Superintendent.-Miss Eva Allerton. Value of property, $299,623.31. Number of patients cared for during the year, 2,101 (1,233 paying patients and 868 beneficiaries, of whom 244 were supported by public funds and 624 by private funds); remaining October 1, 1904, 90 (49 males and 41 females). Receipts for the year ending September 30, 1904, including balance on hand ($6.830.25), $122,162.09; expenditures, $120,796.16; balance on hand October 1, 1904, $1,365.93. Terms and qualifications for admittance.--Seven dollars per week and upwards. All cases of acute disease, not including insanity, and all accident cases are received. Application to be made to the superintendent. ROCHESTER ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL OF THE SISTERS OF CHARITY (THE), West Avenue and Genesee Street, Rochester, N. Y. Inspected by Inspector Weeden May 31, 1904. Incorporated October 7, 1857. Object. To found and sustain a hospital for the relief of the sick. Governing body.-Board of Trustees. President. Sister Marie, Rochester. Secretary. Sister M. Florence, Rochester. Value of property, $225,000. Number of patients cared for during the year, 1,504 (900 paying patients and 604 beneficiaries, of whom 176 were supported by public funds and 428 by private funds); remaining October 1, 1904, 90 (44 males and 46 females). Receipts for the year ending September 30, 1904, including balance on hand ($3,377.91), $41,938.30; expenditures, $34,746.63; balance on hand October 1, 1904, $7,191.67. Terms and qualifications for admittance.-Terms vary according to means of applicant; medical and surgical cases (insanity excepted), without age limit, are received. Application to be made to the superioress. PLACING OUT CHILDREN IN FAMILIES, SOCIETIES FOR. CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER, Office, 223 Chamber of Commerce, Rochester, N. Y Inspected by Inspector Weeden July 8, 1904. Established and incorporated by chapter 355, Laws of 1895. Object.--Caring for and protecting children. Governing body.-Board of Managers. President.-John H. Hopkins, 715 Powers Block, Rochester. Secretary. Mrs. J. W. Cutler, 94 Merriman street, Rochester. Treasurer. Mrs. Edward F. Wellington, 20 Argyle street, Rochester. Attending physician.- Charles R. Witherspoon, M. D. Number of children under care and supervision during the year, 265; remaining under supervision October 1, 1904, 213 (114 boys and 99 girls); of these 103 are in free homes or self-supporting, 103 in boarding homes and 7 in institutions. Receipts for the year ending September 30, 1904, including balance on hand ($409.93), $11.932.99; expenditures, $11.494.63; balance on hand October 1, 1904, $438.36. Terms and qualifications for admittance.-Commitment by court, order of poor department or surrender by parents. Applicants must be under fourteen years of age and residents of Monroe county. Application to be made to any manager. SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF. WESTERN NEW YORK INSTITUTION FOR DEAF-MUTES, 945 St. Paul Street, Rochester, N. Y. Inspected by Inspector Hill October 9, 1903 and May 21, 1904. Established, 1876; incorporated February 4, 1876. Object. The education of deaf-mutes. Governing body.-Board of Directors. President. Dr. S. A. Lattimore, 595 University avenue, Rochester. Secretary. Dr. Z. F. Westervelt, 945 St. Paul street, Rochester. Treasurer. Harvey W. Brown, 258 Alexander street, Rochester. Superintendent and principal.-Z. F. Westervelt, LL. D. Number of pupils cared for during the year, 196 (of whom 194 were supported by public funds and 2 by private funds); remaining October 1, 1904, 173 (82 males and 91 females). Receipts for the year ending September 30, 1904, $64,631.08; expenditures, $64,861.48. Terms and qualifications for admittance.-Children under twelve are received as county charges on the appointment of supervisors or overseers of the poor; children over twelve are received as State pupils upon appointment by the State Commissioner of Education; private pupils admitted upon the prepayment of tuition. Applicants must possess faculties capable of instruction, though incapable, because of deafness or defect of the vocal organs, of being instructed in ordinary schools. Application to be made to the superintendent. MONTGOMERY COUNTY-PUBLIC RELIEF. COUNTY, CITY AND TOWN POOR LAW OFFICERS. Board of Supervisors. Chairman, T. Romeyn Staley, Amsterdam. Clerk, Benjamin H. Simmons, Amsterdam. Town of Amsterdam.-Frank L. Hagaman, Hagaman. City of Amsterdam: First Ward.-D. Cady Bartlett, Amsterdam. Minden.-R. Simon Bulger, Fort Plain, R. F. D. St. Johnsville.-Christopher Fox, St. Johnsville. County Superintendent of the Poor. Adam Z. Wemple, Fonda, R. F. D., No. 1. Overseers of the Poor. Town of Amsterdam.-John M. Phillips, Hagaman. Florida. William D. Buckley, Scotch Bush. Mohawk.-John Lentz, Fonda. Palatine.-Frank Winsman, Stone Arabia. Root.-George A. Ottman, Lykers. St. Johnsville.-Fred. J. Kornburst, St. Johnsville. COUNTY INSTITUTIONS. MONTGOMERY COUNTY ALMSHOUSE, Keeper.-Adam Z. Wemple, appointed February, 1905. Attached to the almshouse are 200 acres of land, 100 of which are reported to be under cultivation; estimated value of land and buildings, $38,000; estimated value of the labor of the inmates during the year, $300; estimated value of the products of the farm. $2.500; receipts from sales, $704.08. Expenses in connection with the almshouse for the year ending September 30, 1904. $7.714.25; estimated weekly expense per person, $2.52; expense of temporary (outdoor) relief administered by the superintendent and overseers of the poor, $25,861.48; expense of support in whole or in part in institutions other than the almshouse, $811.87; aggregate expenditures for support and relief, $34.387.60. Total number in the almshouse during the year, 75; remaining October 1, 1904, 40 (23 males and 17 females), including 7 insane, 5 feeble-minded or idiotic, 2 blind, 1 deaf and 4 epileptics; number receiving temporary (outdoor) relief, 2,947; number supported in other institutions, 6; total number supported and relieved during the year, 3,028. |