The Ladies' Relief Society of Las Vegas was organized and incorporated March 6. 1888. The present institution, containing fourteen rooms, became the property of the society in 1890, $3,500 being the amount paid for the building. Since that time additional rooms have been added and improvements made calculated to add to the convenience of the home and in caring for the sick. The officers of the society consist of a president, secretary, treasurer, and board of directors, who exercise full control over the management of the institution. The present membership consists of twenty ladies, each one paying an annual due of $4. The home is in charge of a capable and competent matron and assistant, who are paid out of a surplus fund controlled by the society. The home is very often the recipient of many substantial favors, such as gifts of clothing, provisions, and donations of money from friends in sympathy with the work. For the twelve months ending June 30, 1901, there have been cared for at the home 148 patients; of that number 6 died, some of whom were interred at the expense of the society. Within the year transportation has been furnished a number of patients, in one instance as far east as Chicago. Assistance has also been rendered to sick and destitute parties outside of the home. Physicians and nurses have been employed, necessary clothing given to patients, improvements and repairs to the building have been made, but our usefulness has been sadly cramped for want of sufficient means. Physicians, nurses, and all other sources of expense are not allowed to be paid out of the Territorial appropriation, but are paid out of our surplus fund. The receipts from the Territory for July, 1900, to June 30, 1901, amounted to $1,223.23; expenses in caring for the sick, July, 1900, to June 30, 1901, $1,367.86. Respectfully, Hon. M. A. OTERO, Mrs. S. PATTY, President. Governor of New Mexico. NEW MEXICO ASYLUM FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. SANTA FE, N. MEX., August 20, 1991. SIR: Complying with your request of the 15th instant, I have the honor to submit the following report of the progress of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum from the date of my last annual report to the date hereof. The total receipts of the institution from all sources from October, 1899, to July 15, 1901, were $5,896.05, and the expenditures during this period $4,842.63, leaving a balance on hand in the hands of the board of $1.042.20, in addition to which there is also a sum in the Territorial treasury of $194.77 for which requisition has not as yet been made and which is not included in the above statement of receipts. The school term closed June 28, 1901, began October 15, 1900, and the daily attendance during that time was as follows: From October 15 to November 4, 6; from November to December 1, 14, and from December 1 to June 28, 1901, 15. Thus the daily attendance during this term was larger than ever before during the existence of the institution. At the close of the last term it appearing to the board that the funds on hand, together with what might be expected to hereafter come into the treasury and the income from the permanent fund of the institution, would be entirely inadequate to properly maintain the institution during the coming eighteen months, the last legislature having unfortunately failed to make the necessary appropriation or tax levy for the support of the institution, the board decided to close the school indefinitely, or until such time as it could see its way to reopen it without awaiting the session of the next legislature to provide the necessary funds. All the pupils of the institution, by their parents, having made the pauper affidavit required by the law, the board has been compelled to provide for their maintenance and also to transport them from and to their homes and to provide clothing for nearly all of them. The cost per month, exclusive of clothing, fuel, light. and water, has been about $250. The cost per month with the items excluded-except light, which is furnished by the penitentiary-has averaged about $300 for 15 pupils. The board is now contemplating the erection of an addition to the building and the complete equipment of the buildings, and also a complete special equipment for the proper instruction and caring of the pupils according to the latest methods, and for this purpose will apply for such portion of the permanent fund of the institution arising from the sale of the lands donated to the Territory for this purpose as may be necessary. The deaf-mute population of the Territory from 8 to 20 years is, according to the census of 1900. about 75. In its new building the board proposes to provide for this number as well as for such increase as may possibly occur. Respectfully submitted. By order of the board: Hon. M. A. OTERO, BENJAMIN M. READ, Secretary. Governor of New Mexico. THE PENITENTIARY. SANTA FE, June 30, 1901. SIR: I have the honor to forward herewith a summary report on the affairs of the New Mexico penitentiary for the fiftieth and fifty-first fiscal years, commencing March 1, 1899, and ending November 30, 1900; also a supplemental report showing population. etc.. for the period November 30, 1900, to June 30, 1901. All of which is respectfully submitted. Hon. M. A. OTERO, H. O. BURSUM, Superintendent. Governor of New Mexico. REPORT. In compliance with instructions from the board of penitentiary commissioners, the superintendent of the penitentiary on January 13, 1901, presented a report to the board covering in detail the affairs of this institution for the fiftieth and fiftyfirst fiscal years, and which, among other things, contained exhibits as follows: Exhibit A, showing amount of disbursements and receipts on account of appropriations by the Territory for and during the fiftieth and fifty-first fiscal years, commencing the 1st day of March, A. D. 1899, and ending the 30th day of November, A. D. 1900. Exhibit B, showing receipts and disbursements of convicts' earnings for the same period. Exhibit C, statement showing the cost of feeding officers, guards, employees, and prisoners for the same period. Exhibit D, showing receipts and disbursement out of Territorial appropriations for same period, including account of salaries for officers, employees, guards, physician, chaplain, etc. Exhibit E, showing receipts and expenditures for same period for the penitentiary commissioners' salary and expense fund. Exhibit F, statement showing general disbursements and receipts from all sources for the same period, including all Territorial appropriations and convicts' earnings. Exhibit G, statement showing improvements made,valuation of same, including cash expended and labor and material used, for same period. Exhibit H, statement showing labor and material used for the Territorial capital building. Exhibit I, statement showing amount of labor and material used on the streets of Santa Fe, making the sewer trenches, laying sewer pipe, and cleaning streets, during the months of July and September, 1899. Statement of population for nineteen months, from May 1, 1899, to December 31, 1900. Statement of prisoners discharged by expiration of sentence from May 1, 1899, to December 31, 1900, including those pardoned and commuted, died. turned over to United States marshal by order of court, and number escaped, with number white males, white females, and negroes, respectively. 'Statement showing the distribution of convicts by counties and distribution of United States convicts and number discharged by expiration of sentence and number of convicts pardoned by the President, distribution of United States jail prisoners, distribution of United States convicts by districts, classification of convicts by ages of convicts, classification of convicts by occupations, classification of convicts in confinement, classification of convicts by nativity, classification of convicts by sentence. Statement showing personal habits, education, and domestic relations, religious preferences, and whether in jail, prison, or arrested before. Report of the penitentiary physician for the past two years. At a meeting of the board February 2, 1901, it was · Resolved. That the board having read and carefully considered all of the accounts contained in said exhibits, and having found them correct, they were approved and the same were ordered filed. "The board is highly gratified at the condition in which this important institution is found. The administration of its affairs has been strictly carried on; honesty and economy have been its constant watchwords; the discipline exceptionally good, and these results without resorting to cruel or unusual punishment: the sanitary condition of the inmates, officers, and employees is as good as could be desired: Therefore, on motion of commissioner, J. T. McLaughlin, the secretary of this board is requested and directed to draw commendatory resolutions of the administration of the penitentiary, appropriate to conditions found." Accordingly at a meeting of the board held on February 9, 1901, the following was adopted: "Resolved, That the thanks of the board of penitentiary commissioners be and is hereby extended to Hon. H. O. Bursum, the superintendent, his staff and employees generally, for the faithful and intelligent manner in which they have individually and collectively performed all their respective, delicate, and most important duties. "Resolved, further, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the records of said board of commissioners. From the above exhibits and data thus furnished the board the following summary is taken: COST OF MAINTENANCE. Total average cost per man for feeding per day, for the fiftieth and fifty-first fiscal years, 15 cents; average cost per month, $4.563; average cost per man per year. $54.78; average number fed per month. 7.059; average total number fed during the two fiscal years, 148,234. Average cost per man, including all expenses of commissioners, salaries, management, feeding, clothing, and expenses from all sources, 38.23 cents per day. RECEIPTS. Territorial appropriations for penitentiary commissioners' salaries and Salaries, officers, guards. employees, physician, chaplain, etc $2.323.50 16,699.58 55, 963.31 11,393.67 86,380.06 DISBURSEMENTS. General expense, from all sources, for the fiftieth and fifty-first fiscal years, including salaries, officers, guards, and employees; penitentiary commissioners, rations, tobacco, etc.; fuel, water service, furniture and utensils, repairs, capture of prisoners, stationery, printing, etc..$56, 608.97 Cash paid out for machinery, lumber, water-piping, boilers, brick dryer, roofing, and other improvements, wagons, mules, harness, real estate, etc November 30, 1900, balance commissioners' salary fund. Balance penitentiary salary fund Balance convicts' earnings. 28.909.33 105.50 299.75 39.78 Balance general expense fund.. Total cash paid out by Territory, for fiftieth and fifty-first fiscal years, out of appropriations Total amount paid from convicts' earnings. IMPROVEMENTS. 416.73 86,380.06 74.124.63 11, 353.89 85,518.30 Additional equipment in laundry $36.00 Tin shop: Tinners' tools, $300; tinware not used, $200 500.00 Armory additional equipment 39.50 Stable equipment, mules, wagons, etc. 1,689.57 New boiler brickstack 557.30 Steam dry kiln, masonry, brickwork, lumber, steam pipe, etc., and 104 Excavating and laying stone retaining wall for railroad track Total. 40, 503.62 2.212.01 1.721.38 4, 120. 13 1.199.25 1,215.75 11,092.56 8.714. 19 383.08 36.00 120.00 298.30 426.83 1,346.24 934.50 351.03 2,323.80 186.00 1,000.00 MEDICAL REPORT. The health of the inmates of the penitentiary has been generally excellent, as indicated by the exceedingly small death rate of 1.4 per cent. In the course of his report covering the fiscal years above given, the penitentiary physician states: "Since the beginning of the present administration, May 1, 1899, this institution has received a total of 189 convicts. The cumulative number of convicts, considering inmates at the beginning of this period, those received and those discharged, up to December 31, 1900, has reached a total of 405. "Of the cumulative total of 405 men which necessarily came under the care and consideration of this department, and in accordance with a complete record kept in all cases, I have the following to present, viz: "The remainder being divided between malaria, dysentery, and some minor complaints. "The operations performed were: Amputation of the arm. Operation for hemorrhoids Excision of fatty tumor Resection of the shoulder joint "Deaths: Tuberculosis 1 2 1 2 1 1 "Of the tubercular cases from which death resulted, one had been developed before admission, the other having been contracted since admission, and in my estimation directly traceable to infection from other convicts with whom he had been thrown in contact. The single death resulting from typhoid is a sermon upon the very efficient system of sanitation and the rigorous enforcement of hygienic laws by the authorities of the prison. "Of the total of 7 tubercular hospital patients 4 of them had the disease partially developed upon entrance. The remainder have since such time contracted the disease. "Taking into consideration the crowded condition of the institution, there being an average of 215 convicts confined in a space 45 by 70 feet for at least twelve hours per day, the number and percentage of sick calls show a very satisfactory condition: such calls, as has been stated, numbering 3.477. extending over a period of nineteen months with a cumulative number of men liable to care of 405, and showing the very low percentage of 2.5, and an average number of men reporting for treatment each day of about 6. This gratifying condition is due in some measure to the healthful outdoor work, in pure air and sunshine; to the regular habits compelled and acquired under the rules as promulgated by the present prison administration; the careful supervision of and the provision of proper food stuffs; regular bathing and changes of clothing: suitable exercise, which is given each day to those convicts who follow sedentary employment; and to the excellent system of sewerage, and the strict observance by the authorities of hygienic and sanitary laws, which are rigorously enforced. "The institution is now in possession of a very well equipped drug room, which has recently been entirely restocked and placed upon an eminently practical footing. The stock has been purchased first-hand from wholesalers and manufacturing chemists. thereby making a considerable saving, and prescriptions can now be filled to cover any ailment to which the inmates may become subject in the future." SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT. The following statistics, arranged under appropriate subheadings, cover data for the period from November 30, 1900, to June 30, 1901: On hand December 31, 1900 POPULATION. 220 65 285 |