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YATES REPORT
1824 LAW
1857 REPORT EXPLANATION
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| YATES REPORT:
| ANNUAL REPORT of the STATE BOARD of
CHARITIES
p 1000 |
| A TABLE showing the number of Paupers supported at
the public expense in the county of LIVINGSTON, 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. |
Avon
(No return) |
... |
... |
... |
... |
... |
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| Caledonia |
0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
28.10 |
6.75 |
... |
| Freeport |
0 |
9 |
3 |
6 |
7 |
69.93 |
22.50 |
... |
Geneseo
(No return) |
... |
... |
... |
... |
... |
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| Groveland |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
50.50 |
5.00 |
... |
| Leicester |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
147.00 |
18.75 |
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Lima
(No return) |
... |
... |
... |
... |
... |
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| Livonia |
2 |
12 |
5 |
9 |
7 |
150.90 |
45.00 |
... |
Mt. Morris
(No return) |
... |
... |
... |
... |
... |
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| Sparta |
0 |
6 |
1 |
5 |
4 |
133.72 |
9.00 |
... |
Springwater
(No return) |
... |
... |
... |
... |
... |
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| York |
0 |
8 |
3 |
5 |
5 |
197.07 |
50.00 |
6 |
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| In the town of Caledonia there is
on hand a fund of $70, for the support of the poor.
SPARTA.
There is a small
house occupied by a pauper who is a lunatic. This house is erected
on the public square, in the village of Dansville, at an expense of $65,
for the express purpose of containing the pauper aforesaid. The
license money, amounting to from 35 to 50 dollars, defray all the
necessary poor charges of the town. There are five in family, who
are county paupers.
[Letter from the supervisor of Dansville.]
From what I can learn,
the section of country now comprised in this county has been but little
burthened with paupers, and from its local situation, will probably
continue to be less so, than the neighboring counties. We have no
poor-house nor house of industry in the county, and we have never had any
appeals from warrants or orders, for the removal of paupers.
[Letter from the county clerk.]
YORK.
I would presume to
suggest, that the removal or transporting of paupers from one town to
another within the state, be entirely abolished. Let each town
support all the poor that may live in them, (except aliens or foreign
poor, who may be supported at the expense of the state wherever they may
happen to be) with a large penalty annexed, for any person removing or
causing to be removed, any poor or indigent person into any city or town
within this state, and there leaving them.
[Letter from the supervisor of York.]
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1857 INVESTIGATION:
Located near Genesee,
this house is constructed of brick, three stories in height, in size 108 by 53
feet, including two wings. Attached
is a farm of 118 acres, yielding a revenue of $2,000.00 The basements are occupied by male lunatics to a limited extent. The number of inmates was seventy-five, the sexes equally divided; of
these forty were of foreign birth, thirty-five native born. Twenty-five were children, under sixteen years of age. The sexes are kept separate at all times. They are under two keepers, a male and female. Five or six paupers are sometimes placed in one room. The rooms are warmed by stoves and a furnace, no means of ventilation
are furnished. The rooms and wards number seventy-five. The average number of inmates is 107, supported at a weekly expense of
seventy-four and a half cents, inclusive of the products of the farm. The stronger males labor on the farm and the women about the house. Once during the past year the house has been inspected by the
supervisors. It is supplied with
Bibles, but there are no regular arrangements for religious services or
instruction.
A teacher is employed
in the house nine or ten months of the year, to instruct the children in the
common English branches. The
keeper purchases supplies and furnishes the house, himself imposing rules and
regulating the government and system of diet. The superintendents bind out the children on their arrival at suitable
ages. The fare of paupers
consists of plain wholesome food. A
physician is employed by the year who visits the house whenever called. He is paid a salary of eighty dollars per annum. No facilities exist for bathing. During
the past year there have occurred four births and seventeen deaths. The keeper reports that heretofore illicit intercourse between the
sexes has to some extent existed.
There is no pest house,
but during the past year the paupers have suffered from no pestilential or
contagious diseases. Fourteen of
the inmates are lunatics, five males and nine females. Of these all are paupers. Five have been admitted within the year. The males are under the general care of the keeper, the
females have an especial female attendant. A single one is confined in a cell. This is the only means of restraint in use, except in extreme cases,
when resort is had to handcuffs. Three
during the year have been considerably improved. The insane receive no particular medical atttendance, nor is the house
so constructed as to allow a proper classification of the patients. The power of discharge is exercised alone by the superintendents. Four of those, now inmates of this house, have spent some time at the
State Asylum, and have been discharged as cases of hopeless lunacy.
Three of the paupers
are idiots, two males and one female, one under ten years. There is one deaf and dumb and two blind. Lunatics sometimes escape but have always been recovered. The keeper reports three-quarters of the paupers as brought here by
intemperate habits.
The house has been
constructed six years, and is much better than an average of the buildings
used for this purpose. The rooms
are built around and open upon, ranges or galleries, passing round an open
court or hall, which aids materially in the ventilation of the building.
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Transcribed by PHS-Volunteer, Cheramie Breaux in Louisiana
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PERSONAL NOTES FROM READERS:
"The Yates report deals with the original Poorhouse,
which is across the street from us. It is now a private residence. In 1849 the
county built a new facility on the North side of today's Rt. 20a. This is the
building referred to in the 1857 report. Our Inn was the ladies dorm. Built in
1868 with an addition in 1873."
Keith W. Hollis oakvalleyinn@earthlink.net
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| LOCAL
NOTES:
Keith Hollis and his wife are the current owners of the old Livingston
County poorhouse which they now operate as a great "bed &
breakfast" inn. They have generously given us permission to use a
photograph (at the top of this page) from their website
... which has lots of other good information about the history
of this poorhouse. PHL
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LINKS:
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RECORDS:
Poorhouse INMATE REGISTRATION CERTIFICATES
Microfilm Series A1978 Roll
Number(s) 72-73 more information
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CEMETERY:
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| We are hoping to build this base of information about the poorhouse in LIVINGSTON county through the helpful participation of readers. All are requested to submit items of interest by sending
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