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1897 Year Book of the New York State Reformatory at Elmira
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FINANCIAL EXHIBIT

The following is an analytical statement of the cost of maintaining the Reformatory the past year, it being the first full year without employment of prisoners for the purpose of deriving income from their labor.

COST OF MAINTENANCE 1897
 

Salaries of Officers
$3,499.92 
Wages and Labor
53,489.04
Board Allowance
10417.39
Expenses of Managers
281.05
Provisions
33,947.27
Household Stores
8,579.50
Clothing
28,498.42
Fuel and Light
20,402.84
Hospital and Medical Supplies
977.79
Ordinary Repairs
8,543.26
Transportation of Inmates
12,586.84

MISCELLANEOUS

General
$ 3,903.81
Educational
321.41
Ice and Water
1,107.28
Military
271.16
Physical Training
140.42
Photographs
273.01
Postage
1,663.00
Amusements
784.23
Stationery
2,283.93
Telegraph and Telephone
574.04
Arms and Ammunition
1.50
Funeral Expenses
388.40
   
$14,601.51
Cost of shops, Farm and Garden over earnings, inclusive of cost of Technological classes, carried on for instruction simply and inclusive of Manual Training Classes
$ 14,427.41
  $ 210,251.92 
  1. NEW YORK STATE REFORMATORY
ANALYZED PER DIEM MAINTENANCE COST

(Per capita. Average number of inmates 1,498.8)


 
Salaries of Officers, Wages and Labor, including Board allowance
.123
Expenses of Managers’ Officers
.0005
Provisions
.062
Household Stores
.016
Clothing
.052
Fuel and Light
.037
Hospital and Medical Supplies
.002
Ordinary Repairs
.016
Transportation of inmates
.023
Miscellaneous
.026
Trades teaching
.0265
   
Total in cents
.384

CASH, DEBT OR PROPERTY STATEMENT, 1897


 
Cash on hand:    
September 30, 1896
$ 50,857.46
 
September 30, 1897
14,149.52
 
  Decrement
$36,707.94
Balance of debts the Reformatory owes, including amount due for prisoners’ deposits:    
Due September 30, 1896
$ 15,040.69
 
Owed September 30, 1897
4,254.86
 
  Increment
$19,295.55
Value of property on hand exclusive of funds or investments:    
September 30, 1896
$107,593.71
 
September 30, 1897
43,651.86
 
  Decrement
$ 63,941.85
     
Appropriations drawn from the State of New York:    
Maintenance
$ 151,632.07
 
Improvements and Facilities Appropriation
23,930.33
 
New Buildings Appropriation
15,076.64
 
Improvements Facilities as per Act (Chapter 345)  
$ 38,179.25
New Buildings as per Act (Chapter 573)  
11,147.04
Cost of Maintenance  
210,251.92
     
 
$ 310,584.38
$310,584.38
Amount of loss by fire and by shrinkage of values of goods and merchandise incident to discontinuing the business of manufacturing with the prisoners for production of earnings  
$51,006.17
 
$ 310,584.38
$310,584.38

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT 29

STATEMENT OF SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.

Improvement and Facilities Appropriation (1896)  
$ 75,000.00
Expended to September 30, 1896
$ 11,777.75
 
Expended to September 30, 1897
38,179.25
 
Balance unexpended
25,042.99
 
Total
$75,000.00
$ 75,000.00
     
New Buildings Appropriation (1896)  
$ 25,000.00
Expended to September 30, 1897
$ 11,147.04
 
Balance unexpended
13,852.96
 
Total
$25,000.00
$25,000.00