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TABLE XXXIX.-Current Expenses of the Lunatic Hospitals since 1854, in money drawn from the State Treasury.

To the above it is proper to add the amount paid for the support of lunatic State paupers at South Boston prior to 1859, which may be estimated at $60,000, making the aggregate cost to the State for its insane $1,187,641.56, within the past fifteen years.

* Towns making no returns,—in 1854, 24; 1855, 47; 1857, 20; 1858, 19; 1859, one. † Approximate.

+ Probably ten per cent. should be deducted for duplicates.

TABLE XLI.-SUMMARY OF PAUPERISM, 1868.

Showing the Relative Numbers and Cost of State and Town Paupers fully supported, for the year ending

September 30, 1868.

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NOTE. Add to the cost of State Paupers, as above stated, $13,000 allowed to towns under the Sick Law of 1865, and the cost
of State Paupers for the year becomes $288,000. At the same time an equal amount was paid for partial support of town paupers.
Altogether, the pauper expenses of the year (State and town,) considerably exceeded a million of dollars.

GENERAL VIEW.

PART THIRD.-MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS.

TABLE XLII.-GENERAL VIEW.

Showing what the State has paid for Construction and for Current Expenses of Twenty-four Institutions since 1815, and what has been the Average Yearly Expense of each Institution to the State; prepared in accordance with the Financial Statements.

Of the above, the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Moral Reform Society received no grant from the State the past year.

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TABLE XLIII.-Expenses of the Blind Asylum and Idiot School since their foundation.