ESTIMATES FOR NEXT YEAR. The following estimates for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, have already been submitted: For the support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and five hundred dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, fifty-one thousand dollars. For the erection of a gymnasium with bath-house attached, and the improvement of the grounds of the institution and the inclosure of the same, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars. The first estimate is for the same amount as was appropriated by Congress at its last session for the current expenses of the present year. The improvements contemplated in the second estimate are very important to the welfare of our pupils and the safety and proper care of our grounds. We have long felt the need of a gymnasium, to enable us to give proper attention to the physical development of our pupils, but the urgent demands of the institution in other directions have led us to postpone this improvement until the main buildings were completed. The fact that no less than four of our older pupils have met death by drowning, and our knowledge of the fact that many of them have never been taught to swim, have made it seem desirable that in connection with our gymnasium there should be a bathing-pool of sufficient size to enable us to teach all our pupils how to manage themselves in the water. The second estimate is designed also to provide for the further improvement of our grounds, in accordance with the plans of Mr. Fred. Law Olmstead, adopted twelve years ago, and to commence the erection along our front line on Boundary street of a substantial stone and iron fence, the need for which begins to be very pressing. All of which is respectfully submitted by order of the board of directEDWARD M. GALLAUDET, ors. Hon. C. SCHURZ, Secretary of the Interior. President. APPENDIX. CATALOGUE OF STUDENTS AND PUPILS. IN THE COLLEGE. From Connecticut.-Robert Newton Parsons. From Delaware.-Theodore Kiesel. From Georgia.-Lewis Arthur Palmer. From Illinois.-Charles Chester Codman, Lester Goodman, Frank Ross Gray, Alva Jeffords, James Moline Tipton. From Indiana.-James Irvin Sansom, Jesse Cross. From Iowa. Frank Caleb Holloway, William Austin Nelson. From Maryland.-Charles Stewart. From Massachusetts.—John Francis Donnelly, Frederick Fremont Smith, John Albert Prince, Albert Samuel Tufts, Henry White. From Michigan.-George Melnotte Grummond, Delos Albert Simpson, Edward Louis Van Damme. From Minnesota.-James Martin Cosgrove, Jeremiah P. Kelly, James Lewis Smith. From Missouri.-George Thomas Dougherty. From New York.-William Albert Jackson, John Gordon Saxton. From New Hampshire.-William E. White. From North Carolina.-Albert Johnson Andrews. From Ohio.-Hugh Robert Drake, Samuel Mills Freeman, Robert King, Joseph Winton Leib, Richard L. H. Long, Charles Merrick Rice, Collins Stone Sawhill, Isaac Hatcher Sawhill, Albert Henry Schory, Frank Wiley Shaw, Samuel Cox Stebelton, Robert Newton Stevenson, Alfred Flinn Wood, John Joachim Viets. From Pennsylvania. · Eddie Romanzo Carroll, Jerome Thaddeus Elwell, Abram Frantz, Jacob Mitchell Koehler, Herbert Monroe Mallick, Robert Middleton Zeigler. From South Carolina.-Thomas Hines Coleman, Julius C. Dargan, David Calhoun Hicks. From Tennessee.-Isaac Newton Hammer. From Vermont.-James Dresser Allen, Frank Wilson Bigelow. From West Virginia.-George Layton. From Wisconsin.-Lars M. Larson, James Joseph Murphy, Harry Reed. From District of Columbia.-Arthur Dunham Bryant, Charles Clifford Griffin. I. The academic year is divided into three terms, the first beginning on the Thursday before 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 Wednesday before the last Wednesday in June. II. The vacations are from the 24th of December to the 2d of January, and from the close of the term in June to the opening of the term 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 in 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 OF THE FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM. FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL, Washington, D. C., October 1, 1878. SIR: I have the honor to transmit the annual report of the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, as follows: The whole number of patients in hospital and asylum during the year was 807, viz: Remaining in hospital and asylum June 30, 1877. Admitted to hospital during the year, viz: Males, white. Admitted to hospital during the year, viz: Females, white Born in hospital, viz: Females white Whole number of white..... Admitted to hospital during the year, viz: Males, colored.. Admitted to hospital during the year, viz: Females, colored Born in hospital, viz: Females, colored Whole number of colored. 277 140 20 166 154 159 22 18 353 11 807 385 56 11 118 6 576 Transient Total number admitted, supported, and treated in hospital.. Transient Died Still-born Remaining in hospital June 30, 1878................ 231 The Colored Orphans' Home and Asylum, containing about 115 children and attendants, has been furnished with medicines and medical attendance during the year. This home and asylum was, until last year, supported in part by this hospital; but a separate appropriation having been granted them by Congress, their relations were discontinued the first day of July, and their names dropped from the rolls on the first day of August. Besides the above a large dispensary has been supported for the benefit of the numerous poor who are constantly applying to this hospital for aid. Of these the names of 1,083 have been entered in the book for out-patients, and about four thousand prescriptions made and put up for them. The nativity of the patients admitted to hospital was as follows: |