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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 993-995 |
| A TABLE showing the number of Paupers supported at
the public expense in the county of HERKIMER, during the twelve months
preceding April 21, 1823, with other particulars, derived from public
documents and reports furnished the Secretary of State. |
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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. |
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| Columbia *** |
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| Danube |
6 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
250.00 |
50.00 |
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| Fairfield *** |
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| Frankfort |
6 |
23 |
12 |
17 |
5 |
143.35 |
Not stated. |
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| Germanflatts |
6 |
15 |
13 |
8 |
5 |
842.00 |
Not stated. |
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| Herkimer *** |
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| Litchfield |
2 |
8 |
4 |
6 |
3 |
145.75 |
118.47 |
6 |
| Manheim |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
219.76 |
Not stated. |
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| Newport |
3 |
10 |
4 |
9 |
5 |
215.00 |
35.00 |
1 |
| Norway |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
100.95 |
Not stated. |
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| Russia *** |
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| Salisbury |
8 |
3 |
7 |
4 |
3 |
222.68 |
24.00 |
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| Schuyler *** |
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| Warren |
4 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
173.58 |
20.50 |
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| Sums of money raised by tax, in the county of
Herkimer,
for the support of the poor, in the years 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821,
1822. In the year
1817, $2,469
1818,
2,190
1819,
1,961
1820,
2,042
1821,
2,115
1822,
3,108
Total,
$13,895
In the town of Danube, there is a fund on hand $550
for the support of the poor. In the town of Manheim, there
is a like fund of $270. In the town of Norway, there is a
like fund of $260.
MANHEIM
A more minute, clear and
precise law would remove many of the evils now complained of;
yet there is one thing which it will not remove, that is
spirituous liquors. This is the cause of many of the evils
now experienced; if this could be removed out of our land or
confined to the place for which it was originally intended, many
of those evils would be no more felt. [Letter from the
supervisor of Manheim.]
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| 1824 LAW (required establishment of poorhouse vs. exempted):
Required
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1857 INVESTIGATION:
This establishment
consists of two stone buildings, thirty by forty-six feet each, two stories in
height, and an asylum building including a school house, built of wood, in
size sixty-eight by twenty-four feet, and two stories in height. Connected is a farm of sixty-five acres, yielding a net revenue, the
past year of $739. The basements
are occupied for culinary purposes, except one which is mostly above ground
and occupied by old and decrepit persons. In the house are seventeen rooms and twenty cells warmed by stoves, but
with no means of ventilation; the ceilings however are quite high. The number of inmates was seventy-six, fifty males and twenty-six
females. Of these one half are foreign born and eleven under sixteen
years of age. The sexes are
entirely separated at night and partially during the day. They are under charge of a keeper who employs three
assistants, two males and one female.
The average number of
inmates is 130, supported at an average weekly expense of $1.10 each,
including the products of the farm. The
paupers are employed on the farm and about the house, according to their
ability. an inspector appointed
by the board of supervisors, visits the house once a month. It is supplied with Bibles, but no other provision is made for
religious instruction. For six or
seven months a common school is taught in the house. The keeper is superintendent of the poor and exercises his own
discretion in the government of the house and in furnishing of supplies. A physician is employed at an annual salary of from $200 to $250, who
visits the house three times per week and oftener if called. During the year four births and seven deaths have occurred in the
house. No contagious disease has
prevailed.
Of the inmates,
seventeen are lunatics, twelve males and five females, all are paupers. They have two attendants but no particular medical care. Three or four have been admitted within the year, three are confined in
cells and others placed in rooms and allowed to exercise in a yard. During the year one person has recovered. The construction of the house allows of a partial
classification of the insane.
Eight of the inmates
are idiots, four male and four female, one girl is only eleven years of age. There is one blind. No
corporal punishment is administered at the house.
Three-fourths of the
paupers are made such by intemperance. This
house is evidently in charge of a keeper, whose heart is in the right place,
and who labors to cheer and sustain the broken in body and spirit of those who
may by misfortune become the recipients of public charity in this county.
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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:
HISTORIC BUILDINGS OF
HERKIMER COUNTY
(includes history & a photo) |
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| RECORDS:
List
of Poorhouse Residents
from the 1850 Census. (from the Herkimer/Montgomery
Counties GenWeb site)
List
of Poorhouse Residents
from the 1860 Census. (from the
Herkimer/Montgomery Counties GenWeb site)
Poorhouse INMATE REGISTRATION CERTIFICATES
Microfilm Series A1978 Roll
Number(s) 39-40 more information
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| CEMETERY:
List
of those known to be buried at the Herkimer County Home cemetery. (from
the Herkimer/Montgomery Counties GenWeb site)
[Note: This facility evolved
from the earlier poorhouse, however the people named in this list died during
the first half of the twentieth century -- not during the 1800s. Of those
earlier deaths, we currently have no knowledge. PHL ]
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| We are hoping to build this base of information about the poorhouse in HERKIMER 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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