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Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Report of the Board of State Charities of Massachusetts, to Which Are Added Reports From Its Four Departments: With an Appendix, January, 1875
It thus appears that there were at the three statepauper Establish ments (as they have usually been called) on the first of January, 1875, inmates. Estimating the Sick State poor receiving out-door relief at. That date as 293 in number, we have a total of to which, if we add 493, the number of State patients at the three State Hospitals for the insane, we have poor persons maintained by the Commonwealth at the beginning of 1875. Of these, however, only were legally State paupers; the rest being pupils at the Primary School. Of these no less than 850 were insane or imbecile persons, 387 were con victs at Bridgewater, and nearly 500 were under treatment for physi cal maladies. Ten years ago (january 1, there were at the four State Pauper Establishments (including Rainsford) State paupers.
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