
••
and bonds
1
0
1
••
11
"
li*
0
1»
'•
1"
»*
:'"L ::.::..: '..;.' " :.:::::.:::::: ■ i
8
0
S
"
year
28
0
38
•*
1
**
fined $100 00 ,
1
0
I
rost8 only .
'
1
0
I
008
«0
0<«
__
,
rOMMlTTKDON SKNTKNC^K BYTHKOITYOF PHOVI I>ENrE, IftlO.
Hrunkenness..
Revelling
-
Maies.
11
6
Females.
I
0
Total
12
17
18
CITY OK PROVIDENCK SENTENCES.
Fined IS 00 .
Males. Femaks. Total.
17 1 18
COMMITTED ON SENTENCE BY OTHER CITIES AND TOWNS.
Maletf.
Drunkennesfi..
RevelUng
602
80
Females..
582 27
TUal.
538
81
B60
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REPORT OF THK BOARD.
SENTENCES BY OTHBROITIKS AND TOWNS.
115
Fined IS 00 1 857
8 (JO I 60
4 00 17
6 00 I 68
7 00 „ ■ 2
" 10 00 „ 14
" 16 00 4
" 20 00 „ 8
Imprisoned 10 days 17
Total I 582
FemaUt.
Total.
20
m
8
68
0
17
2
70
0
2
1
16
0
4
0
8
1
18
27
550
NATIVITY OF PEF
ISONS COMMITTED ON SENTENCE.
2 Minnesota..- .
Alabama
1
California
Connecticut
Delaware
1
I
8
Nebraska
New Hhmpshlre „
New Jersey
8
11
9
District of Columbia
New York
5«
Klor«da
1
North Carolina
6
Georirla
Illinois
2
... . 2
8
1
2J
Ohio »
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
2
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
W
489
2
Maryland
288
6
Total.
I
Massac hussetts
Mlchiimn „
Vermont
Virgin la
Wisconsin
United States
IS
18
1
892
NATIVITY OF PER
SONS COMMITTED ON SENTENCE.
hi) Norway
KnRlnnd
8
Ireland
170
28
101
12
8
H
11
21
14
87
11
24
1
Poland .
20
Scotland
Canada
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Inland „...
Turkey
Switzerland
A rmenfa
Greece
New Bi-unswick
France „
Germany
Sweden
Australia
Finland
Syria
Cape Verde Islands
Azores or Western Islands
West Indies -
New Foundland >...
Portugal
Italy
Austria
Russia
China
.".!"! 11
2
1
8
Total. Foreign Countries..
648
AGES. 8BX. ETC.. OF PERSONS COMMITTED ON SENTENCE.
Under 20 years of age
Between 20 and 80 years of age..
••
80
• 40
"
••
40 '
' 60
*•
"
50 •
• 60
•*
•«
60 '
• 70
*•
70 •• 80
Males ..
. 1462
Females
.. 88
..15«
..490
.876
..808
..166
...48
7
Total
1.640
Totals 1.640
White 1446
Colored 94
Indian I
1.640
Married 672
Single _ 968
1.540
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116 STATE CHARITIBS AND CORRBCTIONB.
AGKS. SEX. ET(\. OF PERSONS COMMITTED ON SENTENCE.— Omfmnttf.
Total number of persons who can read and write
•• •* " •• " " *' but not write
" ** " *' ** " neither read nor write
..1.2W
Total 1.M0
Total number of persons committed ~.~- h9S0
st-ntenced ^ 1 MO
NATIVITY OF PARENTS.
Fnfhrr*.
United States
England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Canada
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
New Foundland
Prince Edward Island
France
Germany ,
Sweden
Portui^al
Italy
Austria
Russia
Poland
Armenia
Spain
Turkey
Switzerland
Syria _
Greece
Finland
Cape Verde Islands
Azores or Western Islands..
China
Norway
St. Helena
Belgium
Australia ^ „
Barbadoes
Roumanla
Denmark
India ^ ^
417
l:?l
MM
33
4
IM
16
8
4
5
10
•X
21
10
106
13
2H
21
S
3
4
1
6
1
14
6
1
I
1
1
3
1
1
1
Mothers.
United States „
England
Ireland —..
Scotland -
Wales
Canada
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
New Foundland
Prince Edward Island „.
France
Germany
Sweden
Portugal
Italy „
Austria
Russia ^
Poland
Armenia
Spain
Turkey
Switzerland
Syria ^
Greece
Finland
(^ape Verde Islands
Azores or Western Islands .
China ~
Norway
St. Helena
Belgium
Australia
Barbadoes
Sandwich Islands
404
132
51«
80
4
1%
10
1
4
5
12
ir«
21
17
101
12
39
30
1
4
1
h
1
14
4
1
4
1
1
2
2
1
Total l.W«
Total 1,540
AVERAGE OF PARENTS.
Fathers,
Americans „ 27
Foreigners . „ 78
Mothers.
Americans ~ i^ioTi
Foreigners « "^^j^Xi
JAMES F. McCUSKER,
Jailbb,
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of the
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SOCKANOSSET SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
TJo M# Xoard o/Siai€ CAariiims and Correcitons/
Gentlemen : — I have the honor to present herewith the
statistical tables of the school for the year ending December
81, 1910.
Whole number In Bohool December 81, 19W. - 81»
Number since received — 427
Number since discharged 400
Number In School December 81. 1910 ^ ^ 840
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TABLE I.
Showing the number received and discharged, also the
number remaining in the Sockanosset School for Boys at the
close of each year, since its opening (November 1, 1850.)
TEAR. RBCEIVKD. DISCHAROBD. RKMAINIKO.
The l8t year
62...
7 45
•• 2d ••
66....
81 79
" 8d "
»1....
69 101
" 4th "
86....
80 106
• 6tk •• _...
W...
68 142
" «th ••
W...
86 .... m
•* 7ih "
12»....
W 181
" Hth ••
111....
in — 181
'• »th "
112...
106 187
•• 10th *•
VI...
116 16»
" nth ••
128..
„.... 110 187
*• 12th "
188....
116 »4
•• 18th *•
1«J....
IflH....
17» 208
" Hth "
188 21H
" 16th "
168...
165 216
•* 16th "
166...
164 VI
•• 17th •*
IW ...
166 IW
" 18th ••
16»...
184 . 224
•• mh ••
184...
186 228
*• 20th "
148...
184 ".. 282
•• 21st •• „„
117....
188 211
** 22d "
118....
181 1«
" 2!ki *•
188...
120 „ 206
*• 24th "
168...
149 220
" 25th *•
128....
188 „.. 215
'• 2Cth "
130...
184 206
*• 2rth "
168...
141 218
• 2«th •*
148...
1)8. m
*• 2Uth *•
119...
126 281
" 80th *•
121....
118 289
" Slst "
168...
208 •189
•• 12(1 ••
148....
199 188
" «8d "
m....
159 178
" 84th ••
168....
m 164
•* 8olh •*
180....
128 169
•• 86th *•
124....
101 189
" 87th ••
158...
188 214
•• 88th "
117....
181 „ »0
" 8»th "
150...
120 280
** 40th "
181...
176 196
" 41gt *•
151...
161 186
•• 42d ••
224....
174 226
•• 48d ••
1»6....
171 260
•* 44th "
1«0....
198 M2
•• 46th •' _
1»6....
178 266
" 46tb **
_ 2»....
280 284
" 47th ••
28»...
212 _ . 8U
•• 48th ••
296...
248 .. 869
" 4»th "
274...
804 829
" fiOth ••
286...
279 886
•• 6l8t ••
277...
248 864
•• Bid •*
818....
821.. ... .„ 880
" 68d " „..
826....
849 887
" 64th '*
828...
881 829
*• 66th "
861...
447...
845 . .. 846
•• 66th "
..„ ... 464 ... 888
" 57th *•
627 ... 877
••68th •'
462....
467 W2
•• seth ••
448....
496 819
" «l>th "
427...
406 840
•Twenty «lrU tmniftrrtd to OaIlIawh Bohool, July 18th, l«tt.
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TABLE II.
Showing the number received for each month during the
past year.
MOKTH. BOTS.
January 88
February _ 'i9
March 40
April ^ 36
May 43
June 29
July _ 14
AuiTUSt - 88
Beptember ~ 81
October „ „ 01
November ^ 86
December 86
Total _ 427
TABLE III.
Showing the number discharged for each month during the
past year.
MONTH. BOTS.
January 26
FebruaiT 28
March 21
April 87
May 60
June ^ 81
July 17
Auirust 2C
September „ 21
October :. 66
November ^ ^ 57
December „ „ 88
Total ^ „ 406
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TABLE IV.
Showing the disposal and employment of those discharged
the past year and previously.
But Fmt.
Pnt,
Tsua.
DIBP08AL.
B...
Boy**
Delivered to friends ^
•* Court „ ^...
•' Overseer of Poor „ ^
Discharged on expiration of sentence
1M>
181
0
14
0
0
0
0
0
7
18
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
22
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
22
0
0
4«72
2314
10
875
86
6
40
62
14
222
262
8
9
1
228
624
116
1
78
26
2
861
27
1
14
8
0
1
0
7
196
67
1
4862
2446
10
88»
to go to sea .„
•* as in«ftrie
86
6
Died » „
Kullsted In the army « _
40
62
" '* " navy ^
14
Escaped not returned _..
absent more than one day and returned or re-
taken
229
270
retaken and sent to Jail under new sentence.,
previously retaken and sent to Jail on alter-
native sentence
8
9
from Rhode Island Hospital, having l^een
Injured In attempting to escape from the
School ^ ^ ^
Indentured „
Placed at farming
1
2B
624
*' various trades >
" " Asylum for Deaf and Dumb
116
1
Sent to State Workhouse and H. of O
sent to State Prtson „ „.„.
Discharged on payment of fine and costs ^
Released on ball
74
26
2
888
Discharged by order of (lourt > „
*^ •• •• Mayor
27
1
*' Attorney General
*' " •* Board of State Ohar. and Oorr.
•' to Probation OfBcer
14
8
•
Placed with Children's Friend Society
1
Transferred to Jail on alternative sentence
Transferred to State Almshouse
9
8
Returned to Jail ^
Error in report of 1881
220
67
Discharged to Court ^
Totals
400
1016k
1066B
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TABLE V.
121
Showing the length of time spent in the Sockanosset School
by those discharged during the past year and previously.
Put year.
Prev.
TIMK.
Boy.
Bcus.
Total.
Less than one month „
One month and less than five ^
Five months and less than ten
147
44
10
81
U6
50
18
h
8
0
0
0
0
0
2428
118»
771
HH9
14«8
1896
648
812
241
100
78
47
45
94
57
2fi70
1288
781
Ten months and less than fifteen
020
Fifteen months and less than twenty
1608
Twenty months and less than twenty-five
1046
Twenty-five months and leas than thirty
601
Thirty months and less than thlrty-flve_
817
Thlrty«flve months and less than forty
244
Forty months and less than forty-live
108
Forty-five months and less than fifty
78
Fifty months and less than fifty-five
Fifty-five months and less than sixty
47
46
Sixty months and more
Error In report of 18H1 . .. .
94
67
Totals
40«l IOI52I
10668
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STATK CItARITIBS AND CORRECTIONS.
TABLE VI.
Showing the authority by which commitments have been
made the past year and previously.
AUrnOBITT.
Oourt of MnKlstrntos, Providence.
Justice <^ourt. Provltlonre
Justice Court. North ProvldeiKM*
Oourt of Mnjrlstrati's. Pawtucket
Justice <1ourt, Pawtucket
Oourt of Maplst rates. W<K)nsocket
Justice <iourt, Woonsocket
Police (lourt. Providence
Huprenie Oourt '
Oonnuon Pleas Division of Hupreme Oourt
Oourt of Ooinuion iMeaa
Oourt of Justices, Newport
Justice Oourt, Newport
Justice of Peace, In dltlerent towns .'.
Order of Trustees, l)oarder8
Order of Board of State Oharltles anil Oorrections,
boarders
Order of Board of Htate dharlVre's and 6'orrect
Laws, Ohap. .H5«, Hec. 7.)
Order of Mayor, for safe keeping
From Overseer of the Poor
♦Returned for cause
Returned voluntarily
Surrendered by surety
Order of Mayor ]
Order of (Mty Marshal, for safe keeplnKr '.
Justice Oourts of other towns
Held for Prolmtlon Officer
Transferred from Jail by Board
Transferred from House of Correction
First District Oourt "
Hecond '* " ..
Third " "
Fourth " *•
Fifth •• ••
Sixth " •• .;.;;;
Seyenth " *'
KlKhth •• •• ....:. .
Ninth " ••
Tenth " "
Kleventh " " ....
rweifth " •• '.;;;;„*; **
Superior " '*
Totals..
TotaL
1 Bovs.
1
Boii^
1
1
1
1
0
791
1
791
1 0
SIM)
^W
1 0
4
4
0
36
86
0
«1
tJl
4)
5s
;V<
0
49
49
0
170
170
0
1(»2
102
0
2iil
261
1 0
;t«57
8rt7
0
51
61
0
1(M
104
0
410
410
()
ai2
312
0
V
9
i»
97
106
0
•»
2
0
8
8
(W
10«8
1181
i
151
158
1
7
8
u
e
U
0
1
1
0
aw
304
0
7
7
19
206
224
1
0
1
6
249
254
2
44
46
I
71
72
11
IW
197
4
75
79
217
8212
8429
18
191
201
9
1C2
171
2
41
48
19
272
291
15
1&4
209
18
222
285
21
no
W7
427
1(M71
10898
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TABLE VII.
Showing the number committed from each county and town
during the past year and previously.
But year.
Jtw.
Totak
PKOVIDENCE COUNTY.
Bout'
Bays,
»4
5
15
y
0
0
i
u
0
A
11
6714
m
847
IdO
41
1
1S8
«1
81
7
88
2G1
808
280
Providence
North Providence
6908
128
802
109
41
1
Woonsocket-
Cranston
Smithfleld
North Hmlthlleld ^
John8ton„
180
08
81
7
42
204
415
247
Burrlllvllle
Hcltnate
Glocester „
Ouinl>erlnnd
East Providence
Pnwtucket „
Lincoln^
Totals...
NEWPORT COUNTY.
Newport
887
6
0
0
0
0
7681
400
14
20
0
f
7808
471
Fall River
14
Tiverton >
20
Portsmouth
Little Oompton _
0
2
TotaU
KENT COUNTY.
Warwick »
East GLreenwich
Ooventrjr
West Greenwich
6
10
1
0
606
74
28
4
618
84
211
24
4
Totals
BBI8TOL COUNTY.
Bristol
Warren „
18
8
1
810
118
88
828
119
89
Totals
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Oharlestown ^
Richmond .
South KlngTBtown „
North Klnflrstown.. ^„
4
0
0
1
1
0
1
1
164
8
7
01
Itt
6
80
9
168
8
7
02
20
Exeter
Westerly ^
Hopklnton.. „
6
90
10
Totals
4
1
804
20
•^ 481
196
0
870T
986
829
202
Prom other States „
Whole number committed
Recommitments ...
Returned from places '. —
7
9071
966
878
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STATE CHARITIRS AND CORRECTIONS.
TABLE yiI.-^M//jtir#^.
BROAPITU LATION.
Providence Oounty^
Newport County
Kent County
Bristol County
Wonhlnston County
Other Htates „
Kecomiultments
Returned from places
Totals
Past year.
PtffV.
B...
Bout.
887
7531
6
50K
18
810
4
154
4
ige
1
0
*)
086
48
H»
427
10471
TotaL
7N68
5I»
«t28
158
7
056
872
I0N98
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TABLE Vm.
Showing the cause of commitment the past year and previ-
ously.
Arson ^
Assuult -
AsHiiult and bottery ^ ~
AHBBult with Intent to kill
Assault with Intent to commit rape
AhsuuU with Intent to rob
Burjrlary and theft -
BurnlnK a building
Oontempt of court _
Oruelty to animals „
Oarrylnsr concealed weapons _
Oarnal knowledsre
Defnclnsr a building ^
Defaclmr property „
I)e»troylnir property „
Disorderly conduct on the street
Dlsturblnf? school „ ^
Driving off a horse and carriage
Drunkenness „ ,
Kml>e'/zlement „
Exposure of person ^
False pretenses lu wrltlnpc .
Forjrery »
Fast drlvlntr „ „
Held for Probation Officer „
House1>reakln(r
Housebreaking and theft
Housebreaking with Intent to steal
Incorrigibility
larceny
Lewdness »
Malicious mischief
Obtaining goods under false pretenses ...
Obtaining money under false pretenses..
Passing counterfeit money
Placing otwtructlon on rallrond track ....
Receiving stolen money or goods
Returned for cause
Returned voluntarily
Revelling
Robbery
Hhop-breaking
Htubl)ornnes8 and truancy
Burrendered by surety..
Hturdy lieggnr
Taking and using boat
Theft from the person
Theft.
But ywr.
B0V9.
Th reatening to assault
Threatening to kill
Throwing stones at a train
Transferred from House of Correction
Transferred from Jail by Board of Btate Char, and Oorr.
To await trial :
Truancy „
Using profane language
Vagnmcy _
Totals..
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
s
10
0
0
1
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
68
0
0
12
11
I
0
0
0
(W
0
0
0
1
IP
188
06
0
10
Prev.
Bout.
427
n
188
28
8
0
2
21
18
1
4
6
0
68
8
11
180
8
78
10
17
1
2
0
1
7
80
57
15
4
8
1
M)
5
6
1
1
25
lOAl
161
0
2
241
414
2
1
8
14
2771
1
8
6
0
204
2617
2
1260
10471
TataL
0
187
28
8
0
2
21
18
1
4
6
0
66
8
18
140
8
78
17
10
1
2
0
1
7
80
m
16
4
8
1
00
0
6
1
1
26
1124
168
0
2
268
425
8
1
8
14
2880
1
8
6
1
228
2066
1028
2
1200
10806
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TABLE IX.
Showing the terms of sentences of those committed the past
year:
TERMS. BOYS.
Mlnorttj m
Two jean ..^ — .-. 42
Three jeari „ — 1
To await trlAl — 188
Transferred from Jail ~ ^ — 19
Foar jean ^ « ^ „ — S
Five jean «
Six jean — „ 4
Nine jean ., ^ — ^ 0
One jear ^ „ 1
Surrendered bj luretj „ „ ^ 1
Total * 427
TABLE X.
Showing the ages of those committed the past year :
AOKR. BOYH.
six years ^ o
Seven jean o
Blftht jean 5
Nine jears 10
Ten yean _ 17
Kleven jean il
Twelve jears ^ > ni
Thirteen yean ^ > W
Fourteen jean ^ 47
Fifteen jean _ ««
Sixteen jean 47
Seventeen jean ^. 28
RliKhteen yean 11
Nineteen jean 4
Twentj jean „ 2
Total - 427
Statement of expenditures and income for the year ending
December 81, 1910.
Bxpendltnret ^ - |ii7,442.i5
Income 7H5ii8
Balance .....
o»mui,» „.. |W.ft57.07
Respectfully Submitted,
EZEKIEL E. GARDNER,
Superintendent.
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OF THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTOR.
Tjo Mtf ^oarti of Siaio Chariiios anti Corrociionsf
Gkntlkmen: — The Sunday services have been held regularly
throughout the year. On other days, my work has been that
(»f a pastor in a large parish. Neither personal illness nor un-
necessary absence from the field have interrupted my labors.
Twice during the year I found it necessary to employ a substi-
tute for the Sunday services, and, two or three times, to oflS-
ciate at funerals. There are seldom less than one hundred and
fifty bed-patients in the several hospital wards, and besides
these a much larger number of aged and infirm inmates to
whom social attention and religious ministration bring comfort
in distress. In this connection, permit me to testify to the
faithfulness of my colleagues, the clergymen of the Roman
Catholic Church, in their attendance upon the people of that
Faith. It gives me great pleasure to add, that Protestant pas-
tors, more than in any previous year of my incumbency, have
visited inmates who in other and brighter days were members
of their parishes.
Many sick and aged people end their earthly career at these
institutions. While many who die here are removed for bur-
ial, we have many funerals in our chapels and at the cemetery.
The services are formal but not perfunctory. Occasionally,
relatives and friends of those diceased are present; and when
the services are held in the chapels, a considerable number of
the inmates usually attend.
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128 STATK CHARITIES AND C0RRKCTI0N8.
Death is no respecter of persons, and makes no discrimina-
tions. Three times during; the year just closed the Religious
Insturctor was called to assist at the funerals of men who in the
service of the State, and in the relations in which they stood to
others, ranked high in human esteem, and who will long be
remembered by all who knew them.
Edgar I. Hanscom, M. D., Assistant Physician at ihe State
Hospital for the Insane, died February 19, 1910, and the funeral
services were held in the Hospital Chapel and were conducted
by the Rev. R. K. Wickett, pastor of the family, assisted by
the Rev. A. B. Howard, a college friend of the deceased, and
by the writer. The summons came to Dr. Hanscom while he
was in the full strength of manhood, and when, to human eyes,
there was much in him that promised a long and successful ca-
reer in his chosen profession. He was a manly man, aflFable
and kind to those committed to his care; he exemplified the
Christian virtues in daily devotion to his work. Tn his sudden
death the blow fell most heavily upcm the loved ones in a deso-
late home.
Mr. James R. Read, Secretary of the Board of State Chari-
ties and Corrections, died June 23, 1910, after a protracted ill-
ness. The funeral services were held at the family residence,
and the burial was at Apponaug, R. I. Mr. Read was a vet-
eran of the Civil War, and a member of the Grand Army of the
Republic. He was a good soldier, an upright man, a patriotic
citizen, a capable and faithful official, and died in assurance
through faith in his Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Mr. Timothy P. Dodge, Deputy Superintendent of the State
Workhouse and House of Correction, died September 12, 1910.
The funeral services were conducted at the family residence
in Providence by his pastor, the Reverend E. S. Ninde, assist-
ed by the Religions Instructor of the State Institutions. Mr.
Dodge had served theStatemany years. His official promptness
and decisiveness in speech made his smile, with dancing-eye
accompaniment, the more winsome. His well-known love of
music and of flowers set forth the radiancy of his spirit, while
his delight in books, the best in literature, revealed to his
friends who saw him in the midst of his treasures, a superior
type of mind.
Let me say, in closing, that the officers, and particularly the
oflScers in charge of the several institutions, have done every-
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thing possible to facilitate the religious work, and the frequent
visitations of the members of the governing Board, and their
kindly expressions of goodwill are appreciated by the inmates
everywhere, and most of all where the limitations necessarily
placed upon individual freedom are most keenly felt.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES H. EWER,
Religious Instructor .
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OF THE
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN OF THE STATE INSTITUTIONS.
I herewith submit my report as Resident Physician of the
State Workhouse and House of Correction and of the State
Almshouse.
STATE WORKHOUSE AND HOUSE OP CORRECTION.
During the year there were a larger number of cases treated
in the male department than the year before. The average
number at sick-call was greater. The number of deaths was
nine and the causes of death were as follows:
Alcoholism
Oarbuncle„ ~ -
Multiple sarcoma „
Phthisis
Pneumonia
SenHe dementia -.
Valvular disease 2
One case of typhoid fever was transferred to the State Alms-
house. The total number of cases transferred to the State
Almshouse was nineteen. The average number of days these
cases remained for special care at the State Almshouse was six-
ty-five.
When we speak of special care, we refer to those cases that
demand constant nursing and attention, such as should be given
to cases of typhoid fever, to cases of tuberculosis in its last
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stages, to those whose mental infirmities render them liable to
injury at the hands of other inmates, and to cases of pregnancy
that should have constant supervision in a maternity ward.
Many of these cases were detained at the Workhouse and
House of Correction longer than they should have been, owing
to the fact that the Almshouse wards were overcrowded.
We have now, January 28, 1911, confined in bed at the State
Workhouse and House of Correction, in a room about 12x16 and
lighted by one window, four men, onesufferingfrom a fractured
hip, one with gastric cancer with hemorrhages, and two with
pneumonia.
This room, known as "the sick room,'' is the only hospital
accommodation in this institution, and in it are placed, at times,
men raving with delirium tremens whose nightly terrors often-
times add to the pain of some other unfortunate inmate suf-
fering from acute disease.
This room is usually in an insanitary state on account of this
condition, and is absolutely unfitted for its present use.
The small hospital, referred to in our previous reports, is
sorely needed in this institution and the cost would be com-
paratively small, as it could be built in close connection with
both the male and female departments, near the dietary
kitchen, from which the necessary lighting, heating and plumb-
ing apparatus could be extended to it.
STATE ALMSHOUSE.
In this institution, with but very few exceptions, every in-
mate admitted has been, at once, the recipient of surgical or
medical care.
We believe that during the past year a larger percentage
of the inmates came from other hospitals than ever be-
fore.
Of the number treated, 194 deaths occurred, and the causes
were as follows :
Absc(*88 of brain
Aneurism of aorta..
Apoplexy
Atheroma of arteries
Births, still born
Briffht's disease
Bronchitis
Carbuncle
Oarcinoma.^
Cerebral hemorrhage
nynMHfl ,
1
Delirium tremens
Dementia sen Ills....
Detn(*ntlA parpljrtlcft-
1
18
H
Diarrhoea. „
8
DiabAtf^R m«lHtn8
2
Dys«nt«ry _
p
Dyspepsia _ «
«
Entero-co!lti8„ .....
Endo-cardltls
- 2
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182 STATK cnARTTlKS AND C0RRKCT10N8.
Kpllopsy „ _ _ o Meninirltls-lepto 2
(Janffr*-!!*' of foot . _ 1 Pelletrra „ ™- _ 2
}leiiilpleuiH _ „ „ B Peritonitis -- 2
Ileo'ColitiK „„ „ :i Pneumonia ft
Indlj^t'htlon, ttoute 1 Pulmonary oedema — _ 1
Infant Me panilyhK „ i\ Kenlllty _ «
Infantile nuirasniUM^ 1 Hyphllls ._ _ 8
I<a trrlppe A Tul>t»reuIo»ls, of all forms W
fjlver. elrrliosls _ .. „ 1 Valvular disease of heart — H
lilver, Iiypertropfjy „ 1
Loeomotor ataxia _ 1 Total IW
Otthis number, 58 died of tuberculosis in its various forms,
and died at a time of life when they were of the greatest value
to the community.
The number of births was larger than during the preceding
year, numbering 27, and of these, four were "still born," in-
cluding twins. Seven of the mothers had been transferred
from the Workhouse and House of Correction, the greatest
number of pregnant women ever received from that institu-
tion in any one year.
One case of chronic Bright's disease, considered a hopeless
case by the family physician, died in puerperal convulsion.
This registers the first death among the many maternity cases
that have come under our supervision here.
A hospital for the tuberculous patients should be provided.
The present wards are inadequate in size and equipment. We
have now several cases in the general hospital in the male de-
partment that should be segregated with other tuberculous pa-
tients, but there is not room in the ward set aside for them.
Our tuberculous patients are not receiving the nursing and
oversight that modern methods demand, and in the case of this
contagious disease, the State should be foremost in providing
for them the proper housing that is necessary for their segre-
gation, and the nursing that is so essential to their recovery,
if such cases there be that are curable.
In view of the constant increase of patients at the Institu-
tions a building should be erected, and that as soon as possible,
for the housing and care of 100 patients, the building to be in-
creased in size with the increase of population.
The time has come that some provision should be made for
the care and treatment of the epileptic inmates of our institu-
tions. Owing to their disease they are quarrelsome and ugly,
and their presence is a menace to the milder and inoffensive
patients around them. In the State Almshouse they cannot
be segregated, and the proper rare and restraint cannot be ac-
complished.
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Apart from the basement, where the feeble-minded are quar-
tered, the sanitary conditions of the Almshouse are as good as
the overcrowding will permit, and praise without stint can be
accorded those who have striven under trying conditions to
temper the condition of this institution with kindness and
Christian Charity.
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) HENRY A. JONES,
Resident Physician.
Tjo ^antes J^ T^eCvsker, 2i/arti9n Siaie SPr/son an<i JiTeeper SProv"
itl^nee County ^aii.*
I present herewith the report of the Resident Physician for
the year 1910. During the year there has been about the usu-
al number of dispensary cases treated in the State Prison and
Providence' County Jail ; numbering about 600.
Quite a large number of prisoners were treated in the hospi-
tal, but there was less illness of a severe type than for years
past.
The death list was small, there having been only three
deaths, all inmates of the Providence County Jail.
The sanitary conditions about the institutions have been im-
proved by the removal of the stables from the Prison yard, and,
in our opinion, a dangerous source of disease has been disposed
of.
The food served the prisoners has been ample in quantity,
excellent in quality and well cooked.
We urge the desirability of hastening the building of the
Insane Ward for the segregation of the insane now in the State
Prison and Providence County Jail.
Their care has become an added burden to an already com-
plex institution.
At present two cases of dementia precox are in the quiescent
period of their disease, but they are apt to become tumultuous
at any time.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) HENRY A. JONES,
Rksidknt Physician.
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134 8TATK CHARlTIfeS AKD CORRlSOTIOKS.
Zjo & £. Sartin9r,^op0rinHntl9ni So0kmnmss0i S^Mooi for XoySf
I herewith present the report of the Resident Physician for
the past year.
During the year fewer cases of severely ill patients were
noted than for some years past.
No deaths occurred, and no epidemics made their appear-
ance among the inmates or oflScers.
The accidents that happened were few, considering the many
chances there are of lads being hurt in work or play, and,
with the exception of two cases, they were of minor nature.
In one instance a boy slipping or jumping from a load of hay
injured himself upon a fork handle which penetrated the bow-
els; and the other case was that of a boy who disemboweled
himself while cutting toward himself with a knife. These
cases gave us some anxiety, but both made a splendid and
quick recovery without complications.
One case case of epilepsy was transferred to the State Alms-
house for treatment and custodial care. In the State Alms-
house the children are forced to associate with the old men ;
they are deprived of the childish sports, games and songs that
are usually a feature of school life, and the transference of
them to the Almshouse impels us to remark that it isunfortu-
tunate that any child who has any semblance of a reasoning
faculty should of necessity be transferred there.
Respectfully,
(Signed) HENRY A, JONES,
Rksidrnt Physician.
ZTo C/ara J^ ^orbttsh, Sttporiniontioni OaMamn SoJkooi for Sirisf
I herewith present the report of the Resident Physician for
the year 1910.
During the year the health of the inmates of the Oaklawn
School for Girls has been exceptionally good, treatment of
minor illnesses only having been required.
We believe that the continued good health of the inmates
of the School has been due to the quiet, homelike life they
lead, and the careful oversight of their food.
The lack of cases of anemia among them shows the advant-
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EBPORT OF TfiB BOARD. l86
age of the plenteous fresh vegetable diet that is given them.
The vegetable salts are needed for the human economy, and the
indulgence of a capricious appetite supplied with fanciful but
poorly nourishing food, is detrimental to the proper physical
development of the growing girl.
One girl suffering from hystero-epilepsy was transferred to
the State Hospital for the Insane, from which institution she
succeeded in escaping, and has not been heard of since.
Two girls, both colored, coming to the School in a pregnant
condition, were removed to the State Almshouse, where both
gave birth to living children.
Respectfully submitted,
(Signed) HENRY A. JONES,
Rksidknt Physician.
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REPORT
OF THE DENTAL SURGEON.
7j9 Me SSoarti of Siaio Ckariiios and Correci/oms/
Gentlkmkn: — 1 have the honor to present my report for the
year ending December 31, 1910.
The importance of this office has been established and its
benefit assured. Three hundred and sixty patients received
dental care during the past year, the same varying according
to conditions, as some require more attention than others.
Badly diseased and decayed teeth have been treated and filled,
artificial plates have been made and a general lack of good
oral conditions has been materially improved. I have noticed,
in many instances after treatment, a marked improvement in
prophylactic measures on the part of inmates and that interest
in this department is manifested by many of them.
Respectfully submitted,
ERVIN A. RANDALL,
Dkntal Surqkon.
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REPORT
of th«'
AGENT OF STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
Office of thk Agknt of State Ouarities and Corrections.
Providence, R. I. , January 1, 1911.
Tjo M# Sioarti ofSiai^ Chariiies and Correciionsf
Gentlemen: — The undersigned respectfully presents the re-
port of his department for the year 1910:
state hospital for the insane.
Men. Wtmeix. Total.
Number of patients January I. ivau .'>s5 .')16 iidi
Admitted durlnpr the year h« 149 HA2
Returned from parole L**i *J 45
Escaped patients returned 25 o 25
Total S25 tm 15ia
Discharged during the year 2:i u H2*
Paroled durlnor the year KW Stt iw
Escaped during the year : „ 29 o 2W
Died duiiug the year 64 4S 112
Total 224 148 867
Number remaining December 81. MO rtoi 645 1146
Of the 842 patients admitted to the Stiite Hospital for the
* One hundred and nineteen patients were discharged by explmtion of parole.
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l38 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIOKS.
Insane during the year, 276 were committed by the District
(yourtfl, sixty-one were admitted by order of the Board of State
Charities and (corrections, three were admitted voluntarily, and
two were removed thereto by order of a Justice of the Supreme
(Jourt.
Of the patients admitted in 1910, forty-five died, thirty-
four were discharged, twenty -one of whom were removed from
the State, and seventy-nine are out on parole. Thirty-seven
had been in the State Hospital for the Insane before, not count-
ing those returned from parole.
The sum of $25,521.49 was collected during the year for the
board, care and medical attendance of patients supported at the
State Hospital for the Insane by their relatives or friends.
The State Hospital for the Insane was opened for occupancy
November 7th, 1870, and from that date to the first day of Jan-
uary, 1871, there were received 118 insane persons, of whom
sixty-five were received from Butler Hospital, twenty-two from
the Vermont Asylum at Brattleboro, four from the Asylum at
Worcester, Massachusetts, two from the Asylum at Taunton,
Massachusetts, and twenty-five from the Town Poor-houses in
this State.
The following table shows the number remaining January 1,
1911, of the patients admitted each year since November 7,
1870:
i'far.
AffmiMionH,
litmnininQ
Jan. 1, 1911.
Vmr.
Atfiniftiiiotui.
Renminhig
Jan. 1. lyu.
187U
lis
8
1^2
18N
10
1H71
(\H
2
lH\Ki
214
22
1872
m
1
lS9t
IW
22
1H7-.J
:>H
2
l^U-J
IW
±i
IH7J
»l
1
lx^\
2(6
2il
1S75
rri»
5
urn
24a
2«i
1H7«
715
H
istw
IW
:^^
1877
58
4
istn)
21«
2:»
IS7H
44
:i
IWIO
277
HI
lH7i»
H4
1
im
2t*7
its
1^\
70
H
hto-i
:{2:J
:{2
ISSl
M
s
li««
:i40
4»J
1SS2
«U»
:i
')
li«M
H«C)
. . :{2I
5<»
IHKl
:m
in
1SH4
l«i
4
I'kh;
:^7«
7i*
1SK5
l:J7
IS
li*<»7
«»0
>^
ISSA
1«U
S
imK
;i45
1U7
1S87
U:i . .
11
imn*
l»lo
:J<U
15fi
IMW*
HU
10
)M2
l:*4
1S8W
1890
Ui>
KBi
0
7,518
i,m
1891
Xtt7
10
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189
STATE ALMSHOUSE.
}fni.
NuiTib«»r of inmateH Jan. 1, 1910 '^i*i
Kecelved during the year :S"4*
Born duiinff the year
Total 4JJ1
Discharged during the year vni
Died during the year ^ im
Total _ IW
Kemnlnins Jan. 1, 1911 - aw
Womni .
BftV".
(iirh.
TtifiU.
213
W
US
512
180
28
IS
»HU
18
12
25
H4H
{)H
917
tf7
19
21
199
m
10
10
190
^— -
ix\
29
81
889
21(»
MS
87
528
The following table shows the nuniberof inmates, adults and
children, of each sex, in the State Almshouse, on the first day
of January of each year, since the institution was opened for
occupancy in August, 1874.
Number of Inmates January 1.
Men.
W(ymnt .
Biiv*.
Oirlo.
Total.
1875
5JJ
49
18
21
141
1H76
61
62
20
21
164
1H77
68
«>
6
8
142
187H
61
66
9
4
140
1879
76
71
25
12
184
18H1>
71
m»
14
H
ii;2
IWl
70
77
21
4
178
1882
8N
m
12
5
171
1888
91
79
29
22
221
1884
86
m
8i>
15
200
1885
81
72
82
21
206
1886
108
65
18
12
198
1887
96
71
15
9
190
1888
100
72
14
19
205
1889
115
m
12
28
280
1890
116
102
17
20
255
1891
KB
H)0
11
22
2m
1892
itw
no
9
18
2:15
1898
11(»
127
14
2I»
271
1894
118
i;{8
12
19
277
1895
lU
126
19
18
277
lS9rt
187
146
28
18
829
1897
122
186
28
28
8»H»
1898
152
liyi
2i>
81
867
181*9
147
16t>
81
28
:{61
190«»
167
169
29
11
876
1901
174
176
«
18
.^J96
wm J
lt>0
175
86
19
420
1908
1W»
11*1
81
28
4:{5
19m
195
192
^
28
458
19«»5
225
201
84
24
4H4
19IW
219
216
87
29
501
1907
215
281
84
2S
508
1908
211
211
80
26
484
1909
242
216
41
28
527
1910
222
218
89
88
512
1911
210
46
«r
696
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Bristol :i
OMitral Falls
Coventry „
Cranston
1*
12
lii
(Cumberland .
f)
Kxeter
1
Kjist (Jrt»t>iiwlcb
Kast ProvldeniH*
F<)Ht«*r „_
.Johnston „
Lincoln
North Provlilonc'O
ts
- ... 1
4
«
Newport
H
Pawtuckot
a
140 STATE CHARITIBS AND CORRECTIONS.
The numbers received from the citiep and towns of the State
and from other sources were as follows:
From Burrlllvine h From North Smltlillekl 2
Nortli KliiKMtown 1
Provhifm-e 214
Piirtsniouth 4
" Snilthlh'Ul 5
** South Kint?stown 2
" Tlvorton „ i
Warren 4
" Warwick „ &
Wcwiisockot IJi
" Westerly ..„ _. 1
" K. I. S. P. C. toC 5
'* School for Feeble Minded 2
Total 4tt)
The above table includes the cliildren born at the Almsliouse
who are counted as coining from the same place as their moth-
ers.
The sum of $7,523.29 was colh^cted for the board of several
of the inmates from the cities and towns of their legal settle-
ment.
REMOVAL OF PAm>KR8.
There were removed, during the year, 274 persons. Of this
number, 214 were sent away from the State, fifty-two of whom
were sent to foreign countries, and sixty were sent to places
within the State.
Sixty-eight of the whole number had been inmates of the
Workhouse and House of Correction; ten, of the State Alms-
house; thirty-one, of the State Hospital for the Insane; nine,
of the Providence County Jail ; two, of the State Prison.
Included in the above total, 274, there were thirty-two in-
sane persons, of whom thirty-one were from the State Hospi-
tal for the Insane and one from the place where she had been
cared for temporarily.
LICENSED BOARDING PLACES FOR INFANTS.
Under the provisions of the law licensing and regulating the
receiving, boarding and kec^ping of infants, thirty-six licenses
were issued the past year, one-hundred and three infantinmates
were recorded and sixty-five visits to licensed places were made
by representatives of this department.
The number of licenses in effect December 81, 1910, was
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REPORT OP THE BOARD. 141
thirty-one, (listril>ii tod as follows: — fifteen in Providence, four
in East Providence, three in Cranston, one in Pawtucket, one
in Harrington, four in Newp(»rt, two in Foster, and one in East
Greenwich.
The Legislature at the January Session amended the law
^'Relating to the Receiving, Boardingand Keeping of Infants''
by requiring all persons f)oardiug infants for gain, hire, or re-
ward, under the age of seven years, to be licensed. Under
the old law the age of such infants was under two years.
This amendment has enabled our representative to look after
a very much larger number of children who certainly needed su-
pervision. These licensed places for boarding infants are not
only visited by a representative of this department, but by a
representative of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Chihlren and by the district nurses.
The followifig table shows the sums collected each month
durini; the year ending December 81, 1910, on account of the
several departments of the Agent's work :
Sfftfe St ait httthr Tmmpor-
IJoHpital. Afms/ioiisc. Jfof^jtUni. PriAnilhm. latum. Iiiffrrt>t,
.Innimry 1*2.^:? ti4 $1,018 71 $13 -ifl |2l> 40 |2 Oft
Kt'hruary I.SSI* IM .WI J7 18 2i» 48 nO 2 7»
Marcli l,Hlis -IT 5.^1 15 12 ()0 22 00 49 10 2 90
April lVm;-) .Vi l,2tW 11 18 2l» 10 H5 2 26
Mny 1.5«'2 rU) 195 01 U m 44 40 2 82
June I.SKT 58 110 87 18 2i» 19 50 122 00 2 rt8
July 3.():M) 88 1.0S8 9ii 12 M 16 00 1 ttd
Auffust 1.746 77 417 44 18 29 13 00 2 78
H*>pteinlHM- 1.H78 81 i:il» 29 18 00 3 1«
October 1.91rt 81» LOIC) 05 2<W5 II (K> 107
NovenilHM- l.«151 91 *J72 5t» 18 29 8105 13 50 2 62
JHHonil)er 8,106 15 7i7 2S 12 s<? 4 00 10 44 2 00
$2 ..521 19 47.52:{ 2t> *15<; 47 1256 70 fli6 31 $30 02
PROBATION WORK.
During the past year, 1183 persons were placed in the custo-
dy of the several prol)ation officers, divided as follows: Men,
477; women, 176; juveniles, 580.
The reports herewith submitted show the details of each
probation officer's work during the year.
REPORT OF CHARLKS E. MULUEARN, PROBATION OFFICER FOR MEN
AND BOYS OF THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE.
The following table will show the number of males placed on
probation in my custody in the Sixth District Court during the
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142 STATB CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
year, and also the ofTencoB with which they were charged :
ADULTH.
AkbauU ©
roiiimon drunkardH „ „ — ~. 6S
Oruelty to anlmHl8 ^ ^. 4
Cftrrylnu concealed weapon 3
DffHolnur property 2
Knibezzloment ~ 4
Bvadlnff railroad fare _ 2
liiirceny ^ 8S
!x)lterlnff In railroad station „ __ 6
Keepli.ff store open Sunday „ 2
Npf^lectlnfc to provide for minor children 8
Non-MUpport - 85
Nenrlectinff to send child to school 27
OverMpeedlnflr automobile „ 2
PeddHnir without license 8
Playiiiff Imll Sunday «
UocelvInK stolen Boods 2
Steallnir ride on frelirht tmin „ 1
Threat to Icill 1
Throwinjr irlass in street 2
Track- walking 8
VaKi-ancy 12 224
JT'VKNILKS.
Assault ^ „ 4
Defacluff property 1
Driving away horse and wairon 8
Ijarceny 121
Malicious mischief 4
liecelvIuK stolen property s
Selling liquor „ I
Stonlnir railroad train S
Sendins false alarm of lire 1
HtonluK street llfrhts 9
Track-walkliiff 8
Truancy _ 244
Vagrancy 2 40rt
Total numl>er fWO
Total number surrendered, 145, divided as follows: Adults,
fifteen ; juveniles, one hundred and thirty. Of this number
fifteen adults and fifty-three juveniles were sentenced. Sev-
enty-seven juveniles surrendered were again placed in the cus-
tody of the probation officer by the Court.
In the Juvenile Court every precaution is taken to adminis-
ter justice fairly to the })oy in trouble. The majority of the
boys arraigned plead guilty to the various offences with which
they are charged, but when a boy pleads not guilty his case is
continued to a certain day for hearing, and if he sliould be
friendless or without counsel the Court directs the probation
officer to defend him. In the mean time the probation officer
advises the boy au4 i?^ the trl^l ^ct^ ^ghl^^opnpel. Th^ mmn
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purpose in the defense of these cases is not the use of legal
knowledge to enable or assist the boy to escape punishment
through legal technicalities, but rather to elicit, if possible,
the true facts of the case in order that he may receive the bene-
fit of any doubt. Eight boys were defended in this manner
during the past year, of whom five were convicted and three
acquitted, and this work has been done with no additional cost
to the State.
All probationers are required to report weekly for a stated
time and the probation officer is charged with the collection of
their costs of Court; consequently, the relation between the
probationer and the probation oflicer assumes that of debtor
and creditor, thereby creating a situation detrimental to this
work; not only does it operate to prevent the probationer re-
porting when he can not pay the costs, but it makes the real
purpose of probation appear to the probationer subordinate to
the payment of costs. I believe, however, that with few ex-
ceptions probationers should be compelled to pay their costs,
but that the collection of the same should be separated from
the probation department.
In thepast year I collected for costs of Court from probationers
the sum of $684.65.
Thft non-support case presents a peculiar problem with which
t-o deal. While liquor contributes to the cause in a number of
these cases, the most frequent cause is the fact that husband
and wifecannot,or will not, agree, the spirit of selfishness being
the predominating influence in the home. The husband be-
comes indifferent and gives little or nothing towards the sup-
port of his family, compelling, in many instances, the wife and
mother to seek employment outside of her home to support the
family. Complaint then being made to the police, the husband
is brought into court, and, as a general rule, is placed on pro-
bation. The probation (»nicer must then familiarize himself
with all sides of the case and try to adjust their differences,
bringing the»n togf^ther if possible, and to induce the man,
either by moral persuasion or by threat of surrender, to sup-
port his family. The latter course, however, does not always
produce good results, for while he may not be keeping his agree-
ment to provide according to his means, giving only a little now
and then, yet when the wife appeals to the probation oflicer
^nd h^ decide? to surrender the Imsband to tbe Court the wife
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144 STATE CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.
objects, claiming that she now gets so mo money when if he
were imprisoned she would get nothing. The probation oflScer
realizes some justice in her position and that, in most cases, in
the event of the husband being surrendered and sentenced,
the family would be likely to become public charges. We fre-
quently have cases where it is found upon investigation that
the fault is that of the wife; but these cases are in the minor-
ity. I am of the opinion that the non-support law should be
made more strin^rent, whereby a man would be obliged to pro-
vide for his family or be sent to jail, and some method should
be devised to enable the family to receive his earnings while
so imprisoned or to receive out-door relief from the State.
Fifty-three vagrants in custody, liable to become public
charges, were sent from the State at an expense of 128.85;
twenty-six of this number paid their transportation expense.
The personal and family histories of fifty-eight males com-
mitted to the Sb-ito Hospital for the Ifisane from the Court,
were taken and recorded and delivered to the Agent of State
Charities and Corrections.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES E. MULHEARN,
Assistant Probation Officer.
REPORT OF MARGARET 11. DKNNEHY, PROBATION OFFICER FOR WOMEN
AND GIRLS OF THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE.
During the year 1910, one hundred and ten women and girls
were committed to the charge of the Probation Officer for
Women from the Sixth District Court, and thirteen girls from
the Juvenile Court.
Seven adults and one juvenile, who had violated the condi-
tions of their probation, were surrendered for sentence to the
Court.
Twenty cases were discontinued and thirty-four cases are
pending in the Sixth District Court and eleven cases are pend-
ing in the Juvenile Court.
Thirty-two girls, between fourteen and twenty years of age,
were arrested as suspicious persons by the police department
and turned over to your probation officer for safe keeping.
Those having good homes were restored to their families after
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receiving good advice, homes were found for the homeless ones,
and those belonging in other states were sent to their respect-
ive homes usually accompanied by their parents who had been
notified.
Twenty-nine women and girls were placed in private reform-
atory institutions in this State and one juvenile was placed in
an industrial home in the the State of New York.
Twenty women, professional evil doers, were returned to
their homes in other states.
As in past years, the Probation OflScer for Women works in
cordial co-operation with the Overseer of Poor, the Providence
Lying-in Hospital, and kindred organizations, and from her
position as Superintendent of the Providence Rescue Home
was able to shelter there, during the year, twenty-five unfor-
tunate women about to become mothers, and also to admit
twelve yuung mothers with their infants from the Providence
Lying-in Hospital.
Respectfully submitted,
MARGARET H. DENNEHY,
Probation Oepicer for Women and Girls.
REPORT OP THEOPUILUS TOPHAM, PROBATION OFFICER FOR THE CITY OF
NEWPORT.
During the year 1910, in Newport County, one hundred and
thirteen persons were placed on probation as follows : Juveniles,
forty-four; men, fifty-one; women, eighteen.
The disposition of cases was as follows: Cases discontinued,
twenty-eight; cases pending, sixty-five; surrendered for sen-
tence, twenty.
Six men and twelve women were sent out of the State.
One girl was placed at the House of the Good Shepherd in Prov-
idence. For this the girl and her mother were very grateful.
Judge Franklin, of the District Court, in many cases, especi-
ally in cases of violation of City Ordinances, has made a new
departure. Besides placing boys on probation, he has imposed
a fine on them, they to earn the amount of the fine.
Some of the boys placed on probation during the past year
were already on probation, but instead of surrendering them
for sentence the Court thought it best to arraign them under
new warrants and impose a fine on them which they were to earn
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and to place them again on probation until thefines were paid.
This makes my report of juveniles on probation look larger
than it actually is.
Two hundred and thirty- three dollars were collected in small
installments for the payment of costs of Court and fines.
During the year, six hundred and eighty-seven dollars were
collected from non-support probationers for the benefit of their
families.
Of the old cases, ninety-three are still pending; thirty have
been discontinued ; and eleven have been surrendered for sen-
tence.
On January 1, 1911, there were eighty-seven men, fifteen
women, and fifty-six juveniles on probation; total, one hun-
dred and fifty-eight.
Respectfully submitted,
THEOPHILUS TOPHAM,
Assistant Probation Officer.
REPORT OF JEIin DOWNES, PROBATION OFFICER FOR THE CITIES OF PAW-
TUCKET AND CKNTRAL FALLS AND THK TOWNS OF CUMBERLAND
AND LINCOLN.
During the year 1910, two hundred and nineteen persons
were placed in the custody of the probation officerof the above
named cities and towns under the jurisdiction of the Tenth and
Eleventh Judicial Districts as follows:
TENTH DISTRICT COURT,
One hundred and sixty-two persons were placed in the cus-
tody of the probation officer as follows : Men, (me hundred and
one; women, twenty-eight; juveniles, thirty-three.
The disposition of cases was as follows: Cases discontinued,
thirty-five; surrendered for sentence, twenty-six; cases pend-
ing, one hundred and one.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT COURT.
Fifty-seven persons were placed in the custody of the pro-
bation officer as follows : Men, forty; women, six; juveniles,
eleven.
The disposition of cases was as follows: Cases discontinued,
twenty-three; surrendered for sentence, eleven; caseg pendi
ing, twenty^hree.
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I have carefully examined the probation records of the Tenth
and Eleventh District Courts and have recommended the dis-
continuance of three hundred and eighteen cases as follows :
One hundred and thirty-three in the Tenth District Court and
one hundred and eighty-five in the Eleventh District Court.
All these cases were placed on probation previous to August 1,
1908, the date of my appointment as probation officer.
In looking over my work as Probation Officer for the past
year, I feel that my labor has not been in vain.
The probation work gives the officer an opportunity to study
human nature as no other work connected with the Courts of
this State does.
When a person is placed on probation it is the duty of the
officer to look into his or her home life, and to ascertain if pos-
sible why the person has gone astray and violated the laws of
the state, and whether he or she are responsible in themselves.
I find that if one can ascertain the cause, in a large percentage
of the cases it can be remedied.
In all non-support cases I have worked with the overseers-of-
the-poor, and have visited the homes of the probationers and
in some instances I have found that the person arrested on such
a charge has not altogether been to blame. I have collected
considerable money from men in the past year for the support
of wives and children, and have turned it over to the wives. It
would be well in many of these cases if the Court could deal
jointly with the husband and wife for mismanagement of the
home.
The juvenile work is seriously handicapped because of the
lack of a detention school or home. While we cannot speak
too highly of the Sockanosset and Oaklawn School and the
grand work they are doing for the boys and girls, I believe that
we should have a place where children could be temporaily
cared for.
My work as truant officer in one of the cities of the State
brings me into close touch with delinquent pupils. The boy
or girl who has been a little unruly, the average truant or school
offender, is not a criminal, and should not be placed in a school
for criminal juveniles. The need of a detention school in this
State is fully recognized by the Courts and school authorities,
as well as probation officers and others connected with this
\york. I also feel from my, close connectiop with ^he juvenile
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work the pressing need of a law which will allow the custodian
of a child to bring a wayward or incorrigible child before the
Court without subjecting him to a charge of truancy or vag-
rancy.
Respectably submitted,
JEIIU DOWNE8,
Assistant Probation Officer.
During the year 1910, in the c(»unties of Providence, Wash-
ington and Kent, sixty-dve persons w(*re placed in the custody
of the State Prol)ation Oificer by a Justice of the Superior
Court, divided as follows : Adults, forty-six; juveniles, nine-
teen.
Seven adults and five juveniles were surrendered for sen-
tence; the case of one adult was discontinued ; cases pending,
fifty-two; adults, thirty-eight; juveniles, fourteen.
During the year 1910, in the Seventh District Court, seven-
teen persons were placed in the custody of the probation oflTi-
cer, divided as follows: Adults, seven; juveniles, ten.
The disposition of cases was as follows : Surrendered for sen-
tence, two; discontinued, seven; cases pending, eight.
During the year 1910, in the Fifth District Court, sixteen
persons were placed in the custody of the probation officer,
divided as follows: Adults, nine; juveniles, seven.
The disposition of cases was as follows: Cases dij^continued,
two; cases pending; adults, eight; juveniles, six; total, four-
teen.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER R. WIGHTMAN,
State Probation Officer.
INDETERMINATE SENTENCE.
In March, 1903, the Board of State Charities and Corrections
passed the following resolution :
'^'^tOhereas, the system of puiiishniont by indeterminate sen-
tence and parole has been adopted in many states, and has
been approved by national organizations interested in the
treatment of criminals, and has in its application proved bene-
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ficial to tlie criminal and of advantage to the state, therefore
be it
^esoived. That this Board respectfully recommends to the
General Asseml)ly the consideration of this subject with a view
to the ainefidment of the laws relative to punishments and pen-
alties, so that they may conform, as far as practicable, to the
system of indeterminate sentence and parole as adopted by
other states."
The Governor of the vState in his annual messages has re-
peatedly urged the passage of an Indeterminate Sentence Law.
In the opinion of the Attorney General of the State, before
such a law 3an be properly framed and submitted to the Legis-
lature, a revision of the criminal laws is absolutely necessary,
for no law of Indeterminate Sentence can accomplish its legiti-
mate purpose unless the criminal laws are revised to provide
for a maximum and minimum penalty for each offence.
The legislature of this State in the January Session of 1910,
appointed a commission to revise the criminal laws and that
commission is now actively engaged in the work, and the pub-
lic, during the year 1911, will have an opportunity to be heard
before such revision becomes the law of the State. In connec-
tion with such revision the commission will undoubtedly frame
a law providing for the indeterminate sentence of criminals sen-
tenced to the Rhode Island State Priscm and also provide in
such law for a board of parole.
In 1874, the Elmira Reformatory was established in the State
of New York and in 1884 the Concord Reformatory in the State
of Massachusetts. These institutions appear to have been
founded to carry out what was called in England the "Crofton
System,'' based largdy upon a change of treatment, from stern
to gentle, according to apparent evidence that the prisoner was
worthy of such change.
Indeterminate Sentence was first instituted in Massachusetts
in 188(1, and applied only to inmates of the Concord Reforma-
tory ; the value and jnstice of such a law was quickly appreci-
ated by the law makers of other states and now some form of
a law of Indeterminate SentcMice and Parole is in operation in
most of the Eastern, Middle, and Western States.
It is without doubt that Indeterminate Sentence Laws which
are so framed as properly to provide justice to the criminal,
and safety to the public, will prove beneficial to all concerned.
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They are intended to bring about a change in the attitude of
the prison officials toward the pristmer and vice versa. There
are different methods used to bring about his reform. Theor-
etically without the Indeterminate Sentence, the prison war-
den is simply a guard over the prisoners; with it, he acts in the
capaoity not only of a guard but as a teacher and guide as well,
and tries to prepare the prisoner so that he may take his place
among citizens, and conduct himself properly. The imprison-
ed man himself knows that he should exert every effort to re-
gain his liberty, that he must cast aside his lax and degenerate
methods of living and prepare himself to become a law-abiding
and self controlled member of society. He sees that there is
much for him to do, that his future is largely in his own hands,
that the improvements in his character and conduct will, per-
haps, warrant his release. If the criminal can be convinced
that he will be released as soon as it shall become apparent to
the officers who have him in charge that society has no longer
anything to fear from him, and that if in turn he can convince
them of this fact by his own conduct in prison, from that mo-
ment, his good will is gained and the rest is comparatively
easy. The system of reformation under the Indeterminate Sen-
tence furnishes a development, very often obtained through
constant manual work, study, and training, so that the prison-
er, who pursues conscientiously and faithfully the course out-
lined for him, must, after a lapse of sometime, understand the
attitude he should take toward society if he wishes to be liber-
ated.
Practically it is a question of disposition on the part of the
man committed. The attitude which he assumes, the person-
ality which he acquires, and his aspect of life determine his
destiny. The character of the crime committed was punished
by the Judge of the Oourt with greater or less severity by a
minimum sentence determined by the gravity of the crime,
and the maximum sentence pronounced at the same time was
either shortened or lengthened for the same reason. The im-
portant factors are, how long shall the prisoner be confined
after the minimum sentence has expired and what will be the
kind of treatment that the prisoner should receive while con-
fined to enable him to earn his parole. A man should be
committed to prison because he is dangerous to society, and if
his temperament does not change, he should be restrained in
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prison until the expiration o*f his maximum term. No person
dangerous to society should be allowed to run at large, and no
person should be restrained when he has given evidence that
he is ready and prepared to lead an honorable life and will
not in the future be a menace to his community.
Inequality of sentence tends to breed dissatisfaction, an
unresting inequality which cannot be corrected by legislature
or court. The Indeterminate Sentence, however, provides an
equitable minimum and maximum term ofsentence commen-
surate with the violation of the criminal laws, joined with
identical conditions by which to reduce it to the minimum
term prescribed by law. No longer do we find the idea of an
unconditional pardon, but the prisoner fully understands that
his release is a matter for which he himself must do the pre-
paring. When it is advisable and not imcompatible with the
safety of society, the authorities desire his release, and will
help him to obtain it. The prison officials cooperate with him
in the efforts for his restoration to citizenship, and free social
life. The thought of a release frees his mind from depressing
influences, and he will exert every power to gain ground by
diligence and obedience in the mind of his superiors. He
tends to form habits which eventually become fixed.
A great fault of the Indeterminate Sentence of the past has
been found in making the maximum term too low. The defect
in this can be readily seen. If the maximum term is low many
prisoners would not consider it worth while to obey strictly and
conscientiously all the rules, and perhaps would not even try
to get their release, because they would be sure of freedom from
further restraint when the short maximum term expired, furth-
ermore after parole the maximum sentence is a deterring influ-
ence. With a high maximum term, however, those are scarce
who would not do their utmost to secure release as quickly as
possible after the minimum term has passed by. 'It seems cer-
tain, therefor, that a high maximum term is imperative to
carry out this law successfully.
The decision as to who should be allowed the advantage of
this law should rest with a carefully selected board of parole.
As we are all aware, the liberty of a criminal in a community
effects that community in all respects. It is important then
that the men who comprise this board should represent the
state, society, and the industrial centre in every respect. Con-
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sidering this the following tnen ftiight be recommended to
serve on this board. The Governor of the Stat^, the Attorney
General, the presiding Justiceof the Superior Court, the Chair-
man of the Board of State Charities and Corrections, and the
President of the Providence Board of Trade. These five rep-
resentative men are surely competent to protect the interests
of the public and State, and can furnish or obtain all the facts
necessary to consider the release of a prisoner. The Board
of Parole is made up in such a way that alterilates or substi-
tutes could easily be provided for in the law. The Lieu-
tenant Governor could serve in the absence of the Governor,
an Assistant Attorney General for the Attorney General, a
Judge of the Superior Court appointed by the presiding Jus-
tice, a member of the Board of State Charities and Corrections
couhi take the place of the (Chairman of that Board, and the
Providence Board of Trade could easily elect one of their mem-
bers to serve in the absence of the President.
The Governor should be a member, since he is the Chief Ex-
ecutive of the State. The Attorney GeneraPs department has
the grand jury records of all prisoners sentenced in the Super-
ior Court and is the prosecuting oflScer in all criminal cases
tried in said Court. The Judge of the Superior Court serving
on this board may have been the one to have sentenced the
prisoner and consequently heard the case against him. Such
men as these would be specially qualified, since their duties
bring them into cases in which men who would be serving un-
der the Indeterminate Sentence Law would be involved. The
Chairman of the Board of State Charities and Corrections has
access to the prison record and the records of the State Proba-
tion Officer. In his position, he would be able to find the real
inside information. Again he has at his command the physi-
cians of the State Institutions, who are acquainted with the
mental and physical conditions of all inmates. The Warden
of the State Prison would be called upon by the Chairman of
the Board of State Charities and Corrections to give in detail
his opinion of any prisoner who petitions for release. As War-
den, he notices all the improvements and deteriorations in
character, and his study of the prisoner has put him in a posi-
tion to judge, whether or not, that prisoner is eligible to go
freely in society with a certain high degree of safety. Very
often industrial and residential communities object to certain
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men being released. For their benefit the President of the
Providence Board of Trade is named as a member. He is in a
position to ascertain the general attitude of the public regard-
ing the safety and feasibility of release to past offenders.
With these men then, we could be sure that the business would
be administered carefully and judicially.
Such members of a Board of Parole would serve without
compensation. Not more than four meetings would be called
any one year and the time required to carry out the work would
be of short duration, and the value and purpose of the work
done would be suflScient reward for their services,
The Board should be empowered to make rules and regula-
tions as it may deem necessary upon which any convict may go
upon parole. A paroled convict would still be under tlie legal
custody of the State and under control of the Board of Parole,
the composition of which has been mentioned previounly. If
he violates the rules of parole, the Board should have author-
ity to cause his rearrest. A paroled prisoner who has been re-
turned for violation of parole, should be retained in prison for
a period equal to the unexpired term of his sentence, at the
date of the request or order for his return. The time which
he spent on parole should not be considered as part of the un-
expired term.
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BUTLKR HOSPITAL.
Men. Women. Total.
Number of patients January 1. 1910 -... ^ 77 148
Admitted during the year „ 5© «8 13B
Total under treatment durlnfc tbe year „ - 126 140 386
DlNC ha rired during the year 54 ft4 UH
Romalnlnff January 1. 191) 71 76 147
Of the number discharged, twenty-six had recovered, thirty-
five were improved, thirty-three were unimproved and twenty-
four had died.
HTATIHTI08 OF 8TATK PATIKNT8.
Remaining January 1, 1»10, State patients i9
Remaining January 1, 191U, Htate benetlciarles 14 4«
Admitted during the year, State patients 17
Admitted during the year, Htate I)enetlelarle8 _ 1 IH
«1
Discharged during the year 19
l»led during the year .. 4 28
Remaining January 1, 19in 88
Divided as follows:
24 State patients at 170 (M) per quarter.
10 State beneficiaries at t^i (M» per quarter.
4 State l)eneflclarles at ^( (lo per quarter.
The total amount paid for the support of the
State patients for the year ending December 31,
1910 was 18,209 01
The total amount expended for Htate benefl-
clarles was 1,422 61
S9.08I 62
Of those discharged, seven had recovered, six were improv-
ed, six were unimproved and four had died.
Respectfully submitted,
WALTER R. WIGHTMAN,
Agent op Statk Charities and Oorrectionb.
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OFFICERS OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE OVERSEERS
OF THE POOR.
President, Edmund Walker. Vice President, Philip Brady.
Secretary and Treasurer, Thomas B. Maymon.
Executive CommiUee.
John B. Brown, M. J. Cummings, L. H. Pbabodv'
Charles H. Bliss, Timothy Andrews.
ArhUration Committee.
John T. Barber, Oeorqe B. Carpenter, Philip Caswell,
John H.Brown, Walter R. Wightman.
overseers op poor op RHODE ISLAND WITH THEIR P. 0. ADDRESSES.
Barrington William S. Martin Barrington Center.
Bristol Philip Brady Bristol.
Burrillvill** Gilbert S. Taft Pascoag.
Central Falls Leonidas Franklin Central Falls.
Charlestown Elisha S. Card Sliannock.
Coventry Warren M. Greene Washington.
Cranston John A. Hamilton Cranston Print Works.
Cumberland Edward Halloran Valley Falls.
East Greenwich Timothy Andrews East Greenwicli.
East Providence Frank T. Calef, M. D East Providonee.
Exeter William C. Hathaway Slocum.
Foster G. P. Lyon Greene.
Glocester Seth H. Steere North Scituate.
Hopkinton Geo. B. Carpenter Ashaway.
Jamestown Amos L. Peckham Jamestown.
Johnston James F. Nichols Thornton.
Lincoln Job Asli worth Saylesville, Town
Farm.
Little Compton Wm. H. Briggs Little Compton.
Middletown Joseph A. Peckham Pres. Town Council,
Newport.
Narragansett.^ T. Elliot Tucker Narragansett Pier.
Newport Robert Kerr Ch. Overseers of Poor,
Newport.
New Shoreham Charles Littlefleld Block Island.
North Kingstown... Geo. (J. Cranston Lafayette.
North Providence.. Louis Dagostino Pawtucket
North Smithfleld..„ W. Chester Thayer Woonsocket.
Pawtucket William M. Peckham Pawtucket.
Providence Matthew J. Cummings Providence.
Portsmouth John B. Cornell „. Portsmouth.
Richmond . Rev. Warren Dawley West Kingson.
Scituate Ashton Slater : South Scituate.
Smithfleld Emor H. Mowry Smithfleld.
South Kingstown.... Edmund Walker Wakefield.
Tiverton A. L. Hambly (acting).... Tiverton.
Warren Charles H. Bliss Warren.
Warwick Elihu R. Shippee ....„ Centreville.
West Greenwich George W. Fish Nooseneck Hill.
Westerly Ellery Barber Westerly.
WooDBooket , — AdelbertD. Roberts Woonaocket,
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APPENDIX A.
ACTS AND RESOLVES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED
AT THE JANUARY SESSION, 1910, RELATING TO THE
BOARD OF STATE CHARITIES AND CORREC-
TIONS, ITS OFFICERS AND THE STATE
INSTITUTIONS IN CRANSTON.
^oard of fSiai& Chart it 0s and Correei/ons.
For the support and maintenance of the several institutions
under the control of the hoard of state charities and correc-
tions, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to
the moneys received by them which shall have been paid into
the treasury, which moneys are hereby appropriated for their
use, excepting so much thereof as may be received for fines
and costs.
RESOLUTION creating a joint special committee on the
criminal laws of the state.
[Approved April 2», 1»10]
Xesoiveeij That a joint special committee, consisting of two
members of the house of representatives and one member of
the senate, to be appointed by the governor, be and the same
is hereby created for the purpose of taking into consideration
and revising, simplifying, and improving the laws of the state
relative to crimes and punishment, proceedings in criminal
cases, and fines, penalties, forfeitures, and imprisonment, or
so much thereof as said committee may deem necessary or ad-
visable. Said committee is directed to report in print to the
general assembly not later than February first, A. D. 1911,
such recommendations and changes in the existing laws as said
committee may deem necessary or advisable. Said committee
is authorized to give hearings, and generally do and perform
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such acts as it may deem necessary for a full consideration of
said subject and for the performance of its duties hereunder.
Such sums as may be required to defray the expenses of said
committee in the performance of its duties hereunder are
hereby appropriated therefor out of any money in the treas-
ury not otherwise appropriated ; and the state auditor is here-
by directed to draw his orders on the general treasurer for the
payment of the same, upon vouchers signed by said commit-
tee and approved by the governor.
Chapter 582.
AN AOT in amendment of and in addition to Chapter 44 of
the general laws.
[Appoved May 2, 1910.]
Si is &naei&ti dy iA& S&n&rai J'tssembiy as Miowsf
Section 1. Chapter 44 of the General Laws is hereby amend-
ed by the addition of the following sections:
''Sec. 42. Every officer, board, commission, and commission-
er for which an appropriation is made shall annually, on or
before the tenth day of January of each year, render to the
state auditor a complete and itemized statement of all bills and
accounts incurred, due and remaining unpaid, together with a
statement of the unexpended balance of said appropriation ;
and the state auditor is hereby directed to compile, arrange,
and transmit to the general treasurer, on or before the fif-
teenth day of January of each year, such statements, and the
general treasurer is hereby directed to publish such state-
ments in his annual report to the general assembly.''
Sbc. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
Chapter 531.
[Approved March 30, 1010.]
AN ACT in amendment of section 18 of Chapter 322 of the
general laws.
Si is enacieti 6jf ihe Sen&rai ^ss&m6iy as Miomsf
Section 1. Section 13 of Chapter 322 of the General Laws
is hereby amended so as to read as follows :
'*Sec. 13. Whenever a writ of habeas corpus shall issue from
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either the supremo or superior courts for the production and
appearance before it of a prisoner confined in said jail, state
reform school, or state workhouse, such writ shall be delivered
to the sheriiF of the county where said prisoner shall be re-
quired to be produced or appear, or to his deputy, and when-
ever such writ is issued from any other court, such writ shall
be delivered to the sheriff of the county, his deputy, or to any
town sergeant or chief of police or police constable in such
county, who shall duly present the same to said keeper of said
jail or superintendent of said reform school or state workhouse,
and said keeper or superintendent shall thereupon deliver to
the custody of such officer such prisoner, and such officer shall
shall take and receive inU) his custody such prisoner, and shall
duly present him before said court pursuant to the commands
of said writ, and shall keep and hold such prisoner until by or-
der of said court he shall be recommitted to jail or other insti-
tutions or otherwise disposed of. Upon the delivery of the
custody of such prisoner by said keeper or superintendent to
such officer, said keeper or superintendent shall endorse such
delivery up(m said writ, and said officer shall receipt on the
books of said jail or state reform school or state workhouse for
such custody; and said officer, upon the production of such
prisoner in court, shall further endorse such fact on said writ
and deliver the same to the clerk or (if there be no clerk) the
presiding justice thereof; but shall, as an officer of said court,
maintain safe custody of such prisoner until he shall be, by
further ord^r thereof, recommitted or discharged.''
Sec 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and all
acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed.
Chapter 548.
AN AOT in amemdment of chapter 141 of the general laws,
entitled ''Licensing and regulating the receiving, board-
ing, and keeping of Infants."
[Approved April a), 1910.]
Si is &naci&ei dy ihe Sen&rai jfss&mdiy as Miows.'
Section 1. Section 1 of Chapter 141 of the General Laws,
entitled "Of licensing and regulating the receiving, boarding,
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and keeping of infants," is hereby amended so as to read as
follows :
''Section 1. No person, other than the managers of any
state institutions, the corporations and societies enumerated in
Section 8 of Chapter 189 of the General Laws, any charitable
institution incorporated by an act of the general assembly of
this state, with authority to aid, support, or care for infants,
or any duly authorized oflBcers or agents of any of the same,
shall receive, bonrd, or keep for hire, gain, or reward, any in-
fant under the age of seven years not related by blood or mar-
riage to, or not legally adopted by, or not legally committed
by order of any court to, such person, unless licensed in writ-
ing by the board of state charities and corrections. Every per-
son violating any of the provisions of this section shall, for
each such offence, be punished by a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year,
or by both such fine and imprisonment: ff^rovid^d, that if in
any prosecution under this chapter the defendant relies upon
his relationship to, or right to the legal custody of such infant
in defence, the burden shall be upon the defendant to prove
such relationship or right to legal custody."
Sec. 2. Section 6 of Chapter 141 of the General Laws, en-
titled *'0f licensing and regulating the receiving, boarding,
and keeping of infants,'' is hereby amended so as to read as
follows :
**Sec. 6. Every person, licensed as aforesaid, receiving un-
der his care or control, for hire, gain, or reward, or placing un-
der the care or control of another, any infant under seven years
of age not related hy blood or marriage to, or not legally adopt-
ed by, such other person, to be kept under the care and control
of such other person for hire, gain, or reward, shall, within
two days after such reception or placing, give notice to the
board of state charities and corrections of such reception or
placing under control and its terms, with the names, ages, and
residences af such infant and of its parents, so far as known to
the person giving such notice."
Sec. 8. Section 7 of Chapter 141 of the General Laws, en-
titled **0f licensing and regulating the receiving, boarding,
and keeping of infants," is hereby amended so as to read as
follows :
**Sec. 7. Fvery person violating any of the provisions of
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section four or section six of this chapter, shall, for each such
offence, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dol-
lars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both
such fine and imprisonment.''
Sec. 4. Chapter 141 of the General Laws, entitled *'0f li-
censing and regulating the receiving, boarding, and keeping
of infants, *' is hereby amended by adding thereto the follow-
ing section :
''Sec. 8. The provisions of this chapter shall not in any
manner affect or impair the rights, powers, and duties con-
ferred and imposed, by Chapter 98 of the General Laws, upon
overseers of the p^ior, relative to the settled poor within their
respective cities and towns.'*
See. 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
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APPENDIX B.
DESCRIPTION of proposed buildings to be erected at the
State Institutions in Cranston, by Messrs. Martin & Hall,
Architects.
ZTo ihe ^oarti of ^iaie Chariiies and Correciionst"
^'Gentlemen: — During the past year the Board has devoted
much time and study to the problem of providing the additional
buildings and facilities needed to meet the requirements of
the several departments and a special Committee has visited
some of the recently constructed buildings of other States to
obtain information that will result in the construction of build-
ings that will fulfill the conditions of modern practice and be
properly and completely equipped for their intended use. Af-
ter taking into consideration the requirements of the depart-
ments, nearly all of which need additional room and buildings,
it was finally decided to construct a Reception Hospital for
the Insane, a County Jail, a Trades' School at the Sockanosset
School for Boys, and a Cottage for the Superintendent of the
State Farm. Martin & Hall, Architects, were engaged to pre-
pare plans for these buildings and work has so far advanced
that building operations will commence in the early spring and
be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible.''
*'A description of each building from the Architects' plans
is appended."
RECEPTION HOSPITAL.
*'The Reception Hospital will form a unit of the group of
buildings for the insane, although it is a separate and distinct
building, located north of that group, and will be arranged and
fitted with every convenience and appliance for the examina-
tion and early treatment of newly admitted cases. This build-
ing, fronting the south, will occupy a site on comparatively
high land, bounded on the east by Howard Ave. and on the
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south by the road extending from Howard Ave. westerly.*'
**The long dimension of the building, east to west, is 461
feet and the structure should be considered as divided at the
center by a north and south line into male and female sections
or departments, the female section occupying the portion of
the building from the center line east toward Howard Ave. and
the male section the westerly portion."
*'The administration section is centrally located and fronts
the road from Howard Ave. and two wings are disposed on the
extreme east and west ends; the wings are 102 feet long and 87
feet wide, and the space between each wing and the adminis-
tration section is occupied by large open wards and day rooms
on each floor with out-of-door balconies where patients sleep
during treatment. Other isolated balconies for sleeping or re-
creation purposes are provided on the east and west ends and
north sides.''
''In the center of the Administration section is located the
main entrance, fronting the south, and having a porch and
driveway entrance protected by aporte cochere; the building
is divided on the center line of this entrance into male and fe-
male sections as befor3 described all patients are received at
this entrance."
''Immediately adjoining the entrance is a reception room
and an admission room and the office and private office of the
physician in charge is located near at hand. At the right and
left are chambers with disrobing rooms and baths, one for men
and one for women, which are to be used by incoming patients
during the period of examination and study and before they are
admitted to the wards. A commodious stairway connects the
various floors rising from the central hall of the administration
section and north of this hall is located the surgical department
and operating room, in connection with which are sterilizing
rooms, preparation rooms, etherizing room and general supply
rooms and toilets. This surgical section is entirely cut off
from any other portions of the building and is thorougly light-
ed from overhead skylights and will be equipped with a mod-
ern outfit."
"In the second story of the administration section are the
apartments of the physician in charge, a suite for his assis-
tant, chambers for nurses and a nurses' class-room for gener^
al instruction."
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'"In the third story is a reception hall or sitting room for
the nurses and surrounding the same and occupying the en-
tire third floor are chambers for nurses and attendants and
the usual complement of bathrooms and lavatories. The front
of the third story is given over to a suite of rooms for the ma-
tron in charge.''
''A large platform elevator arranged for hospital use, and to
accommadate stretcher?, rises from the basement to the top
story."
''In the basement of the administration section is a depart-
ment devoted to hydrotherapeutics which will have a complete
equipment of baths and other devices used in this modern
form of treatment; provision is also made for a kitchen, which
can be used as a cooking school, and for general serving rooms,
which will supply the diet kitchens on the floors above and
nurses' and servants' dining rooms."
''A fully equipped pathological laboratory arranged with
large windows for microscopic research is located in one end
of this basement and the balance of the space is given over to
rooms for trunks and laundry for the nurses and to storage-
rooms and lavatories."
''The food supply for this building will be prepared in the
present kitchens and will be trucked to the reception hospi-
tal by way of an underground tunnel which will connect the
buildings and in which will be run thesteamand water mains."
"East and west of the administration section are open wards,
two on each floor in each wing, eight in all, and each ward ac-
commadates ten beds; centrally located between the wards,
on each floor of each wing, is a large day-room, out of which
opens an out-door recreation balcony."
"On the south side of the ward section in each story are
open sleeping babonies arranged to be open in summer and
closed or partially closed in winter and accommadating ten
beds each."
"Adjoining each ward on each floor is a dining-room for pa-
tients with a connecting serving room supplied from the base-
ment by dumbwaiters."
"Each ward on each floor is provided with a lavatory ar-
ranged to serve both wards and sleeping balconies, a clothes-
room, having a locker for each patient, large linen rooms and
utility closets; chutes for each floor run to the basement and
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towel-drying shafts are provided.**
''The administration section is three stories in height, the
ward wings are two stories and the east and west wings three
stories, and on the first and second floors of the east and west
wings are ten one-bed wards, five of which are specially de-
signed for isolating the noisy and more violent cases. In these
wings are located the bathing facilities and lavatories for pa-
tients of the wards and wings. In the first story is a room
equipped with four tubs for use in the continuous bath treat-
ment. In the third story of these wings at the south end is a
large open dormitory and the balance of these is given over to
rooms for attendants, bathrooms, lavatories, closets, etc. In
each of these end wings and arranged in conection with the
ward sections is an iron stairway which serves the purpose of
an enclosed fire escape. Fire escapes are provided on the ex-
terior of the buildings at proper points to serve all portions.
On the south ends of each wing is a solarium. The basements
under the wards and wings are open and can be used for gen*
eral storage, except at the north end where arrangements are
made for a mortuary and an autopsy room.*'
''The buildings will be built of brick, and, while not of fire-
proof construction, are so divided into sections by brick walls
and fireproof doors that it will be impossible for fire to make
rapid headway. The exterior treatment of the building is
simple, following Colonial lines, and will result in a dignified,
well proportioned structure, expressing the occupation for
which it is designed.**
"Modern systems of heating and ventilation will be install-
ed and the plumbing equipment will be carefully designed and
special institutional fixtures provided.'*
PROVIDENCE COUNTY JAIL.
"Increased accommadations at the Prison and Jail have been
urged by the Board, in its annual reports, for more than fif-
teen years and conditions are such at the present time that it
is imperative that new buildings be provided at once; a care-
ful study of the requirements taking into consideration future
development and growth, suggests that the time has arrived
when the Prison and Jail should occupy entirely separated
groups of buildings, closely adjoining each other, but as far as
occupation and use is concerned, entirely separate and apart^**
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^'Planshave been prepared for a new group of buildings, lo-
cated to the south of the present Prison, on the site chosen by
the Board some years ago. This new group of buildings will
be arranged wholly for County Jail occupation, relieving the
crowded condition of the present structures which in the future
will be dedicated to Prison uses.''
"'The new Jail with its enclosed yard will occupy a rectang-
ular shaped site, of about three and one-half acres in area,
south of and adjoining the present Prison yard, the south wall
of which will be the north wall of the Jail enclosure. This
wall will be pierced by an opening over which will be located
a sentry box arranged for the observation of both enclosures.''
''The exact dimensions of this area are 392 feet east and west
and 886 feet north and south and the group is so planned that
but little new wall is required, the buildings surrounding most
of the area. Closure walls, 86 feet in length, will be built
along the east and west lines between the north ends of the
Jail buildings and the wall of the Prison yard. A cell wing 278
feet long and 67 feet wide occupies a position along both the
east and west boundry lines. An Administration building is
centrally located along the south line and between this build-
ing and each of the Cell wings are workshops connecting the
Administration building with the said wings."
"In the rear of the Administration building is located a Cen-
tral wing, devoted to a mess room, communicating with which
is a kitchen and bakery and above the mess room is the Chapel.
A detached building for hospital uses is planned in the rear of
the kitchen wing."
"The new buildings will have complete accommodations for
500 prisoners and will be so arranged that commitments may
be made by way of the present Prison, passing through both
yards, or by an entrance centrally located in the new Admin-
istration building."
"The Administration building will have a rotunda or recep-
tion room, an office for the warden or other officer in charge,
an officers' waiting room, medical examining room, dispensary,
barber shop, tailor shop, a clothes room and an officers' dining
room."
"A stairway adjacent to the rotunda rises to the second story
in which are sleeping accommodatiions for the officers of the
institution, including the matron, and the usual complement
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of bathrooms is provided. Workshops are arranged east and
west of the Administration building two stories in height, two
shops in each 48 feet by 94 feet, and beyond on each side are
the Cell wings, each containing 260 cells arranged in three tiers.
These cells will be of steel construction with enclosed balcon-
ies and a utility corridor will extend between each bank of
cells in which space will be run the plumbing and ventilating
pipes/'
''Stairways from the different tiers-gjve access to a passage
through the shops. Each passage is separated from the Work-
shops proper by a grating extending lengthwise of the building.
Other stairways rise between the workshop stories from the
basements in which are located shower baths so arranged that
all of the prisoners in each wing may bathe in groups of 100 or
more. This bathing arrangement is being widely adopted in
modern prison construction. The basement of the Adminis-
tration building is given over to storage rooms and large rooms
in which prisoners may undress and dress preparatory to bath-
ing. A corridor with a stairway connects the Administration
and mess room buildings. '^
''The mess room is 50 feet by 80 feet in size and in this
building opening from the corridor is a library and a debtors'
reading room. A stairway rises to the second story and opens
upon a Chapel 50 feet by 96 feet, having a stage at the north
end and a balcony, approached from the staircase, extends
across the south end over which is a sentry's gallery. Beyond
the mess room on the first floor are large storage rooms for cloth-
ing and for kitchen supplies, and a corridor with a staircase
crosses the building from east to west, north of which is the
kitchen and bakery 54 feet square which will be fitted with
modern culinary equipment."
"Above the kitchen is the laundry and ironing room with a
large clothes room and store room adjoining and from the cor-
ridor at this end of the building the platform in the Chapel
can be approached. The basements of the mess room and
kitchen wings are devoted wholly to storage."
"The Hospital building is to be equipped with all modern
conveniences for taking care of any sickness that may develop
and provision will be made for an operating room."
"The end of one of the Jail wings is arranged for the accom-
modation of the criminal insane and one end of the Jail yard
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will be walled off and adopted for isolating this class of pris-
oners.''
'*The level of the new yard or enclosure has been fixed at a
point one foot below that of the prison yard. The soil from the
entire area will be removed and then the new yard will be fill-
ed to a depth of about 8 feet to bring it up to the surface. The
filling will come from the cellar excavations and the balance
will be taken from land near the Prison.''
''The problem of sewerage disposal from the new buildings
was worked out some time ago and a new system of sewers was
installed at that time consisting of an 8 inch main about 1100
feet in length extending to the sewerage fields."
*'The problem of water and gas supply has been solved and
provision made for extending the mains for these purposes."
"The exterior design of the building will follow closely that
of the Prison. The architectual lines will be less broken and
the detail less ornate, the intention being to have the Jail sub-
ordinate in appearance to the Prison."
TRADES SCHOOL AT S0CKAN0S8KT.
''The Trades School will occupy a position fronting the pa-
rade ground and is a building of simple design of mill con-
struction, 184 feet long and 84 feet wide, two stories in height.
The exterior walls will be cement finished to conform with the
other buildings of this group."
"On each floor above the basement, a transverse hall divides
the building into two sections. In this hall is a stairway run-
ning from the basement to the second story with a lavatory on
each floor and lockers will be placed along the wall sides."
"In the first story is a laundry, machine shop, carpenter
shop, and printing oflBce and in the second story a pipe shop,
shoe shop, paint shop and sewing room. The basement is un-
divided by partitions and will be devoted to storage rooms, al-
though it will be well out of ground and can in the future be
divided into shops. Doors for receiving stock are provided for
each of the floors at the rear and a machine equipment will be
installed in each of the shops."
COTTAGE FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT OP THE STATE FARM.
"This building will be located well back on the land border-
ing on Pontiac avenue and immediately opposite the Alms-
house, It will be a shingled structure 81 feet by 46 feet in
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size, two and one-half stories in height with a hipped roof."
''The entrance is at the center facing Pontiac avenue and
opens into a hall with a large living room on the west side of
the first story and a dining room with china closet and pantry
on the east, adjoining which is a kitchen with a rear entrance
on the southerly side.''
'*A front stairway extends through to the attic. In the
second story are four chambers and a bathroom and in the third
story are located three chambers with a servant's room and
bath adjoining."
''The building is simple in design of substantial construction
and will be equipped with a modern system of heating, plumb-
ing and lighting."
Respectfully submitted,
MARTIN & HALL,
Architkcts.
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