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YATES REPORT
1824 LAW
1857 REPORT EXPLANATION
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| YATES REPORT:
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| ANNUAL REPORT of the STATE BOARD of
CHARITIES
p 975-976 |
| A TABLE showing the number of Paupers supported at
the public expense in the county of CHENANGO during the twelve months
preceding April 21, 1823, with other particulars, derived from public
documents and reports furnished the Secretary of State. [*** Indicates
"No return (filed)" ] |
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Total number of paupers
supported during the
whole of the last year. |
Total number relieved
during a part of the last year. |
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Total expenses of supporting and relieving
paupers (including fees and expenses of officers, removals and
appeals) for the last year.
Dolls. Cts.
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Expenses and cost of officers and appeals
during same period.
Dolls. Cts.
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Number of paupers removed during the last
year. |
| Bainbridge *** |
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| Columbus |
0 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
45.56 |
5.45 |
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| Coventry *** |
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Guilford
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German
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Greene
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Lincklaen
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| Macdonough |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
10.00 |
4.00 |
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| New Berlin *** |
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| Norwich |
3 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
250.00 |
45.00 |
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| Otselic |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
22.50 |
20.00 |
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Oxford
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| Pharsalia |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
30.00 |
Not stated. |
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| Plymouth *** |
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Preston
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| Sherburne |
8 |
13 |
8 |
13 |
11 |
433.19 |
15.31 |
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| Smithville |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0.00 |
Not stated. |
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| Smyrna |
1 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
31.33 |
Not stated. |
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Sums of money raised in the county of
Chenango by tax, for the support of the poor, in the years 1816,
1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822.
In the year
1816,
$493.95
1817,
1,681.34
1818,
2,383.72
1819,
2,055.34
1820,
1,482.19
1821,
1,639.46
1822,
735.35
TOTAL $10,471.35
In the town of Columbia, there is an overplus of
$113.82, of poor monies in the hands of the supervisor. In
the town of Macdonough there is a fund of $330 at interest for
the support of the poor. And in the town of Smithville a
like fund of $156 at interest.
NORWICH
My opinion is, that the cheapest
and best method of supporting the poor would be, to erect a county
poor-house in each county, and compel all who are able, to
labor to the extent of their ability. There are but few who are
wholly unable to contribute something toward their support, and
certainly the industrious class, should not be compelled to
support the idle vagabonds who can, but will not work.
[Letter from the supervisor of Norwich.]
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| 1824 LAW (required establishment of poorhouse vs. exempted):
required
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1857 INVESTIGATION:
This house is located at
Preston, and consists of a number of buildings, as poor and broken as the
inmates they contain, entirely unsuited and insufficient properly to answer
the ends for which they are appropriated. It was stated that during the last winter some of the apartments were
so open as to admit the snow. It
was further stated that the board of supervisors for the last few years had
discontinued their visits to the house. These
buildings have twenty-nine apartments appropriated to the use of the paupers,
but with no special provision for ventilation, and in which from one to twenty
are placed. Nor is there any
provisions for bathing. It is
warmed by stoves. Connected with
the house is a farm of one hundred and seventy acres, yielding an annual
revenue of $800. The number of
inmates was eighty; thirty-five male and forty-five female; seventy-three
native and seven foreign born, including twenty-five children. The paupers commingle freely throughout the day, but at night the males
and females are placed in separate departments. All are under the care of one keeper and his wife, assisted
by the paupers.
The superintendent of
the poor purchases the supplies for the house, and imposes rules regulating
the diet of the inmates. The food
furnished is plain, substantial fare. The
weekly cost of the support of the paupers is fifty-six cents each. Religious services are held once in two weeks. The house is but partially supplied with Bibles. A school has been taught in the house six months the past year. A physician is employed, who charges for his services by the visit. There have been nine births during the year, (six of them illegitimate)
and ten deaths. The average
number of the inmates is about ninety. Of
the inmates, eight are lunatics, three males and five females, and all
paupers. Three have been received
during the past year. The lunatics have no special attendants, and receive no
special medical attention. One
has recovered, and four are kept constantly confined in dark
filthy cells. The modes of restraining adopted are the straight jacket, handcuff, and
the confinement in cells. The
house does not admit of the classification of the insane. The "fool house" as it was called, was disgusting in the
extreme. Will not some humane
member of the board of supervisors espouse and plead the cause of the poor
lunatics? Seven of the paupers
are idiots, and two of them under twenty years of age.
Three-fourths of the
recipients of public charity in this county become so consequent upon habits
of inebriation
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Transcribed by PHS-Volunteer, Cheramie Breaux in Louisiana
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PERSONAL NOTES FROM READERS:
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LOCAL
NOTES:
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RECORDS:
Poorhouse INMATE REGISTRATION CERTIFICATES
Microfilm Series A1978 Roll
Number(s) 18-19 more information
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CEMETERY:
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We are hoping to build this base of information about the poorhouse in CHENANGO county through the helpful participation of readers. All are requested to submit items of interest by sending
e-mail
to The Poorhouse Lady.
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