DOCUMENTS. Accompanying the Report of the Inspectors of the Mount-Pleasant State-Prison. (A.) Expenditures for the year ending September 30, 1832. For hospital stores and medical attendance for cholera patients,....... stone shops and quarries,.... $1,404 74 stock and tools for blacksmith's shop and lock shop, 1,466 08 do do 4,738 64 cash paid for transportion of convicts to Auburn, 393 70 travelling expenses,. 97 57 building materials,. 1,188 97 stock and tools for shoemakers' shop,... 81 40 materials for convicts clothing and blankets,. prison furniture,.. fuel, oil and soap, including coal for smith's shop, freight and cartage, 4,034 08 94 56 3,969 92 22,985 02 351 85 128 96 383 50 38 00 866 15 officers and guard, physician and chaplain, square timber for docks,. paid corporation of New-York, for support of fe males, 23,320 98 155 86 2,279 35 72 50 $68,051 83 $3,366 46 38,934 70 Treasury, .... 30,000 00 $72,301 16 Paid out,.... 68,051 83 Due, September 30, 1832, ... $4,249 33 Cash received from the following departments, during the year ending September 30, 1832. From Blacksmith and lock shop,.. stone shops,.. . . shoemakers' shop,. coopers' shop, .... $5,362 38 29,621 53 3,152 85 496 50 dock logs sold,.. rent of house and farm, 134 44 167 00 $38,934 70 ROB. WILTSE, Agent. (B.) The Physician of the Mount-Pleasant State Prison RESPECTFULLY REPORTS: That the proportion of sick has been greater during the last than any preceding year. Diarrhoea, and other derangements of the digestive organs have been the prevailing disorders of the institution; those complaints were heretofore prevalent during the summer months, but for the past year have occurred with almost equal frequency at all seasons; together with those diseases, typhus fever was prevalent during the months of October and December; and during the month of November, nearly all the inmates of the prison were affected with influenza. In February, about forty of the convicts were attacked with measles. They had this complaint in its worst form-all however ultimately recovered. The malignant cholera prevailed here during the months of July and August, having been preceded by diarrhoea and the common cholera morbus. The first case occurred on the 17th of July, and the last on the 4th of September. Three hundred and seventysix convicts took the extreme symptoms of this disease, from which one hundred and three died; and nearly all the remaining inmates had the premonitory symptoms, or first stage of the disease. There have been forty-two deaths during the year from other diseases, viz: from fevers, six; consumption, twelve; dysentery, four; dropsy, eleven; chronic diarrhoea, four; accidental injury, two; rupture of a blood vessel, one; sypheletic ulcers, one; scrofula, one. The fatal termination of many of those cases was no doubt hastened by the prevailing epidemic. The general state of health here at present is extremely good, only seven persons from sickness are confined to the hospital. A. KISSAM HOFFMAN. Mount-Pleasant State Prison, (C.) Inventory of property belonging to the State Prison at Mount-Plea sant, as taken September 30, 1832. Blacksmith shop, stock, tools, &c. Clothing and materials for do. (not in use,)... Kitchen furniture, .... Shoe maker's shop, tools, &c.... Stone shops and quarry, tools, trucks, carts and wheel Tailor's Cooper's barrows, .... Hospital stores and medicine,.. $3,299 22 5,975 60 4,971 00 802 69 431 36 49 37 1,066 47 4,668 50 212 81 674 85 286 62 600 00 175 00 281 30 $33,494 79 ROB. WILTSE, Agent. Manufacturing shop, fixtures, and stock on hand, Library, (bibles in convicts hands,) September 30, 1832. (D.) Number of convicts and their employment. There was remaining in prison 30th September, 1831, Of those employed in manufacturing shop is included the old, infirm, lame, &c., picking wool. (E.) Estimate of expense for building materials for guard-house, storehouse, and ox-stable, to be built the next year. Timber as per bill already purchased and not paid for, $979 89 Due corporation of New-York, for keeping female State convicts at Bellevue,.. Their probable expense for next year,. Add amount paid and remaining due for transportation of convicts to Auburn prison,... Whole amount, The items of expenditure contained in the connexion with the support of the prison. this amount will be necessary, if we are to and put up the buildings contemplated. September 30, 1832. above amount have no An appropriation for the corporation, pay ROB. WILTSE, Agent. 4,595 39 4,200 00 900 00 |