Institution for the Blind.... Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children. Eye and Ear Infirmary State Reform School Total..... 20,422 30 118,422 56 38,756 36 9,667 30 33,423 43 .$566,836 79 Of this unexpended balance in the state treasury, $333,750 was for the ordinary expenses of the institutions until the first of July, 1877. The remainder, $233,086 79, had been appropriated for specific uses. The last general assembly appropriated, for the use of these ten institutions, the sum of $1,533,275 60, which was apportioned among them as shown in the following statement:— Of this amount, $1,045,636 50 was appropriated for their ordinary expenses for two years, from the first of July, 1877, to the thirtieth of June, 1879. The remainder of the appropriations, amounting to $487, 639 10, were for special purposes, the larger portion being set aside for the construction of the eastern insane hospital, and the extension of the hospital at Jacksonville. In addition to the income derived from appropriations, the institutions receive a minor income from the proceeds of sales of farm produce, stock, and manufactured articles, from collections for clothing, etc. The amount of this miscellaneous income, during the past two years, has been: This, then, is the total amount to be accounted for in the present report, and in the reports of the institutions herewith transmitted: - Balances, October 1st, 1876.... Appropriations by the 30th general assembly.. Total.... 62,190 29 566,836 79 1,533,275 60 97,477 56 $2,259,780 24 It is evident that this amount must have been expended by the institutions, or remain either in the state treasury or in the hands of the local treasurers. SUMMARY STATEMENT OF CREDITS, TO BALANCE THE ACCOUNT. The amount remaining in the state treasury, undrawn, September 30th, 1878, was $602,255 97: Of this amount, $437,875 is for ordinary expenses, until June 30th, 1879; $99,803 46 is for the completion of the eastern insane hospital; and the remainder is for other special purposes. The amount remaining in the hands of local treasurers, September 30th, 1878, was: Northern Insane Hospital... Central Insane Hospital. Southern Insane Hospital. Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Institution for the Blind.. Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children. Soldiers' Orphans' Home. Eye and Ear Infirmary. State Reform School. $ 5,754 17 5,645 20 19,976 01 5,352 41 6,494 80 10,664 16 1,971 52 178 84 6,998 37 Total..... $63,035 48 The cash disbursements by the state institutions, during the past. By adding these figures, together with $403 64, the amount of former appropriations, which have lapsed because not drawn, we have as their sum, $2,259,780 24, the amount to be accounted for, thus: Cash disbursements.... Cash balances, September 30th, 1878. Total... .$1,594,085 15 63,035 48 602,255 97 403 64 .$2,259,780 24 The details of these receipts and disbursements will be found in the tables appended to this report, and in the reports of the several institutions. For all payments during the past two years, receipted vouchers will be found, properly tied up in bundles, labeled and indexed, in the office of the board of public charities, where they are subject to the examination of the general assembly. EXPENSES. It will, of course, be understood that the figures given above represent cash receipts and disbursements only, and that the actual expenses of the two years may have been more or less than the cash payments, according to the amount of outstanding debt at the beginning and at the end of the period. In fact they were more. The actual expenses have been: The agreement between the statement of cash payments and that of actual expenses is shown as follows: Cash disbursements during two years.. Deduct payments on account of expenses of 1875-6..... Paid on expenses of 1877-8.. Total expenses, 1877-8.... $1,594,085 15 4,214 58 $1,589,870 57 23,995 58 $1,613,866 15 To the indebtedness of 1877-8 must be added $7 66 indebtedness of former years, which makes the total debt, on the 30th September, $24,003 24. To meet this indebtedness, the institutions had the following cash resources :— In hands of local treasurers. In state treasury, on call... Total cash assets.. Deduct amount of debt... Cash surplus. This surplus was divided among them as follows: Northern Insane Hospital.. Central Insane Hospital... Southern Insane Hospital. Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.. Institution for the Blind... Asylum for Feeble Minded Children. Soldiers' Orphans' Home...... State Reform School.. $ 63,035 48 53,445 86 $116,481 34 24,003 24 $92,478 10 .$ 3,778 13 8,748 26 32,977 38 7,063 09 7,491 92 12,020 59 13,221 52 178 84 6,998 37 Total .$92,478 10 In addition to the cash surplus, they also had ledger accounts, for clothing furnished to inmates, etc., due and unpaid, the estimated value of which is not less than thirty thousand dollars. The state institutions are therefore in a highly satisfactory financial condition; better, indeed, than at any previous time since their organ ization. NUMBER OF INMATES. At the date of our last report, there were, in the nine institutions under our charge, two thousand and thirty eight inmates, namely: We have, therefore, an apparent grand total of 4,718 individuals relieved, in whole or in part, from their misfortunes and the disabilities consequent upon them. But to the figures as just given, we must add the dispensary patients, in the charitable eye and ear infirmary, numbering, during the two years just closed, 2,940; also, the pay patients from the states of Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming Territory, who received treatment at the same institution, of whom there were 49. On the other hand, a certain deduction must be made, on account of the interchanges between the hospitals for the insane, rendered necessary by the act to secure equality among the counties in the matter of the admission of patients, approved May 25th, 1877. The number of such transfers is given in the following table : |