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Chart of Inmates in the State Institutions (image description)

Chart of Inmates in the State Institutions (image description)

State of New York - State Board of Charities

Chart showing the several classes of inmates in the state institutions subject to the visitation and inspection of the state board of charities for the year ending June 30, 1919 (9,545)

Feeble-minded or idiotic (41.1%)

Reformatory inmates boys (14.6%)

Epileptics (14.1%)

Reformatory inmates women and girls including 41 babies (9.7%)

Veterans and wives or widows of veterans (12.2%)

Tuberculosis patients (3%)

Crippled and deformed children (1.8%)

Indian children (1.9%)

Blind (1.6%)