"Table Showing the Number of Paupers in the State, by Counties,
how Kept, and the Average Cost per Month of Supporting Them."
1887-1888
SOCIAL STATISTICS   page 309
     from:
Forgotten Texas Census:
First Annual Report of the Agricultural Bureau
of the Department of agriculture, insurance, and Statistics, and History 1887-88

by L.L. Foster, Commissioner
copyright 2001 Texas State Historical Association
originally published Austin, Tx  State Printing Office, 1889
Submitted by:
Elizabeth L. Johnston, Genealogy & Local History Librarian
Round Rock Public Library
ejohnston@round-rock.tx.us
NOTE: Those counties which we have dotted on the scan were indicated to have poorhouses.  PHL

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