III. REPORTS TO THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. By the provisions of their charters obtained from the Legislature in 1851 and 1863 respectively, the New York Juvenile Asylum and the New York Catholic Protectory are required to file with the Common Council of the City of New York and with the State Legislature on or before the 4th Monday of each January a detailed report of their operations for the preceding year. The charter of the New York Infant Asylum, obtained in 1865, required a similar annual report from that institution to be filed with the Board of Supervisors, but in recent years no such report seems to have been filed by this institution, presumably because the Board of Supervisors was merged into the Board of Aldermen in 1874. From these reports of the New York Juvenile Asylum and the New York Catholic Protectory for 1893, the latest available, the following facts are ascertained: NEW YORK JUVENILE ASYLUM. Ages of Children in New York Juvenile Asylum, January 1, The duration of institutional life of children remaining in the institution January 1, 1894, is not stated, but the average period spent in the Asylum by the children discharged during the year is stated as 1 year, 9 months and 26 days. Of the 569 children received during 1893 there were: The 548 children discharged during the year were disposed of as follows: Discharged to parents or friends... Placed in homes in Illinois... 399 108 14 11 7 7 1 1 548 NEW YORK CATHOLIC PROTECTORY. Ages of Children in New York Catholic Protectory, October 1, It should be stated that the actual duration of institutional life in the Protectory is slightly longer than is indicated by this table. Of the 1,569 inmates of the department for older boys, 149 had been transferred from the Junior Male Department, no account being taken in the above table of their residence in that Of the 2,377 children in the Protectory October 1, 1892, there The 887 children discharged during the year were disposed of Admissions to Protectory, January, 1895. Of the 60 inmates admitted to the Protectory during the month of January, 1895, it is shown by the commitments as submitted to the Comptroller that the causes of commitment were as follows: * Each commitment reciting that the child keeps company with dissolute and vicious persons against the lawful command of deponent, who is the father [or mother of said child." Each commitment reciting that the child" was found not having any home or other place of abode, or proper guardianship, being in a state of want and suffering, and destitute of means of support, in violation of the statute." |