Estimates for next year. The following estimates for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, have already been submitted: For the support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses and $500 for books and illustrative apparatus, $51,000. This amount is the same as that asked for the current fiscal year, and will no more than barely meet the necessary expenses of the institution. The following estimates have been submitted, with the request that the amounts may be inserted in the deficiency bill, or in some other bill that may be passed at an early day, in order to make the appropriations available during the current fiscal year: For the support of the institution, in addition to the amount already appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, $3,000. For the enclosure, improvement, and care of the grounds of the institution, $10,000. For the fitting up and furnishing of the buildings of the institution, including necessary repairs on the said buildings, $5,000. The first of the foregoing three estimates is to supply the deficiency occasioned by the cutting down of the estimates submitted last year for the support of the institution during the now current fiscal year. We are studying close economy in all the expenses of the institution, but it does not seem possible to bring the expenses of the current year below the amount originally estimated. The need for the appropriation for the inclosure, improvement, and care of our grounds is more pressing than when the estimate was first submitted. No appropriation for this object has been made for several years, and many portions of our fences are in so dilapidated a condition as to be at the mercy of every high wind. Tramps and marauders break through these old fences with ease, and we find it impossible to give even the appearance of protection to the grounds at many points. The front line of our grounds has been so interfered with by the grading and curbing of Boundary street as to present a very discreditable appearance, for the remedy of which we have no funds at our command. The completion of our buildings will necessitate a considerable amount of grading of roads and walks to provide suitable approaches, and it is very important to the health of the institution that we should extend and improve our system of drainage. The amount now submitted will not be sufficient to complete all the improvements that are important for the final arrangement and proper inclosure of our grounds. It is, however, as much as we ought, perhaps, to ask in one year. With a view of very greatly reducing the expense of inclosing our grounds, which should have a strong iron railing, at least along the line of Boundary street, we venture to suggest that the railing around La Fayette Square might be turned over to the institution, the expense of removing being met out of the appropriation now asked for. The amount asked for the fitting up and furnishing of our buildings is needed in view of the completion of the college. Some new furniture will also be required in the older portions of the buildings, and a small amount will be needed for repairs. It is hoped the estimate will not appear unreasonable. In closing this their twentieth annual report, the directors are pleased to be able to say that the institution is now in a condition to perform the work for which it was organized in a manner that cannot fail to gratify every one interested in the cause of deaf-mute education. The grounds, 100 acres in extent, are ample and most healthfully located. The buildings furnish all needed accommodations for the various departments of the institution, and are believed to be built in a substantial manner. Our corps of officers and instructo:s is made up of capable and devoted men and women, all of whom are laboring zealously and successfully for the welfare and improvement of those committed to the care of the institution. Our pupils and students seem to appreciate more than ever before the advantages here afforded them, and are doing their part to make due preparations for lives of usefulness when they shall reach years of maturity. In view of all this we cannot forbear to congratulate the people of the United States on the completion of such an institution, mainly through the liberality of their representatives in Congress, and to express the belief that, in the good providence of God, what has been so well begun will be sustained, so long as "children of silence" are to be found in the land needing the fostering care of such an institution. Respectfully submitted, by order of the board of directors. EDWARD M. GALLAUDET, Hon. C. SCHURZ, Secretary of the Interior. APPENDIX. President. CATALOGUE OF STUDENTS AND PUPILS IN THE COLLEGE. From Connecticut.-Warren Lacy Waters. From Delaware.-Theodore Kiesel. From illinois.-Lester Goodman, Frank Ross Gray, Alva Jeffords, James Moline Tipton. From Indiana.—James Irvin Sansom, Henry Edward Bierhaus, Jesse Cross. From Iowa. Frank Caleb Holloway, William Austin Nelson. From Kansas.-Frank Ashley Scott, From Maine.-John Emery Crane, Edson Lancaster Kinney. From Maryland.-Charles Stewart. From Massachusetts.-John Francis Donelly, Edwin Wellington Frisbie, Charles Quincy Mann, Albert Coleman Hargrave, John Albert Prince, Wilbur Norris Sparrow, Albert Samuel Tufts, Henry White. From Michigan.-Delos Albert Simpson, Edward Louis Van Damme. From Minnesota.-James Martin Cosgrove, Jeremiah P. Kelly. From Mississippi.-Robert Dameron Hazelett. From Missouri.-George Thomas Dougherty. From New York.—William Albert Jackson, John Gordon Saxton. From North Carolina.-Albert Johnson Andrews. From Ohio.-Samuel Mills Freeman, Robert King, Richard L'H. Long, Charles Merrick Rice, Albert Henry Schory, Frank Wiley Shaw, Lester Delos Waite, Alfred Flinn Wood. From Pennsylvania.-Eddie Romazo Carroll, Jerome Thaddeus Elwell, Abram Frantz, William Ellis Grime, Jacob Mitchell Kohler, Herbert Monroe Mallick, Robert Middleton Zeigler. From South Carolina.-Thomas Hines Coleman, Julius C. Dargan, David Calhoun Hicks. From Tennessee. Frank Alexander Branner, Isaac Newton Hammer, Minus E. C Jordon, Thomas H. Wain. From Vermont.-James Dresser Allen, Frank Wilson Bigelow. From West Virginia.-George Layton. From Wisconsin.-Lars M. Larson, James Joseph Murphy. From District of Columbia.-Arthur Dunham Bryant, Charles Clifford Griffin. PRIMARY. FEMALES. Mary M. Barnes.. Carrie T G. Cummings. Louisa Yocum Fisher.. Katie Elliott.. Jennie J. Gillem. Sarah A. Gourley. Elizabeth McCormick. .District of Columbia. .Pennsylvania. ..District of Columbia. .South Carolina. ..South Carolina. Tennessee. .Maryland. District of Columbia. .Maryland. Maryland. District of Columbia. District of Columbia. .. District of Columbia. ...District of Columbia. ..District of Columbia. District of Columbia. Wilbur F. Bateman. Columbus A. Rhea. I. The academic year is divided into three terms, the first beginning on the last Thursday in September, and closing on the 24th of December; the second beginning the 2d of January, and closing the last Thursday before Easter; the third beginning the first Tuesday after Easter, and closing the last Wednesday in June. II. The vacations are from the 24th of December to the 2d of January, and from the last Wednesday in June to the last Thursday in September. III. There are holidays at Thanksgiving and Easter. IV. The pupils may visit their homes during the regular vacations, and at the abovenamed holidays, but at no other time, unless for some special, urgent reason, and then only by permission of the president. V. The bills for the maintenance and tuition of pupils supported by their friends must be paid semi-annually, in advance. VI. The charge for pay-pupils is $150 each per annum. This sum covers all expenses in the primary department except clothing, and all in the college except clothing and books. VII. The Government of the United States defrays the expenses of those who reside n the District of Columbia, or whose parents are in the Army or Navy, provided they are unable to pay for their education. To students from the States and Territories who have not the means of defraying all the expenses of the college course, the board of directors renders such assistance as circumstances seem to require, as far as the means at its disposal for this object will allow. VIII. It is expected that the friends of the pupils will provide them with clothing, and it is important that upon entering or returning to the institution they should be supplied with a sufficient amount for an entire year. All clothing should be plainly marked with the owner's name. IX. All letters concerning pupils or application for admission should be addressed to the president. REPORT UPON THE FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM. Admitted to hospital during the year, viz: Males, white.. FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL, Washington, October 13, 1877 SIR: I have the honor to transmit the annual report of the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, as follows: The whole number of patients in hospital and asylum during the year was seven hundred and sixty-three, (763,) viz: Remaining in hospital and asylum at date of last annual report. .. Born, females Whole number of colored.. Admitted to hospital during the year, viz: Females.. 263 371 Born, males.... 1 Born, females. Whole number of white....... 129 Total number admitted to hospital... 500 Total number treated and supported in hospital and asylum. 763 265 100 Died... 109 12 486 277 Still-born Remaining in hospital and asylum June 30, 1877..... The Colored Orphans' Home and Asylum, containing about 115, children and attendants,has been furnished with medicines and medical attendance during the year, and subsistence has been furnished to 25 of them, who are included in the aggregate number of this hospital. Besides the above, over three thousand prescriptions have been dispensed to the poor who are constantly calling at this hospital for medical aid. The large number of deaths in proportion to the number treated is accounted for by the character of the cases received. Some who are attacked by disease continue to labor as long as they are able, and then provide for themselves till their scanty means are exhausted, after which they come to the hospital to die; others, finding themselves. affected with an incurable disease, give up all hope, cease all effort, and come to the hospital for medical aid and the comforts of a home till relieved by death. Fifty cases of the 500 admitted to hospital were consumption, most of which necessarily prove fatal in this class of patients. The twenty-eight and a half per cent. of still-births is readily accounted for by the fact that the mother in each case was badly diseased, or had tampered with herself in order to obtain premature relief from her offspring. Four of the 42 births were cases of twins. |