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No. 9.

LEGISLATURE, 1850.

FIRST ANNUAL REPORT of the Secretary of State, giving the number of Insane, Deaf, Dumb and Blind persons in the State.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
Lansing, January 7, 1850.

To the Hon. the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of
Michigan:

The "Joint Resolution relative to statistical information of the insane, deaf, dumb and blind," approved April 3, 1848, makes it the duty of the township assessors, when making out their assessment rolls, in each year, to ascertain and set down in tables prepared for that purpose, the names of all insane, deaf, dumb and blind persons in their respective townships, with information respecting the condition of each, with regard to health, habits and occupation; the pecuniary ability of the patients or persons liable for their support, with other particulars specified in the resolution.

This statement is required to be deposited by the assessors, with the Supervisor of their township, on the first day of October, in each year, with the facts brought down to that date.

It is made the duty of the supervisor of each township to deliver such statement to the county clerk of his county, to be by him laid before the board of supervisors of the county, at their annual meeting. The several boards of supervisors are required to condense the facts exhibited in the returns for their several counties, and transmit the same to the Secretary of State on or before the first day of November in each year, to be by him reported to the legislature at the commencement of the next session.

The language of the resolution seems to require that the report from this office should contain a full statement of all the items of information, enumerated in the resolution, including the name, habits and pecuniary condition of patients and others, as received from the supervisors. Upon examination of the returns received, it was apprehended that such a statement, involving as it would the publica. tion of the names, habits, character and condition of persons without their consent, might, in some instances, be justly regarded as an improper or unnecessary disclosure of the affairs of private life; I have therefore prepared abstracts of the returns received, omitting particulars which might be deemed improper for publication, but embracing, it is believed, all the facts reported of practical importance. All which are herewith respectfully submitted as the first annual report of this department under the joint resolution above mentioned. GEO. W. PECK,

Secretary of State.

GENERAL ABSTRACT of the number of Insane, Deaf, Dumb and Blind in the State of Michigan, as reported by the Boards of Supervisors, November, 1849.

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ABSTRACT of the Returns of the Insane in the State of Michigan for the year A. D. 1849.

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