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Postcard Caption: Oneida County Home, Rome,
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Postcard Caption: Hospital of the
County Home, Rome, N.Y. |
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Note: We're not sure of the date of this lower
picture, but the postmark was 1911. This appears to be a much later
construction. A small part of the County Home itself can be seen in this
view ... immediately to the left and slightly back PHL |
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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 1019-1021 |
| A TABLE showing the number of Paupers supported at
the public expense in the county of ONEIDA, 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
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| Augusta |
5 |
14 |
6 |
13 |
5 |
500.98 |
45.00 |
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| Annsville *** |
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| Boonville |
0 |
28 |
13 |
15 |
8 |
18.00 |
4.00 |
27 |
| Bridgewater *** |
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| Camden *** |
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| Deerfield |
9 |
3 |
9 |
3 |
0 |
350.00 |
50.00 |
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| Florence *** |
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| Floyd |
4 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
0 |
173.66 |
25.95 |
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| Lee |
6 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
2 |
315.00 |
21.00 |
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| Paris |
(illegible) 20 ? |
Not stated. |
25 |
25 |
25 |
864.76 |
112.72 |
1 |
| Remsen *** |
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| Rome |
14 |
Not stated. |
6 |
8 |
4 |
845.00 |
40.00 |
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| Sangerfield *** |
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| Steuben |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
137.66 |
6.50 |
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| Trenton |
4 |
5 |
3 |
6 |
7 |
172.28 |
12.00 |
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| Utica |
21 |
81 |
53 |
52 |
35 |
1,665.71 |
Not stated. |
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| Vernon *** |
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| Verona *** |
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| Vienna *** |
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| Westmoreland |
10 |
9 |
7 |
12 |
8 |
622.84 |
235.00 |
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| Whitestown |
12 |
16 |
14 |
14 |
6 |
1,281.28 |
87.50 |
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| 1824 LAW (required establishment of poorhouse vs. exempted):
exempt
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1857 INVESTIGATION:
This is located near
the village of Rome. The
building has been occupied as a poor house since 1829. Connected is a farm of 115 acres, of which about seventy are under
cultivation. This house is heated
by a furnace.
The present number of
inmates is 150--males and females being about equally divided. The average number for the past year is 222. Thirty-seven deaths have occurred. At least three-fourths of all received are foreigners. During all seasons the able bodied men among the paupers are employed
upon the farm. The sexes are kept
separate. A physician is employed
by the year to attend the sick, and frequently visits the house. It is supplied with Bibles, and the inmates have the benefit
of religious instruction. For the
children an instructor is employed by the year. There is on the grounds a pest house, located about 100 rods from the
main building. No contagious
disease has visited the house during the present year.
The inmates sleep in
dormitories, the largest room accommodates forty-four persons.
There are here four
blind, two male and two female, and three idiots. Thirty-one of the inmates are lunatics, twenty males and eleven
females. For their accommodation
has been erected an asylum building, in which the sexes are separately
confined with separate yards attached. A
large share of these lunatics have heretofore been inmates of the State
Institution, and returned as incurable. The
keeper reports that one of the cases, a colored woman has recovered her reason
and been discharged from the house. They
are confined in rooms, and restrained by chains when boisterous. The son of the keeper has charge of the insane, assisted by a female
who is herself occasionally deranged.
The house is inspected
each year by a committee appointed from the board of supervisors of the
county.
Exclusive of farm
products the cost of support of paupers has been for the last year about $1.00
per capita.
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Transcribed by PHS-Volunteer, Cheramie Breaux in Louisiana
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PERSONAL NOTES FROM READERS:
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RECORDS:
Poorhouse INMATE REGISTRATION CERTIFICATES
Microfilm Series A1978 Roll
Number(s) 150-152 more information
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CEMETERY:
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| We are hoping to build this base of information about the poorhouse in ONEIDA 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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